By The End Of This Century, Climate

The Tropical Rain Forests Are A Telling Example. Once Cut Down, They Rarely Recover. Rainfall Drops, Deserts Spread, The Climate Warms.

The World Has Not Warmed Up Very Much Since The Millennium.

We Are The Intelligent Elite Among Animal Life On Earth And Whatever Our Mistakes, [earth] Needs Us. This May Seem An Odd Statement After All That I Have Said About The Way 20th Century Humans Became Almost A Planetary Disease Organism. But It Has Taken [earth] 2.5 Billion Years To Evolve An Animal That Can Think And Communicate Its Thoughts. If We Become Extinct She Has Little Chance Of Evolving Another.

By 2040, The Sahara Will Be Moving Into Europe And Berlin Will Be As Hot As Baghdad. Atlanta Will End Up A Kudzu Jungle. Phoenix Will Become Uninhabitable, As Will Parts Of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising Seas) And London (floods). Food Shortages Will Drive Millions Of People North, Raising Political Tensions.

The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There's Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now.