By the end of the century, the Earth could be more than 6C hotter than it is today, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We know that would be bad news – but just how bad? How big a rise will it take for the Alps to melt, the oceans to die and desert to conquer Europe and the Americas? Mark Lynas sifted through thousands of scientific papers for his new book on global warming. This is what the research told him…
Six steps to hell
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That makes for some scary reading even given the amount of press climate change has been receiving of late.
What could be an interesting out take and complete societal reversal based on this article is that if the area from Texas right up to Canada does actually turn into a dust bowl and Lake Mega-Chad once again makes the central Sahara a fertile land, we could see white, middle class Americans emmigrating to Africa. Possibly to take up labouring jobs for the newly wealthy native farmers of the Sahara!