According to new research by global warming experts, global warming is accelerating at a faster pace than previously expected. Last year the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a study that involved nearly 4,000 scientists from 150 different countries, but it has since been updated by the World Wildlife Fund. The WWF report indicates that, for example, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice up to 30 years ahead of the IPCC predictions. The current predictions state that summer sea ice could completely dissapear between 2013 and 2040. Other scientific studies predict that the number and intensity of extreme cyclones over the British Isles and the North Sea will increase, leading to increased wind-speeds and storm related losses over Western and Central Europe. Other increases include higher levels of ozone and rainfall over most of Europe. In the Baltic sea marine ecosystems are being exposed to the warmest temperatures ever recorded there, while the Meditteranean will experience more frequent long-term droughts. Glaciers in the Swiss Alps will also melt more. At a global level, rising sea levels are supposed to double what was predicted, threatening coastlines. Food production will be affected, as global yields of wheat, maize and barley have already been reduced due to high temperatures.
I think that we need to make better judgments about how to reduce climate problems. Scientists should be making more careful predictions about the events climate change might cause, so that countries can aim to fulfill certain targets for clean energy and so forth.
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3 comments:
It is not surprising that the predictions are wrong. Society shouldn't blame the scientist or say that we were mislead. Environmentally we need to look at faster preventative measures and then we can then look at the environment in a scientific matter. Nature is not as predictable and you can't forsee all the problems. We need to lower temperatures and increase cleaner energy. I hope that in the next 10 years there will be an improvement to the environment.
I totally agree. You can not predict nature, it occurs when and how it is supposed to. We can definitely do things to help our envioronment but this world came here without our help or us figuring it out and it will go how and when it wants too.
Scientists always say, with a couple more degrees added to the average temperature soon we will all be dead. Taking care of the environment is something that all states need to keep an eye on. However with all the problems we have in the world, everything will not get as much attention as it needs. I'm being pessimistic, but its true, the global environment is probably not going to get any better anytime soon.
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