"The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them."

How is it again that faith-based initiatives play into climate change? If they do, I hope we have plenty of strong drugs. Alcohol might not be enough.

We Are All from New Orleans Now: Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America's Coastal Cities, by Mike Tidwell (The Nation)

The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them. And what is a thousand-mile-wide storm pushing 11 feet of water toward our country’s biggest population center saying just days before the election? It is this: we are all from New Orleans now. Climate change—through the measurable rise of sea levels and a documented increase in the intensity of Atlantic storms—has made 100 million Americans virtually as vulnerable to catastrophe as the victims of Hurricane Katrina were seven years ago ...

... What can we do? Three major options: 1) abandon our coastal cities and retreat inland, 2) stay put and try to adapt to the menacing new conditions or 3) stop burning planet-warming fossil fuels as fast as possible.