Would the best informed person of 1910 have anything useful to tell use about the problems of the year 2000. This is a exercise in hubris.

The study combines analysis of the environment and the economy. The enormous cost estimates are presented here.

It presents lots of numbers but virtually nothing else. Forcasts without meaningfull timelines (92 years+). Admittedly much is a worst case scenario. Offers little about resolutions. Tourism dollar at risk, bit no explanations, crop failures..etc..All of it hinged soley on Climate Change.

It provides a bleak view of California's future from a respected academic institution. Of course, the story can't go into the underpinnings of the report - how the figures were derived. It's probably intended to get the attention of policy makers.

Just another silly and speculative global warming alarm. Absolutely no one can predict these things and to blindly repeat what some yahoo at UCB says is wasting our time. The Mercury news has long been the stupid paper. I feel that the editors have low IQ's.