Gwynne Dyer: Climate manipulation needs care - Opinion - NZ Herald News
On our current course, according to a study released by the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research 18 months ago, the average global temperature will be 4C higher by 2060.Gwynne Dyer - Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars | Video on PBS & NPR Forum Network
If that happens, billions will probably die.
If it stays below 2C hotter, on the other hand, most of them will probably live.
Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are just some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead--and any of them could tip the world towards conflict.
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