Joe Lieberman: “on October 4 of last year, the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which houses Great Britain's leading…”

“on October 4 of last year, the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which houses Great Britain's leading climate scientists, projected that in the absence of prompt action to curb global warming, extreme drought will spread across one third of the Earth's land surface by the end of this century. On October 30, the head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service forecasted that unchecked global warming will cost the world between five and twenty percent of gross domestic product each year. On December 4, the director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control's National Center for Environmental Health cited global warming as ``the largest looming public health challenge we face.'' Insect-borne diseases such as malaria are expected to spike as tropical ecosystems expand; hotter air will exacerbate the air pollutants that send our children to the hospital with asthma attacks; food insecurity from shifting agricultural zones will spark border wars; and storms and coastal flooding from sea-level rise will cause mortality and dislocation. On December 14, in fact, the journal Science published a peer-reviewed study projecting that unchecked global warming could cause sea levels to rise between a half meter and one-and-a-half meters above 1990 levels by the end of this century. A sea-level rise in the middle of that range would submerge every city on the East Coast of the United States, from Miami to Boston.”