Global warming threatens Bay area, Kaine tells Senate panel

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Global warming threatens Bay area, Kaine tells Senate panel

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.


By SCOTT HARPER, The Virginian-Pilot
September 27, 2007

WASHINGTON

The Chesapeake Bay took center stage Wednesday in the global warming debate, with scientists and leaders from Virginia and Maryland urging a national strategy to help counteract the effect already being felt from climate change.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told a Senate committee that low-lying Hampton Roads is considered the second-most vulnerable population center in the country to rising sea levels linked to global warming. Only New Orleans is more exposed, he said.

“My message to you,” Kaine told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, “is that each day that legislative action is delayed will have negative consequences for the Chesapeake Bay.”

The hearing came as U.S. Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican and committee member, is poised to introduce legislation to combat global warming. It also came the same week the United Nations held a special meeting on climate change, with calls for dramatic, international reductions in greenhouse gases.

President Bush did not attend the U.N. meeting in New York, but instead will hold his own starting today in Washington with other, major economic powers. Bush has said he believes global warming is real but is concerned a national program could cripple the economy.

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1. i watched the History channel's "Mega Disaster" on climate change

one of the key cities featured was the Baltimore/DC/Chesapeake Bay area