Global warming causing mass migration

BERLIN (UPI) — Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany.

Worsening tropical storms, desert droughts and rising sea levels will displace 200 million people by 2050, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration included in a report authored by the U.N. University, CARE International and Columbia University.

On the sidelines of climate negotiations in Bonn, the study’s authors warned that mass migration could become a dangerous new mega-trend. They called on nations to prepare strategies to deal with the migration and maybe even prevent it by making people less dependent on weather fluctuations, for example by dispensing irrigation technologies in drought regions. “We need new thought models and practical ideas to reduce the threats climate change poses to human health and security,” the Berliner Zeitung newspaper quoted the study’s main author Koko Warner as saying.

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