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UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.

iONiUM (530420) writes "'The impacts of global warming are likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible", a major report by the UN has warned.' A document was released by the IPCC outlining the current affects on climate change, and they are not good. For specific effects on humans: 'Food security is highlighted as an area of significant concern. Crop yields for maize, rice and wheat are all hit in the period up to 2050, with around a tenth of projections showing losses over 25%.'"

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  1. Re:Projections by kabaju42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another scare report from the UN. How often do they put out a "We're all going do die" report like this?

  2. Re:Where are the farmers? by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Warmer temperatures mean more desertification and changes in rain belts."

    No, it doesn't. It means changes in desertification, but less overall. Higher temperatures means higher atmospheric water content, which means fewer overall dry regions. It isn't all going to dump preferentially on just a few areas.

    I find it hilarious that just a few days after NOAA recently predicted prolonged drought in California, it experienced near-record torrential rainfall over wide areas.

  3. Re:Projections by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 0, Troll

    What you're seeing is weather, not climate.

    Now, if it continues like that for another ten-fifteen years, our models were wrong and you'll see me running in the street, celebrating.

    Wasn't that what the AGW alarmists said back in the 90's, and then kept adding years to it as the warming trend "paused" for the last 18 years?

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  4. Re:Irreversible? by Rockoon · · Score: 1, Troll

    While temps go up for both, the mitigation scenario leads to a much more livable planet, closer to the one we live in today.

    This is why nobody listens to you. You took a perfectly valid sentence about the paper and went ahead and made your sentence invalid, and its because you wanted to load your sentence up to make the sentence stronger.

    Its stronger, but now its also a fabrication. We observe that you fabricated, therefore we tune you right the fuck out.

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