Leading Economist Warns of Global Warming Disaster
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UNITED NATIONS -- The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday.Jeffrey Sachs, speaking at the U.N.
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Tony Blair warned last night that climate change will result in &quot;catastrophic consequences&quot; for the world unless the major economies agree on immediate and decisive action to combat it.
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A team of scientists has condemned claims of climate catastrophe as &quot;fatally flawed&quot; in a report released today. The study appears on the same day that 300 climate scientists warn that winter temperatures
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The world's largest general scientific society on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."
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Scientists at a global warming conference say they see potential triggers for runaway climate change but admit that when and how these notional doomsdays may be unleashed are debatable or quite unknown.
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Africa's poor millions, already suffering grinding poverty and rampant disease, risk bearing the brunt of the global warming crisis unless urgent action is taken now, a leading Nigerian scientist said Wednesday.
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Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said.
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The Indian central bank warns that drought and the high global price of oil may force it to lower its GDP forecasts.
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Suppose that the pessimistic forecasts of global warming are accurate. Suppose that the planet's temperature rises according to the high-end scenario of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that we experience the economic and social impacts (like hunger, malaria and coastal flooding) projected by the much-publicized Stern Review sponsored by the British government. [...].
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The chairman of a UN conference on climate change warns that poor countries need urgent help to stave off the effects of global warming.
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More severe tropical cyclones, heatwaves and a dramatic shift in rainfall patterns could batter Asia by the end of the century as its factories boom, a leading climate expert told Asian chief executives on Friday.
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The Government&#39;s chief scientist has warned the world must act fast to combat global warming or face the dire consequences. Professor Sir David King said climate change cannot be avoided and that &quot;action is affordable, inaction is not&quot;.
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Global warming will lead to heftier insurance claims in the long-term, insurer Swiss Re has warned.
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By Peggy Hollinger in Paris, Steve Johnson in London, and Jennifer Hughes in New York. Herve Gaymard, France&#39;s new finance minister, yesterday warned of a global âeconomic catastropheâ if the US, Europe
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.
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Science & environment: Rising global temperatures could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, according to a  study.
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Amazon and ice sheets heading for 'catastrophic collapse' An international team of scientists has presented its list of those regions of the planet most at risk from global warming, which are in danger of "sudden and catastrophic collapse" should they pass "tipping point" thresholds beyond which they will never recover.â¦