Most of us just want to know...
How bad will it get?
Every year, every month, every week, every day, another historic disaster hits another part of the world. Just recently, a category 5 hurricane flattened Jamaica. Melissa reached maximum sustained wind speeds of 185 mph and gusts at 252 mph. It ties with two other hurricanes for the strongest Atlantic landfall in history. According to some scientists, we're starting to see category 6 storms. We can't call them that because no agency officially recognizes the term... yet. The conditions that produce these beasts are now 900 times more likely, because of us.
It's not your imagination. It's getting worse. Maybe you're tired of lying awake at night, dreading what's next. You're tired of wondering if there's any point in trying to stop it, slow it down, or even prepare.
So, I did some homework.
I've pulled together the sources that paint our future for us. Some of them, I went out and found. Some of them, other readers and writers shared with me. I'm trying to keep it all short and simple, realistic and vivid. These aren't paranoid conspiracy theories. They're predictions by the world's leading climate scientists.
Here we go: