The century of drought One third of the planet be desert by the year , say climate experts in the Ladies wants sex tonight Bowers most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming By McCarthy, Environmental Editor Published: 04 October Drought threatening the lives of millions spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists. Extreme drought, in which agriculture is in effect impossible, affect about a third of the planet, according to the study from the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. It is one of the most dire forecasts so far of the potential effects of rising temperatures around the world yet it be an underestimation, the scientists involved said yesterday. The findings, released at the Climate Clinic at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth, astonished and dismayed reactions from aid agencies and development specialists, who fear that the poor of developing countries be worst hit. "This is genuinely terrifying," said Pendleton of Aid. "It is a death sentence for millions of people. It mean migration off the land at levels we have not seen before, and at levels poor countries cannot cope with." One of Britain's leading experts on the effects of climate change on the developing countries, Simms from the New Economics Foundation, said: "There's almost no aspect of life in the developing countries that these predictions don't undermine the ability to grow food, the ability to have a safe sanitation system, the availability of water. For hundreds of millions of people for whom getting through the day is already a struggle, this is going to push them over the precipice." The findings represent the first time that the threat of increased drought from climate change has been quantified with a supercomputer climate model such as the one operated by the Hadley Centre. Their impact is likely to even greater because the findings be an underestimate. The study did not include potential effects on drought from global-warming-induced changes to the Earth's carbon cycle.