Our grandchildren will be dead by the time the shit really hits the fan
You'll see the shit properly hitting the fan if you live to average age, Cougar. We're already seeing the shit hit the fan, it's just not as obvious in the UK as in many other parts of the world.
There's a general concensus that the increase in the extent and severity of wild fires we're seeing around the World is being driven by greenhouse gas driven climatic change
The increased flooding in many parts of the world is caused by greenhouse gas induced climatic change.
The 30-50cm sea level since the industrial revolution is caused by ocean warming and continental ice melt caused by greenhouse gas induced climatic change. 50cm is already making some people homeless. The rise in sea levels combined with more/more intense storm events is resulting in faster coastal erosion in many areas around the World including my local coast line.
Hundreds of ski resorts have already closed and junior has had to move to the Alps.
Heat dome events are more and more common, we've just had one over the last week and it put 11 runners in a race in hospital with one probably heat related death - in May, when many temperature records were broken. the 2003 heat wave in France caused 15 000 deaths. The average temperature in France is currently 1.9°C above pre industrial values and the difference is higher in the mountains.
Tropical diseases are gaining ground in southern France with the associated deaths.
Latin America and India are suffering ever increasing death counts in human-induced extreme heat waves:
