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Leaked draft of UN panel's global review of future impacts from global warming predicts system break-downs across the board
- Jon Queally, staff writer
A draft of a global scientific review on how human and natural systems are expected to respond to the growing threat of climate change has been leaked and its contentsthough not wholly unexpected to those who have followed climate science news in recent yearsare nonetheless both alarming and devastating.
Titled, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, the leaked document is the draft version of the second installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest review of the global scientific consensus on the global warming and climate change.
The IPCC's first installment, released in September, focused on assessing the global scientific community's combined research on the causes, pace, and evidence of planetary climate change. As the title of the leaked draft suggests, the next installment takes a more focused looked at the way the projected climate impacts will play on a variety of the Earth's systems both in the natural world, including the oceans and natural habitats, and those, like agricultural and economic systems, built by human society.
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/02-1
chervilant
(8,267 posts)are willfully ignorant, and wholly invested in instant gratification -- not to mention, rapid fire delivery of all manner of entertainment.
We need to think of a clever name for our imminent extinction event -- something that trumps the Permian event. Then, we need to bury several "time capsules" for any future "intelligent" species to find, so that they might benefit from knowing the consequences of our hubris.
malaise
(268,993 posts)Rec
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Christ on a Cracker! 207 views and too few replies to boost this so more 'eyes' will see... I guess denial runs deep here, too.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I guess.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Denial and externalizing responsibility: our species' favorite coping strategies.