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My comments about disease included a remark about water quality and shortages, which are directly related to climate change, as weather patterns shift causing droughts and subsequent nutrition problems and starvation.
I don't think the amount of warming we'll see in my lifetime (I'm 43 now) will drown us all out, or burn us to a crisp, or anything so dramatic. But we're seeing signs where I live of climate change-- maple trees dying out further south where they've lived for many centuries, birds migrating later in the fall and earlier in the spring, etc. We're seeing more storms here and elsewhere, and greater variation in rainfall, leading to atypical floods in some places and droughts in others. These changes have an affect on the food chain, which ultimately affects all of us.
I strongly suspect that a lot of what gets reported as "racial" violence is in fact resource conflict, especially in the mid-east.
I've checked information sources presenting both sides of the argument, and while certainly the "religious" extremes at both ends can be dismissed, the evidence looks pretty conclusive to me, and to most actual climate scientists (I am not one). There are certainly people motivated to commit fraud at both ends of the scale, as well, for their own personal gain. But on balance, the data are collected and analyzed by people who could just as easily be working in some other area of research making just as much money (working scientists don't get paid that much). And again, the data itself speaks pretty clearly. At least to me.
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