The UK government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week that — left unchecked — global warming will soon leave Antarctica as the only place on earth to live:

Sir David said that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — the main “green-house gas” causing climate change — were already 50 per cent higher than at any time in the past 420,000 years. The last time they were at this level — 379 parts per million — was 60 million years ago during a rapid period of global warming, he said. Levels soared to 1,000 parts per million, causing a massive reduction of life.

“No ice was left on Earth. Antarctica was the best place for mammals to live, and the rest of the world would not sustain human life,” he said.

Pressed on this point, however, Professor Sir King was later forced to concede that Michael Moore’s pants — converted into a giant canopy — “would, I suppose, protect the bulk of North America in the short term.”

update: Because Michael Moore is so fat and all.

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h/t Right-Thinking