By: George R. Hunter
The Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released Friday, April 06. The report looks at the impact of climate change on the environment. The findings are grave.
On our current trajectory, the next century will bring a 4 to 5 degree rise in temperatures, droughts, coastal flooding and extinctions of various species. Poorer nations will be hardest hit as they “have limited adaptive capabilities, and are more dependent on climate-sensitive resources such as local water and food supplies,” warns the report.
“The overall pattern, if you were going to distill it down to something very simple, is that the drier regions get drier and the wet regions get wetter,” Richard Seager of Columbia University told NPR on Friday.
In February the panel concluded (with 90% certainty) that humans are responsible for the global warming.
You can read a summary of the latest IPCC report here.
The Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released Friday, April 06. The report looks at the impact of climate change on the environment. The findings are grave.
On our current trajectory, the next century will bring a 4 to 5 degree rise in temperatures, droughts, coastal flooding and extinctions of various species. Poorer nations will be hardest hit as they “have limited adaptive capabilities, and are more dependent on climate-sensitive resources such as local water and food supplies,” warns the report.
“The overall pattern, if you were going to distill it down to something very simple, is that the drier regions get drier and the wet regions get wetter,” Richard Seager of Columbia University told NPR on Friday.
In February the panel concluded (with 90% certainty) that humans are responsible for the global warming.
You can read a summary of the latest IPCC report here.
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