Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces ‘Breakdown Of Food Systems’ And More Violent Conflict

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11. Irreversible damage done, IPCC report will say

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001169957

An international climate change panel currently meeting in Yokohama has agreed to state that coral reefs and Arctic sea ice have already suffered irreversible damage due to global warming in an upcoming report.

The agreement came at a plenary session of Working Group II of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday.

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At the beginning of the agreement, the working group acknowledges that “Observed impacts of climate change are widespread and substantial” and “In recent decades changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.”

These acknowledgements are more serious than those in the previous report released in 2007, which said, “Observational evidence from all countries and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.”