WASHINGTON (AP)—Global warming is leading to such severe storms,droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for anunprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, aninternational panel of climate scientists said in a newreport issued Wednesday.

The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated,poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of theglobe—from Mumbai to Miami—is immune. The document by a NobelPrize-winning panel of climate scientists forecastsstronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, delugesand droughts.

The 594-page report blames the scale of recent and futuredisasters on a combination of man-made climate change,population shifts and poverty.

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