But was it not scientists, with their words printed in the Guardian,
repeated by policy - makers, which warned
of «Arctic death spirals»; «ice - free Arctic summers»; the proliferation
of disease; worsening, intensifying and increasing frequency
of storms, flood, drought and fire; dramatic decreases in agricultural productivity in Africa; increased warming between 2009 - 14; the immanent demise
of Himalayan glaciers and the consequent denial
of water to
over a
billion people; The deaths
of 150,000 and then 300,000 people in the developing world each
year; and so on?