UN Report Exclusive: Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought

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Global climate change is happening faster than previously believed and its impact is worse than expected, information from an as-yet unpublished draft of the long-awaited second part of a United Nations report obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE reveals. No region of the planet will be spared and some will be hit especially hard.

Source: der Spiegel >>> Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought


Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa (a montage from satellite pictures) : The effects of global
warming are also being felt in the Old World in the form of heat waves, mass flooding and forest fires.