A typhoon wrecks the Philippines coastline in 2008
News in this week from the first comprehensive study into the impacts of global warming on human society - and it makes uneasy reading.
The headline figures are: 300,000 deaths and 300 million people affected every year, at a cost to the global economy of £125 billion. The report was issued by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan's thinktank, the Global Humanitarian Forum.
