A Stark Warning On Climate Change 926
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."
Good News & Bad News (Score:4, Funny)
The sky is falling! (Score:5, Funny)
On the bright side... (Score:5, Funny)
The other side of the (gold) coin (Score:5, Funny)
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!
MUCH MUCH WORSE!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The sky is falling! (Score:3, Funny)
Disclaimer: No agenda being pushed here, just an observation
Re:That's just economic naivetee (Score:3, Funny)
Haha, that's funny!
"Help"... wheee, you kill me.
"I'm taking all your stuff, to HELP you!" Hahaha...ah, mercy!
Re:no overpopulation problem; only underwealth (Score:2, Funny)
What we really need is for them to scale the large deposits so that everybodies ending balance is the same as the current richest person in the country.
Then when the price of everything goes up with the new huge supply of money, and increased demand on basically everything, we can begin to fuck up the wealth distribution again through usury and wage slavery all over again.
-Steve
Re:All the more reason to install clean stuff (Score:4, Funny)
I'm Sino-Hebrew, you insensitive clod!!
Re:More recommended reading (Score:2, Funny)
Who is part of this "professional network?" The Illuminati? Haliburton? The Stonecutters?
Not all doom and gloom (Score:2, Funny)