Friday, February 1, 2008
News Global warming real, says UGA ecologist
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM
The Athens Banner-Herald's Blake Aued writes of a Classic City event on Thursday where scientists, academics and writers gathered to discuss global warming's effect on Georgia. Their take: Even if we act now, we'll still see drastic changes to our state, including an encroaching coastline, permanent drought, and perhaps the most frightening vision of all ... we'll be more like Houston.
This quote by James Porter, an ecologist at the University of Georgia, really stood. He was speaking about how scientists feel a sense of urgency the more they learn about global warming.
"I'm a heck of a lot less worried about terrorism than I am about carbon dioxide," he said.
For CL's take on what Georgia might look like globally warmed, click here.
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