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Billions Face Risks From Climate Change

Posted by Zonk on from the please-buckle-your-seatbelts-its-going-to-be-a-bumpy-ride dept.

gollum123 writes with a link to a kind of grim BBC story. According to a report drawn up by 'hundreds of international environmental experts', billions of people face drought and famine, as well as an increase in natural disasters, as a result of climate change. Individuals in the poorest countries face the most danger, due to a lack of infrastructure and geographic location. "The scientific work reviewed by IPCC scientists includes more than 29,000 pieces of data on observed changes in physical and biological aspects of the natural world. Eighty-nine percent of these, it believes, are consistent with a warming world. Several delegations, including the US, Saudi Arabia, China and India, had asked for the final version to reflect less certainty than the draft."

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  1. bull.. we have millions of years of ice cores.. by plasmacutter · · Score: 3, Informative

    we have millions of years of ice core data giving us a feel for global temperature.. and because we continue to drill we get more and more data every year.

    here is a sample of that data charted

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  2. Re:And the upsides? by Angostura · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you actually read the IPCC report you will see, for example that it does state that under moderate warming conditions, North America will see an increase in crop yields. Unfortunately, as the warming increases yields fall.

  3. Re:No disagreement about a scientific issue? by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have a problem with anyone who says that there's no disagreement about an issue. If you're interested in why third-world countries aren't developing at all, and if you'd like to see a different perspective on the issue, I'd recommend The Great Global Warming Swindle.

    Watched that? Good.

    Now remember that MIT oceanographer? The one they've got on there to say that CO2 doesn't matter because it all comes out of the oceans really anyway?

    He was substantially misrepresented, and he's not happy at all about it. I'm especially amused by the manner in which the film maker responds to criticism: 'Go and fuck yourself.'

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  4. Re:As a Canadian I have to DISAGREE by ckedge · · Score: 4, Informative

    > have you ever taken a plane trip over the coast of British Columbia? Its a mighty depressing sight to see the checkered landscape from all the clear cutting

    It's not just the coast, it's all over the interior too. And you don't need a plane ride to see it - check out google maps satellite view:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=vancouver&ie=UTF8&z= 10&ll=49.851266,-120.206909&spn=0.621596,1.275787& t=k&om=1

    Just unbelievable. Every single little "patch" you see there is a half kilometer long by half to full kilometer wide. I wonder how many citizens and politicians have seen just exactly how extensive it is.