Who’s ready for some good news about climate change? Well, that’s too bad, because I have none of that. I do, however, have the semi-scary news that the United Nations is warning of something they’re calling “megadisasters” that will occur more and more often as global climate change worsens. Oops. From the AFP via TerraDaily:

“We are going to see more disasters and more intense disasters as a result of climate change,” UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said at the opening of a four-day conference on reducing disaster risks…

Natural and man-made disasters killed nearly a quarter of a million people in 2008 and warnings about looming disasters, particularly climate change, are not being heeded, the Red Cross said.

So, that’s not great. The Red Cross has also issued it’s “World Disasters Report,” with this particularly sobering piece:

The Red Cross report likened forecasting the impact of global warming to rolling a dice: “We never know when a particular number will appear, but at some point every number comes up. Confronted with global warming and growing vulnerability, we also know the dice is loaded.”

Greeeat. Well, at least we know the odds. I guess. The reports stress that funds should be made available to be ready for these disasters, instead of reacting to them after the damage is done. Or, I dunno, I guess we could try and do something about climate change? Maybe?