Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report on the global knowledge of the climate crisis. The exhaustive document, representing the work of hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a dire picture of the future. Summers will be hotter, winters colder, and once-in-a-century storms will occur more like once every few months. And all this may be just the tip of the melting iceberg. Buried in the back of the 3,675-page report were 10 predictions about the effects of global warming that should send a chill up the spine of every man, woman, and child on the planet.
1) In a cruel case of irony, the complete deforestation of the Amazon will occur by 2035 as demand for wood for coffins to bury victims of climate change skyrockets.
