Drought, Winds, rain and Snow

Though people are more likely to die of freezing to death in snow or flooding in the short run, in the long run Drought and Winds together ruin the capacity for growing crops which can potentially end smaller civilizations without the wealth to buy foreign food and water.

It is also not useful to say,"Global Warming" because what is actually happening is increasing instability of weather around the world while all the northern polar permafrost and glaciers on earth melt away during the summertime. During the Winter in the Northern Hemisphere the southern polar region melts too. However, since the north pole is over ocean not land like a lot of the Southern polar regions the north pole is expected to be ice free completely for about 4 months a year within 10 years. So "Global Climate Change" and severe uncertainties and instabilities more correctly describe what is happening on most of earth for now. Global warming will begin in earnest only when all or most ice at the north polar ice cap is gone for weeks or months during the year.

Only then will we begin to see some of the more drastic effects of "Global Warming" even though right now groups of peoples like the Eskimos or (native North American continent peoples) who have lived here in North America in Alaska and Canada for 10,000 to 15,000 years or more are seeing their lives drastically change and are now watching their homes slip into the melting permafrost. The tribal elders are having a hard time adapting to so many changes. Probably the younger members of tribes will invent new ways to survive up north.

I have heard a lot less about what is happening in regard to melting in the Southern polar except for major penguin die-off and major ice shelves the size of Rhode Island breaking off into the ocean.

To summarize Drought and winds in many areas of Earth are likely to increase along with unusual weather everywhere caused by the increasing melting of the northern polar regions. Many countries are beginning to plan or are already using the new shipping lanes being created during warmer months north of Alaska and Canada.