Oh dear! 'UN scientists' forecast more severe droughts, cyclones and floods

PARIS: Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island states face ruinous storm surges from rising seas, a report by United Nations climate scientists says.

Oh dear! 'UN scientists' forecast more severe droughts, cyclones and floods Ipad-art-wide-climate-420x0

Oh dear! 'UN scientists' forecast more severe droughts, cyclones and floods Ipad-art-wide-climate-420x0

The assessment is the most comprehensive yet by the 194-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into the impact of climate change on extreme weather events.

A 20-page draft ''summary for policymakers'' says that global warming will create weather on steroids, and that these amped-up events - cyclones, heatwaves, diluvian rains, drought - will hit the world unevenly.

Subject to modification, the draft summary will be examined by governments at a six-day meeting of the panel starting today in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

In the worst scenario, settlement in some areas could be wiped out, the report says.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/un-scientists-forecast-more-severe-droughts-cyclones-and-floods-20111113-1ndu0.html#ixzz1dedyf2qe

Oh dear! 'UN scientists' forecast more severe droughts, cyclones and floods

Oh dear! 'UN scientists' forecast more severe droughts, cyclones and floods

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