RUSH EXCERPT:
Van DAM: "A thousand pages at least. But now that we sink our teeth into it, we are finding out that this is one of the most meticulous, authoritative and comprehensive outline of how climate change is threatening our health, our well-being, the quality of our food production going forward, the availability of fresh water and even our economic growth going forward. We’ll talk about all the details in the allotted time that we have. But the big bold headlines right at the top of the report rings, the Earth’s climate is changing faster than any point in history primarily as a result of human activity which of course is the burning of fossil fuel. Is so this report broken down regionally talked about the extreme events tied to temperature warming, wildfires, degradation of air quality, even the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses thanks to a changing climate. Talking about farm losses, in the midwest, a staple diet, the region could lose more than 25% of soybean yields what we would normally produce at this moment in time. And let’s talk about wildfires and what it says about the western U.S. Wildfires could burn up to iks is times more forest area by 2050 than they do today already. We know this year we’ve burned over 8 million square acres were across the western U.S. And that will double by 2015. We’ve already seen temperatures rising over 1.5 degrees fahrenheit. And even if emissions drop to zero, we’ll have another half a degree warming at the least."