New UN Report On Climate Change Warns Of Threat To Coastal Communities

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 31: The Watermark Bar is viewed in South Street Seaport, an area of lower Manhattan that was severely flooded during Hurricane Sandy on March 31, 2014 in New York City. A new report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that summarizes climate science, gave a dire picture of the earth's slow warming due to greenhouse gases and other human based behaviors. The report warned that countries and cities located along the coastline face a particular danger as the oceans continue to rise resulting in large scale flooding and erosion. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)