Toronto Star: From small islands to big continents, from the tropics to the poles, climate change is already leaving its mark, damaging crops, spreading diseases and acidifying oceans, says a new blockbuster UN climate science reportreleased in Japan on Monday.
The assessment by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also warns that the world is ill-prepared and if action is not taken soon, risks could become unmanageable.
Asia, the report says, will bear the brunt of climate...