Global warming to necessitate land use changes.
According to a new report by Britain’s Government Office for Science, increasingly hotter, drier summers could cause extreme water shortages as river flows are reduced by 80% even as a rise in population of 9 million people is expected by 2031.

Scenarios in the report, written by 300 contributing scientists, economists and planners, include a future in which greenhouse gas emissions would be controlled by carbon rationing and state-mandated reductions in the space allocated to livestock as well as forced migration of citizens from places like the crowded southeast
to more northern towns.

Chief UK scientific adviser and director of the research, Professor John Beddington warned, “Over the next 50 years we cannot manage land in the way we’ve done…

The effects of climate change and new pressures… could escalate, seriously eroding quality of life.” Professor Beddington, Government Office for Science and all report contributors, we are thankful for your objective report informing of outcomes we would wish to avoid. Let us join in making choices today that allow a harmonious and plentiful future for all on our planet.

During an August 2008 interview by Ireland’s East Coast FM Radio, Supreme Master Ching Hai highlighted as she has on previous occasions our need to act upon the factual information provided by scientific experts.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: According to the scientists, whatever they have predicted or prescribed about our critical situation is accurate up to 99%. They want us to change the way we live our lives, to protect our fragile ecosystem, by cutting down CO2 emissions. And the fastest way that individuals can do, without a lot of protocol and ado, is to be veg.

It’s truly critical now, as we have witnessed increasing disaster worldwide, due to climate change.
We still have time, we still have a little time to change the course of destiny, thanks to the vegetarian population, old and new members that reduce the most karmic retribution in the shortest span of time.

But it’s not much. We must change fast to avoid much more damage to the Earth as well as loss of more lives and resources.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7041857.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/26/uk-land-management
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7317864/Land-management-in-UK-must-change-to-cope-
with-climate-change.html

Extra News
During a two-day inter faith forum on climate change for sub-Saharan Africa held in Abuja, Nigeria, leaders commit to educating congregants about protecting  the environment to curb climate change.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201003050615.html
 
The US and Brazil sign a memorandum of understanding to partner on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, which has continued at an alarming rate in recent years.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/03/brazil-and-the-us-agree-to-work-together-to-slash-greenhouse-
gas-emissions-from-tropical-deforestati.html
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/brazil-cattle-giants-unite-end-amazon-destruction-
20091005


Residents of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand evacuate their homes as waves higher than some could ever remember pounded the coastline, causing part of at least one house to collapse and be washed away.    
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10630676


US-based Internet company Google reports a significant advancement in a new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of concentrated solar thermal generation by 50%.
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2258673/google-touts-solar-thermal