Saturday, November 17, 2007

Global Warming Is 'Not Science Fiction' - UN

Updated:17:22, Saturday November 17, 2007

The climate change threat is "not science fiction" and reversing it is the "defining challenge of our age", the UN chief has warned.

Climate change has already begun Ban Ki-moon said the potential impact of global warming is "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do".

He was speaking in Valencia, Spain, to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has issued its latest report after six years of research.

It says the Earth is heading towards a warmer age at a faster pace and warned of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction.

Sky News

The IPCC report released today dispels any doubt that mankind is behind global warming, climate change and the real threat to survival it poses.

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