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Climate Change Will Bring Multiple Disasters at Once, Study Warns

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cbsnews.com - by Jeff Berardelli - November 20, 2018

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

In the not-too-distant future, disasters won't come one at a time. Instead, according to new research, we can expect a cascade of catastrophes, some gradual, others abrupt, all compounding as climate change takes a greater toll . . .

 . . . In total, the researchers identified 467 distinct ways in which society is already being impacted by increasing climate extremes, and then laid out how these threats are likely to compound on top of each other in the decades ahead. If something isn't done to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they say that instead of dealing with a single major hazard at a time, people worldwide could be forced to cope with three to six at once.

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