U.N. Report: Climate Change Poses Bleak Future

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U.N. Report: Climate Change Poses Bleak Future

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Morning Edition, April 6, 2007 · A draft report expected to be released Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists, warns that global warming could threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the decades to come.

In the absence of action to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, the future looks bleak, according to the draft obtained by The Associated Press.

The report will be the second of a four-volume authoritative assessment of Earth's climate released this year. The first volume, released in February, updated the science of climate change, concluding with near certainty that global warming is caused by human behavior.

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