Anthropogenic Climate Change has hit the US mainland. We are starting to feel the effects not just with the extremes of weather and record breaking temperatures we have experienced but also in the insidious surging seas. What once seemed to to be an abstraction that would only affect those in poorer countries and less developed parts of the world and was unrelated to our lives is now going to be placed front and center.
Everyone will be affected some of us more directly and sooner than others. But eventually our food supply, our infrastructure and our health will be adversely impacted.
PBS recently aired a segment on their Need To Know program about how the smallish US city of Norfolk, Va, population 242803(2010 census) is having to deal with the climate change influenced issue of rising seas. In Norfolk, where this is happening now the issue is non-partisan. In this must see video (apologies for length) it shows realistically how a community must come to gripes with a problem that will require unprecedented life changing decisions. It shows the massive expense involved in adaptation methods
Watch Rising tide on PBS. See more from Need To Know.
Many are just starting to ''connect the dots'' of extreme weather to climate change.
We need to go further and make the connection to a solution and decision to mitigate.
The video shows what we can expect in the near future; unanswerable questions, unlimited expense and an uncertain future.
Anthropologenic Climate Change is man-induced climate change. Just as mankind has influenced our change of climate to dangerous levels the solution is on us. We have the means to reduce our dangerous levels of consumption to provide a safe Earth for the next generations.