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echo: barktopus
to: John Beckett
from: Ad
date: 2007-01-02 09:39:00
subject: Re: ice island

From: Ad 

John Beckett wrote:
> Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge"> wrote in
> message news::
>> Start working out where 150 million odd bangladeshi etc are
>> going to go (Texas???) etc.
>
> Yes - that's on the right track. People saying they wouldn't mind if
> winter was a few degrees warmer are not understanding that their precious
> comfort might be impacted. Not to mention their food supply (but don't
> worry - a couple of protein generation plants from NASA will be enhanced
> to fix all our problems, or we'll fly to Mars).
>
> John
>

Not to mention the spread of various diseases & insect species which are
  limited by the cold.

If this warm spell continues I expect malaria to become a rich country
problem once more.

However the much larger threat will simply come from changing rainfall
patterns. People often forget that the real WMD are natural & involve
water & heat dispersion patterns.

But like I say....buy land in Canada & Russia....away form the sea or
at a nice height....

"Buy beach front property for your grandkids".....

Adam

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