The authors warn that some other climate change effects will be global. Climate change throughout the 21st century will lead to increases in ill-health in many regions, as compared to a baseline without climate change, the report states. Examples include greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death due to more intense heatwaves and fires; increased likelihood of under-nutrition resulting from diminished food production in poor regions; and increased risks from food-borne and water-borne disease. Other potential crises highlighted by the report include the likelihood that yields of major crops such as wheat, rice and maize are likely to decline at rates of up to 2% a decade, at a time when demands for these crops – triggered by world population increases – are likely to rise by 14%. At the same time, coral reefs face devastating destruction triggered by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide dissolving in sea water and acidifying Earths oceans. The report makes grim reading. This comprehensive scientific assessment makes clear that climate change is having a growing impact in the UK and around the world, and that the risks of catastrophic consequences increase every day as more greenhouse gas pollution is pumped into the atmosphere. I hope David Cameron will read this report and understand the huge dangers of delaying the bigger cuts in emissions that are required to protect our children, grandchildren and future generations against this devastating threat, said Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/Home.aspx theguardian/environment/2014/mar/22/global-warming-hit-asia-hardest
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