Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/28/2008 5:38:31 PM PDT by PROCON
Climate report offers a dire look at next 50 years.
Get used to it -- and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report rounding up likely effects of climate change on the United States' land, water and farms over the next half-century.
Some effects already can be felt, says the report released Tuesday, which synthesizes results of more than 1,000 individual studies.
And it's not just humans' food that's at risk, said witnesses at a congressional field hearing in Seattle on Tuesday. An intense and sudden acidification of the Pacific resulting from climate change presages a possible breakdown in the marine food web, experts said at the hearing, headed by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
"This is not a problem of tomorrow but a problem for today," said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., noting that nearly 10 percent of protein in the human diet is from the oceans. "It just scares the heck out of me."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture report cataloged effects thought by scientists to be likely over the next 25 to 50 years on agriculture, land and water.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
Give me global warming over global cooling for the food supply. I’ll take my chances.
did anybody even bother to go read this carp?
Oh Sheesh, anything happens, and these religious cultists hop on the band wagon. Cold, Hot, Dry, Wet, plenty, famine...
What a wierd religion, worshiping a planet, that is so sickly that anybody farts in the woods, and their mother earth will die.
Kinda morbid.
There won’t be too many water shortages in places like Minnesota, Wisconson and Maine.
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