Is this scaremongering. It'd be lovely to think it was, but I fear it isn't especially as western foreign policy and domestic policy developments look like an exercise in battening down the hatches to ride out civil unrest on a massive scale.
The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
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The aim of preventing more than 2C of warming has been adopted overtly by the UN and the European Union, and implicitly by the British, German and Swedish governments. All of them say they are hoping to confine the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a level that would prevent such a rise. And all of them know that they have set the wrong targets, based on outdated science. Fearful of the political implications, they have failed to adjust to the levels the new research demands.
The rich world's policy on greenhouse gas now seems clear: millions will die | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
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