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Climate change will lead to human exodus, extreme costs
Posted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur: None Given on November 16th, 2011
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Ten days before UN talks on climate change open in South Africa, the UN's top climate panel is slated to release Friday a report on extreme weather events.
The report, from the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is expected to focus on how global weather patterns are supposed to change if nothing is done to lower carbon emissions blamed for global warming, said Mojib Latif, a climate scientist at the University of Kiel.
'The poor countries will be especially hit,'...
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Comments Off on Climate change will lead to human exodus, extreme costsUN chief uses Thai floods to press for movement on climate change
Posted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur: None Given on November 16th, 2011
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday used Thailand's current flood crisis to press world leaders to commit to climate change initiatives at an upcoming conference in South Africa.
'I am urging the leaders to address these matters with a sense of urgency,' Ban said after meeting with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government has been struggling to contain the country's worst floods in five decades.
'We do not have any time to waste,' Ban said before visiting...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on UN chief uses Thai floods to press for movement on climate changeTundra fire’s massive carbon release prompts warming worries
Posted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur: None Given on July 28th, 2011
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: A massive tundra fire in Alaska in 2007 released as much carbon into the air as a city the size of Miami emits in two years, a study released Wednesday said.
The findings have triggered growing concern among scientists about the escalating effect of ever more frequent tundra fires on global warming.
'The 2007 fire was the canary in the coal mine,' said Michelle Mack of the University of Florida, whose team contributed to the study. 'It's a wakeup call that the Arctic carbon cycle could change...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Tundra fire’s massive carbon release prompts warming worriesGlobal warming explains flooding, says German scientist
Posted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur: None Given on January 17th, 2011
Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Floods around the globe this month are partly just vagaries of the weather, but are also partly the outcome of global warming, a German climate expert warns.
Last year and 2005 were the planet's warmest years since daily records began, suggesting increasingly hotter and wetter weather globally.
Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Research Institute on Climate Effects (PIK) spoke to the German Press Agency dpa on Sunday.
dpa: Is global warming causing the major floods, as has been the case in...
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