Key aspects of the climate are changing faster than expected and
if we stay on our current emissions path, we face catastrophe In
2009, the scientific literature caught up with what top climate
scientists have been saying privately for a few years now: -
Many of the predicted impacts of human-caused climate change are
occurring much faster than anybody expected — particularly ice
melt, everywhere you look on the planet. - If we stay anywhere
near our current emissions path, we are facing incalculable
catastrophes by century’s end, including rapid sea level rise,
massive wildfires, widespread Dust-Bowlification, large oceanic
dead zones, and 9°F warming — much of which could be all but
irreversible for centuries. And that’s not the worst-case
scenario! - The consequences for human health and well being
would be extreme. That’s no surprise to anybody who has talked
to leading climate scientists in recent years, read my book Hell
and High Water (or a number of other books), or followed this
blog. Still, it is a