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Adapt for climate change, paper urges
The global-warming battle needs to be accompanied by better responses to normal climate variation, a CU scientist says.
By Katy Human Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 02/08/2007 01:27:57 AM MST

In the face of global warming triggered by people burning fossil fuels, it's not enough to turn to the wind and sun for electricity, a new report says.
Countries and communities also need to become better at handling normal climate variation - dry years and wet ones, good years for bugs and bad years for crops, said University of Colorado science policy professor Roger Pielke Jr.
Energy policy changes could make it less hot a century from now, but people are already dying from floods, tropical diseases and crop failures related to capricious weather, Pielke said in a paper appearing today in the journal Nature.

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Read the article behind this story in the journal Nature
(the entire issue, February 8, 2007, is focused on climate change)