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BREAKING: Climate impacts ‘overwhelming’ – UN
Posted by BBC: Matt McGrath on March 31st, 2014
BBC: Scientists and officials meeting in Japan have published the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impacts of climate change on the world. Members of the UN's climate panel say that their report provides overwhelming evidence of the scale of these effects. Natural systems are bearing the brunt right now but the scientists fear a growing impact on humans. Our health, homes, food and safety are all likely to be threatened by rising temperatures, the summary says. The report was agreed after...
World Is Ill-Prepared for Global Warming Impacts, UN Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Bloomberg: Global warming is depleting fresh water and crops, destroying coral reefs and melting the Arctic, the United Nations said today in a report that concludes the world is ill-prepared to face many new threats.
Climate change has brought “key risks” that endanger lives and health worldwide, including storm surges and coastal flooding worsened by rising sea levels; infrastructure destruction and the disruption of power networks, communications and health services by extreme weather, and the depletion...
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Comments Off on World Is Ill-Prepared for Global Warming Impacts, UN SaysClimate change will damage Australia’s coastal infrastructure, says IPCC
Posted by Guardian: Oliver Milman on March 31st, 2014
Guardian: Australia is set to suffer a loss of native species, significant damage to coastal infrastructure and a profoundly altered Great Barrier Reef due to climate change, an exhaustive UN report has found.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, delivered to the world’s governments in Japan on Monday, states there is “significant change in community composition and structure of coral reefs and montane ecosystems and risk of loss of some native species in Australia” as a result of warming...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate change will damage Australia’s coastal infrastructure, says IPCCClimate change wake-up call
Posted by Dominion Post: None Given on March 31st, 2014
Dominion Post: A major report into climate change is a wake-up call New Zealand must heed, one of its main authors says.
The second part of the fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report has just been released.
It predicts a 2-4 degrees Celsius rise in average temperatures in New Zealand by the end of the century and warns of increased risk of wildfire, storms, floods, landslides and sea level rises.
Professor Tim Naish, director of the Antarctic Research Centre at...
IPCC report: global warming increase heatwaves, flooding & conflict
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 31st, 2014
Telegraph: Flooding, storm surges, droughts and heatwaves are among the key risks of global warming that will pose the greatest threat to humans in the future, according to the most authoritative report to date on the impact of climate change.
Violent conflicts and food shortages were also forecast to increase over coming decades due to rising temperatures, while a growing number of animal and marine species will face increased risk of extinction.
The warnings were published on Monday in the Intergovernmental...
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