Please follow the link to learn about sea level related efforts of the New York City Council, City Council of Portland Maine, Maryland Department of National Resources, and California Land Commission, all originally researched, by the National Resource Defense Council.

My first reaction was to make fun of what an idiot Romney is, and ask myself "what did I expect" from such a pandering weasel. After all, he's changed his "positions" of nearly every other issue, and seems to be trying to set a record for how low can he go in regressive limbo. But, as I think about it more, very few of us are taking the challenges of global change and converting to sustainable forms of energy use seriously enough.

How discouraging it must be for people of Micronesia and Bangladesh to watch our elections with knowledge that their homelands will be uninhabitable within their lifetimes due to a combination of sea level rise, and increase in climate variability. And, when the majority of the other countries of the world take two decades of effort to finally agree to ratify a major global treaty to take our first global counter-actions and the United States of America led efforts to undermine the treaties. I wonder if the rest of the world thinks we are a whole country of Mitt Romneys where our debate ranges the "full gamet" of doing nothing at all, or making vague non-specific expressions to hope. But, then the later are derisively ridiculed as being "extremist."

But, this is a Friday night, and I'm still recovering from escaping the ER with diverticulitis, where they also found nodules on my lungs and adrenal glands that will require PET scanning, and who knows what after that. So, I don't wish to write any long essays, but just briefly share this encouraging short article on our nation's city planners who are taking our future seriously.