It seems that next Friday, in Bruxelles, a bunch of new results on global warming are going to be presented.

Some (scary) data:

• temperature will get 6 degrees Celsius higher in the next 100 years, if any effective intervention on greenhouse gas emissions will not be taken into consideration;
• the overheating will cause an increase of the catastrophic phenomena, above all in the Countries of the Third world (cyclones, flooding, erosion of the coasts);
• strengthening of tropical diseases
• big migratory waves (I read somewhere of about 800.000.000 people but I can’t find the source anymore… I may be wrong about it)
• for 2080 experts forecast that the 20-30% of the animals species and vegetables will be at risk of extinction.

Temperature changes in the last 140 years (source ipcc)

First in having serious problems - according to the reports of the world-wide experts - they will be the populations that live in Africa and the Latin America. From 2050 approximately it will be the time of Asia. Meanwhile by 2040 the Himalayan glaciers will start to melt significantly.

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