WP/Reuters: Millions to go hungry, waterless: climate report

[PhilipShore]

January 29, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012902057.html

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.

The draft contains an entire chapter on Australia -- which is in the grip of its worst recorded drought -- warning the country's Great Barrier Reef would become "functionally extinct" because of coral bleaching.

As well, snow would disappear from Australia's southeast alps, while water inflows to the Murray-Darling river basin, the country's main agricultural region, would fall by 10 and 25 percent by 2050.

In Europe, glaciers would disappear from the central Alps, while some Pacific island nations would be hit hard by rising sea levels and more frequent tropical storms.

[Kagemusha]

1. I've got to ask...

Weren't millions going to go hungry and waterless, even if the climate didn't change one iota?

[PhilipShore]

2. Millions more to go hungry, waterless: climate report

[aquart]

3. We have zero plans for famine and drought.

We are spending our money on the flea of terrorism while the dragon of global warming is about to destroy us.

Our rich men think they will still have food and water while the rest of us die. They who are still building palaces on beachfronts and privileged little islands. They can't conceive that an economy in ruins will touch their trust funds.

My vote to the candidate who admits that terrorism is a straw man and our real enemy is the weather.

[Jawja]

4. Not to mention

property in Paraguay with prime access to water.