UN report on how global warming hits home hard

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue another report on how global warming disrupts people's lives, their natural environment and the Earth itself.  

The report will explain how climate change already affects humans and the planet, what to expect in the future, and the risks and benefits of adapting to a warmer world. The report features seven regional chapters about how physical changes in the climate change people's lives. Even without seeing the final report, activists call it a warning sign for the planet.

Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Development Program said "Just look at the news reports over the last 12 months. Floods, forest fires, hurricanes, typhoons, extreme weather events, billions and billions of dollars in damage. This will grow exponentially, and I think this IPCC report will reaffirm yet again quite how serious the situation has become and what the likely scenarios are also into the future."

Last August, the first of the three reports, which prompted the U.N. to declare "code red",  outlined the physical science of climate change while a third report coming out in March will be more about what can be done to curb and adapt to global warming.