Monday, November 19, 2012

World Bank warns of climate change disaster

Xinhua: The world is barreling down a path to heat up by four degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, the World Bank said Sunday in a report. Among the consequences are a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, it warned. All regions of the world would suffer - some more than others - but the Turn Down the Heat report finds that the poor...

URL: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-11/19/content_15942071.htm

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