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Posted on 10/25/2007 2:17:17 PM PDT by SmithL
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Latin America and other poor regions of the world will bear the brunt of climate change, a top official from the organization that shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize said Thursday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of scientists, was awarded the prize along with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for their work alerting the public of the perils of global warming.
"The results of the IPCC show very clearly the impacts of climate change will be ... much more severe for the poorest groups and Latin America is included in that," said IPCC vice chairman Mohan Munasinghe of Sri Lanka. Munasinghe headed a two-day meeting in Rio of the organization, its first since winning the Nobel prize.
He said water management issues were likely to be the most pressing problem caused by global warming in Latin America. Dry areas will become much drier and other areas will face increased floods and associated waterborne diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
Results from the Rio meeting, the group's fourth since 1990, will be presented at the U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December.
Munasinghe said he felt the Noble prize gave greater recognition and credibility to the scientific panel, which has explained the details of global warming in thousands of pages of footnoted reports issued every six years or so.
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All Bush’s fault.
And people of color.
LGBT lobby teams up with Greenpeace in protest over not being mentioned as disenfranchised classes. Lawsuit to follow.
Whoa, back up, I thought Bono cured poverty with yet another concert.
No, but he did help his own finances by leaving Ireland so he could enjoy a lower tax rate.
Global Warming has been the great boon to life on Earth. No way the Earth could support 6 billion people during the ice age conditions the Earth is normally in.
The Third World has already suffered millions of deaths because of the DDT ban that allows mosquitoes and malaria to proliferate.
This is true, so it's important that their governments not waste money on stupid plans that will not STOP Global Warming anyway, since it's generated by the SUN. That money could be better spent helping folks adjust to the climate changes that will come no matter what anyone does..
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