China question

>
> > BTW recent articles suggest that of all the world, North America
> > will be
> > the LEAST affected by global warming,
> > and hence might have the least incentive to develop alternative
> > energy
> > sources.
> >
> > I am not sure who would be the most affected.
>
> Those island nations that are going to be underwater including
> Bangladesh will certainly think that they are being affected the most.
>

Very possibly. However, flooding is only one of several consequences
of global warming, and not necessarily the first to happen.

Shifting climate zones resulting regional changes to climate, e.g.
rainfall, will have several other effects:

1) devastation to agriculture in some continents. In North America the
shifting of the fertile region will not cause a nett loss in arable land
area, and might even improve it somewhat. Canada's arable land will
increase, the USA's will decrease. But on other continents, there will
be a significant decline in agriculturally useful land area.

2) increase in disease due to increase in insect populations in many
regions

3) increased desertification (a variation of 1 above)

4) reduction in water supply, more droughts, in some regions

Unfortunately, many of these effects a subtle and gradual, and not
easily linked to global warming.

Also, they will happen in parts of the worlkd which are msotly
developig, without the technology or wealth to solve the problem. And
the people with the wealth and technology do not have much incentive.

Bungladesh is certainly in no position to build solar power satellites,
or even wind farms for that matter.

And your average western investor or taxpayer probably could not even
find Bungladesh on a map, and would not notice if it disappeared.

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