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<div>This statement from this web site made the case for local governments addressing the global warming crisis so well I thought it was worth emphasizing. The reductions in snowpack is very relevant to Idaho:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.seattle.gov/environment/climate_protection.htm">http://www.seattle.gov/environment/climate_protection.htm</a></div>
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<div>Some may view climate change as a remote global problem that is beyond the capacity – and responsibility – of local governments to solve. But when we consider what makes our region so unique and naturally abundant, we realize that global climate change is in fact a profoundly local issue – both cause and effect. It's here at home, especially in our cities, where we drive the cars and use the power that generates global warming pollution. It's our choices as communities and individuals about energy supply and use, transportation, solid waste, and land use that determine the future trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions.
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<div><b>Climate disruption - a global and local problem </b></div>
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<div>Scientists project that, due to rising temperatures, the Pacific Northwest can expect higher temperatures, wetter winters, drier summers, reduced river flows, increased coastal flooding and erosion and decreased forest health and productivity. Of particular concern is a change in our region's snowpack. In the Pacific Northwest, we depend on our snowpack for much of our region's drinking water supply, hydroelectricity, recreation, fish habitat and irrigation. Since 1950, the Cascades snowpack has been reduced by 50 percent and scientists predict that by 2050 climate change could reduce snowpack by another 50 percent.
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>