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Nations most at risk from global warming [head for the hills!.......)
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Posted on 10/25/2011 4:58:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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AAP October 26, 2011 10:17AM

A THIRD of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change and rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a new report.

Bangladesh, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are among 30 countries with "extreme'' exposure to climate shift, according to a ranking of 193 nations by Maplecroft, a British firm specialising in risk analysis.

Five Southeast Asian nations - Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia - are also in the highest category, partly because of rising seas and increasing severe tropical storms.

Maplecroft's tool, the Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI), looks at exposure to extreme weather events such as drought, cyclones, wildfires and storm surges, which translate into water stress, loss of crops and land lost to the sea.

How vulnerable a society is to these events is also measured, along with a country's potential to adapt to future climate change-related hazards.

Of 30 nations identified in the new report as at ``extreme'' risk from climate change, two-thirds are in Africa and all are developing countries.

Africa is especially exposed to drought, severe flooding and wildfires, the report says.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iceage; minimum; poleshift; solar
Paging chicken little.......
1 posted on 10/25/2011 4:58:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
We're all going to die unless I move into a tent and stop driving my pickup.

Oh, well............

2 posted on 10/25/2011 5:03:00 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Sub-Driver

Think I smell a global tax iniative, just so the rich nations pay their fair share. /sarc>


3 posted on 10/25/2011 5:04:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

We need to be sending them U-hauls in exchange for their ocean-front properties.


4 posted on 10/25/2011 5:08:54 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Sub-Driver

OMG!


5 posted on 10/25/2011 5:14:44 PM PDT by ken21
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To: Sub-Driver

Atlantis, Eastasia?


6 posted on 10/25/2011 5:21:00 PM PDT by dmcnash (y)
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To: Sub-Driver
The world has always been in turmoil. For example:


Pangaea
7 posted on 10/25/2011 5:30:17 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Sub-Driver
How vulnerable a society is to these events is also measured, along with a country's potential to adapt to future climate change-related hazards.

Ahh...The great equalizer. If you've spent the last few centuries developing an economy, some wealth, an educated population, a system of laws that function then you, you evil usurper, you are taking advantage of the poor.

Put it to music, it's getting stale.

Bite me where I stink the most.

8 posted on 10/25/2011 5:30:51 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Hey, Hippie...Occupy a LIFE!)
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To: Sub-Driver

sun burned alive - the horror !


9 posted on 10/25/2011 5:35:32 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Sub-Driver; Nervous Tick; SteamShovel; Tunehead54; golux; tubebender; Fractal Trader; ...
The nations most at risk are those that have the greatest individual freedom and prosperity.

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

10 posted on 10/25/2011 5:35:50 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Excellent!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffWG4ANcuc


11 posted on 10/25/2011 5:37:31 PM PDT by waterhill (Strawberry jello is wild pig crack, they love it more than life)
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To: waterhill

ew, don’t watch that one, watch this one:

Up the Irons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ToNJHgp-w


12 posted on 10/25/2011 5:49:22 PM PDT by waterhill (Strawberry jello is wild pig crack, they love it more than life)
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To: Sub-Driver
Sounds like they've given up trying to scare educated first world people. Liberals are setting their sights on scaring the poor and vulnerable. Charming....
13 posted on 10/25/2011 5:50:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (OWS - a scam to shift blame for unemployment and misery away from Obama..)
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To: Sub-Driver

I would put it: Consensus Science Alert...


14 posted on 10/25/2011 5:53:40 PM PDT by OrioleFan
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15 posted on 10/25/2011 6:07:55 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Sub-Driver

Stop driving, everybody. We have drought in TEXAS!!!! Oh noes. You guys are causing it!


16 posted on 10/25/2011 6:09:55 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Sub-Driver

Global warming, eh? With the north magnetic pole moving so quickly toward Russia, look for more volcanic activity, storms, fluctuations toward extreme cold, etc. The north will be a far rougher place to live.


17 posted on 10/25/2011 6:35:48 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
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