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|  | THE ENVIANCE BLOG Excerpt from: Performance Management
| | | November 09, 2007 | | More destructive hurricanes and rising sea levels could make Southern Florida unlivable if climate change continues unchecked. | This week, three panels of experts spoke at a symposium held by the House Environmental Resources Council and three related committees. The effects of climate change to the state of Florida were discussed in detail. Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, has attempted to put the state in the lead by ordering that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by the year 2017, to 1990 levels by 2025 and 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Economist David Montgomery, a business consultant from Washington, D.C., said Crist's goals will be difficult, if not impossible, to meet without a significant reduction in the demand for electrical power through such approaches as a carbon cap-and-trade system or carbon taxes. That's because other options for reducing emissions are limited, he said. Tufts University economics professor Gilbert Metcalf said, that Florida and California, which also has a greenhouse reduction policy, can put pressure on the federal government to adopt a national program because businesses don't like the idea of dealing with a patchwork of different state requirements. In the meantime, scientists said Florida can expect more frequent and destructive hurricanes, hotter weather and rising sea levels that could inundate coastal areas. Harold Wanless, chairman of the University of Miami's Department of Geological Sciences, predicted a 1.5 foot rise in sea level in 50 years and a three- to five-foot increase by the end of the century. At two feet, South Florida would still be livable, Wanless said. "Three feet's going to get messy," he said. "Four feet becomes extremely difficult to live in South Florida and five feet probably impossible." | | |
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