Bleak outlook for warming world

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World Bank highlights climate-poverty link
World Bank zooms in on link between climate change, poverty

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens."

In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions of people in poverty.

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"Urgent action is needed to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to help countries prepare for a world of dramatic climate change and weather extremes," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement.

Already by the 2030s, 40 percent of the land used to grow maize in sub-Saharan Africa will be unable to sustain that crop because of droughts and heat, the report said. Also by that time, sea level rise coupled with more intense cyclones could inundate much of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, it said.

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[datasuspect]

1. the positive side of this is that it will (god willing)

result in a massive die off of the human virus.

herd needs thinning anyway.

i honestly don't think this is a bad thing. we've abdicated our responsibility as custodians of nature and balance in general by how rapaciously our species has consistently raped Mother Earth over and over and over.

something's gotta give.

Gaia has cleansing mechanisms to protect herself.

[On the Road]

2. Might Actually be Time to Consider Actually Cooling the Earth

so it returns to temperatures of several decades ago rather than simply wait for natural processes to reabsorb the extra carbon.

[kestrel91316]

3. Yeah, we can just build a giant air conditioner.

That'll work.

[On the Road]

4. You Wouldn't Do Heat Exchange

You'd probably do it by reflective material in the atmosphere combined with some other things like impounding agricultural waste. Wouldn't solve the problem of ocean acidification, but it would bring down rising sea levels decades before a pure Kyoto-style effort would even stop the increase. Plus the cost is much more manageable.

Pragmatism is likely to kick in once the impact of ocean levels starts to become clear. But for now, the obvious solution just sits there without supporters.