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Ten predictions about climate change that have come true

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 984755.ece
Times Online - 25/06/07

Here are the hard facts about global warming that everyone should know, compiled for Times Online by internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: Our changing climate and what it means for life on earth.

Ten predictions made by climate scientists that have come true (or are becoming true)

1 - That the Earth would warm as more CO2 was put into the atmosphere (Svante Arrhenius in 1893).

2 - That we'd begin to see noticable changes to Earth's climate by around 2000 (some IPCC scientists ).

3 - That sea-level would start rising.

4 - That Earth's Ice would start melting rapidly (James Hanson).

5 - that hurricanes would increase in intensity (this one goes back to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1900).

6 - That species would start going extinct as a result of climate change.

7 - That Australia would start drying out (Hadley Centre scientists).

8 - That tropical diseases would increase.

9 - That food crops would be adversely affected.

10 - That the CO2 would begin to acidify the ocean.

The ten biggest changes to the weather wrought by climate change

1 - Shorter winters.

2 - Less runoff into dams and reservoirs in many regions of the world.

3 - More violent and longer hurricanes.

4 - Less chilly nights.

5 - Less predictable seasonal conditions.

6 - Less snow.

7 - More heat waves.

8 - Less rain in many regions at various seasons.

9 - More severe storms in the North Sea and parts of the southern Ocean.

10 - Generally warmer conditions.

The ten places in the world / animals in the world most endangered by global warming

1 - The glorious Cape Botanic province in South Africa, particularly the succulent Karoo flora.

2 - Amphibians everywhere (a third of all species are already gravely endangered or extinct).

3 - Coral reefs.

4 - Species on mountain tops (many populations are already extinct).

5 - The tundra.

6 - The Arctic Ocean.

7 - The Antarctic Peninsula.

8 - Australia - where the drying trend is already precipitating a new wave of declines and extinctions.

9 - The DODGY TAX AVOIDERS, where drying will affect forests and rivers.

10 - The boreal forests, here pest infestations are destroying vast areas of trees.
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

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Today Newspaper: GW article from 1989

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Doing a bit of a clear-out this weekend, and I came upon quite an interesting three-page article that I took from the now long-defunct Today newspaper eighteen years ago. Headlined '2050 - After The Flood', it attempts to give some idea of what Britain might be like 'in 60 years' following a sustained rise in sea levels because of climate change: Blackpool on its own island, Cambridge by the coast and London under several metres of water. Although the article concentrates on rising sea levels rather than increased precipitation, perhaps the eeriest of all the predictions is that of Doncaster and Hull more or less submerged.

I've scanned the article and its accompanying centrefold map, and they can be found at
http://www.784533.co.uk/images/TodayFlo ... leText.jpg
and
http://www.784533.co.uk/images/TodayFloodArticle.jpg. You'll need to use your browser's zoom facility to read it.

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David
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Post by clv101 »

Good find! I love these old articles/books on things we are talking about today.
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