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LONDON (Reuters) - A food-linked word game put on the Internet a month ago has proved a runaway success and has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday.

FreeRice offers participants multiple choice definitions to the meaning of a word, with each correct click generating 10 grains of rice for the WFP.

The brainchild of American online fundraising pioneer John Breen, the Web site (www.freerice.com) relies on advertising revenue to underwrite its rice campaign.

"FreeRice really hits home how the Web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for the world's number one emergency," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the Rome-based WFP.

"The site is a viral marketing success story with more than one billion grains of rice donated in just one month to help tackle hunger worldwide," she added.

The day it was launched on October 7 just 830 grains of rice were donated.

But the Internet community quickly caught on, and on November 8 alone 77 million grains were donated -- equivalent to more than seven million correct clicks.

Labels: Feed The World, Free Rice

Pelosi and Reid are just about to do the stupidest thing imaginable: pull the rug out from underneath the blossoming renewable energy economy at the time when we need it most.

(Start reaching for your phone...)

Just as every single magazine in the country is giving the energy crisis more press than Paris Hilton, and just as renewable energy is becoming the entrepreneurial equivalent of the internet revolution and just as the news about climate change is getting weirder and scarier every time we open the freakin' paper, our crazy-assed Democratic leaders are completely dropping the ball, and you gotta call Capitol Hill right now and tell them to get their head's straight fast.

As Adam Browning of Vote Solar put it "Thursday morning, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi decided to drop the renewable energy standard out of the energy bill and drop the tax title. No tax title means no extension of the investment tax credit for solar, and no extention of the production tax credit for wind. Let's see...nothing for solar, plus nothing for wind, hmmm, add no renewable energy standard, carry the zero...yep, that adds up to precisely nothing for renewable energy.

Got that? Congressional leadership is moving an energy bill with nothing in it for renewable energy. Dropping the biggest pro-solar provision this country has ever seen, just when the industry is gaining momentum and making an impact."

According to Adam, we've got maybe 24 hours to turn this around. 24 hours. That's not a lot of time.

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Pelosi's offices number is 202- 225-4965
Reid's office's number is 202-224-3542

Then you should call your Congressman or woman and get all fired up on this too. You can find your congressional leader HERE. Tell 'em stuff like this:

* Clean energy means jobs and energy independence.
* America needs carbon-free renewable energy immediately. Tons of it.
* Renewable energy is a key component in the war against climate change.
* The energy bill must extend investment tax credits for solar.
* Yes, you know you are shouting, it's just that you are really very pissed off about this and you really want them do something about it.

Come on, Act Now!

Labels: Alternative Energy, Energy Bill, Renewable Energy

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DJI, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, or informally the Dow Jones or The Dow) is one of several stock market indices created by nineteenth century Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of the industrial component of America's stock markets. It is the oldest continuing U.S. market index, aside from the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created.

Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The "industrial" portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with heavy industry. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks—the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes over time, to generate the value of the index.

Labels: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Getting To Know...

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 09 Nov 2007 at 01:53:49 PM GMT is:



The estimated population of the United States is 303,485,581
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $29,940.96.

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At the end of September, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a measure to increase the debt limit ceiling to $9.815 trillion from $8.965 trillion, allowing the government to keep issuing debt.

The increase in the debt limit is the fifth since Bush took office in January 2001. The U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of his presidency…”

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Besides Schumer and Feinstein, Democrats voting to confirm Mukasey were: Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Tom Carper of Delaware, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Of the Senate's two independents, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut voted for confirmation and Bernie Sanders of Vermont voted against.

Not voting were Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden of Delaware, Hillary Clinton of New York, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Barack Obama of Illinois. All four had said they opposed Mukasey's nomination.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona also was absent, as were GOP Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and John Cornyn of Texas.

Labels: The Next Attorney General Scandal, US Attorney General

William H. Kotke's new book, Garden Planet, is fresh off the presses available in both paperback and as an electronic book for downloading!

