BERLIN, April 6 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for "decisive action" to counter global warming after Friday's climate change report release.
On Friday, the United Nations-funded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group that includes the world's leading climate scientists, released its report on the observed and future impacts of climate change.
"The report confirms that climate change is a fact," Merkel told the Saturday edition of the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. "For that reason we need rapid and decisive action to limit the global rise in temperatures and to cut carbon dioxide emissions."
Climate change could lead to 50 million people becoming refugees as early as 2010, the report said.
Though the United States and China succeeded in changing little aspects of the text, the message is the most dramatic warning yet about the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming.
