Global Warming and Mass Migration

Boris Soukharev is a Russian climatologist, meteorologist, geographer, geophysicist, and interdisciplinary philosopher residing in Poland. His academic career spans three universities in different countries: St. Petersburg State University in Russia, Free University Berlin in Germany, and the University of Arizona in the United States. He retired as an associate professor of climatology at St. Petersburg State University and is well-known for his research in atmospheric physics and climatology. Soukharev has published in leading international journals such as the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, the Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, and Annales Geophysicae. In recognition of his research, he was awarded the Academia Europaea Medal in 1998 (London-based organization) and the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany) from 2001 to 2003. He is a member of the Russian Geographical Society, the European Geophysical Society, and the American Geophysical Union. This book marks his first popular science work on climate change and its impact on humanity.

1 Signs of global warming and climate change can be seen everywhere.- 2 What will our climate be like for the rest of the 21st century?.- 3 How positive climate feedbacks amplify global warming.- 4 Why humans would not be able to stop global warming in the coming decades even if there were no climate feedbacks.- 5 Nature will bite back: even if anthropogenic emissions are reduced, positive climate feedbacks will lead to further warming.- 6 The inevitability of further warming means that adaptation is crucial, but will the global south be able to adapt?.- 7 Will the world be able to avoid global destabilization when the inevitable forced mass migration from the south to the north begins?.