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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[dave420]

Or you could get your head out of your ass and learn something.

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[repapetilto]

You read 596 pages already?

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[Black Parrot]

more regulations, taxes

Think of the billionaires' children!

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[na1led]

That's like an obese person who eats junk food all day, and says his diabetes has nothing to do with his diet!

The UN is definitely an expert....

[clonehappy]

They've been perpetuating disasters since 1945!