Labels: American Empire, Collapse, Empire

TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar tumbled against major currencies on Friday, hitting a 26-year low against sterling and a record low against the euro as expectations grew for more interest rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The pound rose as high as $2.1145 at one point.

The euro hit $1.4739 on electronic trading platform EBS, its highest against the dollar since the euro's launch in 1999.

The dollar also dropped 0.5 percent against the Swiss franc to $1.1212, its weakest since 1995.

Labels: Global Economy, US Dollar, US Economy

NEW YORK, Nov 8 Reuters) - Bernard Kerik, a former New York police commissioner and protege of Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani, was indicted on corruption charges on Thursday, media reported, in a potential embarrassment for Giuliani's campaign.

Kerik, 52, and Giuliani, the former New York mayor, were also business partners and, with Giuliani's backing, Kerik was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2004 to be secretary of Homeland Security.

Kerik later withdrew his name from nomination after admitting he failed to pay taxes on a nanny and other embarrassing disclosures about his personal life surfaced.

WABC television reported that a law enforcement official said Kerik was expected to surrender on Friday in Westchester County, just north of New York City, where a federal grand jury was investigating his finances and business dealings while on the city payroll.

WNBC television said on its Web site that Kerik would be arraigned on Friday.

Prosecutors planned to accuse Kerik of trying to influence a probe of a contractor with suspected links to organized crime, other local media reported. The New York Times had reported on Wednesday that federal prosecutors would seek an indictment.

Kerik's attorney, Kenneth Breen, was not immediately available for comment.

Giuliani served as Kerik's longtime mentor, promoting the former police detective to a series of positions, including the chief of city jails.

Labels: America's Mayor, America's MobLover, Rudy Giuliani

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Tidal wave heading for England's east coast poses 'extreme danger to life'
Last updated at 23:13pm on 8th November 2007

Tens of thousands of householders are today preparing for some of the worst coastal floods in decades.

Sea levels could rise up to 9ft this morning along part of the East Coast, putting lives at risk.

Sea defences in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft could be breached around 7am, sending a torrent of salt water into the towns.

• Eight severe flood warnings issued by Environment Agency

• Surge expected to hit east coast in next 12 hours

• Police on standby to evacuate homes

• Dartford Creek and Thames barriers closed

HEADLAND NEAR ROZENBURG, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Britain, facing their worst flood threat in decades, closed surge barriers and evacuated people from homes on Friday as a North Sea storm threatened to inundate low-lying areas.

Authorities compared the approaching conditions to those in 1953 when floods killed more than 2,000 people in both countries.

The massive surge barrier near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam was closed for the first time since its construction in the 1990s.

At 11 p.m. (5 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, the two arc-shaped steel doors of the Maeslant barrier edged into the waterway that connects Rotterdam to the North Sea.

As spectators braved rain and wind to watch from a narrow headland, it took about half an hour for the two doors to meet in the Nieuwe Waterweg, about 360 meters wide.

"We have been standing here since 8 p.m.," said student Denise from Rotterdam. "I had expected it to close a bit faster."

A Dutch transport ministry spokesman said: "At 2.15 a.m., we are expecting the water to reach the highest level at 2.84 meters above mean sea level."

Earlier forecasts for the water level had been for more than 3 meters. The flood of 1953 saw the water rise to 3.85 meters above sea level, the transport ministry said.

Labels: Extreme Weather

Climate science exists in a different world from the one peopled by politicians. Inhabitants of both worlds think of themselves as realists: while scientists study the real physical world, politicians are arbiters of what can and will get done in the real human socio-economic world.

In general, any policy that means voluntary economic contraction of any noticeable magnitude doesn't stand much of a chance in the real world of politics. At least in the current political climate, absent a massive public education effort, voters will not support it and no politician will stake her career on it.

