Climate changes

  • 22/02/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The scenario projected by the U.N. Inter-government Panel on Climate Change during the present century is a lot more than being just gloomy. It is alarming since what awaits us is a steady intensification of global warming for the tropical and developing countries and storms and rising sea levels for the richer countries as well on the Florida and the Atlantic Coast.If, as Mr. James A. McCarthy, environmental scientist of the Harvard University, has said, "Most of the Earth's people will be on the losing side", it sounds very much like a forecast of doom....(Editorial)