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The Forum
Rob Jones
Around the world we already see the effects of global warming: polar ice caps melting at an alarming rate, record high temperatures, and rising sea levels.
Here in Virginia climate change means more intense hurricanes, wetter winter storms, drier and hotter summers, disease carrying insects migrating up from the tropics further north, and new disasters as yet unidentified and unanticipated.
Virginia will experience more intense heat waves, longer droughts, more severe hurricanes and an increased occurrence of flash floods. These changes will have a big impact on state’s economy, environment, and overall quality of life.
In the Tidewater area global warming means a greater chance that a powerful hurricane will devastate coastal towns and communities. Stronger hurricanes would also threaten the naval base in Norfolk.
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