Stoat - Details

I've pretty well given up paying the slightest attention to climate-change negotiations (err, hence this post...), as they seem to be utterly pointless. The political response to something is to talk about it, and so they do, spending large amounts of money and emitting large amounts of CO2 in the process. But asNature admits, these are talks about talks about talks. Obama's election is more significant. All these stupid conferences should be cancelled.

Shamelessly ripped from an internal newsgroup (thanks to AY):

A Buddhist went up to the hotdog seller and said: "Make me one with everything". Anyway, he got his hotdog and after not receiving his change, he asked for it. "My friend," replied the vendor, "the change must come from within".

And if you don't like that...

One of the possibilities for GW-damage is reductions in crop yield - up to 25%, in extreme scenarios. My reaction to that was "we all eat too much anyway" (well I certainly do) but some people did point out the obvious, that not everyone lives in the overfed West. Eli was kind enough to point tothe FAOwho tell me that in 2000 global average calories per day per person was 2807 (up from 24xx in 1970). TheNHS tells methat the average adult should eatabout 2,000 per day (women) and 2,500 per day (men)which we'll average down to about 2,250 (m/f) and then down to 2000 (including children).

Which seems to count out to there being, globally, about 1/3 more food available than is needed (neglecting trivia like distribution and ability to pay). So there seems to be a fair amount of fat in the system (so to speak). And thats neglecting gains to be made from switching from inefficient meat-based nutrition to all going veggie.