UN scientist: fighting climate change saves costs (AP)

DURBAN, South Africa ? The U.N.'s top climate scientist says global warming will lead to human dangers and soaring financial costs and that containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told a U.N. climate conference Wednesday that heat waves experienced once every few decades will happen every other year by mid-century.

Coastal areas and islands are threatened with inundation by global warming, rain-reliant agriculture in Africa will shrink by half and many species will disappear.

But Pachauri said "many impacts can be avoided, reduced or delayed" by reducing emissions.

He said the costs of action would be offset by improved health, greater energy security and more secure food supplies.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111130/ap_on_re_af/af_climate_conference

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