Climate Change’s first victims named, are you on the list?
5th February 2008 by Alex Briggs
A team of global climate change experts has ranked the most fragile and vulnerable regions on the planet, and warned they are in danger of sudden and catastrophic collapse before the end of the century.
In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists identify the nine areas that are in gravest danger of passing critical thresholds or “tipping points.”
Led by the Greenland ice sheets and the Amazon rainforest, the features potential victims from all areas of the globe. One of the key opinions contained in the report is
“There is already a 50% chance that the Greenland ice sheet will soon begin melting unstoppably.”
