The simple truth of climate change

The irony of the groundless controversy about climate change is that all the scientific proof is not even necessary. As the climate is part of the environment and nobody can deny that the environment is being devastated, there is no way that the climate could remain unaffected by all that devastation. Even an Ancient Greek by the name of Theophrastus, living about 2,400 years ago, noticed that deforestation led to drier and warmer weather. He obviously had more sense than all the modern climate sceptics rolled into one. Their ignorance and stupidity have delayed action against its apocalyptic dangers, leaving things far too late to prevent the nightmare now unfolding.

How bad is it going to be? The scariest part is that we don’t know. This is uncharted territory. Far too little research on the environment means that we only know a fraction of what is really going on. What we do know, is that everything is going in the wrong direction. Air, water and soil are being polluted, ground water is being depleted, soil is being degraded and eroded, animal species are going extinct and ecosystems are being destroyed at incredible rates while every day the addition of about 200,000 humans is making things worse.

We can be sure, of course, of rising ocean levels with widespread flooding. It is also very likely that gulf streams will change their courses or cease to function completely, which could for instance make Western Europe sub-arctic. It is also possible that the huge and concentrated tracts of farmland that provide the bulk of human food will be lost. Warmer sea water is already diminishing life in the oceans. All this means that billions of human lives, yes billions not millions, are directly at risk. It is also inevitable that the deterioration of habitats will lead to mass migrations on a scale never seen before, with all the attendant social and political unrest. Check out the links below for all the facts.