Report Warns of Climate Change Disasters That Rival Hollywood’s

Stonehenge eroding under the forces of extreme weather. Venice slowly collapsing into its canals. The Statue of Liberty. gradually flooding.

Images like these, familiar from Hollywood climate-catastrophe thrillers, were evoked by a joint report, released on Thursday by Unesco, the United Nations Environment Program and the Union of Concerned Scientists, that detailed the threat climate change could pose to World Heritage sites on five continents.

(The Australian continent was originally included in the report, but that its government requested it be removed because of concerns that the information would hurt its tourism industry.)

 Report Warns of Climate Change Disasters That Rival Hollywood’s – The New York Times

Sigh….