These natural events will spawn economic and human consequences. There will be decreased growing capacity in already-dry regions because of the loss of farmland to drought. Greater world hunger will follow. Diseases such as malaria will afflict higher numbers of victims. Pollution, the scientists say.
Carbon dioxide builds up in the Earth's atmosphere, causing temperatures to rise.
The rate at which this is predicted to occur is the most unsettling part of the report. If humans are responsible for the rapid warming trend, humans can do something about it. Global warming is no far-off threat, according to this report. It will occur in the lifetime of some now living. It will affect the children and grandchildren of many who are living, unless the world's communities take action to reduce the pollution and find alternative energy sources.