It's Coming

Unfortunately - and it seems ridiculous to hear myself say it - the real shit storm doesn't really have a lot to do with Cult45.

Coral Davenport, NYT:

INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”

The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.

So eat your vegetables; don't smoke; always wear your helmet when you're out getting plenty of healthy exercise on your bike - and you'll prob'ly survive long enough to suffer some horrible shit because of Climate Change.

Because guys like me didn't do enough.

BTW - it's not the heat, or the water quality, or the water quantity that gets ya. It's the total disruption in politics and economics that get ya.

We already see a lot of shit because of an immigration rate of a few hundredths of a percent moving to a handful of lily white countries. Imagine what happens when 10 or 15 or 25% of the world population - from the poorest parts of the world - the brownest parts of the world - begin "encroaching" on prissy white societies everywhere.