????根據政府間氣候變化專門委員會 (IPCC)的最新報告，氣候變化將造成大規模的糧食短缺，把沿海社區置于危險境地，破壞淡水供應，同時還會導致世界各地的沖突增加。它的影響不是均衡分布的：那些身處擁擠的邊緣區域，最負擔不起的人群將遭受最大的傷害。

????這一切都足以要求你做好未雨綢繆的打算，嘗試著從國家地理頻道(National Geographic Channel)的節目《末日生存者》(Doomsday Preppers)中尋找生存訣竅。但我并不完全這么想。

????這份報告最終讓氣候變化有了一個新面孔：我們的面孔。這是我們所需要的改變。

????就在幾年前，氣候變化的“面孔”還是一只漂泊在浮冰上的北極熊，與此相關的新聞重點是關于喜馬拉雅山脈的溫度變化和冰川融化的種種預測。

????但正如IPCC的最新報告所示，毫無疑問，氣候變化已不再是一件發生在遙遠未來，發生在一個我們大多數人永遠也不會光臨的遙遠地帶，發生在野生動物身上的事情。這一幕就發生在現在，就發生在我們自己身上，發生在我們的土地上，正在影響我們的食物供應，我們的水源，我們的工作，我們的安全，我們的健康和我們的生活方式。

????最近在日本舉行的一場會議上致開幕詞時， IPCC主席拉金德拉?帕喬里說：“在這個星球上，沒有哪個人不會受到氣候變化的影響。”

????盡管這一切或許非常可怕，但這個問題與越來越多的人越來越相關，也就意味著我們更有可能會就此采取一些行動。

????這也是《危及生存這些年》(Years of Living Dangerously)傳遞的訊息，這個具有突破性意義的全新系列節目將于4月13日在Showtime頻道首播。

????過去的一年，一批星光熠熠的撰稿人和制作人在美國心臟地帶和世界各地認真研究氣候對人們日常生活的影響，我也是其中一員。我跟隨氣候科學家在緬因州、夏威夷、圣誕島和安第斯山脈等地進行了實地研究。唐?錢德爾等撰稿人前往美國西南部的炙熱沙漠，哈里森?福特去印度尼西亞考察伐木情況，湯姆?弗里德曼則從嚴重缺水的中東地區發來報道。

????這個系列節目通過闡明氣候變化現象，同時使用人性化的故事來捕捉氣候變化帶來的影響，很有希望鼓勵公眾采取行動——這正是IPCC新報告所做的事情。我很高興地看到，在我們這些背負傳遞氣候變化訊息任務的人當中，許多人似乎正朝著同一個方向邁進。

????閱讀IPCC報告時，大家會發現另一種轉變——人們似乎正在適應不斷變化的氣候。在一些人看來，這個現象或許預示著壞消息。我們是不是已經放棄了減排努力？所謂的適應，不就是在一艘正在下沉的輪船上重新排列一下甲板上的躺椅嗎？

????我不這樣看。

????According to the latest IPCC report, climate change will cause massive food shortages, put coastal communities at risk, destroy freshwater supplies and increase conflict worldwide. And the impact will not be evenly spread; those who can least afford it, in marginal crowded geographies, will suffer the most.

????It’s enough to make you batten down the hatches and look for tips from the National Geographic Channel’s “Doomsday Preppers.” But I don’t look at it entirely that way.

????The report finally puts a new face on climate change: ours. And that’s a change we need.

????Just a few years ago, the “face” of climate change was a polar bear adrift on an ice floe, and the news was focused on predictions about temperature changes and melting glaciers in the Himalayas.

????But as the new IPCC report reveals in no uncertain terms, climate change is no longer something that’s happening to wild animals in the distant future in a faraway place most of us will never visit. It’s us. It’s now. It’s happening to our land, impacting our food supplies, our water, our jobs, our security, our health and our way of life.

????In an opening statement at the recent Japan meeting, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri said, “Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by climate change.”

????As frightening as this may be, the increasing relevance of the issue to more and more people makes it much more likely that we’ll do something about it.

????That’s also the takeaway of “Years of Living Dangerously,” a groundbreaking new series set to debut April 13 on Showtime.

????Over the past year, I joined a stellar cast of contributors and producers to examine how climate is impacting everyday lives, in the American heartland and around the world. My journey following climate scientists into the field took me to Maine, Hawaii, Christmas Island and the Andes. Other contributors such as Don Cheadle traveled to the baking desert of the American Southwest, while Harrison Ford examined logging in Indonesia and Tom Friedman reported from the water-starved Middle East.

????By bringing climate change “home” and using human-interest stories to capture its impacts, this series holds significant promise to encourage the public to take action — exactly what the new IPCC report does. I’m glad to see that many of us tasked with communicating about climate change seem to be moving in the same direction.

????Local boy wades through water to get to his flooded house near Santa Marta, Colombia. (? Robin Moore/iLCP)

????Reading the IPCC report, you’ll notice another shift — one toward adaptation to a changing climate. For some this might herald bad news. Have we given up on reducing emissions? Isn’t adaptation basically rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship?

????Not from my standpoint.