Wednesday, January 2, 2008

It's time to face the reality of global warming

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued various reports and predictions on climate effects for 2100. One prediction was that “the global temperature could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees Celsius, compared to the 1990 level, saying such an impact could be abrupt or irreversible.”

Recently, a Nature Geoscience study, issued a report that warned of "High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period," and found that sea levels may rise twice what the IPCC had projected.

Just to put this in perspective, a one-meter rise in sea levels would submerge a third of Bangladesh….(not to mention the effects for the Floridians).

Posted by Liz