Is there a reliable online source for the human cost of global warming over the next 50 years?

Question

(ie; Flooding due to rising sea level, extreme weather events due to warming waters, etc.)

I think there was some information like this available in the book version of "An Inconvenient Truth," but I don't have access to it and I need to finish this geography essay very soon.

Answer 1

Cost? what cost? ----------- oh you mean those computer projections saying there is a cost.

Unfortunitely I don't actually see any "costs" happening-------- except for Government types trying to cost my wallet! ---- and transfer it out of the country.

Answer 2

The human cost:

Millions of lives lost:

http://www.financialpost.com/Story.html?...

The cost of global warming: Free. Sponsored by Mother Nature.

The financial cost of trying to stop it:

Kyoto: at least $20 trillion. You read right – trillion. I’ll leave the pennies off – it’s $20,000,000,000,000

http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.co...

Increased energy costs:

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/rel...

Answer 3

The IPCC:

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.h...

Here is a summary by the BBC news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/...

Answer 4

The best is the one governments use to make their decisions, the IPCC which represents the consensus view, and is therefore pretty authoritative: