Middle Georgia is not only home to Plant Scherer, a coal-fired plant considered the number one carbon emitter in the U.S., but also relies heavily on agriculture, which are two areas that play a large role in global warming's cause and effect.

"Georgia is very vulnerable to climate related changes because so much of our economy relies on our agriculture. When we had our historic drought one of the things people lost sight of is that we had a lot of trees lost as a result of pine bark beetles," says John Hintermaier, Chair of Mercer's Environmental Studies Committee.

According to John Hintermaier of Mercer University, Macon's first signs of climate change will include bugs, floods, and peaches.

"We are starting to have bugs here that we've never seen before. It's likely that within our lifetime we'll start seeing more and more disease carrying tropical insects making their way to this part of Georgia," says Hintermaier.

One of Environment Georgia's biggest concerns is seeing more cases of flooding like the Flood of 94' when the Ocmulgee River breached its banks and flooded Downtown Macon.

Peaches are also said to be affected because of the changes in weather during the winter. But even though agriculture is most likely to be affected by climate change, so are the homeless and residents of lower income in Macon.

"These are individuals who are out here 24/7. They feel it when it gets really hot, they feel it when extreme cold temperatures come and they did come last winter it got colder here," says Phil Banze, National Coalition for the Homeless.

Temperatures soared over 100 this summer and even though climate change isn't as likely to affect those at home AC, residents will see changes in their pocket books as energy costs are predicted to increase.