Slideshow: Photos Show Global Warming Overtaking Cities

[cui bono]

Edward Mazria wants people to know how rising sea levels -- made worse by global warming -- will affect residents along U.S. coastlines...

Mazria isn't a climatologist. He's not even a scientist. He's an architect who gave up running his company in January to devote his time to a nonprofit group he founded several years ago. Called Architecture 2030, the organization tries to bring attention to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the building sector contributes to global warming through inefficient electricity use, lighting, heating and cooling...

To demonstrate Mazria's point, Architecture 2030 has compiled a report that features images depicting the dramatic effects of sea level rise -- from about 3 to 16 feet -- on 21 cities around the country.

Read the entire article here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/15/slideshow-photos-show-gl_n_64560.html

[kurth]

1. It's Katrina x 10,000

[cui bono]

2. kickety kick for the 8 recs

but only one response...

[hunter]

3. No point in rebuilding the World Trade Center, is there?

For two reasons:

The streets will underwater, and there won't be much world trade because the ports will be underwater too.