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Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says'Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,' chairman says
Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel reports, warning that the wild climate ride has only just begun.
"Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri said in a Monday news conference.
Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, says a massive new report from a Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists released early Monday.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/global-warming-dials-up-our-risks-un-report-says-1.2592307
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)The Republicons (R) are the Latter Day Spawn of Cain (R), as depicted in the film Noah -- doing all they can to destroy the planet out of greed, ignorance and hate.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)It makes it clear that it was Republicon-style values that (at least in the Bible tale) brought on the Wrath of Jehovah !
The Repubbies are squirming now because their own Bible story makes it plain that the Republicons themselves are the EeeeeeVille DooooooDoooooers (R) as they lie about the Grievous Harm they do to the planet we all depend upon for survival.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--that's all it is to the edge of the stratosphere...we live in a shell of air only thirty miles thick.
randome
(34,845 posts)Okay, that's not enough, is it?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]
pscot
(21,024 posts)Within 10 years all plausible deniability will be over. Facts on the ground will overwhelm denial.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)therefore the 99% will take the brunt of the impact.