Tsunami -- With a 10-Year Warning

Critics say that the Bush Administration's refusal to address the threat of climate change will have grave consequences for the very nations that are now struggling to recover from the tsunami disaster.

"Everyone else -- environmentalists, economists, and insurance adjusters -- knows enough to predict the impact. The World Bank, hardly a member of the loony left, warns about major rises in diseases that already kill millions of children in the developing world such as the waterborne or mosquito-transmitted diseases of malaria, diarrhea, and dengue fever. Insurance giant Swiss Re says that global warming threatens to drive up the cost of natural disasters from last year's $70 billion to $150 billion a year within a decade. Different studies estimate that a 3-foot rise in sea level could create up to 150 million refugees in low-lying countries."

Thanks to Michael Dudley