The chart is provided by Re Munich and it indicates the growth of natural disasters over a period covering 1980-2011. Insurance companies have an inherent self-interest in understanding the dynamics of disruptive natural events and how those events will have an impact on their business. The data presented in the above graph is unequivocal in showing that climate change related events are rapidly increasing. The scientifically illiterate right wing, uneducated masses, and corporate naysayers affiliated with the petrochemical industry can all continue to spout rubbish, but the facts speak for themselves. Consider that earthquakes and other geophysical events have stayed constant during the 30 year period, while storms, floods, and extreme temperature events have all increased geometrically over the same period. This isn't God flushing the toilet on humanity; this is humanity self-destructing.
It appears from this graph, that we are looking at a doubling time of 15 years. Under this time scale, things will become extremely difficult for most of this planet shortly.
We have passed the point of no return. What people should learn to accept is that we as a civilization and species have collectively failed to organize ourself to rectify a problem that twenty years ago we all understood, but lacked the courage to tackle. By kicking the problem down the road and listening to the greedy or stupid, we have condemned ourselves to a world that will nominally have substantial levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which will disrupt agricultural production; increase droughts, fires, mass population movements, cause mass extinctions of other species; encourage conflict and warfare over resource scarcity; and eliminate possibly billions of humans.
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