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."

Comments

Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda

[Gossi]

Well boo fucking hoo. America would -- shock -- have to care! And, like, not shit on the rest of the world, but take a bit of shit _from_ the rest of the world.

Cry me a river.

Re:Recommended reading

[StevenHenderson]

State of Fear by Michael Crichton gives a nice (somewhat biased) Cliffs-Notes take on the issue as well.