The other shoe: UN report on climate change doesn’t talk about the feedbacks, refugees, mass death

If you don’t go into the feedbacks, then you can’t talk about runaway warming, and going to 4, 5, or 6 Celsius higher average global temperature, and hundreds of millions or billions of deaths. And if you don’t acknowledge that, then you will not treat this as the emergency it really is, writes Gwynne Dyer.
The ‘Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C’ contains terrifying forecasts about what will happen when we reach an average global temperature 1.5 Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average.

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