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Exotic climate study sees refugees in Antarctica

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 13, 2008 at 6:14 am

From Reuters News:

Refugees are moving to Antarctica by 2030, the Olympics are held only in cyberspace and central Australia has been abandoned as too dry, according to exotic scenarios for climate change on Monday.

British-based Forum for the Future, a charitable think-tank, and researchers from Hewlett-Packard Labs, said they wanted to stir debate about how to avert the worst effects of global warming by presenting a radical set of possible futures. “Climate change will affect the economy at least as much as the ‘credit crunch’,” their 76-page report study said.

The scenarios range from a shift to greater energy efficiency, where desalination plants run on solar power help turn the Sahara green, to one where refugees are moving to Antarctica because of rising temperatures.

“We still have the chance to alter the future,” Peter Madden, head of the Forum, told Reuters. “This is what the world could be like and some of these options are not very pleasant.”

Read the rest of this story from Reuters, which includes five possible scenarios on how climate change might play out, by clicking here.

October 13, 2008 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply

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