Higher temperatures are already triggering more droughts and storms, causing failed harvests, and driving people from their homes. These problems will continue to worsen and affect more people as the mercury keeps rising.

Since 10% of the world’s population lives in low-lying coastal areas and three-quarters of major cities are by the sea, rising sea levels are one of the greatest hazards of climate change.

Before the last ice age, about 120,000 years ago, the temperature on earth was 1° Celsius higher than it is today, and sea levels were 5 to 9 meters higher. The rising waters to come will threaten cities such as London, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Amsterdam.

Miami

The numerous other effects to look forward to include a shortage of fresh water, searing heat, and increasingly destructive forest fires. Warming has far-reaching effects on biodiversity and marine life, too.

Amsterdam

(The images are from my show some years back at Blackfish Gallery.  Free Fall focussed on airplane disasters in the context of human political or religious hate and/ or technological hubris.)

And here is an alternative voice: http://www.wsj.com/articles/my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic-1480723518