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Apocalyptic climate talk in vogue: in a few decades "we may be very hungry..into the realm of crumbling civil order" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7563449e-dd56-11e1-8fdc-00144feab49a.html …The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking - FT.com
By Howard Covington and Chris Rapley
...the more important climate crisis gathers momentum with hardly a word on where it will lead. This is partly because climate change has slipped from the public agenda.
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Warming doesn’t take place uniformly. In particular, the poles warm more quickly, as is evident from the rapid melting of the Arctic ice....Climate arithmetic shows that we may be very hungry in a few decades time, irrespective of the other problems climate change will cause. This could take us way beyond adaptation into the realm of crumbling civil order.
...Business-as-usual emissions growth is the consequence. This may well produce a disaster that we will be powerless to redress.
...The Science Museum in London plans to create a forum for the public to discuss the issues with leading climate scientists. Such efforts are essential. We must begin to discuss the risks and impacts of a climate disaster, since our institutions and processes appear incapable of preventing it.
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The referenced article is on ft.com, which requires you to register (admittedly for free) just to be allowed to read "up to 8 articles per 30 days". I don't want to be bothered with such site rules, and I doubt many browsers would, so why advertise it here, especially since it has its climate science head on backwards, and counsels hysteria over it?
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