CLIMATE CHANGE HEADED TO COURT
It won't be long before the victims of climate change make the west pay; The scientific case is strengthening: developed countries are to blame for global warming – and there will soon be a legal reckoning
Chris Huhne, 29 December 2013 (UK Guardian)
“...About 18 million people in the Sahel – the vulnerable pan-African strip of land that runs from Senegal to Sudan along the southern edge of the Sahara – faced famine last year…[S]cience is increasingly pointing a hard finger at those to blame…[A] recent paper…examined the increased probability that the 2011 East African drought in Somalia and Kenya can be attributed to human-induced climate change…[O]thers investigated the impact of climate change on the £1.3bn insured losses from the flooding in the UK in 2000…[and of] the hot European summer of 2003, and its heatwave-related deaths…The more certain is the attribution for blame, the more justified many developing countries will feel in protesting about the impact…[and] the victims of climate change could begin to take international legal action against the countries responsible…” click here for more
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