Home
Report - Climate change will increase world tension
Beijing News.Net
Wednesday 12th September, 2007
A report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies says climate change is likely to hit crop yields and water availability everywhere, causing great human suffering and regional strife.
The IISS report said a major climate catastrophe would have an effect similar to that of a nuclear war.
It is believed the effects would cause a host of problems including rising sea levels, forced migration, disease epidemics, crop failures and famines.
The IISS report says conflicts in Kenya and Sudan are a sign of the competition that is occurring in places of dwindling resources.
The report, an annual survey of the impact of world events on global security, said conflicts due to climate change would reduce the ability of the world's political leaders to correct the effects of global warming.
The gap between rich and poor would heighten racial and ethnic tensions which in turn would produce fertile breeding grounds for more conflict.
Falling crop yields due to reduced water and rising temperatures would push food prices higher.
Overall, the report said, 65 countries were likely to lose over 15 per cent of their agricultural output by 2100 at a time when the world's population was expected to grow from six billion now to nine billion people.
 Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
~galljdaj+
09-12-07, 09:25 PM |
Report - Climate change will increase world tension
5+ years of War making has done what to Global Warming?
When are the World leaders going to demand estimates and accountibility for making war regarding the share of Deaths in Global Warming, that will come from the War Making Pollutions?
For example: In the first two years of the Afghan War CO2’S went up 2% and scientist had no 'Data' or explanation why such was occuring!
Accountibility!! Making War is not Free!
|
Anonymous
09-12-07, 10:15 PM |
Yep the dead dont breath oxygen and look what a mess they have made. Gather em' up and we’ll try them in the ICC. Damn world leaders are so negligent leaving the dead bodies lying around.
|
Anonymous
09-12-07, 10:20 PM |
and look at all the flies and insects they attract, damn careless world leaders.
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 01:53 AM |
Insurgents.
Is that the best you can do.
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 10:45 AM |
Insurgents ....
... 24/7. Me only less than part time.
|
Sammy
09-13-07, 01:38 AM |
War is the biggest polluter
Warmongers not only should be tried in the international criminal court for genocide, crimes against humanity, human rights abuse, but also they should be tried for polluting our planet and destabilizing our climate.
Sammy
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 01:51 AM |
leaders of what?
Why are they called world leaders?OH I SEE THEY LEAD US INTO WARS LEAD US INTO CRIME AND THEY DO NOT WANT COMPETITION, eg.bush the funcitioning ellitorate leader &presidant of the usa.a classic example of a test tube baby ,a biological freek a perfict leader for his country.
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 10:45 AM |
You expect people to take your serious?
Unregistered;43685:
Why are they called world leaders?OH I SEE THEY LEAD US INTO WARS LEAD US INTO CRIME AND THEY DO NOT WANT COMPETITION, eg.bush the funcitioning ellitorate leader &presidant of the usa.a classic example of a test tube baby ,a biological freek a perfict leader for his country.
You can’t spell and the typing skills are horrid, looks like a monkey banged on the keyboard.
I would bet money on the fact Bush is far superior to you in intelligence and education.
|
~galljdaj+
09-13-07, 07:38 AM |
By Now even the idiot supporters of war Should...
... , and should know that War Pollution is a Dooms Day 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'.
Yet they still post like a intermediate school yard bully. And bring a new definition for human waste. One is even now known as the turd inspector.
The formed termenology was toilet attendant. My how they have impoved the human condition.
|
GeorgeWBush
09-13-07, 10:42 AM |
No everyone knows a turd when they see one
~galljdaj+;43699:
... , and should know that War Pollution is a Dooms Day 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'.
Yet they still post like a intermediate school yard bully. And bring a new definition for human waste. One is even now known as the turd inspector.
The formed termenology was toilet attendant. My how they have impoved the human condition.
And you are a turd!
War is good for business!
War is good for profits!
It’s only Arabs who cares and Iraqi Arabs are even more worthless then the others!
Bomb them into the stone age only 600 years further back them most of them are mentally at anyways!
Err ummmm they hate our freedoms!
They hate our way of life!
God told me to!
You are either with us or against us!
