Florida global warming cost: $92B

Global warming is going to cost Floridians a lot of money, but doing nothing will only cost more, say researchers at Tufts University, who completed a report released Wednesday by the Environmental Defense, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group.

If Florida and the globe continue business as usual, the report predicts, by 2050 tourism will decline, sea levels will rise 23 inches, insurance and electricity prices will soar and the economic cost to the state will be $92 billion.

''We're on an escalator that's headed down,'' said Frank Ackerman, one of the report's authors. "The status quo is not an option that is going to continue.''

--> Sometimes it feels like the world is playing opposite day. We're fighting a war for an oil rich country, but oil is topping $100 a barrel; scientists across the globe are warning us that we're killing the planet, but no one is doing anything about it; the current U.S. President is a war criminal; and no one's impeaching him or his thugs. But who cares. What's La Lohan up to?

(Via Miami Herald)