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impact of climate change on human well-being and the world economy, and
the world is basically not ready to cope with the impact that has
occurred at this time and will continue in the future.
The conclusion is the result of a recent report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN agency in charge
of writing a report on climate change since 1988.
More than 700 authors and editors contribute to the scientific report
entitled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability"
which was released on March 30.
Most of the scientists who wrote the report met in Yokohama, Japan last
week to each compare their findings with representatives of about 100
countries.
The group of scientists report writers hold the hearing that allows
them to give clarity to how bad the impact of climate change today, as
well as what options and obstacles facing the government in implementing
adaptation measures to changes in heat waves, floods, and other climate
hazards in the future front.
"We do not just pay attention to the heat waves, floods, rising sea
levels, global trends and other upcoming trends, but also direct effects
on infrastructure, human health, water resources and some other things
that are considered essential for humans," said Patricia Romero-Lankao,
researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colorado and the author of the report, told Live Science when he was in
Yokohama.
The group deliberately emphasizes the general effects of climate change
on humans living in this time period, rather than in the future.
"One of the most important findings is that we are not in an era where
climate change is a kind of hypothesis that will occur in the future,"
said Chris Field, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science
and one of the leaders of the IPCC groups responsible for producing this
report, in a press conference on March 30.
"We saw a variety of effects ranging from the equator to the two poles, and from the coast to the mountains. There is no doubt that we live in a world that has been altered by climate change. "
Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University who
was not part of an expert team of authors but observers to the latest
report, it is argued that the report contains more complete information
than the previous studies in terms of clarifying the reality of climate
change.
"The report provides more detailed information than previous reports in
outlining how climate impacts on water, soil, and food leads to
increased conflict, and how climate change will increasingly become a
national threat when the temperature is higher," said Mann told Live
Science.
Every continent on Earth is already feeling some of the effects of climate change, said Mann.
Each region face different threats, from rising sea levels around the
islands in the Pacific are low, until the increasing droughts and heat
waves in other parts of the world.
Additional reports of the IPCC will be released on April 11, and will contain options for tackling climate change.
