Global meltdown feared: UN report

Scott Simpson
Vancouver Sun
Monday, September 25, 2006

A landmark climate change report coming early next year will reveal such a strong link between global warming and fossil fuels that the world will have to end its addiction to oil, says a leading Canadian climate researcher.

Ignoring the findings of the report will lead to widespread environmental catastrophes, Andrew Weaver added. "We do not need more research to tell us what the first-order problem is, and what needs to be done," said Weaver, Canada research chairman at the University of Victoria's school of earth and ocean sciences.

He is one of the authors of a climate change report -- the first major study since 2001 -- that will be released next year by an international panel of scientists.

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