Rising seas, vanishing water resources, expanded deserts and disappearing species all have been blamed on global warming.
Now it's to blame for more suicides, says a new report.
"The links between mental health and global warming have not been widely researched but the new work analyzed temperature and suicides across the U.S. and Mexico in recent decades. It found that the rate of suicide rose by 0.7 percent in the U.S. and by 2.1 percent in Mexico when the average monthly temperature rose by 1 C," the paper said.
The study concluded there could be up to 40,000 more suicides in the United States and Mexico by 2050.
"Determining whether or not the rate of suicide responds to climatic conditions is important, as suicide alone causes more deaths globally than all forms of violence combined and is among the top 10-15 causes of death globally," said Marshall Burke of Stanford.
"Even modest changes in suicide rates due to climate change could [lead to] large changes in the associated global health burden, particularly in wealthier countries where current suicide rates are relatively high," the researchers said.
While the researchers admit their work cannot "prove a causal link" between rising temperature and more suicides, results are consistent over time.
"It also is supported by recent research and linked climate change to 60,000 suicides in India in the past three decades," the report said.
A few weeks ago, Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of U.N. Climate Change, declared at a recent conference at the Vatican hosted by Pope Francis that an "ark" may be needed to save humanity from global warming.
"If we truly want to make the fundamental, transformative changes necessary to combat climate change, perhaps what we need then is not a physical ark, but an ark of ambition for #climateaction," she tweeted.
Espinosa echoed former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, reported Morano.
Figueres called for "centralized transformation" that will make things "very different" for life on the plant.
WND reported last year when Figueres was in Germany for a climate summit and laughed off questions about her call for a globally centralized planning structure.
She continued to laugh as she got into the waiting car.
But it wasn't so long ago that she made the proposal.
According to the Tom Nelson blog, it was in 2012 when she said of her work, "It is the most inspiring job in the world because what we are doing here is we are inspiring government, private sector and civil society to [make] the biggest transformation that they have every undertaken.
WND reported when Al Gore used the extreme results of "Superstorm Sandy" to support his contention that sea waters are rising significantly.
In the promotions for "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," critics have found yet another misstatement by Gore.
According to the Media Research Center's Newsbusters, Gore claims in his film that the flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy at the site of the Twin Towers memorial in New York City is a fulfillment of his prediction in his original movie that a rise in the ocean level would flood the site.
Then he showed animations of what he believed would happen to San Francisco, the Netherlands, Beijing and other places.
The animation shows water reaching the 9/11 memorial.
But Newsbusters argued Gore has twisted his original words to make it appear his prediction about Manhattan came true.
The report noted the latest maps show that Greenland still has ice 11 years after Al Gore's prediction of catastrophic melt.
He also predicted increasing temperatures would cause Earth's oceans to rise by 20 feet, a claim many scientists say is utterly without rational basis.