http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here.
I. ‘Doomsday’
Peering beyond scientific reticence.
It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet the swelling seas — and the cities they will drown — have so dominated the picture of global warming, and so overwhelmed our capacity for climate panic, that they have occluded our perception of other threats, many much closer at hand. Rising oceans are bad, in fact very bad; but fleeing the coastline will not be enough.
Indeed, absent…
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Exposing the Big Game 
We are certainly seeing the signs to come. Ignoring them, as most do, will not cause the change we need.
According to the deniers, the news above is just nonsense from a bunch of Cassandras. The problem is that if climate change and the predictions were taken seriously, individuals, corporations, religions, and governments would have to do the things that are antithetical to their beliefs and values: Curtailing growth and development, controlling population, cutting back on fossil fuel extraction and use, etc,, etc. Maybe we would even destroy capitalism before we killed the planet. Scary.