Bleak Global Warming Report Issued

April 6, 2007
Bleak Global Warming Report Issued

Apr 6, 2007 — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Top climate experts issued their bleakest forecasts yet about global warming on Friday, ranging from hunger in Africa to a thaw of Himalayan glaciers in a study that may add pressure on governments to act.

More than 100 nations in the U.N. climate panel agreed a final text after all-night disputes during which some scientists accused governments of watering down forecasts about extinctions and other threats.

The report said change, widely blamed on human emissions of greenhouse gases, was already under way in nature and that desertification, droughts and rising seas would hit hard in the tropics, from sub-Saharan Africa to Pacific islands.