יום שני, 19 בנובמבר 2012

World Bank warns of the risk of uncontrolled climate change




Uncontrolled warming the Earth's climate is fraught with disaster, warns the World Bank. He warned that the global temperature rise of 4 degrees threaten food security.
The World Bank has warned of the disastrous consequences of uncontrolled warming Earth's climate. The report, prepared by the Institute of Climate Research in Potsdam (PIK) and the Berlin consultancy firm Climate Analitics, states that the global temperature of 4 degrees over the coming century would threaten food security.
Severe droughts and crop failures will be common, and global sea levels would rise by 0.5-1 meter, resulting in the injury of hundreds of millions of coastal regions, according to the document, which was published on Sunday, November 18, in Washington, the eve of the a week in Qatar World Summit on climate protection.
Redirect the trillions of dollars
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said that climate change is one of the greatest challenges to global development. "We need to take the moral responsibility and to act in the name of future generations, first of all - in the name of the very poor. Warming 4 degrees can and should be avoided, the increase in global temperature should not exceed two degrees," - he said.
Jim Yong Kim urged governments around the world to redirect about one trillion dollars allocated to subsidize the coal and fossil fuels to alternative energy sources.
The unprecedented release of greenhouse gases
Meanwhile, the Berlin newspaper Tageszeitung published a working paper of the World Council for Climate Protection, under which fulfill the agreement reached at the political level agreement on limiting global warming to a maximum of two degrees, in all likelihood not feasible. By 2100, the global temperature has increased by more than 3 degrees, even in the event that the government will fulfill its obligations to protect the climate, the document said.
Already, the Earth's temperature has risen by 0.8 degrees. In 2011, greenhouse gas emissions reached a hitherto unknown amount - 34 billion tons, the agency epd.



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