Global warming could accelerate next couple of years with no time for adaptation

The report “Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises” by the US National Academy of Sciences, the US’s most august scientific body, suggests that a catastrophe is imminent. It is possible that the global warming trend projected over the course of the next 100 years could, all of a sudden and without warning, dramatically accelerate in just a handful of years – forcing a qualitative new climatic regime which could undermine ecosystems and human settlements throughout the world, leaving little or no time for plants, animals and humans to adjust.

Source: “Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises” –  US National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committee on Abrupt Climate Change, National Academy Press

Date: 2002