Global climate change may force millions to migrate

[jay gw]

Rising sea levels force millions of Bangladeshis into India, fuelling ethnic and religious tensions that end in bloody riots.

In Africa, crops wither in the parched landscape of a once-lush nation, bringing strife to the countryside and leading citydwellers to clash with the army as they loot shops for food.

As Russian lawmakers ratified the Kyoto protocol on climate change on Friday after years of dithering, grim scenarios like these may have been on the minds of some.

'The biggest security problem from global warming would be forced migrations' said Steve Sawyer, climate policy adviser for environmental group Greenpeace.

A growing number of analysts argue that global warming linked to greenhouse gas emissions is not just a "green issue".

They argue it might eventually top terrorism on the global security agenda, provoking new conflicts and inflaming old ones.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=qw1098611823683B251

[apoger]

The sky may be falling!

[c4ts]

Originally posted by apoger
The sky may be falling!

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because in the year 2000, all the ice caps will melt and civilization as we know it will be in ruins!

Beware the terror that is... PLANET X! I mean GLOBAL WARMING!

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by jay gw
Rising sea levels force millions of Bangladeshis into India, fuelling ethnic and religious tensions that end in bloody riots.

After practically the four-hundred-thousandth straight year region-wide flooding, the National Parliament of Bangladesh (Jatiya Sangsad) finally got a clue. It wasn’t the annual innundation of monsoon rains that clinched it for them however. Instead, it was that combined with the slightly rising sea level (due to a warmer climate), non-seasonal rains (due to a warmer climate) and swollen states of the Ganges and Jamura Rivers (because of the increased rainfall to points east, north and west because of a warmer climate). With said clue, they reached a consensus that yes, their entire nation is, and pretty much always has been, a massive flood plain. Several were seen slapping the palms of their hands to their forehead and muttering, “Duh!� Still, the peoples of Bangladesh didn’t seem to mind any more currently than they have in the past.

Originally posted by jay gw
In Africa, crops wither in the parched landscape of a once-lush nation, bringing strife to the countryside and leading citydwellers to clash with the army as they loot shops for food.

In Africa, another bumper crop of wheat, corn and hemp slightly depressed the world markets for the fifth straight year in a row. Annual rainfall for the majority of the continent regularly exceeded twice that of only a century earlier and fell throughout most months of the year, rather than during a single season only. This, in conjunction with many new lakes and wider navigatable rivers vastly expanded the economies of many previously desperate nations. Decades of relative peace and prosperity left little doubt that the nation was in a historical boom.

Originally posted by jay gw
As Russian lawmakers ratified the Kyoto protocol on climate change on Friday after years of dithering, grim scenarios like these may have been on the minds of some.

As Russian lawmakers ratified the Kyoto protocol, they giggled giddedly to themselves. It didn’t impact them in any real way and wouldn’t for some time to come. When it did, they’d do what they always did with treaties and protocols, they’d pay it the lip service it was worth while continuing to do as they pleased. In the meantime, they could count on much of their nation to not only warm slightly, opening agricultural and real estate opportunities never before realized in modern history. The same was to be true in Canada, Iceland, and much of Northern Europe.

[varwoche]

Originally posted by apoger
The sky may be falling! That's a peculiar way to characerize a phenomonon that many (most?) scientists think is actually happening.

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by apoger
The sky may be falling!

Are you kidding?

It's fallen at least half a dozen times already!

Let's see, there was...

1969...nope

1974...nope

1978...nope

1980...nope

1992...nope

2000...nope


and those are only the "expert proclaimations" I can think of off hand!

Nastradamus (sp?) would've made 10's of millions in this day and age... :nope: