Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds
&gt; He pointed to the rapid disappearance of insect species around the world, including those that pollinate 75% of the world&#x27;s crops, as a result of climate change and other pressures.<p>We&#x27;re barely starting to understand bee colony collapse, and that&#x27;s probably one of the more pressing and therefore better explored issues to date. I think it&#x27;s a little unscientific to see literally every change in ecological and weather patterns blamed automatically on climate change. It&#x27;s really turning into a social and institutional catch all. Insects in particular - I find it far easier to believe that the consistent global drop in insect populations has far more to do with deforestation and chemical disbursement rather than fractions of degrees of warming that we&#x27;ve seen so far.<p>Weather patterns are constantly changing even in the absence of climate forcing. Defaulting to unusual event-&gt;climate change is statistically invalid in the same way as cold snap-&gt;no climate change. More evidence that the academic institution is increasingly broken and driven by dogma.