Climate change could cut clean water to three billion people: report

[IDemo]

By Nathan Diebenow
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 - 9:28 pm

Almost half of humanity could lose clean water access due to climate change, according to a British report to be released tomorrow ahead of an international climate change conference in Mexico.

"The main message is that the closer we get to a four-degree rise, the harder it will be to deal with the consequences," Dr. Mark New, a climate expert at Oxford University, told The Observer.

The report will assume that global temperatures will rise 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century even if nations agree to curb carbon emissions this year.

Climate change scientists believe that a mass global movement to "decarbonize" human activity in order to stay below this temperature is virtually impossible, especially after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen failed last December.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/climate-change-cut-clean-water-billion-people-report/

[old mark]

1. No worries - according to fundamentalists, god won't let that happen...

at least not to white christians with a lot of money...
Rec.
mark

[Kennah]

2. Not true!

Natural gas fracking will start infringing on clean drinking water long before climate change.

[Nihil]

3. It is true - and so is your comment ...

> Natural gas fracking will start infringing on clean drinking water
> long before climate change.

Both points are true: climate change will deprive people of clean drinking
water AND gas extraction will deprive people of clean drinking water.

The fact that the latter is already happening in the USA just proves that
the impact is not "either/or" but "both/and" - i.e., the deprivation due
to the gas industry is IN ADDITION to that caused directly by climate change.