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Health Leaked U.N. report warns of drastic ocean rise, millions displaced Friday, August 30th 2019, 4:53 pm - The draft report will shortly be studied next month, and is expected to draw dire conclusions

A leaked draft of an upcoming U.N. climate change report paints a catastrophic picture of the effects of the climate change-driven sea-level rise expected in the coming decades.

The draft, a 900-page "special report" on the prospects of Earth's oceans and polar regions, expects "a steady decline in fish stocks, hundred-fold or more increase in the damages caused by superstorms, and hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising seas" as a result of the changes expected as climate change continues, according to the AFP, which first reported on the leak.

The draft, which is set to be studied at a conference next month in Monaco, describes a full-court press of feedback loops if warming continues on its current path.

First, some 30 per cent of permafrost in the northern hemisphere is expected to melt, resulting in the emission of billions of tonnes of trapped greenhouse gases, which will increase global warming and make climate change even worse. Glaciers, already under strain, will also fare poorly, with melting accelerated.

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