This in itself constitutes an enormous roadblock to the achievement even of the IPCC recommendations, much less the far more stringent targets (but more "realistic" ones in the scientific sense) that Carbon Equity is proposing. Faced with this roadblock, climate activists typically respond by minimizing the estimated cost of de-carbonizing economies, and by assuring one and all that economic growth can continue into the indefinite future while industrial nations radically reduce their consumption of the very fuels that made the industrial revolution possible. But if this sanguine, politically acceptable notion is at least arguable in the case of the IPCC reduction targets, it is hardly credible when it comes to the emissions reduction trajectory suggested by Carbon Equity.

Take the US as an atypical but essential example. One can realistically calculate a possible 50 percent reduction in fossil fuel consumption for the country through conservation (though that will be an enormous job, requiring extensive new electrified public transport infrastructure, new housing codes, subsidized energy retrofit programs, and so on). Another 25 percent of current fossil fuel consumption could be offset with renewable energy sources. All of this would take a few decades, and during that time we have to assume no population growth and no economic growth. That gets us to 75 percent reduction from current levels. Beyond that, it is difficult to see how more could be achieved - unless America continues burning fossil fuels but captures and stores the carbon. Suddenly with that possibility a relief valve is opened: coal-based electricity could flow in to fill the void.

This is why carbon capture and storage is the technical centerpiece of most politically acceptable prescriptions for climate salvation. However, technologies for carbon capture will add to the cost of energy, will reduce the amount of useful energy derivable from fossil fuels, and won't be ready for widespread commercial application for about three decades. We do not even know if the captured carbon will stay where we put it. These are not trivial problems, and the first two will bite hard in the emerging context of scarce energy supplies and high prices (more on that below).

Labels: Global Warming, Peak Energy, Peak Everything, Peak Oil

Two runaway trends – record oil prices and a plunging dollar – are hitting consumers just in time for the biggest retail spending season of the year.

Americans will be paying more at the gas pump and in their home-heating bills. Meanwhile, a falling dollar means that imported goods are more expensive. That includes all the toys, gadgets, and clothing people buy during the holiday shopping season.

The dollar is down for several reasons, but all reflect a more negative view of the United States relative to the rest of the global economy. Investors are selling greenbacks because of concern that inflation will rebound, uncertainty about the health of US banks, and a higher risk of recession – plus some longer-term rethinking about where to hold currency reserves.

What's going on with oil is partly the flip side of that same financial coin. Since oil is priced globally in dollars, it's typical for any big markdown in the dollar to be mirrored in a big markup in oil prices. For foreign buyers, that keeps the price of oil fairly stable. But US consumers take that adjustment on the chin.

"The terms of trade have worsened" for Americans, says Ken Mayland, who heads ClearView Economics, a Cleveland consulting firm. "The amount that the dollars in our pocket can buy has diminished."

Labels: Collapse, Global Economy, Oil, Oil Production, Peak Oil, US Economy

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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Kentucky voters on Tuesday dumped scandal-stained Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher, electing Democrat Steve Beshear, while Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour coasted to re-election.

With all precincts reporting, Beshear, a former state attorney general and lieutenant governor, had 59 percent of the vote to 41 percent for Fletcher, who had trailed badly in pre-election polls following a hiring scandal.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices surged deeper into record territory on Wednesday, touching $98 as the dollar plumbed new lows and traders fretted about a winter fuel crunch due to thinning oil stocks and a North Sea storm.

Investors bracing for more fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis and seeking shelter from the U.S. dollar -- which hit a new low -- have driven oil nearly $30 higher since mid-August and lifted other commodities including gold, now at a 28-year high.

U.S. light, sweet crude for December rose as much as $1.30 to $98 a barrel in active trade of over 9,000 lots, soaring past the previous record $97.10 touched on Tuesday.

London Brent crude also hit new peaks and stood 74 cents higher at $94 a barrel by 9:50 p.m. EDT.

Signs of thinning global oil stocks ahead of peak winter oil demand have added fuel to the rally, aiding a nearly 8 percent rise over the past two weeks alone, and prompting many analysts to say it's only a short matter of time before the oil hits $100.

