Ireland 'among last lifeboats in climate change crisis'

Professor Brendan Gleeson, of the National University of Ireland (NUI) at Maynooth, was speaking in the first of a series of lectures on the dangers of climate change, entitled "An Urban World at Risk".
He told the audience that if global temperatures rise by three or four degrees, as he predicts they will, Ireland could become one of only a few habitable 'lifeboat' regions. He urged governments to consider the potential consequences of an influx of people from around the world fleeing rising seas, drought and destructive weather. In his speech on Wednesday, Prof Gleeson said: "We cannot know precisely how the disaster will unfold, but the southern megacities in Africa, the sub-continental states and Asia will be the first to go under, taking with them a substantial proportion of our species. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12998760