And employees of other state agencies responsible for preparing for the impacts of a warming climate on transportation, public health and water management have also reported being pressured to avoid using the term "climate change".
But as far as food security goes, the paper does raise the need for more targeted public health programs in various parts of the world that can start preparing for the potential dietary impacts of a warming climate.
For example, a warming climate will likely cause new habitat to open for colonization by salmonine (and other) fishes, as is currently happening in Glacier Bay, Alaska, USA (Milner et al. 2000).
The initiative would give incentives to developing countries to halt deforestation, develop low-carbon energy sources and prepare for the effects of a warmer climate.
While the federal government may not be willing to take action to curb the emissions that contribute to global warming, states, led by California, increasingly are developing legislation to mitigate or reduce carbon emissions and to create adaptation strategies for dealing with a warming climate.
In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research on tea as a model system for understanding how a warming climate is putting stress on specialty crops and the impact of those changes on farmers.
What is the scope for assisted migration [24] as a conservation strategy for G. pyrenaicus in a warming climate?
Increasingly, whether it is federal officials drawing up flood maps or state planners deciding how high to build levees, they will have to account for the reality that a warming climate will affect their communities in entirely new ways.
Update, Oct. 14, 2014: As California enters its fourth year of drought, it's apparent that the rate of water use in the state, and throughout the U.S. Southwest, is unsustainable: But just how bad are the prospects for a future with a warming climate?
