Climate Change Report Predicts Tragedies

November 2, 2013

According to a new report, starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report describes how global warming is already affecting the way people live and projects what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income.

Cities, where most of the world now lives, are particularly vulnerability, as are the globe’s poorest people.

The report says scientists have high confidence especially in what it calls certain “key risks”:

-People dying from warming- and sea rise-related flooding, especially in big cities.

-Famine because of temperature and rain changes, especially for poorer nations.

-Farmers going broke because of lack of water.

-Infrastructure failures because of extreme weather.

-Dangerous and deadly heat waves worsening.

-Certain land and marine ecosystems failing.

“Human interface with the climate system is occurring and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems,” the 29-page summary says.

Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann, who wasn’t part of the international study team, said the report’s summary confirmed what researchers have known for a long time: “Climate change threatens our health, land, food and water security.”

The Summary Report dated 11/01/2013 can be viewed here.