GLOBAL WARMING -- FROM GRISTMILL AGAIN

This fun book review, quoted here... of course, there is nothing here about changing the overall form of society. But I like the dramatization:

How much will sea level rise with five degrees of global warming? Here too, our best information comes from the Earth's history. The last time that the Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher.

Eighty feet! In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Miami; indeed, practically the entire state of Florida would be under water. Fifty million people in the US live below that sea level. Other places would fare worse. China would have 250 million displaced persons. Bangladesh would produce 120 million refugees, practically the entire nation. India would lose the land of 150 million people.

And this is what we get for all those traffic jams on the morning commute, all that carbon dioxide coming out of all those tailpipes!