Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts

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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Re:It's more than just global warming gas

[houstonbofh]

I don't know... Perhaps because the science on both sides has been so manipulated, exaggerated and falsified that critical thinkers don't trust it at face value? No one with half a brain says we did not cause any change. The question is did we cause "this" (for many different versions of "this") change? And will doing "this" specific thing fix it? There are still a lot of unknowns here, and acting without all the facts can be dangerous. After all, MTBE was initially "required" to "protect" the environment. Now it is outlawed for the same reason...