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Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts

Posted by Soulskill on from the things-people-will-get-mad-about dept.

mdsolar writes "Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storms and rising seas, threatening all countries, but small island states, poor nations and arid regions in particular, UN experts warned on Tuesday. In its first-ever report on the question, the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said man-made global-warming gases are already affecting some types of extreme weather. And, despite gaps in knowledge, weather events once deemed a freak are likely to become more frequent or more vicious, inflicting a potentially high toll in deaths, economic damage and misery, it said."

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  1. Re:Yeah yeah by repapetilto · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how the worlds scientists who are all in consensus about the fact that climate change exists and it's causing weather patterns to be unpredictable

    Is there consensus on that second part? What is your source? Because that is not what is said on the first page of the report the IPCC just released.

  2. Re:Yeah yeah by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or, in plain english: "Climate is changing, we screwed it up, now we're going to get more flooding. Not sure about the cyclones though."

  3. Re:Conservative meltdown in 5..4..3..2..1.. by repapetilto · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, and who has said that an anoxic event is likely to occur? I'm not being snarky, it is an honest question.