May 18, 2011
Water and climate scientist Peter Gleick writes on the Huffington Post Green blog about "climate triage," choices about who and what is going to be protected and saved, versus abandoned and lost. It's relevant to the present dilemmas in dealing with the flooding along the Mississippi.
"The delay in acting to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases means that more and more anthropogenic climate changes are now unavoidable. Climate impacts are already evident and they are going to get worse and worse. It's the 'new normal.' In coming years, we are going to be faced with increasingly difficult decisions in what must now be called climate triage..."
