Just when you thought January couldn’t get any worse, now we have a government report saying the planet’s even more completely screwed thanks to global warming than we’d previously thought. Worst fears realised include:
- Decreasing crop yields in the developing and developed world
- Tripling of poor harvests in Europe and Russia
- Large-scale displacement of people in north Africa from desertification
- Up to 2.8bn people at risk of water shortage
- 97% loss of coral reefs
- Total loss of summer Arctic sea ice causing extinction of the polar bear and the walrus
- Spread of malaria in Africa and north America