more on the consequences of global warming

Millions face hunger from climate change

BANGKOK, Thailand - Warming temperatures could result in food shortages for 130 million people across Asia by 2050 and cause potentially catastrophic problems in Africa, wiping out one of the continent's staple crops altogether, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

Climate change threatens the ecologically rich Great Barrier Reef and sub-Antarctic islands, and could melt the snow on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A summary of the full, 1,572-page document written and reviewed by 441 scientists was released Friday. The latest document, the second of four reports including the summary, tries to explain how global warming is changing life around the world, region by region.

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I really can't understand how people can oppose reasonable measures to control this trend. How people can be so heartless, money-grubbing and just plain ignorant that they would rather let the entire world die than admit that they were wrong (or they would rather profit today and have nothing tomorrow) is just beyond comprehension.