• Reduced productivity of resources that humans use or extract from the natural environment, such as lower agricultural yields and timber harvests and scarcer water resources.
• Damage to human-built environments, such as coastal flooding from sea-level rise, incursion of salt water into drinking water systems, and damages from increased storms and floods.
• Risks to life and limb, such as more deaths from heat waves and increased incidence of tropical diseases as these diseases migrate to formerly more temperate climates.
• Damage to “less managed resources”, such as wilderness areas, natural habitats for scarce species, or biodiversity. Sea-level rise, for example, would inundate coastal wetlands, whereas increased inland aridity could destroy prairie wetlands. …

… the odds that these events will come to pass are uncertain and not well understood.”