What used to be predictions of ‘what could happen in a warmer world’ are now our lived reality. Now the question is: how much worse will the extremes get? Article by CSSN Scholar Prakash Kashwan with coauthors Anji Seth and Mark Urban.

Key Points:

• What used to be predictions of ‘what could happen in a warmer world’ are now our lived reality.
• Some of the worst effects of climate change will come not from severe weather but from the irreversible loss of species and ecosystems.
• If we delay action, within a few decades we will be looking back at today’s extremes as “the good old days”.

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