March 31, 2014

Natural systems are bearing the brunt right now!

Members of the UN's climate panel say that their report provides overwhelming evidence of the scale of these effects. woerka

Natural systems are bearing the brunt right now but the scientists fear a growing impact on humans.

Our health, homes, food and safety are all likely to be threatened by rising temperatures, the summary says.
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Going into the future, the risks only increase, and these are about people, the impacts on crops, on the availability of water”

Prof Neil Adger University of Exeter

The report was agreed after almost a week of intense discussions here in Yokohama. washall

This is the second of a series from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due out this year that outlines the causes, effects and solutions to global warming.

This latest Summary for Policymakers document highlights the fact that the amount of scientific evidence on the impacts of warming has almost doubled since the last report in 2007. Washall

Be it the melting of glaciers or warming of permafrost, the summary highlights the fact that on all continents and across the oceans, changes in the climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems in recent decades.

In the words of the report, "increasing magnitudes of warming increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts". lisad

"Before this we thought we knew this was happening, but now we have overwhelming evidence that it is happening and it is real," said Dr Saleemul huq, a convening lead author on one of the chapters.

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