• In every society, humanity observes, calculates, explains, forecasts and accumulates - generation after generation - knowledge of climatic phenomena.

• Humanity would revert to its norm of constant battles for diminishing resources, which the battles themselves would further reduce even beyond the climatic effects.

• While the impacts of climate change on natural and agricultural ecosystems and on coastal regions will undoubtedly have some of the largest direct effect on the biosphere and humanity, there will be other important consequences.