The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases March 31, 2014 its second of three reports for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report - a series of reports published every five years. These reports analyze the earth's changing climate based on new scientific methods and techniques and provide international information on how climate change will impact both biotic and abiotic life on our planet.
The first of the three reports was published in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2013, and stated with 95% certainty that human activities were the cause of climate change on the planet.
Although the Working Group 2 report is not yet officially published, major findings indicate the most severe and damaging effects of climate change will be felt in coastal equatorial Asian countries, where poverty, combined with close proximity to the rising sea levels will wreak havoc on the high densities of human population. The biggest culprits for causing climate change; countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, will suffer less from our changing climate. Other complications predicted include reduced crop yields, more poverty traps, increased disease, worsened quality of living in crowded cities, slowed economic growth, an increase in forest fires, and bleaching of coral reefs.
View February 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
View March 28, 2014 The Guardian article
View March 28, 2014 The Guardian article
View March 25, 2014 Common Dreams article
View Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change media centre
View Manitoba Wildlands IPCC Reports page
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