The laws of supply and demand will move fast enough to ensure disaster is adverted.

On this point only, can I agree with you (at least with the sense of your typo): The disaster will be advertized (:-()
The speed of global communications means the disaster will be known about very quickly.

Enough flim flam.
Your simple economics model is for simple minds: "If steak gets too expensive, you can buy chicken cheaper"

As resources get scarce and harder to extract, the price rises.

Possibly very true for quick responding consumer trinket markets, but quite the wrong theory (as in too simple) for high stakes long term resource extraction.
As these resources gets more expensive to acquire and becomes less reliable (more of a gamble vs a good investment) as the required LONG lead time, development of newer lower grade, more expensive resource reserves REDUCES as the investment is seen as poor. This is happening today to many non renewable, vital-to-civilization resources.
Example: If oil 'runs out' (as in gets too expensive due to decreased production due to expensive exploration not done) how fast is your definition of fast when the american auto fleet has to convert to electric vehicles?
The oil majors to satisfy their pension fund shareholders require good quarterly figures and are selling off assets as the high stakes gambles on finding more, easy oil have not panned out over the last couple of years. And it's getting worse, fast.

New Zealand is going (maybe) to get a new flag (new FLAG, I said, oh what this isnt 4chan, nevermind) well anyway the Enzedders are planning a nice black flag with a silver fern leaf. Like the logo of their football team, the All Blacks. Classy.Very nice.
I would like to see as new Australian flag which replaces the English cross (the combination of wales england and scotland crosses) (oh there's a thought... what if Scotland _does_ leave the United Kingdom. Does this mean all the ex-commonwealth countries have to remove the scottish part of the english cross that would make it a standard double cross rather than the superb triple cross that says 'UK - once we had an empire but we still own all the banks').
So lets put a red kangaroo up there instead, makes it very friendly a la Qantas (Tony, if you are on slashdot tonight for policy ideas, how about licensing the red roo logo from Qantas say $250m per year. Joycey is awaiting your call...)
Yes a nice friendly welcoming kangaroo (unless you're trying to sneak passed the Abbot drones. Refugees: "Nobody wants us, because we didn't come by Qantas")....
OK where were we? that flag idea? The way this mob of sheeple here are so insipid, probably they'll go for a upgrade on the Southern Cross to the Southern Swastika (subtle eh?). Rupert would LOVE it.

Article extract:

*** bb_ (note: that's a bottom quark and a bottom antiquark)

WIkipedia "Bottom quark":

Conclusion: Dark matter decays to a state of bottomonium.

Remember to take the mask out of the plastic bag before fitting.
The resulting lack of oxygen can cause disorientation as suggested by the above comment.

Length: 100,000km, anchored on the Earth with a large mass floating in the ocean and a large counterweight at the top end, called an Apex Anchor.
Width: One meter
Design: Woven with multiple strands to absorb localized damage and curved to ensure edge-on small size hits do not sever the tether.
External Power: The power must be external as the gravity well is extreme and lifting your own power is a non-starter.
Dr. Edwards’ approach was to use large lasers pointing up to the climber with a “solar panel like” receiver on its nadir position.
Cargo: The first few years will enable 20ton payloads without humans [radiation tolerance an issue for the two week trip] with five concurrent payloads on the tether for the two-week trip to GEO. [Currently, the plan is seven concurrent payloads for one-week travel.]

What could possibly go right?

That cherry.
Let's talk about the effect on climate change of the release of tens of thousands times more CH4 than a hypothetical submarine landslides.

Nice cherries you got there. Pick 'em yourself?

FWIW I do live in hell (aka Australia) and its getting too f**king warm by half.

This is the same hell your climate denialism is dead on target to create,
with no VIABLE alternative except to burn baby burn.

E X A C T L Y

Now why are we crying about a meagre $1B to get that answer?

Re the " Apocalyptic Global Warmists ":, we are more concerned with methane tipping points
(you know, when we burn enough carbon to warm the oceans and atmosphere so the TRILLIONS of tons of
methane in permafrost and in undersea clathrate deposits are emitted). That promises runaway climate change.

Let me repeat:
The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).

There IS scientific consensus. Just no political consensus. Equals: we are so screwed.

Don't worry, That's just 24 hours of Federal Reserve QE's money printing time (@$85B/month)!

The commonly accepted way to reduce climate change (archaic form: global warming) is to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
The largest sources of human caused GHG emissions are a. coal fired electricity generation b. industrial agriculture.
The total CO2 equivalent emitted by you, me and what we consume, every year is 30 Billion tons.
That needs to be reduced by at least 50% within two decades or so.

Coal fired electricity generation produces prodigious amounts of CO2.
The problem with reducing coal based emissions is many fold:
on one side are entrenched interests in coal mining, and built infrastructure, that influence politics and public opinion.
Renewables were once very expensive but are competitive now. The mass production of PV panels shows what can be achieved.
The Germans have done a great deal of research to evolve technology solutions to maintain modern lifestyles.

Industrial agriculture produces prodigious amounts of CH4 (aka methane).
The waste of up-converting feed stock into live stock will be reduced by increasingly poorer climate conditions.
Since the ratio of petrochemical energy in to food energy out is something like 10:1 all food will get expensive
as fuel costs keep rising with the inexorable increased cost of oil exploitation (aka peak oil).

Obama's $1B will fund a lot of US research to help you maintain your life without ruining the earth's ecological systems

So you're saying that a Tesla with AWD will use the same amount of petrol as a FWD/RWD model.
Like, still zero?

It's not global warming, at least not caused by our burning BILLIONS of tones of fossil fuels.
Simply, it's all God's fault for being such a homophobic sociopathetic but supreme being

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25793358

I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY
(with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)

I love a sunburnt country
A land of sunburnt plains,
Of sunburnt mountain ranges,
Of droughts and sunburnt rains.
I love sunburnt horizons
I love her sunburnt sea
Her sunburn and her sunburn
This sunburnt land for me.

Micheal Leunig, 16 December 2006

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