Science me DU

So go work on that, and finding a home.

a lot of hard work and sacrifice but its a struggle to keep and maintain my rectangle.

There has been really unusually warm weather hear in the inland Pacific region this year and when I was colder and starving more, I never thought about these weather patterns. The patterns are different and warmer then when I grew up here.

unfortunately 'named' global warming.

GOOD that you have a home now.

... then, I'm not a(n un)natural phenomenon. 'Global warming' is correct as a label. The proliferation of CO2 in the atmosphere forces a higher equilibrium temperature globally. I know this leads to some confusion when describing some local conditions, but that's the way it works.

--imm

but the name itself leads to confusion among many, and gives 'deniers' additional opportunities to latch on and deny. It's a 'p.r.'
thing, like 'pro-life,' and 'right to work.' 'Framing.'

--imm

And because most people live by the sea, that will cause significant relocation of people, which will cause territorial disputes. This is a long term trend, however. It could be 50 years before it's realized that people are relocating en mass to get away from the ever encroaching seas. This will cause not only a demographic and economic issue but will be seen as probably the largest migrations of humans that we've ever seen. And it will come quietly, just people getting flooded from time to time and saying "screw this," and moving on.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/future.html#sealevel

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=9886

And to be clear, sea levels will rise if we cut off the CO2 tomorrow. There's a lot of built up heat in the oceans. It's where all the heat has been "hiding" so long.

Outside of that, there will be more extreme storms (we're seeing it now with the current big freeze), on a more regular basis, which will affect economies. More drought that is longer and more devastating (this will in particular impact the India/Asian countries which have the highest populations).

Not that you would necessarily live to see the worst effects, but it's a daunting problem and every year we're not looking for answers, it's going to come.

Modern industrialized agriculture produces much of our food, and we depend on its productivity and stability to sustain 7 billion + humans. Ordinary projections show a great number of challenges to continue feeding a growing number - aquifer depletion, salinization of irrigated croplands, encroachment of housing, desertification, etc. Add climate change to the equation and its an even bigger challenge. Some low lying areas (such as much of heavily-populated Bagledesh) are likely to loose a great deal due to ocean levels rising, but the global picture is likely to be nearly as difficult, and less predictable. Drought can be gotten around for a time by pumping aquifers and relying on snowmelt to irrigate reduced acreage, but neither of those last for very long if things are sustained.

We used the irrigation canals bring water from snow melt in the Wyoming mountains. These canals were built by the CCC back in the 30's.
Due to less snowfall our water allotment was cut back several times in the 8 years we owned it.
The ones with irrigation wells ( no new wells are allowed to be drilled) are pumping out of the Ogallala aquifer and it is not replenishing.
Yes food will be affected big time as climate change increases.

unfortunately corporate greed has inhibited corrective actions.

Consequences . . . end of civilization as we know it