Labels: Oil, Oil Producers, Peak Oil

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A veto last week by President George W. Bush of a popular water projects bill was overridden by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, moving Congress closer to enacting legislation that would authorize $23 billion for nearly 900 projects across the United States.

The House voted 361-54 to override the president's veto. The Senate is expected to take up the water bill as early as Wednesday.

If similar action occurs in the Senate, it would mark the first time Congress has mustered enough votes to override the president's veto. Bush has vetoed five bills during his time in office.

"The president chose to stand in the way of this bipartisan legislation, this overwhelming bipartisan legislation, in an attempt to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer from Maryland. "This is the wrong bill to have done so."

Bush had long threatened to veto the $23 billion bill, saying it was too expensive because it had special projects supported by individual lawmakers.

"No one is surprised that this veto is over-ridden," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

Labels: Bush Agenda, Bush Vetoes, Congress, Corporatocracy, US Senate, Water, Water Legislation

Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose to a record, surpassing $97 a barrel for a second day in New York, as a storm forced BP Plc and ConocoPhillips to evacuate workers and cut production in the North Sea.

The storm was forecast to produce 36-foot waves in the area, supplier of 4.4 million barrels of oil a day last year, more than Iran. A U.S. Energy Department report later today will probably show crude-oil supplies fell for a third week as refiners increased production, according to a survey of analysts.

``The supply and demand situation in the oil markets is super-tight, we really have no wriggle-room whatsoever,'' said Brian Hicks, president of the Wealth Daily newsletter. ``Any threat to supply is enough to send the price of oil up a dollar, two dollars every single day.''

Crude oil for December delivery gained as much as 75 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $97.45 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the highest intraday price since trading began in 1983. It traded at $97.40 at 9:19 a.m. in Singapore.

Yesterday, oil rose $2.72, or 2.9 percent, to settle at $96.70 a barrel, a record close. Futures climbed to $97.10 earlier in the session.

Oil may reach $100 by the end of the week if the North Sea storm cuts production significantly, Hicks said in a televised interview.

Pemex has had a very bad month. The week before last a Gulf storm with 80mph winds and 25’ waves drove a drilling rig into a production platform. Eighty-six PEMEX workers were forced to abandon the platform and 21 died in the stormy seas. The accident caused natural gas and oil to leak into the Gulf.

On Sunday Oct. 28 when another storm came along, PEMEX closed its three major export terminals and was forced to shut down about 1.2 million b/d of production because of lack of storage space. On Sunday Oct. 28, 200,000 b/d were shut-in, followed by 400,000 b/d on Oct. 29 and another 500,000 b/d on Oct. 30. Operations resumed around noon on Oct. 30 from two oil ports and by day’s end approximately 800,000 b/d of production had been reopened.

On Thursday PEMEX announced that 11 million barrels of production had been lost during the outages. Whether full production has been restored is unclear for severe flooding has occurred in the State of Tabasco, resulting in nearly 1 million people being driven from their homes. On Friday Mexico’s President said, “The storms have forced the closure of three of Mexico's main oil ports, preventing almost all exports and halting a fifth of the country's oil production."

As the US imports about 1.3 million b/d from Mexico, some drops should begin showing up in US imports and stockpile numbers in the next couple of weeks.

Labels: Collapse, Global Economy, Global Warming, Oil, Oil Producers, Peak Oil, US Economy, Wall Street Fairy

You cannot properly anticipate the coming wealth destruction unless you understand that the entire model rests on financial instruments (derivatives) which mask and distort risk. Thanks to readers Cheryl A. and U. Doran, I read the best description of how derivatives are written and sold--and how they blow up: Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader.

Here is an analogy. Let's say you are offered a chance to play roulette, a very risky game of chance, but with an option for insurance which guarantees you will suffer no more than a tiny loss.

