Northeast could see balmier climate....

[JohnR]

Interesting article on Global Warming in the Northeast (too long to just copy here) http://www.msnbc.com/news/673855.asp

Northeast could see balmier climate
Federal studies forecast altered scenery, coast

By Michael Powell
THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 — New England’s maple trees stop producing sap. The Long Island and Cape Cod beaches shrink and shift, and disappear in places. Cases of heatstroke triple.

AND EVERY 10 YEARS OR SO, a winter storm floods portions of Lower Manhattan, Jersey City and Coney Island with seawater. The Northeast of recent historical memory could disappear this century, replaced by a hotter and more flood-prone region where New York could have the climate of Miami and Boston could become as sticky as Atlanta, according to the first comprehensive federal studies of the possible effects of global warming on the Northeast....

http://www.msnbc.com/news/673855.asp
Follow the link for the rest of the article - Fact or fiction, it's interesting to read....