综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

Asia-Pacific

New climate change report released

(AP)
Updated: 2007-04-10 17:16
Large Medium Small

BANGKOK, Thailand - Warming temperatures will cause increased drought and sea-level rises in Australia and New Zealand by 2030 and threaten ecologically rich sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, according to excerpts from a new scientific report released Tuesday.

The South Pacific Islands, meanwhile, will be swamped by sea level rises as well as increased frequency of cyclones, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Island economies also will suffer as warming waters damage coral reefs and hurt the fishing industries, the report said.

A summary of the full, 1,572-page document written and reviewed by 441 scientists was released Friday. This document, the second of four reports, tries to explain how global warming is changing life on Earth.

Further details were being unveiled Tuesday in a series of regional news conferences around the world.

For Australians and New Zealanders, the warming temperatures will be felt mostly through increasingly extreme weather events.

"Heat waves and fires are virtually certain to increase in intensity and frequency," Kevin Hennessy, the coordinating lead author on the chapter for Australia and New Zealand, said in a statement.

"Floods, landslides, droughts and storm surges are very likely to become more frequent and intense and frosts are very likely to become less frequent," he said.

The rising temperatures, according the report, also will lead to a loss of a quarter of alpine ice mass in New Zealand, drops in agriculture production in southern and eastern Australia and eastern New Zealand, as well as the spread of tropical diseases such as dengue fever.

Sea level rises in the South Pacific islands "are likely to endure exacerbate inundation, storm surge, erosion, and other coastal hazards, thus threatening vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities that support the livelihood of island communities," according to the report.

Penehuro Lefale, one of the lead authors on the small island chapter, said in a statement that the warming temperatures also will hurt sectors as wide-ranging as tourism, agriculture and fisheries on many island nations.

"Climate change is likely to heavily impact coral reefs, fisheries and other marine-based resources of small islands of the Pacific," he said. "There is likely to be a decline in the total tuna stocks and a migration of these stocks westwards, both of which will lead to changes in the catch in different islands."

分享按鈕
仁怀市| 綦江县| 安溪县| 沛县| 伊春市| 繁昌县| 永清县| 屯留县| 台山市| 西峡县| 长丰县| 乌拉特中旗| 额尔古纳市| 凤阳县| 株洲市| 鸡东县| 谢通门县| 繁峙县| 新绛县| 綦江县| 宝坻区| 广昌县| 遂平县| 资中县| 郁南县| 仁寿县| 宜章县| 珠海市| 星子县| 海伦市| 楚雄市| 济宁市| 特克斯县| 郴州市| 曲麻莱县| 浦东新区| 漠河县| 喀喇| 星子县| 皮山县| 兰考县|