Here is an abstract from a recent Scientific Journal...


Abstract:

A recent assessment by the intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded that the Earth's climate would be 2-6 degrees C warmer than in the pre-industrial era by the end of the twenty-first century, due to human-induced increases in greenhouse gases. In the absence of other changes, this would lead to the warmest period on Earth for at least the last 1000 years, and probably the last 100 000 years. The large-scale warming is expected to be accompanied by increased frequency and/or intensity of extreme events, such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall, storms and coastal flooding. There are also several possibilities that this large change could initiate nonlinear climate responses which lead to even more extreme and rapid (on the time-scale of decades) climate change, including the collapse of the ocean 'conveyor belt' circulation, the collapse of major ice sheets or the release of large amounts of methane in high latitudes leading to further global warming. Although these catastrophic events are much more speculative than the direct warming due to increased greenhouse gases, their potential impacts are great and therefore should be included in any risk assessment of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change.


Source:

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 364 (1845): 2117-2133 AUG 15 2006

Another day.... another warning on climate.

This time it's a top US Scientist.

Sea levels could rise by up to 4 metres in the coming century.



'One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change.

In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted.'

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5303574.stm

If you are not alarmed then you should be. Actually I couldn't give a monkey's if the ignorant and arrogant amongst us died anyway. Studying ecology taught me that population numbers are not sustainable with finite resources and I welcome the day when only the people who care are left.

When that day comes maybe it'll be time to go back to my motherland of Wales :)

We have everything we need to help prevent this happenning to us. We can all turn green overnight if we really tried. Actually it's so damn easy that only laziness prevents it.

Start by changing your electricity supplier to Ecotricity fully sustainable electricity at no extra cost.

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