Meteorologists: Prepare for the worst

Officials from the China Meteorological Administration held a seminar in Beijing to press the central government to �get ready soon for the worst possible catastrophes� from sudden climate changes that they said could kill millions of Chinese, destroy the economy and undermine national security. The meteorologists called on the government to fund a supercomputer-based forecasting model similar to Japan's Earth simulator. The seminar follows a recent Pentagon-funded report that concluded the greatest threat to US security to be climate change.