accelerating desertification

Uninhabitable Earth?

David Wallace-Wells’ article “The Uninhabitable Earth,”1 has created a furor of criticism, people bouncing off walls from coast to coast.  Consider – the title of the article says it all!
The critics, including prominent climate scientists, claim Wallace-Wells’ conclusions are dangerously exaggerated, but are they really? Additional criticism is leveled by some of the first-rate news sources on climate change, like Grist: “Stop scaring people about climate change. It doesn’t work.”