Leaked draft IPCC report on consequences of global warming

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Climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy, a forthcoming UN report will warn.

The second of three publications by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be made public at the end of this month, is the most comprehensive investigation into the impact of climate change ever undertaken. A draft of the final version seen by The Independent says the warming climate will place the world under enormous strain, forcing mass migration, especially in Asia, and increasing the risk of violent conflict.

Full article: Official prophecy of doom: Global warming will cause widespread conflict, displace millions of people and devastate the global economy (The Independent, 18 March 2014)
 
Oh come on, if you're going to quote The Independent (which isn't) at least try its most infamous article from 14 years ago:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.


Yes, quite.

Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared

Which has been the case in every winter that we have had snow for the past four decades here in Blighty, if not longer. You see we have long had a mild temperate climate.

What I love about the 'Man-Made Global Warming' aka 'Man-Made Climate Change' brigade is the religious fervour that they have adopted. Whether the weather is warm, cold, wet or dry they will always find 'evidence' of 'climate change' to reinforce their belief. Soon enough they'll ensure that we 'heretics' are burned at the stake like in the good old days - only that will increase carbon emissions.
 
We haven't had any snow here this year. That is the first "green" winter since we moved here nearly 8 years ago. My daughter (2 y.o.) only has a vague idea of what snow is. She's got a heap of cotton that she plays with, pretending it's snow. But is this evidence of climate change? Not really. So far the evidence is increasing sea levels, melting polar ice, and increasing average temperatures. There have also been a lot extreme weather events the last couple of years. All this fits with the predictions of the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
 
We just had a snow shower here a couple of hours ago, such is the unpredictability of the British weather. It hasn't settled as the temperature is only a few degrees below average, as last weekend it was a few degrees above average. Neither weekend's weather constitutes evidence of 'climate change'.

We had 'proper' snow last winter and the year before and as usual the roads were gridlocked with only a few inches of the stuff. I remember during the winter of 2008/09 giving a work colleague a lift the 13 miles home on a snowy Friday afternoon and it took us three and a half hours.

'Man-Made Global Warming' aka 'Man-Made Climate Change' is an unproven hypothesis and that is the best way to treat it. It is being used by governments as an excuse to increase taxation and restrict the freedom of the individual; whilst there are corporate and landowning interests benefitting from it, eg the subsidies offered to wealthy landowners for siting wind farms.