They'll just say "fluctuations due to climate change". "More extreme weather" is the current code for "this is all a load of BS but we have to have something to con gullible readers into buying our newspapers with". I wish I could get it through to my sister that not everything the Independent prints on its front page is truth worthy of a Geography lesson, but never mind, I'm a politician and I know the way the media works, and she's a natural scientist and doesn't.
Viz is right though, next step (for the game at least) is coastal erosion or terraforming through flooding, hurricanes etc with an emphasis on continuous progression throughout the aeons of the game, rather than just in the modern era (with perhaps one of the buildings being some kind of sea wall or coastal defence which lessens the chances of it happening within the city radius; this of course can be a more modern development depending on when it became common practice, since coastal erosion has little to do with global warming and a lot to do with the natural pattern of sea currents over time. Ask any geographer - of which there are two in my family - and they will explain that for you. Material from the NE coast of Britain usually ends up piled on a beach in Dorset, so perhaps any coastal erosion at one end of a land-mass will produce a balancing gain on the other end). On other threads I've posted as well that since climate fluctuations - including at one time the pastoralisation of Greenland - have been present throughout history, there should be some occasion for climatic variations from age to age, particularly with regards to animal or agricultural resources, e.g. like in Greenland it grows too cold over a period of a thousand years to raise wheat, corn or cows and thus the Wheat, Corn or Cows resource disappears as the result of a random but expected event.
PS Ammar, you believe what you want to, and let me believe what I want to. There is a significant move against worrying about global warming right now in this country (roughly 60% of the population don't actually believe it's a problem
DESPITE what they read in most newspapers, because don't forget that the climate change lobby is also pretty powerful nowadays too) because we are facing an economic downturn and have more immediate social concerns that, unlike what my sister says, arise from genuine poverty in this country rather than being able to be ascribed to any environmental reason; if you believe some people I know the UK consistently overstates its population estimates and we have a falling birth-rate. Also we are probably looking at a global population cap of 10 billion which is supportable, given most of the Western world has a declining birth rate as well as developing societies beginning to improve infant mortality, which means that birth rates there might also start to decline as well given no need to replace dying infants.
Also, the possibility remains that there is an entirely natural element to this anyway, given longer-term fluctuations. From your response to Rolo it's actually evident you have no idea about political and social realities, what propaganda
you are falling for, and so on. Knowledge of mathematics doesn't or needn't cancel out common sense or looking at the longer term perspective. I know several
highly educated morons
.
I'm also not going to discuss this with you or anyone else because I see no need to enter into pointless arguments with someone who doesn't take others' suggestions into account anyway. You have your opinions, I have mine, let's get back to discussing the game.
this would add realism, according to some theories in "some" years everyone will want to live in greenland because of the californian weather there!! XD
( scientific education does not exclude morons..... )
