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A Stark Warning On Climate Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-not-good dept.

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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  1. Good News & Bad News by corporatemutantninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    Won't this help solve the overpopulation problem?

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  2. The sky is falling! by Spud+Stud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Again.

  3. On the bright side... by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    My family in the suburbs will finally have that waterfront house they've always wanted, and they won't even have to move.

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  4. The other side of the (gold) coin by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a perpetual optimist, I prefer to see this news not as a harbinger of devastation to the world's food supply, but rather as a wake-up call. A wake-up call to buy corn, wheat, and rice futures!

    And you know what? You don't even have to bother dealing with the pesky Chicago Board of Trade. While bread goes bad pretty quickly, saltines last for a long time, as does flour. But why go the boring route?

    Common breakfast cereals last for a year at least; also, if you buy now, they come with adorable Ice Age: The Meltdown(TM) toy which, down the road, will really make the irony sting. For example, once the famine sets in, you'll be amassing great wealth from selling $45 boxes of Corn Pops to the stupid starving masses who lacked your foresight. Then, as they finish eating their precious sugared grain pellets they will find an Ice Age toy at the bottom of the box. This mere bauble will become a caustic and bitter reminder of the witless folly that created the famine (and your fortune) in the first place.

    So it's win/win!

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  5. Re:All the more reason to install clean stuff by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 3, Funny

    (I suspect that they are kike EU and Japan, they tend to remain very local)

    I'm Sino-Hebrew, you insensitive clod!!

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