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Reuters Report says global warming could spark conflict Thu Sep 22, 3:59 AM ET CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising world temperatures could cause a significant increase in disease across Asia and Pacific Island nations, leading to c onflict and leaving hundreds of millions of people displaced, a new repo rt said on Thursday.
Global warming by the year 2100 could also lead to more droughts, floods and typhoons, and increase the incidence of malaria, dengue fever and ch olera, the report into the health impact of rising temperatures found. "We're not just talking about a longer summer or a shorter ski season," A MA president Mukesh Haikerwal told reporters. People will die in larger numbers as our earth, our world, our h ome, heats up." In Australia, Haikerwal said up to 15,000 people could die each year due to heat stress by 2100, up from about 1,000 a year at present, while den gue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases could spread as far south as Sydney. Dengue fever in Australia is currently confined to the country's tropical and sparsely populated far north. Internationally, higher world temperatures would increase the incidence o f violent storms and droughts, and could lead to crop failures which cou ld cause political and social upheaval. "As stresses increase there is likely to be a shift toward authoritarian governments," the report said. "At the worst case, large scale state failure and major conflict may gene rate hundreds of millions of displaced people in the Asia-Pacific region , a widespread collapse of law, and numerous abuses of human rights." The report said crop yields were likely to increase in parts of Northern Asia, but would decrease in countries in Southern Asia, where the incide nce of floods, droughts, forest fires and tropical cyclones would all in crease. The report, titled Climate Change Health Impacts in Australia; Effects of Dramatic CO2 Emission Reductions, calls on governments to cut carbon di oxide emissions to limit the impact of global warming.
A medieval bridge has emerged from the depths of the San Juan reservo ir in San Martin de Valdeiglesias, 70 kilometres (43 miles) outside Madr id, as a result of dramatically low water levels, September 21, 2005.
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