We are in the midst of a torrent of information about how hot the world is going to get, and by when, due to human-caused global warming and climate change.   We are also seeing more solid predictions of what the world will be like to live in, in a very short period of time,  due to global warming and climate change.  Warm countries like India will be hardest hit at first and food shortages will soon be a crisis in many countries.  According to the Universal Ecological Fund, these countries are fast approaching a peak food situation.

“The Earth will be 2.4 degree celsius warmer by 2020 if the world continues with the business-as-usual approach to climate change and India would be one of the hardest hit countries witnessing up to 30% reduction in crop yields, a new study has claimed.. . . The rising temperatures will adversely affect the world’s food production and India would be the hardest hit, according to the analysis by the Universal Ecological Fund.

The report titled “The Food Gap — The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production: A 2020 Perspective” predicted that crop yield in India, the second largest producer of rice and wheat, would fall up to 30% by the end of this decade. The report, however, noted that the impacts of climate change would vary from region to region. While central and southern region would witness adverse impacts, the impacts could be “beneficial” for east and southeast Asia, the report predicted.  [especially if they can move the east and southeast Asia to other planets where they won't have to interact with the rest of the starving world, which may be at war over food and water shortages].

Source: MSN Green/PTI

From the Royal Society:

The analysis within this paper offers a stark and unremitting assessment of the climate change challenge facing the global community. There is now little to no chance of maintaining the rise in global mean surface temperature at below 2°C, despite repeated high-level statements to the contrary. Moreover, the impacts associated with 2°C have been revised upwards, sufficiently so that 2°C now more appropriately represents the threshold between dangerous and extremely dangerous climate change. Consequently, and with tentative signs of global emissions returning to their earlier levels of growth, 2010 represents a political tipping point. The science of climate change allied with emission pathways for Annex 1 and non-Annex 1 nations suggests a profound departure in the scale and scope of the mitigation and adaption challenge from that detailed in many other analyses, particularly those directly informing policy.

This is one reason of several why growing food for ethanol and other fuels is such a terrible idea.  We are going to have to abandon  that very soon.  Below is more of the report from the Royal Society.

Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world

Only if Annex 1 nations reduce emissions immediately at rates far beyond those typically countenanced and only then [...]