Global warming report predicts century of catastrophe

TOP scientists were yesterday putting the finishing touches to a landmark report set to declare that climate change is already discernible and could wreak devastation to human settlement and wildlife this century.

Damage to Earth’s weather systems from greenhouse gases will change rainfall patterns, punch up the power of storms, boost the risk of drought, flooding and water stress and accelerate the existing meltdown of glaciers and erosion of ice sheets, the report will say.

The prediction by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due to be released today, part of its first review in six years of the evidence for man-made climate change.