Monday, November 19, 2012

World Bank Warns of Dire Consequences if We Don’t ‘Turn Down the Heat’

EcoWatch: The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering 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, according to a new scientific report released today that was commissioned by the World Bank. All regions of the world would suffer--some more than others--but the report finds that the poor...

URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/turn-down-the-heat/
Enclosure: http://climatechange.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/Turn_Down_the_heat_Why_a_4_degree_centrigrade_warmer_world_must_be_avoided.pdf

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