WHEN a climate scientist forecasts that global warming will trigger mega-famines, floods of refugees and geopolitical meltdown, we may fear that they have a myopic world view. When a security specialist says the same thing, we should start to wonder. Gwynne Dyer has been a lecturer on international affairs for two decades. In Climate Wars he eloquently explores the “grim detail” of how governments will grapple with a challenge unprecedented since before there were governments.
You won’t find this stuff in any IPCC report. In particular, Dyer offers eight scenarios of climate-induced human catastrophe over the next half century that draw on war games developed in…
