U.N. Panel Warns of Dire Effects From Lack of Action Over Global Warming

New York Times ^ | November 2 ,2014 | Justin Gillis

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The gathering risks of climate change are so profound they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway pace, according to a major new United Nations report.

Despite rising efforts in many countries to tackle the problem, the overall global situation is growing more acute as developing countries join the West in burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said here on Sunday.

Failure to reduce emissions, the group of scientists and other experts found, could threaten society with food shortages, refugee crises, the flooding of major cities and entire island nations, mass extinction of plants and animals, and a climate so drastically altered it might become dangerous for people to work or play outside during the hottest times of the year.

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“...and a climate so drastically altered it might become dangerous for people to work or play outside during the hottest times of the year.”
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That is hilarious, I was born and raised and still live in Eastern South Carolina where people occasionally have died of heat strokes and many have been hospitalized for heat exhaustion. Ironically the summers here are NOT hotter than ever and we just had the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the capital city of Columbia and this morning there was heavy frost where I live even though the AVERAGE date of the first frost is supposed to be November 20. We’ll be ice skating on the Great Pee Dee river before they ever stop this insanity.