News: UN see grim future if no climate action

Caesar

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UN scientists are set to deliver their darkest report yet on the impacts of climate change, pointing to a future stalked by floods, drought, conflict and economic damage if carbon emissions go untamed.

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A draft of their report, seen by AFP, is part of a massive overview by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), likely to shape policies and climate talks for years to come.

"We have a lot clearer picture of impacts and their consequences... including the implications for security," said Chris Field of the United States' Carnegie Institution, who headed the probe.

Many scientists concurred, he said, that recent heatwaves and floods were evidence of climate change already on the march -- and a harbinger of a future in which once-freakish weather events become much less rare.

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Among the perils listed in the draft are these:

-- FLOODING: Rising greenhouse-gas emissions will "significantly" boost the risk of floods, with Europe and Asia particularly exposed. In the highest warming scenarios of untamed greenhouse gas emissions, three times as many people will be exposed to severe river flooding as with lower warming.

- DROUGHT: For every 1 C (1.8 F) rise in temperature, another seven percent of the world's population will see renewable water resources decline by a fifth.

- RISING SEAS: If no measures are taken, "hundreds of millions" of coastal dwellers will be displaced by 2100. Small-island states and East, Southeast and South Asia will be the biggest land-losers.

- HUNGER: Average yields of wheat, rice and corn may fall by two percent per decade, while demand for crops is likely to rise by up to 14 percent by 2050 as Earth's population grows. The crunch will hit poor, tropical countries worst.

- SPECIES LOSS: A "large fraction" of land and freshwater species may risk extinction, their habitat destroyed by climate change.

SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/un-scientists-...035340842.html

What do you think about this?

stronger23

Blah blah blah, we've been hearing these things for years I'm over it.

IBeMe

this is miserable news.

Fernando.

yall can blame china for all the gunk they spew out to our atmosphere

Speezy

Oh the irony

Ichinaru19

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Originally posted by stronger23

Blah blah blah, we've been hearing these things for years I'm over it.

Bye at your ignorance

So short sighted its despicable and its the reason why society continues to dig itself a digger hole.

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Originally posted by Fernando.

yall can blame china for all the gunk they spew out to our atmosphere

You can blame the whole world

Euphoric

except climate change aint real.

SomethingSweet

Are we the new dinosaurs?

Ichinaru19

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Originally posted by Euphoric

except climate change aint real.

Except CO2 levels in the atmosphere has been the highest it has been for thousands of years. Except greenhouse gases levels like methane, nitrous oxide, etc are at the highest they have ever been. Its been shown temperatures are on the rise at a RAPID pace. Its been show that species are migrating north due to rising temperatures. Its been noticed that sea levels have been rising due to melting ice caps. And despite all this climate change ain't real?

Callum

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Originally posted by Euphoric

except climate change aint real.

I didn't realise climate change deniers still existed.

Newt

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Originally posted by Euphoric

except climate change aint real.

ahhhh never change ATRL

Fantasea

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Originally posted by Callum

I didn't realise climate change deniers still existed.

Hopefully they're just trolling....

.:Allen:.

Welp. This is why America needs to start using more solar power.

Mezter

NOW

So much ignorance in this thread. Just because you're alive and well right now, that doesn't mean nothing else is happening in the rest of the world. Get out of your bubble.

HausOfJustin

It's really sad to see how our world is being destroyed. We need serious change but yet all these people brush off these issues like their unimportant