Climate change ‘could ruin drive to eradicate poverty’

Britain’s most senior independent scientist has warned that global warming threatens to ruin the international initiative to lift Africa out of poverty.

Lord May of Oxford, the president of the Royal Society, said the cost of dealing with the adverse effects of climate change could soak up all the aid to African countries.

…However, Lord May, a former chief scientific adviser to the Government, warned that there is mounting scientific evidence to show that global warming is the biggest single threat to the world today – especially developing countries.

The Independent