newsweek.com: It’s too late to stop global warming. Now we have to figure out how to survive it.

Two words: airport runways. As scientists and policy types figure out what changes will be necessary to cope with global warming, it’s obvious that massive sea walls will be required to hold back rising oceans, that enormous new reservoirs will be needed to cope with the alternating droughts and deluges that many regions will suffer and that a crash program to develop heat- and drought-resistant crops would be a good idea if people are to keep eating. But it’s the less-obvious yet no-less-necessary adaptations to climate change that are likely to wreak havoc. [ read more ]