Global warming video provides a partial list of threats

And while we’re reviewing anthropogenic global warming, over at Climate, Etc  Judith Curry reflects on how we all came to where we are.

[T]he policy cart was put before the scientific horse, justified by the precautionary principle.  Once the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] treaty was a done deal, the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] and its scientific conclusions were set on a track to become a self fulfilling prophecy.  The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human-induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets.   National and international science programs were funded to support the IPCC objectives.