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Climate change: poor will suffer most
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Guardian: Pensioners left on their own during a heatwave in industrialised countries. Single mothers in rural areas. Workers who spend most of their days outdoors. Slum dwellers in the megacities of the developing world.
These are some of the vulnerable groups who will feel the brunt of climate change as its effects become more pronounced in the coming decades, according to a game-changing report from the UN's climate panel released on Monday. Climate change is occurring on all continents and in the oceans,...
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UN document warning of grave climate future completed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Agence France-Presse: Leading scientists and officials completed a fresh climate report Sunday expected to lay bare the grim impact of climate change, with warnings that global food shortages could spark violence in vulnerable areas.
Part of a massive overview by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set for release on Monday, the report is likely to shape international policy on climate for years to come, and will announce that the impact of global warming is already being felt.
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U.N. science report: Warming worsens security woes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Associated Press: In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees.
They`re not saying it will cause violence, but will be an added factor making things even more dangerous. Fights over resources, like water and energy, hunger and extreme weather...
Antarctic ice study reveals accelerated sea level rise
Posted by Environmental News Network: ClickGreen Staff on March 30th, 2014
Environmental News Network: Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are moving faster than they did 40 years ago, causing more ice to discharge into the ocean and global sea level to rise, according to new research. The amount of ice draining collectively from those half-dozen glaciers increased by 77 percent from 1973 to 2013, scientists report this month in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Pine Island Glacier, the most active of the studied glaciers, has accelerated by 75 percent...
Report: Climate change to affect NZ agriculture
Posted by 3 News: None Given on March 30th, 2014
3 News: Famine, fire, flooding, species extinctions and global violence -- it sounds like the apocalypse but they are all things likely to become more common as the Earth gets warmer.
Tomorrow the most authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date report on how climate will affect humanity is being released. The picture it will paint is not a pretty one.
Earlier this month Christchurch was hit by a one-in-100-year storm while Waikato and Northland farmers were and continue to be in drought-like conditions....
Climate Panel Sees Global Warming Impacts on All Continents, Worse to Come
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on March 30th, 2014
New York Times: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the impacts of global warming, projected changes under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions and options for limiting related risks. Justin Gillis, reporting from the meeting in Yokohama, Japan, where government officials from around the world signed off on the summary document over the weekend, has summarized the prime conclusions and statements of panel leaders. You can watch video of officials’ and authors’...
Washington community grieves growing toll US mudslide
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Reuters: Churches planned services on Sunday to offer prayers for the victims of last week's devastating mudslide in Washington state as the death toll from the disaster kept rising but the number of missing fell sharply.
The presumed body count rose to 28 on Saturday from the March 22 catastrophe northeast of Seattle, with the official tally of those killed now 18 based on bodies extricated and identified by medical examiners.
But despite the grim toll, news also came that the number of missing fell...
Scientists struggle complete climate impacts report
Posted by BBC: Matt McGrath on March 30th, 2014
BBC: Negotiators worked through the night here in Yokohama in an effort to complete their review of a key report on the impacts of climate change.
At stake is a dense 29-page summary detailing the effects of climate change on the planet over the next 100 years.
Several hundred members of the UN's climate panel have been deep in deliberations since Tuesday, with many sessions running very late.
The report is the first such assessment since 2007.
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