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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...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on IPCC report: global warming increase heatwaves, flooding & conflictGlobal Warming to Exacerbate Global Security Issues – UN Report
Posted by International Business Times: Esther Tanquintic-Misa on March 30th, 2014
International Business Times: As the world's temperatures continue to warm up, so does the tempers globally. Hot tempers may exacerbate global security issues as people fight over resources, particularly water and energy, which could lead to civil wars and strife between nations and refugees, a report by a recent United Nations climate panel due for release said. Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University security and environment professor, one of the lead authors of the report's chapter on security and climate change, told AP. "Climate...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Global Warming to Exacerbate Global Security Issues – UN ReportClimate change: smell the coffee while you can
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Guardian: The members of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are purveyors of doom. Their report, looking at the impact on the global way of life of increases in average temperatures of 2C or more over the pre-industrial average, is no easy read. But after the past few months of weather – floods in the UK, drought in California and extreme blizzards in New York – its message will only be disregarded by the most sceptical of sceptics (stand up Tony Abbott, prime minister of Australia). Climate...
Scientists warn NZ not ready for climate change
Posted by 3News: None Given on March 30th, 2014
3News: One-in-100-year floods like those which recently submerged parts of Christchurch could be an annual event by the end of this century, scientists are warning.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a report this afternoon that outlines the increasing effects of rising temperatures on New Zealand's agricultural industry and coastal communities.
Last year's report showed that the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases had increased to levels unprecedented...
Climate change impact ‘being felt’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Press Association: Climate change is already having an impact across the world in areas ranging from human health to agriculture and wildlife, a major international report has found. Rising temperatures will increasingly threaten security, health and food supplies, and exacerbate poverty and damage species and habitats, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned. The world is in "an era of man-made climate change" and has already seen impacts of global warming on every continent and...
UN report dials up humanity’s global warming risks; scientist says ‘We’re all sitting ducks’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Associated Press: Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel reports, warning that the wild climate ride has only just begun.
Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, says a massive new report from a Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists released early...
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