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Demonstrating once again that the more things change, the more they’ll stay the same, the newest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that the effects of global warming will fall hardest on the world’s poorest people.  In a study that scientists claim provides the first compelling evidence that human-caused climate change is already altering the earth’s ecosystems, the IPCC predicted on Friday that by mid-century humankind will see loss of most coral reefs, reduced crop yields, and violent storms and routine flooding on river deltas.  Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, one of the study’s co-authors, told Science magazine, “You don’t want to be poor and living on a river delta or the Florida coast.”  Schneider said that if temperature changes can be kept below two degrees, the worst of the effects might be avoided.  The IPCC will issue a report next month on how that could be done.

Source:  Richard A. Kerr, Worse to come from global warming.  ScienceNOW Daily News, April 6.  Photo: Cyclone Catarina in 2004 over the South Atlantic.  The IPCC predicts worsening of cyclones and hurricanes in river delta regions.  Image by NASA.

Related news: Timothy Gardner, Southwest headed for dust bowl dryness: study.  Reuters, April 5.

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