UAE needs to identify risk areas to take on climate change
UAE needs to identify risk areas to take on climate change
By Nina Muslim, Staff ReporterPublished: February 29, 2008, 00:30
Dubai: The UAE needs a national and regional strategy for climate change to deal with the economic, agricultural and health consequences of increasing temperatures and dwindling fresh water supply, an environmental expert has said.
The world is undergoing an unprecedented period of climate change, affecting weather patterns, rainfall and sea levels, blamed on the increase in greenhouses gases in the atmosphere because of human consumption.
Prof Geoffrey Boulton, vice-principal and head of the Global Change Group at University of Edinburgh, told Gulf News global temperatures are likely to increase to two or five degrees Celsius in the next 50 to 100 years. "Now that may not sound like much, but the last time the temperature changed an average of five degrees was since the last Ice Age was and that has taken 10,000 years," he said.
Read here:http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Environment/10193644.html
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