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The third summit of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, this week, will cast both direct and indirect light on the wider effects of global warming. IPPC chairman Rajendra Pahcauri commented that he expected ‘heated debate’ about the issue from the large group of scientists and government officials gathered to present their often-conflicting views and findings. This discussion of the report at the centre of the conference – ‘Mitigation of Climate Change’ – will receive its last official airing in Bangkok before the final report is submitted to the meeting of the G8 + 4 in June.
The very fact that the conference is taking place in Bangkok casts another light on the matter. A week before the conference, a leading Thai climatologist predicted disastrous effects of global warming for the city, which is built on a series of largely covered-over canals below sea level. But, tellingly, he predicted that the most disastrous effects would first be seen along the Chao Phraya River, which snakes its way through the Thai capital from Ayutthaya to the north to the Bay of Thailand. One of Thailand’s top universities sits right along its banks.
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