Global warming equals weapons of mass destruction: scientist

Sun Nov 27, 7:05 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - The impact of spiralling pollution on the planet poses a threat to civilisation just as catastrophic as much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction, Britain's top scientist warned.

Robert May, president of the country's leading scientific body, the Royal Society, issued the warning as a 12-day conference was set to get underway Monday in Montreal to decide the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations' troubled treaty for curbing greenhouse gases.

"The impacts of global warming are many and serious: sea-level rise ... changes in availability of fresh water ... and the increasing incidence of extreme events -- floods, droughts, and hurricanes -- the serious consequences of which are rising to levels which invite comparison with weapons of mass destruction," May said in an advance copy of a speech released Monday to coincide with the start of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on the same day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051128/sc_afp/unclimatebritain_051128000531

We're one bad crop failure from a worldwide starvation of possibly hundreds of millions of people...but it will be slow, and it wont get coverage.
Heck, there's no coverage of this today. Do you know how many millions of people die every year from lack of water and food?

...care about folks starving and dehydrated after Katrina. And I seriously suspect all those reports about snipers were just more Bush lies as cover for the absolutely piss poor response.