Reading the following Associated Press copy on page 3A of this morning’s News & Observer …
WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.
The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe — from Mumbai to Miami — is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, deluges and droughts.
… reminded me of MIT professor Richard Lindzen’s comments for a May 2007 Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv interview:
