"Governments should treat climate change as seriously as threats to national security or public health, partly by focusing more on the worst scenarios of rising temperatures, an international report said on Monday.

Crop failures, extreme heat waves or high rates of sea level rise could be so harmful that governments should examine even small chances of the most severe impacts, according to the study by about 60 experts from 11 nations.

'The risks of climate change should be assessed in the same way as risks to national security or public health,' according to the experts from countries that included Britain, the United States, China, Russia and India."

Alister Doyle reports for Reuters July 13, 2015. [2]

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