A shock report is right…
An excerpt.
5 November 2006
10 YEARS TO SAVE THE WORLD
ACT NOW, SHOCK REPORT WARNS LEADERS
Exclusive by Vincent Moss, Political Editor
WORLD leaders have fewer than 10 years to stop a global warming disaster, a shock report will warn this week.
Two billion people will be left without water if the planet heats up by just 3¼C - and millions will face starvation.
The rainforests of the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef could disappear.
Vast areas will be lost under rising seas as the ice caps melt, while droughts could create new deserts.
The apocalyptic vision is painted in the report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think-tank with close links to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
It outlines an even bleaker picture than economist Sir Nicholas Stern's report on global warming published last Monday.
And it came as thousands of campaigners joined a Stop Climate Chaos rally in London yesterday to demand action to combat global warming.
The IPPR report warns it will need a "Herculean" effort to keep global temperature rises to just 2¼C.
According to the unpublished report obtained by the Sunday Mirror, the IPPR wants an "urgent rethink" of the Government's plans to combat global warming.
