Andrew Guzman writes for The Huffington Post, December 17, 2012
We need to see climate change as more than simply a series of weather events that will cause the same kind of harm that weather always causes…. Each such event puts a strain on the basic infrastructure upon which we rely for our daily lives: sewage, health care, food, water, transportation, communication. Sometimes these systems will be strained enough to fail, and when they do, as happened to sewage systems during Hurricane Sandy, costs (both human and financial) skyrocket.