Choose your truth eiher way we at war get over it.
|
~galljdaj+
09-13-07, 12:44 PM |
A poor sod believes War is 'profit'!
Maybe getting sick is profitable also!
Doctor and Hospital Owners get Rich!
Nurses billers cooks dishwashers, floor washers, Lots of people make some money!
Getting sick is Patriotic in the poor sods 'concept'(used very loosely)!
Great for the economy! Watch out for the money making undertakers!
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 03:46 PM |
Now You Got It!
~galljdaj+;43734:
Maybe getting sick is profitable also!
Doctor and Hospital Owners get Rich!
Nurses billers cooks dishwashers, floor washers, Lots of people make some money!
Getting sick is Patriotic in the poor sods 'concept'(used very loosely)!
Great for the economy! Watch out for the money making undertakers!
Wars = job and industry!
Look and China and Russia expanding their militaries at a break neck pace.
They are smart enough to stay out of the global police force business.
Hopefully they get drug into this nonsense soon.
Poor Kook can’t see sarcasm for what it is.
|
~galljdaj+
09-13-07, 06:46 PM |
Never thought I would find a person...
... a person worthy of the advice, Buy lotto tickets! For such an idiot as you its your best chance!
|
Anonymous
09-13-07, 08:00 PM |
Sage advise
~galljdaj+;43769:
... a person worthy of the advice, Buy lotto tickets! For such an idiot as you its your best chance!
From one idiot to another.
Sad the great galljdaj a wonder in his own mind has been reduced to such petty nonsense posts.
Shame really the high minded man has fallen from his wooden horse.
Tis a good thing you make your living off welfare and skimming union dues or you would starve your advise sucks almost as much as your politics and opines.
|
waltky
09-13-07, 08:57 PM |
Maybe not, if we don’t know about it...
;)
Report: Cutbacks threaten climate study
Thu Sep 13, 2007 WASHINGTON - The government’s climate change research is threatened by spending cuts that will reduce scientists' observations from space and on the ground, a study says.
]
A major problem, the National Research Council said Thursday, is the program director’s lack of authority to organize spending and research among the 13 different agencies that study the impacts of climate. Nonetheless, the report said, the U.S. Climate Change Research Program has made good progress “in documenting the climate changes of the past few decades and in unraveling the (human) influences on the observed climate changes."
In contrast, the report said progress in combining research results and supporting decision making and risk management “has been inadequate." The climate research program is “an important initiative that has broadened our knowledge of climate change, needs to package more of that knowledge for policymakers from the national to local level, and place more emphasis on understanding how people will be affected by climate change and how they might react," said committee chairman Veerabhadran Ramanathan, professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
The world has moved into an era when climate change is accepted as real, he said, and it is accepted that human activities are the major drivers for many of these changes. But progress has been inadequate in determining how climate change will affect people, Ramanathan said in a briefing Thursday. In its report the research council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, did not make recommendations on how to improve the program. That is expected to be included in a follow-up report next year.
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070913/ap_on_sc/climate_research:
MORE[/url]
|
Have your say on this story
|
 |
 |
- Fifteen killed in China colliery blast
Harbin (China), Dec 1 (Xinhua) Fifteen miners were killed in a coal mine explosion Sunday in northeast China, rescuers said Monday. [read story]
- China to sign new economic agreement with Nepal
Kathmandu, Dec 1 (IANS) Close on the heels of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Nepal, China is sending its Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to Kathmandu Tuesday to bolster ties by signing a new agreement. [read story]
- China's economy shrinks
Beijing, Dec 1 (Xinhua) The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) of China's manufacturing sector dropped to 38.8 percent in November, down 5.8 percentage points from October, indicating that the country's economy has further contracted, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) said Monday. [read story]
- Annik expands operations to China
Gurgaon (Haryana), Dec.1 (ANI-Business Wire India): In another strategic move that allows for broader global coverage and language support, Annik, one of the leading research outsourcing companies in India, has started operations in China. [read story]
- Indian government makes demands on Islamabad
The Indian government has asked Islamabad to take strong action against the group responsible for what it calls the Mumbai outrage. [read story]
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
