Climate change is 'faster and more extreme' than feared

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Climate change is happening much faster than the world's best scientists predicted and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale, a new report warns.

By Paul Eccleston
Last Updated: 1:39AM BST 20 Oct 2008

Arctic sea-ice in September 1979 and 2007, showing the biggest reduction since satellite surveillance began. Photo: Fugro NPA Ltd
wwf.org.uk

'Extreme weather events' such as the hot summer of 2003, which caused an extra 35,000 deaths across southern Europe from heat stress and poor air quality, will happen more frequently.

Britain and the North Sea area will be hit more often by violent cyclones and the predicted rise in sea level will double to more than a metre, putting vast coastal areas at risk from flooding.

The bleak report from WWF - formerly the World Wildlife Fund - also predicts crops failures and the collapse of eco systems on both land and sea.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3226747/Climate-change-is-faster-and-more-extreme-than-feared.html

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1. Shhhh....

We're not supposed to talk about this. The economy is the number one topic. The economy is living in a grounded reality, all this environmental stuff is pie in the sky.

You know that feeling society in general had when it realized what was happening economically, when it realized the party was over? Multiply that by one hundred. That's the feeling people are going to have when they realize what's happening with the biosphere, is the same thing on a much larger scale. Every reckless, unsustainable thing we've done to the economy, we've been doing to nature on a grander scale. We saw all the warnings, and ignored them, because that would mean living within our means, environmentally. And when that house of cards falls, there's no safety net.

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2. Great comments -- and I agree --- plus shocked no one else posted this . . .???!!!