# Roundup: Climate change and famine

> UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that visiting Pacific nations threatened by rising seas had reinforced his belief that climate change was real and posed a genuine threat to humanity.

8 September 2011 · News

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## [Pacific shows climate change a reality: UN chief](https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFLpuci5aqlqp--bBAVA1Pfn_rcw?docId=CNG.9caaef25216ca20c2d35fc9ef8f44515.5c1)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that visiting Pacific nations threatened by rising seas had reinforced his belief that climate change was real and posed a genuine threat to humanity.

## [UN officials say famine is widening in Somalia](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/africa/06somalia.html)

The United Nations has announced that Somalia’s famine has spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up.

## [In world’s breadbasket, climate change feeds some worry](https://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/feature-in-worlds-breadbasket-climate-change-feeds-some-worry/)

“We don’t have to think about 2030 or 2050, in the recent memories we’ve had a lot more variability in our weather. This increasing variability of weather, which is associated with our changing climate scenarios, is going to continue to increase the variability in production.”