Let's say you place a $10 bet, in the hopes of winning $100. Your "insurance"--what we call a hedge, as in "hedging your bets"--costs only $1. Thus you can gamble $10, with a chance of winning as much as $100, and your loss is limited to a mere $1--the cost of your hedge. If you lose the $10, the other side of the hedge trade--whoever took your $1--will give you $10. Life is good, n'est pas?

Note what this hedge does: it makes you believe a high-risk game can be played at almost no risk. But alas, the game is inherently risky, and the reduction of risk is ultimately illusory: you can't change roulette into a low-risk gamble.

Since this is such a low-risk bet, you are soon gambling, say $100 billion. And why not? The hedges are so cheap! Abd everything goes swimmingly until the day you lose the $100 billion. Ah, bad luck, Mate; but no worries, you turn to the other side of your hedge and politely request your $100 billion.

Oops--that guy just lost his bets, too, and can't pay you. Now the risk of the underlying game is fully revealed; the entire hedge which made it all so "safe" is revealed as a house of cards which depends on all the other players being able to pay off their bets. Once they can't, well, as the saying goes, all bets are off.

To hide your immense losses, you continue to claim your bet is still worth $100 billion. Since you aren't required to "mark to market," i.e. reveal the market value of your bet, you stash the $100 billion loss in "Level 3" of your assets--a dark place where you can temporarily hide your worthless bets.

Labels: Bush Economic Policies, Collapse, Credit Crisis, Global Economy, US Dollar, US Economy, Wall Street, Wall Street Fairy, Wall Street Scam

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Talk presented at the American Public Health Association Meetings
November 5, 2007.
Washington, D.C.

Dan Bednarz, Ph.D.
Energy & Healthcare Consultants
Pittsburgh, Pa

Good morning, and thank you for attending my presentation “Preparedness for What?” This title springs from Robert S. Lynd’s relatively unknown classic, Knowledge for what?1 Lynd, a sociologist writing in the 1930s, argued that social scientists should use their knowledge for publicly beneficial purposes.

This year’s APHA conference theme, “Politics, Policy and Public Health,” allows me to reprise his appeal and also to step back from the trenches of public health to compare two topics, one you know, terrorism, and the other, which probably only a few of you recognize as relevant to public health, energy.

As this is an oral presentation, let me offer two sets of observations up front so that you may argue (or agree) with me in your head as you hear my evidence.


Observation set 1: Terrorism is Overblown

Thomas Friedman2, voice of political pragmatism for many [ed.-- ummm... yeah.] , wrote a few weeks ago, “9/11 made us stupid.” Colin Powell, interviewed in Gentleman’s Quarterly3at about the same time, expressed similar sentiment. Two or three years ago I would have been too cowardly to make this obvious point that “reasonable people” may revise their understanding of the terrorism threat. Further, I believe Friedman’s and Powell’s remarks have a subtext: Universal preoccupation with “terrorism” is now bad for business. Or perhaps I’m cynical and Friedman and Powell have been reading two political scientists to whom I now turn.

John Mueller wrote a book titled, Overblown: How politicians and the terrorism industry inflate national security threats, and why we believe them4. He stresses three themes:

1. While terrorism poses some level of risk to the population, the risk is exaggerated; ironically, this magnification of their power is a central goal of terrorists.
2. Our nation has a history of inventing or magnifying political threats: nuclear attacks during the Cold War, McCarthyism and the Red Menace during the fifties, and most recently WMD in Iraq.
3. Public policy should focus on reducing collective fears and overreactions to terrorism, not on fueling them.

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Observation set 2: Peak Oil Is an Unprecedented Threat

The threat from energy scarcity should be of paramount importance – we should invoke the Precautionary Principle - yet it is poorly understood and only recently begun to be articulated by public health leaders6. This emerging attention is of critical importance. A critical risk factor, however, is how much time we have for mitigation and preparation.

