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Climate change heightens risk of conflict, hunger - UN panel
2014-03-31 03:38:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, flood and migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. Left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions may cost trillions of dollars in damage to property and ecosystems and in bills for shoring up climate defenses, it said. The report said the impact of climate change was already being felt and would increase with every additional degree that temperatures rose. "Increasing...
Climate change is happening & no one in the world is immune
2014-03-31 03:38:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The negative effects of climate change are already beginning to be felt in every part of the world and yet countries are ill-prepared for the potentially immense impacts on food security, water supplies and human health, a major report has concluded. In the most comprehensive study yet into the effects of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that global warming could undermine economic growth and increase poverty. The...
World Not Ready for Climate Change, New Report Says
2014-03-31 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: On Monday morning in Japan (Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast), the world's leading body of climate scientists will release a major report on the impacts of climate change, with the goal of spurring world leaders to act more decisively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "Observed impacts of climate change are widespread and consequential," the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) write in a draft version of the new report, which was leaked online. The final report...
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IPCC report warns future climate change risks, but is spun by contrarians
2014-03-31 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just published its latest Working Group II report detailing impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability associated with climate change. The picture it paints with respect to the consequences of continued climate change is rather bleak. For example, the report discusses the risk associated with food insecurity due to more intense droughts, floods, and heat waves in a warmer world, especially for poorer countries. This contradicts the claims of climate...
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Report: Effects climate change seen everywhere
2014-03-31 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Climate change is affecting all parts of the globe, and the gap between the latest science on climatic change and government action to cut greenhouse emissions remains large, according to a sweeping U.N. report out today. "In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts ... on all continents and across the oceans," according to a landmark report released early Monday in Yokohama, Japan, by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's most comprehensive...
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