The health effects of global warming: developing countries are the most vulnerable.

UN Chronicle | June 1, 2007| | Copyright

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that the increase in global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) is primarily due to fossil fuel use and, in a smaller but still significant level, to land-use change.

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary by former United States Vice-President Al Gore, has also drawn public attention to the critical issue of global warming and how the burning of fossil fuels has increased the amount of C[O.sub.2] in the atmosphere. Global warming can result in many serious alterations to the environment, ...

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