Where were you when they told us the world as we know it is over? [View all]

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Where were you when they told us the world as we know it is over?
By Michael Collins, on November 5th, 2013



According to a leaked draft of the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), http://www.ipcc.ch/ the world as we know it is over. The report presents substantial and well documented predictions of global suffering and massive social disruption resulting from the impact climate change on the water supply, food, and natural resources, and successively mounting human loss. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/5333202438 (Image 11/2013 eclipse)

Oddly enough, the recipient of the leak, the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/science/earth/science-panel-warns-of-risks-to-food-supply-from-climate-change.html?adxnnl=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimesscience&adxnnlx=1383469518-lEpf14Q4HkvxnE2HWnGu+g acted like it was a story about the “food supply.” In fact, the totality of the draft makes it clear that we’ve gone too far for too long to avoid the dire consequences of man made climate change.

The documented risks presented include (Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptations, Vulnerability, IPCC, here http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Climate_Change_2014_IPCCsmallpdf.com1_.pdf or here, http://www.scribd.com/doc/180989207/LEAKED-DRAFT-IPCC-Change-2014-Impacts-Adaptation-and-Vulnerability pp. 6 & 7):

✓ Food insecurity linked to warming, drought, and precipitation variability;

✓ Death injury and disrupted livelihoods in low-lying coastal zones … due to sea level rise, coastal flooding and storm surges;


✓ Severe harm for large urban populations due to inland flooding;

✓ Systemic risk due to extreme events leading to break down of infrastructure networks and critical services;

✓ Loss of rural livelihoods and income due to insufficient drinking and irrigation water and lower agricultural productivity particularly in poorer regions; and,

✓ Loss of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the services and livelihoods that they provide

What’s left?

Lots of links:
- See more at: http://agonist.org/told-us-world-know/#sthash.cj6GS3nG.dpuf