Whereas terrorism poses no fundamental threat to the functioning of our society, energy decline does because it can degrade non-medical and institutional determinants of health such as education, employment, housing, nutrition, transportation, and sanitation. If these institutions fail the health of the population is imperiled by infectious diseases, the consequences of exposure to heat and cold, lack of adequate nutrition, among other currently “preposterous” (in America) possibilities.

It follows that peak oil as well can damage the institutions of medicine and public health. This is elementary systems theory: the less energy flowing into a system the less its outputs and the less complexity it can sustain. In short, energy scarcity, if not addressed by our political and business leaders, as well as numerous other institutions and citizen movements – our entire society, in essence - portends staggering chronic, system wide and long-term non-linear change -and possibly social breakdown or collapse.

Labels: Peak Energy, Peak Oil, Terrorism

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Now that the price of coal is at a historic low relative to oil, there's no stopping consumers and producers alike from embracing Al Gore's nightmare.

A ton of U.S. coal is so cheap at about $47 that European utilities will pay $50 to ship it across the Atlantic, according to Galbraith's Ltd., a 263-year-old London shipbroker. While oil and coal cost the same as recently as 1998, West Texas Intermediate crude is five times more expensive after climbing to a record $96.24 on Nov. 1.

Labels: Collapse, Finite Resources, Global Resources, Global Warming, Peak Oil, Pollution

BOSTON (Reuters) - As oil heads toward $100 per barrel, Corporate America is scrambling to offset the cost by cutting back on energy use where it can and pushing through higher prices where it can't.

Higher oil prices drive up corporate expenses from running factories to making petroleum-based chemicals. Companies in energy-intensive industries such as mining have also warned that oil prices are eroding their profits.

And they burn through consumers' spendable income as it costs more to run cars, heat homes and to buy airline tickets.

"There is a fascinating aspect of the extent to which we are still able to absorb these very sharp rises in price without any evident weakening. Now, eventually, that has got to stop," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in a speech here this week.

Labels: Collapse, Peak Energy, Peak Oil, US Economy

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here’s joel stein, november 2:

just how easy is it for coulter to offend someone? would any words from her mouth do the trick? to test this theory, i developed the ann coulter mad libs.™

it’s a good thing he used that ™ mark. he wouldn’t want anyone to steal his concept.

oh, look! here’s media bloodhound, october 18 (two weeks earlier):

in honor of ann coulter’s influence on american media and politics, the penguin group (usa), in a joint venture with ms. coulter’s random house publisher, the crown publishing group, is releasing a special edition of mad libs titled ann libs.

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A total of 46 nations and 2.7 billion people are now at high risk of being overwhelmed by armed conflict and war because of climate change. A further 56 countries face political destabilisation, affecting another 1.2 billion individuals.

This stark warning will be outlined by the peace group International Alert in a report, A Climate of Conflict, this week. Much of Africa, Asia and South America will suffer outbreaks of war and social disruption as climate change erodes land, raises seas, melts glaciers and increases storms, it concludes. Even Europe is at risk.

'Climate change will compound the propensity for violent conflict, which in turn will leave communities poorer and less able to cope with the consequences of climate change,' the report states.

The worst threats involve nations lacking resources and stability to deal with global warming, added the agency's secretary-general, Dan Smith. 'Holland will be affected by rising sea levels, but no one expects war or strife,' he told The Observer. 'It has the resources and political structure to act effectively. But other countries that suffer loss of land and water and be buffeted by increasingly fierce storms will have no effective government to ensure corrective measures are taken. People will form defensive groups and battles will break out.'

Consider Peru, said Smith. Its fresh water comes mostly from glacier meltwater. But by 2015 nearly all Peru's glaciers will have been removed by global warming and its 27 million people will nearly all lack fresh water. If Peru took action now, it could offset the impending crisis, he added. But the country has little experience of effective democracy, suffers occasional outbreaks of insurgency, and has border disputes with Chile and Ecuador. The result is likely to be 'chaos, conflict and mass migration'.

Labels: Global Warming