It may be that the oceans can no longer work as a sink for heat, Bach said. Despite an increasingly large body of scientific evidence, the U.S. has been reluctant to change its ways and slow its production of greenhouse gases. According to IPCC predictions, climate change will soon become obvious to all populations. Barnard talked about how natural disasters affect all social classes. Hurricanes rip apart expensive beachfront land.
Forest fires devour houses that sit on huge pieces of property.
Especially hard hit are the poor living in flood zones, Barnard said. Barnard described the tremendous stress that victims of natural disasters go through. They have to leave their security. Personal papers and pictures are ruined. They have been violated.