Increased drought in some areas, increased flooding in others. Deadly heatwaves. Ocean acidification. Stronger hurricanes. More earthquakes, disappearing of glaciers that supply fresh water, mass biodiversity die-off, massive wildfires. Those are just the most obvious effects. All these increase in severity, frequency, and size as warming increases.

And that doesn’t even get into the non-direct effects on humans; droughts or flooding lead to famine, mass displacement, rise in climate refugees, geopolitical conflict, more volatile supply of fresh water...I could go on and on.

We’ve only warmed by an average of ~1.1C so far and the amount of weather disasters has increased five-fold in that same time period. We’re reaching the point many people are still dealing with a past weather disaster when they get hit by another. Think about that - in a growing number of places, weather disasters are happening so frequently that there is no time to rebuild from the previous disasters, let alone prepare for future ones. And this is only at 1.1C of warming. Under conservative estimates we’ll reach 2.5C within a human lifetime.