Hot, parched and sinking - apocalypse Sydney

[jpak]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/hot-parched-and-sinking--apocalypse-sydney/2007/10/02/1191091115244.html

SYDNEY faces a temperature rise of up to 4.3 degrees by 2070, and a tripling of the number of days a year when the thermometer soars above 35 degrees, if global greenhouse gas emissions are not cut deeply, a report warns.

But it is already too late for the city to avoid a warming of about 1 degree by 2030 as well as a 3 per cent reduction in annual rainfall because of polluting gases present in the atmosphere.

The report, Climate Change in Australia, provides the most comprehensive assessment of the country's climate to date, and is based on the work of more than 50 scientists from the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

Its grim projections of more droughts, heatwaves, bushfires, and severe "weather events" were released in Sydney yesterday at the Greenhouse 2007 conference.

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[progpen]

1. I have the perfect solution to this problem...

let's let business fix everything! See, so simple. We all just sit back and buy what we are told to buy, don't petition our governments or letter write to businesses, because they know better than we do what's good for us. We carry none of the responsibility, so we don't need to actually do anything, make any sacrifice, or make any change to our lifestyle.

So to recap, we sit back, act like nothing bad is happening, and let businesses save the planet. Because, as we all know, businesses have our best interests at heart. They are the true altruists who care nothing of the bottom line, double digit growth, maximizing ROI, or constantly increasing stock value.

Sometimes you just gotta think like a Repug and everything becomes simple.

[hunter]

2. Australia's number one commodity export is coal.

Oops.

[hogwyld]

3. Well, when Mother Earth strikes back

and 90% of humanity is wiped out, the greenhouse gas emmissions should drop considerably...