The Point of No Return?

I was reading this article which is a little old (publised in Aug 2015) but the facts are nevertheless scary and relevant.


It starts with recounting some of the recent (again, reference 2015) events and how it points to a point of no return.

• In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people
• In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory
• London reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit during the hottest July day ever recorded in the U.K.; The Guardian briefly had to pause its live blog of the heat wave because its computer servers overheated
• In California, suffering from its worst drought in a millennium, a 50-acre brush fire swelled seventyfold in a matter of hours, jumping across the I-15 freeway during rush-hour traffic. Then, a few days later, the region was pounded by intense, virtually unheard-of summer rains.
• Puerto Rico is under its strictest water rationing in history as a monster El Niño forms in the tropical Pacific Ocean, shifting weather patterns worldwide.

The article then develops facts and figures to establish that the worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen - and much faster than climate scientists expected.


Read the rest of the article here