The Great Floods of 2064

Chatter for the last few months has been hitting the media as more studies on global warming come out. Boston is in for it according to the newest report. Severe flooding, the bigger badder older brother of the flooding from the Blizzard of ’78, will wash over Boston. Adamg over at the Universal Hub says we’ll have to teach our kids why they call it the Back Bay. To combat the threats of global warming the Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, the bell has sounded and trading is now open on the emissions market. The predecessor to the Kyoto Protocol was the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol didn’t affect huge amounts of change; you probably remember it only because it made "hole in the ozone layer" a buzz word and "CFC’s" the enemy. Oh, and Bostonist stopped using Aqua-Net in 1993.

As one of his first declarations back in 2001 when he took office President Bush pulled out of the agreements of the Kyoto Protocol. In the unusual case that countries all over the world agree on such a broad range of strategies the backing of the largest polluters is essential to making anything actually stick. In the Kyoto Protocol system of emissions trading Brazil hoped to clean up, selling the rainforests sink to the over polluting US. Sorry Brazil.