Slate: Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Part 2 of their Assessment Report. Part 1 came out in September of 2013, and showed unequivocally that climate change is real, and human influence is the root cause. Part 2 deals with the impacts of climate change, and what might be done to minimize the effects. The technical summary is an interesting if depressing read. It concatenates the results from scientific journals in the field, giving what is essentially the position of the...