Another good new article has come out that pulls together in one place some basic analyses of some of the many dangerous consequences and results of Anthropogenic Global Warming and its associated Climate Changes. I'm quoting some excerpts, including the first paragraph and then the list of topic headings (which amount to another paragraph). Each of these headings has a short analysis of the topic back in the original article. Go to the article linked in the title to read the rest of the information.
25 Devastating Effects Of Climate Change
Business Insider
Leslie Baehr and Chelsea Harvey
OCT. 11, 2014
(excerpts)
The world is getting warmer and that's already causing disasters that will devastate lives and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Those problems are only getting worse, as shown by recent reports from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) and the White House, among others. The greenhouse gas emissions that drive warming "now substantially exceed the highest concentrations recorded in ice cores during the past 800,000 years," the IPCC said. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, which primarily come from the burning of fossil fuels, have risen 40% since preindustrial times. Last month, world leaders convened at the UN Climate Summit 2014 to discuss plans to reduce carbon emissions though there were some notable absences. Most attendees recognized that failure to address these issues could spell terrible consequences for people all over the world. We've gathered some of those terrible consequences of climate change below. Unless otherwise noted, each effect assumes a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) by 2100, a number the IPCC has suggested we are "more likely than not" to exceed, and a sea level rise of 0.5 meters (1.5 feet) by 2100, about the average of all the IPCC's most recent climate scenarios. This is a conservative estimate other studies predict significantly more sea level rise.
1.) Climate change will cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
2.) Hundreds of millions of people will be forced to move by 2050.
3.) Dangerous infectious diseases could spread in the U.S.
4.) Western wildfires could burn up to eight times as much land by 2100.
5.) Water scarcity will hit hundreds of millions of additional people by 2100.
6.) Hurricanes could become even scarier.
7.) Four times as many New Yorkers could live in areas that flood by 2050.
8.) Millions of people and trillions in assets are at risk in coastal cities.
9.) 136 of the world's most historic places could be lost to sea-level rise.
10.) Global wheat and maize yields are already beginning to decline.
11.) Small island nations could be destroyed.
12.) There could be no more reefs after 2050.
13.) The marine food chain could fall apart.
13.) The marine food chain could fall apart.
14.) Within 300 years, 88% of New Orleans could be underwater.
15.) Increasing droughts will make the driest regions even drier.
16.) 63% of major wine regions will no longer be suitable for grape-growing by 2050.
17.) Some reptile species could turn mostly female, potentially leading to their extinction.
18.) Atlanta and New York could see twice as many stormy days by 2100, compared to the 1962 to 1989 average.
19.) Many countries are losing essential water sources.
20.) Air pollution in California could cause a public health disaster.
21.) Equatorial regions and parts of the Antarctic will see up to a 50% decrease in their fisheries.
22.) Climate change may lead to more depression and anxiety.
23.) Some animals are shrinking.
24.) Thousands of plants and animal species will lose their native habitats.
25.) 20 million more children will go hungry by 2050.
Unsubstantiated political maneuvering. Oh, and emotion.
Your ideological/political fantasies are ridiculous but you appear too brainwashed to comprehend that this issue is all about the scientific reality of AGW/CC and the evidence that the scientists have uncovered that supports their conclusions, not your crackpot denier cult conspiracy theories.
BTW, most of the topics discussed in that article in the OP are very well "
substantied", with a number of embedded links. Like the first one.
1.) Climate change will cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
Asset destruction, forced relocations, droughts, extinctions, and all of the other bad things we're going to discuss will add up in costs to the global economy. Already the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that the US Climate Disruption Budget i.e., stuff related to drought, storms, and growing climate disruptions was nearly $100 billion. And that's just the start.
By 2030, climate change costs are projected to cost the global economy $700 billion annually, according to the Climate Vulnerability Monitor.
As climate change continues, costs will go up. Indeed, the release of a 50-billion-ton reservoir of methane from melting Arctic ice, which may advance global warming by 15-to-35 years, could by itself cost $60 trillion to the global economy, researchers told Nature last summer.
