Climate change, scientists warn, is more than an abstraction. It is an already powerful force that contributes to floods, drought, hunger, extinctions and conflicts.

With that in mind, nine photographers from NOOR photo agency set out to document the "devastating effects" of climate change, focusing not on what might happen in the future, but on what is happening today.

They choose subjects that include a massive pine beetle kill in British Columbia; genocide in Darfur; the rising sea level in the Maldives; Nenet reindeer herders in Siberia; Inuit hunters in Greenland; a looming crisis in Kolkata, India; coal mining in Poland; oil sand extraction in Canada; and the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by Brazilian cattle ranchers.

The resulting exhibit, "Consequences by NOOR," premiered at the Copenhagen climate change summit in December.

Watch the managing director of NOOR explain the theory behind the project and take an up-close-and-personal look at climate change.