According to a study mentioned in this article, we will naturally see a northward migration, not only humans but animals and insects. It has already started:

“People, of course, have always adapted to changes in their environment. Half a million Oklahomans and other Southwesterners migrated to California during the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s. Thousands of New Orleans residents will never return to their Hurricane Katrina-devastated city.

As the United States gets hotter, people will try to move north, predicted Jay Gulledge, a senior researcher at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va.

“Unfortunately, all the good places are already taken,” he said. As a result, “Canada will be more populous 500 years from now.”

Animals, plants and insects already are migrating toward cooler climes.

Since 1975, 1,700 biological species have been moving poleward at an average speed of 25 miles per decade, James Hansen, a NASA environmental scientist, reported in this week’s edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”

They’re on their way and they’re headed right towards our neighborhood where, as he says, ‘all the good places are already taken’.

In this article, UK writer Gerard Baker offers up an interesting philosophical take on whether you should be sceptical about climate change. He notes how 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal dealt with an interesting dilemma: if you believe in God and live life as though you will go to heaven based on your actions and God doesn’t prove to exist then you are a fool compared to those who don’t believe and live a more dissolute (though potentially more fun) life. On the other hand, if God does exist then those who laughed it off have an entirely different problem. Pascal came to the conclusion that you should live as though God and heaven are real, just in case they are. The payoff long term is much greater.
Baker says that, following Pascal’s reasoning, even if you don’t believe warming is happening or that we’re causing it, you might as well act as though it is. That way, if it is you’ll have worked to alleviate it. If it’s not happening, the worst thing we’ll have is a cleaner planet and less reliance on fossil fuels.
Philosophy- gotta love it!

Check out the Cyclean, a bicycle-powered washer/dryer invented by a Brit named Alex Gadsden from parts scavenged in a junkyard. Clean your clothes, help the environment and get fit at the same- or as he says (after demoing it at a festival),

"…you could say I had a laundrette running in a field in the Mendip hills, I was a stone lighter when I got back from the festival."

A stone is Brit for 14lbs.

BTW, that bike looks a bit like my beloved 1987 Bianchi Grizzly mountain bike, the only mountain bike I’ve seen with a lugged frame.

You can download the latest study of the potential effects of warming on the Great Lakes here. It details major changes in agriculture, lake levels and shipping routes, fishing and forest fires, changes inclimate, etc. None are minor. In essence those of us who live near these incredible resources will see everything we know about our regional climate change drastically.