40% of South Asian and China will have no drinking water - Global Warming

[varun]

Someone needs to send this article to Rush Limbaugh and his ilk who have been denying global warming for the last 10 years...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09/09/himalayan.glaciers.reut/index.html

Water crisis looms as Himalayan glaciers melt

Friday, September 9, 2005; Posted: 11:11 a.m. EDT (15:11 GMT)

It's a scary thought, but scientists say the 40 percent of humanity living in South Asia and China could well be living with little drinking water within 50 years as global warming melts Himalayan glaciers, the region's main water source.

The glaciers supply 303.6 million cubic feet every year to Asian rivers, including the Yangtze and Yellow rivers in China, the Ganga in India, the Indus in Pakistan, the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh and Burma's Irrawaddy.

But as global warming increases, the glaciers have been rapidly retreating, with average temperatures in the Himalayas up 1 degree Celsius since the 1970s.

A World Wide Fund report published in March said a quarter of the world's glaciers could disappear by 2050 and half by 2100...

[phantom power]

1. It won't matter.

First they deny it.
Then they will deny that humans had anything to do with it.
Then they will deny that there's anything we can do about it.
Then (after it's all happened) they will tell us to stop playing the blame game, and move on.

[noonwitch]

2. And then they'll blame Bill Clinton

and they'll work in a blow job joke, too.