Global warming means food, water shortages warns UN report

[NickB79]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/global-warming-means-food-water-shortages-warns-un-report-1.2583368

Global warming will disrupt food supplies, slow world economic growth and may already be causing irreversible damage to nature, according to a UN report due this week that will put pressure on governments to act.

A 29-page draft by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will also outline many ways to adapt to rising temperatures, more heatwaves, floods and rising seas.

"The scientific reasoning for reducing emissions and adapting to climate change is becoming far more compelling," Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, told Reuters in Beijing.

Most of us here have already known this for quite a few years, unfortunately.

[pscot]

1. Photosynthesis tails off sharply

above 35 degrees C.

[kestrel91316]

2. They are just now realizing this?

Because I have been worried about it for well over a decade.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. well GW is a venal fiction invented by Al Gore Inc. and liberal communists

so not to worry.

[quadrature]

4. meanwhile, our favorite political and environmental leaders ...

(who shall remain nameless)
dine on
$100 a pound Wugyu beef,
or,
endangered species,

and/or,
have their meetings in places like
Bali and Copenhagen.