The Venezuelans were told that their new leader was a thoughtful man who liked to relax over a game of dominoes.

ECONOMIST: Marcos Perez Jimenez

By that stage, he warns, runaway global warming would have become an unstoppable "deadly game of dominoes", ultimately leading to further rises that, based on studies of previous cases of similar climate change in the earth's paleontological history, would spell the near-certain extinction of almost all life on the planet.

CNN: Six degrees of devastation