Tim Radford
This article originally appeared on Climate News Network.
Researchers recently issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three different journals—a triple risk salvo.
One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever increasing rate, heatwave temperatures could reach an intolerable 55°C[about 130 degrees Fahrenheit] in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe.
A second study warns that by the century’s end weather-related disasters—floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and windstorms—could claim a 50-fold increase in fatalities, and expose 350 million Europeans to harmful climate extremes every year.
And a third study points out that climate change is already at work: the spring floods in Western Europe now arrive up to 15…
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Exposing the Big Game 
The predictions for the Middle East and North and sub-Saharan Africa are also dire: Increased temperatures, water scarcity and drought, decreased crop production or failure. Worsening conditions will eventually lead to huge population shifts.
An article in “Population Connection” offers the following threat: “. . . no amount of walls, guns, barbed wire, armed aerial drones, or permanently deployed mercenaries will be able to save one half of the planet from the other.”
Doesn’t sound as if there will be much to save anywhere. Feel sad for the animals. They will be the first sacrificed, and they didn’t cause the problem.