To be fair, they are mentioned as victims of these dire changes.
The media has dominated the intellectual landscape with reports of dire changes, catastrophic employment shifts and unsustainable economic losses.
In the trailer, Gore talks about dire changes, pointing out how many dismissed the "exaggerated" fears in his 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," that rising sea levels and storm surge could flood the World Trade Center memorial in Manhattan.
Under the most dire climate change projections, this could fall as low as 40% by 2200.
But a drop in average annual rainfall in recent years, along with some truly dire climate change projections, have required government and business to focus on water security.
At the same time, Exxon scientists warned the company of more dire climate change implications — for the planet and corporate revenue.
We learn in the first chapter that an astronaut, Alex Humphries, has died on Venus, trying to discover if the planet's overheated environment holds any lessons for a 21st-century Earth undergoing dire climate changes triggered by greenhouse warming.
The explosion would have been colossal enough, but it also sparked increased volcanism around the globe, compounding the dire climatic changes that were caused by the airborne debris from the collision itself.
For an hour Professor Kammen swigged from a Corona beer and issued dire climate-change warnings, such as: "Enjoy your camping now, people, because the Sierra forests will be burned up by 2050 … Greenland's ice cap will melt … The oceans will rise 21 feet.
And there will definitely be dire weather changes".
