ABSTRACT
Global Climate Change is the most significant and potentially disastrous natural occurrence to face the human species in the last ten thousand years. Its impact will be experienced by everyone, everywhere for generations to come. The indiscriminate destruction of Earth's ecosystems has grown to such an extent in the last hundred years of the industrial era that human-induced climatic disruption now threatens not only the viability of natural systems but, perhaps, the very survival of the human species. Average global temperatures are on the rise. Twelve of the last thirteen years were among the twelve warmest years ever recorded in terms of average global surface temperature. One of the most perilous consequences of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption is the rapid acceleration of risks to the world's oceans and fresh water supplies. Climate disruption is implicated as a significant factor creating widespread drought and growing desertification of Syria's once productive agricultural interior.