Stopping the damage won't be cheap either. For instance, putting the world on a path for sustainable energy production will cost $53 trillion, according to the International Energy Agency's World Energy Investment Outlook.
But in the long run, these investments could wind up saving money, says a new report from The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. By spending money now on measures like green infrastructure, governments can save themselves the money that would otherwise be spent on damages caused by climate change in the future.
If only crop yields would increase, we'd be better off.
Quite true, but unfortunately crop yields are going to decline in most areas under the many effects of global warming. Lack of water being only one of these many issues.
Sadly, all evidence shows the earth is cooling.
Sadly, the evidence provided by just this post of yours shows that you are worse than just ignorant, you are brainwashed into imagining that you know things that are actually quite false. There is NO "
evidence showing that the earth is cooling", you poor bewildered dupe (or possibly paid lying troll). Instead...2014 is now even more likely to be the next 'hottest year on record'. NASA has just calculated that this September was the hottest September on record, going back 130 years.
NASA: September 2014 Hottest In Recorded Weather History
This follows a string of months that were the hottest months of that name on record.
Last November, 2013, was the hottest November on record.
This last April was tied for the number one spot with April 2010.
This last May was the hottest May on record.
This lastJune was the hottest June on record.
This last August was the hottest August on record.
And now September is also the hottest September on record too.
So now September becomes the 38th consecutive September and 355th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average global temperature for September was September 1976 and the last below-average global temperature for any month was February 1985. With the exception of February, every month to date in 2014 has ranked among the four warmest on record for its respective month. Currently 13 out of the 14 hottest years on record have happened in the 21st century. When 2014 is confirmed as the new warmest year, it will make it 14 out of the 15 hottest years on record happening since the start of the new millenium. Every year after 1998 has been warmer than every year on record before 1998, in instrumental records going back about 130 years, and even the coldest years since 1998 have been warmer than the hottest years before 1998.
So much for your delusional "
cooling".
By the way, animals are not shrinking. Perhaps their populations are getting smaller..... Different issue.
How the hell would you know? And why would anyone believe you about what the future holds for certain species of animals if global temperatures rise appreciably, as opposed to what the actual experts are saying?
23. Some animals are shrinking.
An artist's rendering of the early horse Hyracotherium (right) alongside a modern-day horse. Researchers found that Hyracotherium body size decreased 19% during a global warming event about 53 million years ago.
Fossil evidence tells us that when the planet was last at its warmest — about 55 million years ago during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum — many animals got smaller.
For example: One horse, Hyracotherium, usually the size of a small dog, shrunk in size by 30%.
The horse returned to its normal size when the temperature went back down. But 2 million years later, during another smaller global warming event, Hyracotherium shrunk by 19%.
"The fact that it happened twice significantly increases our confidence that we're seeing cause and effect," said University of Michigan Paleontologist Philip Gingerich, who presented his preliminary findings at the end of 2013. Past global warming, he said, appears to have caused many mammals to shrink.
Scientists are now starting to see history repeat itself. Studies have shown that many animals, including polar bears and some reptiles, have started shrinking as carbon dioxide levels increase.
Are you really worrying about hungry children?
Actually yes, very much. The world's inaction (particularly in America who should be leading the way instead of having our Republican dominated Congress led around by the nose by the trillion dollar fossil fuel industry) on dealing with this climate change crisis in a timely way is going to condemn many people to starvation, especially including children and old people who are the most vulnerable to the effects of starvation and who always die in greater numbers. The world's agricultural systems are very vulnerable to changes in the timing, duration and intensity of the yearly rainfall cycles, changes in the mountain glacial storage of water to feed rivers and irrigation on the sumner, changes in seasonal timing and pollination cycles, and saltwater intrusion into water tables due to rising sea levels as well as loss of farmland directly to the rising sea levels, to just name a few. Climate changes will produce an enormous number of climate refugees which also exacerbates food shortages and starvation.
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