Читать книгу Carbon Counter - Mark Lynas - Страница 11

 Deserts invade the High Plains of the United States, in a much worse repeat of the 1930s dustbowl. While the epicentre is Nebraska, states from Ontario in the north to Texas in the south suffer severe agricultural losses.

 Mount Kilimanjaro loses all its ice.

 The Gulf Stream switches off – perhaps plunging Britain and Europe into icy winter cold.

 Rare species, like forest-dwelling frogs, possums and tree kangaroos, are wiped out in the Queensland rainforest, Australia, as warming erodes their habitat.

 Coral reefs around the world suffer increasing losses from bleaching and are wiped out, with the Great Barrier Reef largely destroyed by 2030.

 Island nations submerge under the rising seas.