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Five Predictions for the Globe’s Climate Change Future

Five Predictions for the Globe’s Climate Change Future

UK-based sustainability group Forum for the Future and tech giant HP have just released a clever new climate report (pdf), one that frightens as much as it fascinates.

It’s 2030. The climate crisis has reached the end of its beginning. And the study authors want to know: Is climate change ravaging the planet, or were efforts to combat it successful?

They give five predictions -- five possible "climate scenarios" -- all dealing with the problem in radically different ways. Some ooze "techno-optimism," others a "gloomy certainty of collapse." But in all of them, denial is no longer an option.

The world's "Climate Futures," circa 2030: