Report: Millions Face Hunger from Climate Change

[nam78_two]

Link courtesy of Sapphire Blue

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070410/26802_Report%3A_Millions_Face_Hunger_from_Climate_Change.htm

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Warming temperatures could result in food shortages for 130 million people by 2050 and threaten to cause drought and higher seas in Australia and New Zealand by 2030, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

The climatic changes threaten ecologically rich sites like the Great Barrier Reef and sub-Antarctic islands, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A summary of the full, 1,572-page document written and reviewed by 441 scientists was released Friday. The latest document, the second of four reports including the summary, tries to explain how global warming is changing life on Earth.

Further details were unveiled Tuesday in a series of regional press conferences around the world.

The report suggests that a 3.6-degree increase in mean air temperature could decrease rain-fed rice yields by 5 percent to 12 percent in China. In Bangladesh, rice production may fall by just under 10 percent and wheat by a third by the year 2050.

The drops in yields combined with rising populations could put close to 50 million extra people at risk of hunger by 2020, an additional 132 million by 2050 and 266 million by 2080, the report said.

"Unchecked climate change will be an environmental and economic catastrophe but above all it will be a human tragedy," Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, said in a statement.

"It is absolutely vital that international action is taken now to avoid dangerous climate change," he said. "Otherwise the consequences for food and water security in Asia, as for many other parts of the world are too alarming to contemplate."

>> More at the link

[aquart]

1. We can't avoid it anymore. That boat has sailed.

We have to be working out new crops that can survive under the new circumstances. We have to be protecting water sources.

We're doing squat.

[nam78_two]

2. Come now-they are doing something about it

The Bushies and their oil buddies put loads of time, effort and money into suppressing as much of the information on climate change as they can, gagging scientists, spreading propaganda etc.
:sarcasm:

[nam78_two]

3. ....

:kick:

[blues90]

4. Just to add one point

Not to reduce the importance of global warming at all here , I feel it is a very important issue to be certain .

However right at this moment millions are starving to death all over this corrupt planet and have been for years .

So these people have to be factored into the total of deaths each year .

[nam78_two]

5. Its tragic that the same places with the poorest people

will be exponentially more screwed now :(.

[Reterr]

6. k&r.eom

[Bluebear]

7. k/r

I just read where subtropical diseases are going to be common in, say, Denmark, because of global climate change. We done done it. :(

[nam78_two]

8. Thanks for the kick

:hi:
Yes we are going to be ill-equipped medically for some of the upcoming challenges.

[Jcrowley]

9. K&R

World Scientists: Global Warming Could Wipe Out 25% Of All Species
Local Group: Swift Action by Congress, Pennsylvania Could Help Avert Worst Predicted Impacts

POSTED: 12:52 pm EDT April 6, 2007
UPDATED: 4:17 pm EDT April 6, 2007

Approximately 20 to 30 percent of plant and animal species are at risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming.

"More droughts, floods, forest fires, and heat waves are in store for us and for future generations, unless we act boldly to reduce global warming pollution," said Nathan Willcox, energy and clean air advocate for PennEnvironment.

"This consensus report from the world’s scientists should be a direct challenge to the U.S. Congress and Pennsylvania's leaders in Harrisburg," he added. "It paints a clear and disturbing picture of the consequences of failing to take serious action."

http://www.nbc10.com/news/11551375/detail.html

But what does this have to do with Anna or Imus? I must be missing something.

:shrug: