Source: CARE International/Peter Caton
- See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/03/26/un-climate-science-report-will-highlight-limits-to-adaptation/#sthash.rcUhQOpr.dpuf
Humans will struggle to adapt to dangerous levels of climate change indefinitely, a UN science report is expected to announce next week.
It will warn that there are barriers to man’s ability to adapt to projected floods, droughts and other extreme weather events, which means that the world will inevitably endure a certain amount of pain within the next century.
The two volume report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to be released on March 31 in Yokohama, Japan.
“The question of defining whether there are limits and what those limits might be is a new thing that we’ve uncovered in the IPCC, and I think it’s really interesting,” Frans Berkhout, lead author on the chapter on constraints to adaptation, told RTCC.
“We can’t adapt our way out of this problem.”
Source: CARE International/Peter Caton
- See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/03/26/un-climate-science-report-will-highlight-limits-to-adaptation/#sthash.rcUhQOpr.dpuf
