The War in Europe is Not Only Awful : It's a Major Distraction at a Time of Predicted Global Peril!

Whilst we are distracted by the dreadful events in Ukraine, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published its most frightening report (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/ipcc-issues-bleakest-warning-yet-impacts-climate-breakdown). The IPCC note that climate breakdown is accelerating fast. As always suspected (there was a feeling that initial predictions 'pulled the punches'), the report now admits that many of the negative impacts will worse than was claimed. The IPCC report notes there is now only a very slight chance of preventing the worst ravages of climate change. These events are not going to happen elsewhere. The report says that no region with people can escape the dire impacts of rising temperatures and increasingly extreme weather events. The IPCC also confirms that 50% of the global human population (3.3-3.6 bn people) live in areas that are extremely vulnerable to climate change. If the report is right (and I see nothing to suggest it isn't), we need to stop the distractions and concentrate on something that will impact us all.