Finally, if you're not sufficiently alarmed, a recent review of climate change predictions has shown that, rather than overstating the crisis, (as Trump and his kind like to allege,) scientists have actually been underestimating both the size of impact and speed of climate change. According to Scientific American magazine:
"...to develop a consistent picture of long-term trends, techniques had to be developed to compensate for the errors in the older (19th & 20th century) measurements and reconcile them with the newer ones... Because the oceans cover three-fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover, it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory as much as two orders of magnitude faster, throwing current model projections of sea-level rise further in doubt.
So, here we are now, with developing countries around the globe struggling, and largely failing, to handle the current flow of refugees seeking refuge from their poorly run, civil war-ravaged countries. Meanwhile, a category 5 hurricane of climate-change-driven migration looms just over the horizon. A migration of epoch proportions, in which possibly as many as a billion refugees will flood the borders of more fortunate nations. No immigration programs, no matter how well planned and run, could even begin to manage, much less survive, such an event. A giant meteor impact would pose a less threat.
If the governments of the planet continue their lackluster approach to countering the drivers of climate change, even this late in the game, then we can all expect our grandchildren will live very difficult lives. As pressures rise on migrant-receiving countries they will inevitably militarize their borders. And from there it all goes downhill... big time.
Sorry for such a gloomy report, but there's simply no more time left to sugarcoat this bitter pill. It's time to call climate-deniers what they are; criminally negligent...at best. And any person running for public office who continues to equivocate on this matter needs to be rejected out of hand, no matter how good they may be on other issues. Because folks, time's up.
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