More Bad News About Global Warming

IZ Reloaded writes "A UK govt report says that greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts that previously thought. Greenhouse gases it says, is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable. From BBC: The European Union has adopted a target of preventing a rise in global average temperature of more than two Celsius. That, according to the report, might be too high, with two degrees being enough to trigger melting of the Greenland ice sheet.... A rise of two Celsius, researchers conclude, will be enough to cause: * Decreasing crop yields in the developing and developed world * Tripling of poor harvests in Europe and Russia * Large-scale displacement of people in north Africa from desertification * Up to 2.8bn people at risk of water shortage * 97% loss of coral reefs * Total loss of summer Arctic sea ice causing extinction of the polar bear and the walrus * Spread of malaria in Africa and north America"

Comments

Can't Hear You

[Anonymous Coward]

La La La La LA!!!!

Can't hear you! Not happening! No consensus!

Love,
George

[George W. Bush appears by kind co-operation of Exxon, Inc]

Re:Can't Hear You

[gowen]

Something tells me that increased solar activity has more to do with global warming.

Something may well tell you that. But it isn't science.

Re:Can't Hear You

[TekPolitik]

Yeah, and I suppose if humans weren't here the Earth would never change temperature.

It seems we will get to find out soon enough.

I've heard worse

[EVil Lawyer]

"Decreasing crop yields in the developing and developed world * Tripling of poor harvests in Europe and Russia * Large-scale displacement of people in north Africa from desertification * Up to 2.8bn people at risk of water shortage * 97% loss of coral reefs * Total loss of summer Arctic sea ice causing extinction of the polar bear and the walrus * Spread of malaria in Africa and north America"

Eh. Worse things could happen. I'm only half-joking. If they had to resort to "extinction of the polar bear and walrus" for a seven-item list of "what could happen if there's global warming," we're not in such bad shape.

Re:I've heard worse

[sehryan]

No doubt. The penguin population would explode in such a situation. And believe me, the last thing this world needs is more penguins!

Re:I've heard worse

[Anonymous Coward]

The last thing we need are more penguins.
Especially exploding ones.

Re:I've heard worse

[vrai]

Without Woolly Mammoths to keep them in check the population of sabre-tooth arctic tigers will sky rocket! We won't be able to move without tripping over hungry, carnivorous, tundral mammals. Unless we act now to save the mammoths we're doomed! Doomed I tell you!

Yes Yes

[LiquidCoooled]

All those problems, but whats on the mind of most people here is - will it affect my WoW ping times?

so,

[scenestar]

How much more proof do we need before those that believe in "intelligent design" finally accpet the affects of global warming.

The sky, the sky!

[TFGeditor]

No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. That's just rain falling on your head. Acid rain, maybe, but rain just the same.

Re:Wake up Americans

[TFGeditor]

"You have no right to damage the Earth! It's not yours."

[joke]

The hell it isn't. We paid for it.

[joke]

Re:Wake up Americans

[caffeination]

Oh no! You didn't close the [joke] tag properly! Everything you've said or typed since you wrote this post has been a joke!
  Close it quick!

Re:act now

[pottymouth]

Just keep saying it, that'll make it true!! (I'm worth millions, I'm worth millions, I'm worth millions.....)

Re:Sounds inevitable then

[Scrameustache]

How much do you we all know about climatology?

About as much as you we grammar about do...

Re:Wake up Americans

[cli_man]

You want to take that up with the mice? We all know they are the ones that had Earth built in the first place.

Re:Wake up Americans

[p2sam]

Canada is a lot higher north than US too. So we spend more energy on heating. (I guess we also spend less on A/C. I guess I don't really have a point)

Re:PARENT IS NOT FLAMEBAIT

[bradkittenbrink]

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that the only way to fight flamebait is with MORE flamebait.

Unsustainable?

[ccharles]

causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

Sweet! If it's unsustainable won't it just peter out on its own? The self-healing earth is a wonderful thing...

Polar bears are overrated

[Anonymous Coward]

What good is a polar bear? You can't eat them. And ask any polar bear and I'll bet he would tell you he would rather live in a zoo and be fed every day without having to work. And speaking of work, look at all the jobs that are being created by those factories that are generating all that beneficial smoke. Those jobs with their ever increasing salaries wouldn't even exist if the government insisted on unnecessary pollution control. If we can sacrifice the polar bear just this once, no american will ever have to worry about finding gainful employment. We are creating so many jobs under this president that we have send many of them overseas just to keep up with demand. As the tundra thaws and factories pop up all over the previously frozen wasteland we will be getting rich making crappy little plastic and electronic things that every kid just has to have. And the best part is that Dubya has made it so that we don't even have to build those plastic and electronic things! All we have to do is get a patent on something that sounds vaguely similar or appears to be related and then collect royalties when some actually produces something. We don't even have to be able to actually build what we are patenting anymore. Just doodle some futuristic looking junk on a cocktail napkin. Cha-ching! God Bless America and death to all bears.