Millions to go hungry, waterless -climate report

[cal04]

Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.

By the end of the century, climate change will bring water scarcity to between 1.1 and 3.2 billion people as temperatures rise by 2 to 3 Celsius (3.6 to 4.8 Fahrenheit), a leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report said.

The report, due for release in April but detailed in The Age newspaper, said an additional 200 million to 600 million people across the world would face food shortages in another 70 years, while coastal flooding would hit another 7 million homes.

"The message is that every region of the earth will have exposure," Dr Graeme Pearman, who helped draft the report, told Reuters on Tuesday.

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[Double T]

1. It is a damn shame 'WE' will make ourselves and all other living creatures on the planet......

extinct; NONE of it is necessary, if NOT for human greed.

[barb162]

3. you're right

What gets me is the animals dying; they did nothing to cause this

[lvx35]

4. Its true.

Sad to see humanity acting as a cancer for all life.

[Sal Minella]

6. Same here. Just makes my chest hurt.

[Dead_Parrot]

7. Unfortunately (for Earth), humans are too damn adaptable

We're the one species guaranteed to survive - although probably not in the billions.

[barb162]

2. "coastal flooding would hit another 7 million homes."

in just the Southeast U.S. alone (if you ask me)

[lvx35]

5. well here's my question.

when the predicted new catastrophic hurricanes come to the new 9 feet higher coastlines, who gets screwed then? Everybody all the way to Kansas?