Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario

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Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Charles J. Hanley, Ap Special Correspondent – Sat Feb 21, 3:00 pm ET Play Video Reuters – Clinton urges China go 'clean'
Play Video Video:China Challenge ABC News Play Video Video:Australia confronts climate chaos Reuters Play Video Climate Change Video:How Can You Prepare For A Green Job? CBS4 Denver AFP/POOL/File – Icebergs in Vincennes Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory in January 2008. It seems the dire warnings … CAPE TOWN, South Africa – If we don't deal with climate change decisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said.

His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.

"Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is," the British economic thinker said.

Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen — environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations — scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warming might melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide.



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