UAE media & global warming

Climate change will devastate every continent

Dubai: Global warming and pollution will damage every continent on Earth this century and affect billions of people, a UN panel said yesterday in the most comprehensive assessment yet of climate change. The drafting of the report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), predicting among other things that global warming will hit poor countries hardest and threaten nearly a third of the world's species with extinction, was fiercely disputed during a week of negotiations, ending with a marathon 24-hour session. Publication was delayed on the final day after several countries objected to tough wording, sparking charges of political interference from one delegate. '); //--> At US insistence, drafters dumped a paragraph that said North America was "expected to experience severe local economic damage and substantial ecosystem, social and cultural disruption," delegates said. Poor to be hit hardest The report says Hima-layan glaciers face shrinkage of up to 80 per cent, directly endangering billions of people. The worst affected regions will be the Arctic, which will see the biggest and fastest temperature increases, and sub-Saharan Africa. The report is the work of hundreds of scientists who reviewed scientific, environmental and socio-economic papers on the impacts of climate change. "If no action is taken the planet will soon be dramatically different," Dr Lara Hansen, Chief Scientist of World Wildlife Fund's Global Climate Change Programme, told Gulf News from Brussels, where the report was released yesterday. Nearly 30 per cent of all species are estimated to be "at high risk of irreversible extinction" if average temperatures rise more than 1.5-2.5C, as predicted by the end of the century. Damage to Earth's weather systems from greenhouse gases will change rainfall patterns, punch up the power of storms and boost the risk of drought, flooding and stress on water supplies, the IPCC said. "Poor people are the most vulnerable and will be the worst hit by the impacts of climate change. This becomes a global responsibility," IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri declared in Brussels.

By Tom Clifford, Assistant Editor, International
Published: 07/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE) Reference:http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/04/07/10116573.html


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