A Stark Warning On Climate Change

cliffski writes "In a report based on computer predictions, UK government advisor Professor David King said that an increase of even three degrees Celsius would cause drought and famine and threaten millions of lives The US refuses to cut emissions and those of India and China are rising. A government report based on computer modeling projects a 3C rise would cause a drop worldwide of between 20 and 400 million tonnes in cereal crops, about 400 million more people at risk of hunger and between 1.2bn and 3bn more people at risk of water stress."

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Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda

[quokkapox]

The way things are going in America, what with the offshore prison camps, pervasive domestic surveillence, corporations trampling individual rights by suing their customers, and runaway executive power, maybe it should be stopped.

Not that the Chinese/Indian alternatives are necessarily better, but America is rapidly deteriorating.

Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda

[EastCoastSurfer]

You're probably someone who cries when your job gets shipped overseas to India. The Kyoto agreement would make American companies even less competitive against their counterparts in countries like China and India which would lead to more jobs moving overseas. The next time an article comes up about jobs moving overseas, don't come here bitching that GWB sucks and should do something about it.

The US sucks. Well not really, but maybe that'll get me modded up!

Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda

[Dulcise]

Here's my attempt at applying my critical thinking lessons to this argument, i'm not sure about the strawman, but i think that's an example of one. P1: Kyoto Protocol would put no such restrictions on developing nations such as China and India. P2: They could grow and boom, but America would have to shrink it's economy to comply. C1: the US [should] refuse to cut levels consume all the energy the like and spew unlimited amounts of who-know-what into the atmosphere strawman No wonder it's been called the "Stop America Protocol." appeal to emotion (translation: "refuses to devolve our economy") appeal to emotion a couple of assumptions are that undeveloped countrys wouldn't want to do something similar to keep up with the developed world and that the developed world would trade with countrys that don't do something about polution

Re:That's just economic naivetee

[Tango42]

Those are meaningless numbers. Try dividing by population. The population of China is something like 5 times than of the US (I haven't bothered looking it up, but I think that's close) which puts China at around 1/10 of the emissions of the US, that's a fraction by my definition.