China fears disasters, grain cut from global warming - Reuters

[Eugene]

China fears disasters, grain cut from global warming
27 Dec 2006 05:25:35 GMT
Source: Reuters

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and
water shortages across China, driving down the country's food output, the Chinese
government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption.

A forthcoming official assessment of the effects of global climate change on China will
warn of worsening drought in northern China and increasing "extreme weather events",
according to the Ministry of Science and Technology's Web site (www.most.gov.cn) on
Wednesday.

A deputy director of the National Climate Centre, Luo Yong, was blunt about the risks
for China's food production.

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The official report promises to stir debate about whether and how China can balance
its ambitious goals for economic growth with steps to rein in rising greenhouse gas
emissions from industry and cars, which keep heat in the atmosphere and threaten
to dramatically increase the planet's average temperatures.

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[Javaman]

1. First it will be a war for water...

Then it will be a war for fertile land.

Then will begin the great die off.

Then the population will level off.

Hopefully, someone will have remembered how to plant a field.

Hopefully, the butt of a AK-47 will make a good hoe.

Hopefully, people will come to their senses.

Some how I doubt that.