Salient to Investors:
The World Bank said the world risks cataclysmic changes caused by extreme heatwaves, rising seas and depleted food stocks as it heads toward global warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century. Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures.
Sea levels could rise by 3 feet or more by 2100, flooding cities and start to dissolve coral reefs from 2060, deplete crop yields in India, the US and Australia, and exacerbate heatwaves worldwide.
Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-19/globe-risks-cataclysmic-changes-from-warming-world-bank-says.html