UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming

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%.'"

Comments

Re:Where are the farmers?

[Jane Q. Public]

"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.

Re:Irreversible?

[Rockoon]

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.