We have to start adapting to the new climate reality soon, or we'll create a bigger predicament for our children and their children, ect.
Report on climate change depicts a planet in peril
Climate change will disrupt not only the natural world but society, posing risks to resources and fomenting conflict, panel says.
By Tony Barboza
Climate change will disrupt not only the natural world but also society, posing risks to the world's economy and the food and water supply and contributing to violent conflict, an international panel of scientists says.
The 29-page summary, leaked and posted on a blog critical of the panel, has been distributed to governments around the world for review. It could change before it is released in March.
"We see a wide range of impacts that have already occurred ... on people, ecosystems and economies," said Chris Field, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science and co-chairman of the group writing the report. "Looking into the future, we see increasing risks that are more pervasive and more severe with greater amounts of climate change."
Field and an IPCC spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the draft. "This is a close-to-final work in progress," Field said.
There's nothing I can add to underscore the urgency of this message, as I pack my bags to go to the Central Philippines and try to help ameliorate the recent disasters there. Most recently from a storm the likes of which no coastline on this planet has ever seen anything remotely similar in scale. With an area the size of Montana devastated by this ferocious Super Typhoon.