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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11329)	4/10/2007 12:05:59 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 36921

Looks like Global Warming for Peace. For one thing, many areas of the world are in for more, not less, precipitation in the years ahead. The Zambezi River in Mozambique has already flooded its banks twice in the past decade. More-northerly regions such as Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia should also expect a lot more rain. Already these areas are responding; Mozambique, for example, plans to build a hydropower dam on the Zambezi with Chinese financing, which could produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity for use at home and sale abroad. Coupled with the longer growing season expected up north as the weather warms, new irrigation projects should also lead to an increase in food production. More to the point, increased rainfall could diminish tensions between certain states, making the risk of water wars lower than it's been in the past. For example, some long-term models show heavier precipitation in the highlands of Ethiopia and Central Africa, foretelling rising water levels in the Nile. And higher expected levels of rain in northern Europe could be used to mitigate the parching of the south.