Serious consequences from global warming such as droughts, flooding and
 mass extinctions will occur with less warming than previously 
predicted. This was a key message put forth in a report from the United 
Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working with 
the US-based environmental research company Stratus Consulting. The 
report states that, with a warming of just 0.22 degrees Fahrenheit since
 the 1990s, the damaging and often fatal effects of climate change are 
already being seen through such extreme events as hurricanes, flooding, 
droughts and heat waves. This means that increased devastation is in our
 future if 
greenhouse gas emissions continue, raising temperatures even more.
Our
 sincere thanks, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and 
Stratus Consulting. Let us quicken our steps in acting now to save all 
lives on our shared planetary abode.
To
 help us better understand the grave urgency of possible scenarios for 
our planet, Supreme Master Ching Hai drew from the case of neighboring 
Mars, where tens of millions of years ago, global warming had built up 
past the point of no return. She shared these insights during a 
videoconference with Supreme Master Television staff on January 18, 
2009.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
 It happened so fast in the last two months that they had no time to 
prepare nothing. They never believed it’s going to happen, because it’s 
too fast. They know something may be going wrong, but they do not listen
 to the wise people, to the spiritual people who can see the future and 
who can know the cause and the effect of actions and reactions. Even 
then, they thought they have a lot of time, but they didn’t. In the past
 five years they have been warned, but they did not listen, they did not
 change. And then the last two months it happened just so fast, so fast,
 nobody even has time to even think. Ninety percent of the beings on 
Mars died just like that.