Global Warming Expert Fears 'Refugee Crisis' [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Global Warming Expert Fears 'Refugee Crisis'
The Second of Four Major Reports on Climate Change Says It's a Different World Already

April 2, 2007 — Within two or three decades, there could be one and a half billion people without enough water, according to a new report on the impacts of global warming.

Such droughts would produce "refugee crises like we've never seen," as one of the study's lead authors told ABC News.

Scientists working on the "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" report have been telling ABC News for months that its findings, once public, would be alarming. The report is being prepared by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of 2,500 experts in the field.

Scientists are hammering out that report's final wording in Brussels and are due to announce it on Friday.



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