In what ways is climate change causing natural disasters?
There are several different natural disasters that might emerge from the combination of global warming and ecosystem destruction. In no particular order, the following are all definite possibilities. Melting of the Greenland and Antartica ice fields are both impacting ocean currents. These ocean currents are instrumental in determining rainfall patterns and local climates all over the world. If these currents shifts substantially, agricultural production will probably be dramatically impacted, very possibly in many parts of the world all at once. This would lead to massive food shortages and world-wide famines. As the climate warms, the threat of pandemics carried by insects moving into new areas also increases. Some of the diseases have very high mortality rates and almost no effective treatments other than isolating the sick and palliative measures for the infected. If one of these diseases escapes to become a pandemic, we could have many millions of fatalities. Ecosystem col...