The Global Meltdown
an article extract by Jane Merrick Daily Mail April 7 2007

Global warming will put billions of people at risk of flooding and famine within a generation warned the United Nations (6/4/2007)
Delivering its bleakest assessment of the problem, the UN added that up to
30 per cent of the world species could be extinct if temperatures continued to rise.  Agreement on the wording of its report came after an all night session of tense negotiations in Brussels.
But scientists accused the worlds largest producers of harmful carbon dioxide emissions - including the US, Russia & China, of watering down the conclusions.
Key sections were deleted and scientists confronted government negotiators whom they feared were toning down their findings. The UN's top climate official Yvo de Boer admitted the report was weakened by the deletion of some elements but insisted that it will send a very clear signal to governments.
The 18 page document summarises the work of 2500 scientists from 130 countries warned that without swift action up to 3.2 billion faced water shortages.  At the other extreme the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that flood waters could claim up to 7 million victims in Tokyo and New York by 2080. It is the poorest of the poor in the world, even in prosperous societies who are going to be the worst hit. 

This now has become very apparent with the unusual weather patterns in the UK in May and June of 2007.
*THIS HAS NOW BEEN DECLARED AS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE*

We need to radically stop the production of Carbon Dioxide and not allow any new facilities which will produce this killer gas, such as fossil fuelled establishments like power stations, cement kilns and incinerators.

Read the report here