The Horrific Impact of Climate Change this Century
March 23rd, 2007In the wake of the IPCC’s report on the scientific basis
of climate change from the first working group, news has begun leaking from the second working group (WGII), which concentrates on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
The WGII’s summary report will be officially released April 6–on a Friday, again, which will no doubt mute coverage–but its conclusions are in circulation now. In a few words, we are very vulnerable. The experts anticipate:
- Water shortages affecting tens of millions in Latin American, hundreds of millions in Africa, and a billion people in Asia by 2050, with numbers growing expontentially by 2080.
- The rampant spread of tropical diseases, accompanying warmer weather and water management issues.
- Over 100 million flooded by storms and rising sea levels by 2080 (Exit Bangladesh).
- The disappearance of unknown numbers of plant and animal species.
- An initial agricultural boom followed by sporadic, extreme instances of drought that cause massive starvation and food shortages.
This segment of the four-part report by the IPCC is said to be the ‘emotional heart’ of the overall product. If destroyed ice sheets don’t pull at your conscience, these impacts should.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
[...] Climate Progress In the wake of the IPCC’s report on the scientific basis of climate change from the first working [...]
March 24th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Climate change is being driven by the Sun, NOT carbon dioxide. Carbon Dioxide does not drive temperature change, this is a political fraud. Declaring people who know the science “global warming deniers like they are anit-semitic holocaust deniers is not only stupid but dangerous and insane. This is a political fraud…..
March 24th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Oh, I forgot to mention, the solution offered here is a global tax. That wont solve anything, but how to fund a global government and GUARANTEE the TYRANNY of FORCED under-development of the third world.
ensuring:
ENFORCED DISPARITY
ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY
FORCED DEPENDANCE
dont buy this crapola
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:05 am
[...] Preliminary drafts have been leaked and why is it shaping up to be such a tear-jerker? According to Andrew Weaver, a lead author of Working Group I and climate scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, this one illustrates a highway to extinction, but on this highway there are many turnoffs. This is showing you where the road is heading. The road is heading toward extinction. [...]
April 4th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Mr Miller, your assertion about carbon dioxide could not be more wrong. Please read the facts before ‘vomiting’ such non-sense. The reason the earth is 60°F warmer and sustains life is because of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. However, too much carbon dioxide means ‘warmer’ temperatures. The sun’s energy is not changing nearly as much as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is. Therefore, the culprit is carbon dioxide. Take your head out of the sand, Mr Miller. We have gotten all that we can get out of this planet relatively free. Now it is time to pay, whether we like it or not! Let’s do something about it for the future generations, if not for our own. Maybe therein lies the problem, we all want to live for today and the heck with tomorrow. How sad that is indeed and how selfish we all are.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:44 am
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September 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for writing about this, I missed that article