How Can Los Angeles Adapt to Coming Climate Change?  Climate
change can’t alter the blue skies or access to the beach and
mountains, but it will pose four tangible threats: The summers
will grow hotter, the air will be smoggier, there will be more
fires, and there will be much less water  © / Janne Ahvo
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Matthew Kahn's
book Climatopolis.  Los Angeles is a hedonist’s paradise. At
night, you can cruise the Sunset Strip. Although The Doors no
longer play there, you may run into Paris Hilton or Britney
Spears before seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at a red-
carpet event. During the winter, you might venture downtown to
watch Kobe Bryant and the Lakers play. Every day of the year you
can sit outside at Starbucks and try to identify professional
basketball players looking for a latte in West Los Angeles. In
spring 2009 I spotted Baron Davis of the Los Angeles Clippers at
a Westwood Starbucks (but he didn’t seem to recognize me). In
fall 2009 I spotted Brian Wilson