Friday, April 06, 2007

Climate wave heat


“Billions of people across the world face hunger, severe water shortages and displacement as a result of increased temperatures, an international panel of scientists and politicians concluded yesterday.
In its second big report this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that more extreme weather including hurricanes, typhoons, droughts and flooding was to be expected as a direct result of global warming.” Lewis Smith, Times Online.