What will our climate be like in 10 years?
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Scientists don't know exactly what the world will look, like but you're right that today's disasters give a scary preview of what is likely to come.
- What used to be a "hurricane of a lifetime" will be more likely to happen.
- Drought will be more common in some regions.
- Downpours and flooding will be more usual in other areas.
- Wildfires will be more likely as conditions are drier and hotter .
- Sea levels will continue to inch up, but in just 10 years the rise is not likely to cause major disruptions.
If that's too depressing, make sure to check out what you can do to help: http://fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?t...
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No different than now.or ten years ago..next question.
Pretty much like it is now, and like it has been for the last 500 years.
Not much different than it is now. There are always areas getting too much rain, and other areas getting not enough.
not looking good think your better of buying a house boat these days not a house
Same as it is now. Next!
The research data by an overwhelming majority of the scientists believe that temperatures and the sea level will rise pushing thousands of species to extinction or threatened.
As the global population is increasing, our food sources will became scares resulting in a high rise in food prices that will cause inflation around the world.
First, the results will be more obvious in African continent, causing mass drought and starvation but it'll have its impact around the world, no doubt about that.
WE NEED TO ACT NOW!
Global warming is a slow process. The real problem is, that if we burn all the fossil fuel in the world, things may continue to get hotter not just for 10 years, but for 5000 years. That would be a disaster for all life on Earth. Over the next few decades, the positive benefits of global warming may well outweigh the negatives.
Freezing . This is just the warm before the winter storm.
here you go lvoe-> a theoretical timeline for the next 2 hundred years http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...
Why should Earth be warming? The amount of energy emitted by the Sun has risen a fraction of a percent since 1900. However, climate simulations at NCAR have shown that solar changes explain less than a third of the warm-up during the last century. The most straightforward explanation for a warming Earth is the greenhouse gases emitted when fossil fuels are burned in homes, gas and coal-fired power plants, vehicles, and factories.
Water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other greenhouse gases act to warm Earth’s atmosphere by absorbing, and trapping, some of the outgoing radiation from the Earth and reradiating some of this energy back to the surface. The amount, or concentration, of CO2 gas in the atmosphere has risen more than 30% since widespread fossil-fuel use began with the start of the industrial revolution in the late 1700s. CO2concentration in the atmosphere is now at its highest point in more than 600,000 years.
Each year, the CO2 concentration increases by about 0.5%. Because CO2 has a lifetime in the atmosphere of over 100 years, its atmospheric concentration will continue to increase as long as emissions from human activities continue.
Many NCAR scientists are part of a global team studying this problem and its meaning for our planet's future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) includes more than 1,000 experts from a variety of climate specialties. The next IPCC report will be issued in early 2007.
In their previous report (2001), the IPCC predicted that increasing levels of greenhouse gases will warm the globe by a significant amount. The most probable range, according to the IPCC, is between 2.5 and 10.5°F (1.4–5.8°C) over 1990 levels by the year 2100. Also in 2001, an NCAR scientist and his colleague estimated a 90% likelihood that the range will fall between 3 and 9°F (1.7–4.9°C).
What does this mean for society? A vast majority of climate scientists agree with the IPCC consensus that Earth will warm along with increasing greenhouse gases. However, the effects will be far more varied than a simple and uniform warming over the entire planet, because heating also alters the water cycle, among other changes. As a result, some regions will become considerably hotter or cooler, or wetter or drier, than others.
Several national studies have addressed these regional consequences, including those for the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Some aspects of regional climate change are already well established. For instance, high-latitude areas such as Canada, Russia, and the Arctic are warming more rapidly than the tropics, as predicted by computer models. This trend is expected to continue. In many nations, rainfall and snowfall are becoming more concentrated in heavier bursts, and regions poleward of latitude 40 degrees north are expected to see more days with heavy precipitation. NCAR scientists and colleagues are working to improve understanding of other potential regional changes in climate, such as where U.S. rainfall and snowfall patterns might shift.
Researchers are also working to improve techniques for assessing the impacts of a changing climate on environment and society. One method is to translate temperature changes from a model into trends that affect people's everyday lives. A 2004 NCAR study found that, by the period 2080-99, American and European heat waves will be more severe, frequent, and long-lasting.
A related study found that frost days (those in which temperatures dip to 0°C or 32°F) will decline in many parts of the globe by 2080-99. The largest decreases are projected across the northwest parts of Europe and North America, as mild marine air becomes more prevalent in winter. Such a change would affect agriculture and tourism as well as natural ecosystems.
New research in 2006 by NCAR scientists and colleagues looked more specifically at the potential for an increase in weather extremes in a warmed climate. The researchers used simulations from nine different climate models to demonstrate the risk of dangerous heat waves, intense rains, and other kinds of extreme weather in the next century.
http://www.ucar.edu/research/climate/fut...
Also have you seen the movie - Day After Tomorrow ?
It may be happening or may be the scenario 10 yrs hence ...
very nice paper ... do read it
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/t...
It will pro-bally be to hot to go out. Underground bunkers will be built like In Egypt to sustain life. Maybe that's why they had all those tombs.Do you think this happened before? It would answer alot of those unexplained questions about Egypt and the tombs and why all those people were underground. Could it have been???
I'm not certain we will have a climate or atmosphere in ten years, or if the earth is heading for its next cleansing is there any possible way that we could survive it? I really hope Iv been misguided Its the one time Id love to be wrong.
i dont believe in global warming.
Well, given that the warmest year on record was nine years ago... The climate will probably be like it is today - - some parts of the world will have good weather, some bad, in any given week or month.
The Thames used to freeze over in the 1400s and 1500s, and in the 1100s and 1200s the banks of the Thames had the climate presently enjoyed in the Sonoma Valley.
THAT'S climate change.
THIS isn't jack.
Really hot. I can't wait. I hate winter.
It won't really be all that different to what it is now. Global warming and climate change are gradual processes and in short periods of time such as a year or ten years the effects will be relatively small. Think back to what the climate was like 10 years ago and compare it to the climate of today, this is the sort of differnce we'll see in ten years time.
True, climate change is accelerating but not to the point that there will be dramatic changes. For example, the average global temperature is currently rising by 0.0177°C per year, if this continues then it will be a little less than 0.2°C warmer. Some places are more susceptible to climate change than others but taken as a whole, then the world won't be too much different.
What we see in respect of climate changes are long term trends - a warming trend, a trend showing more droughts, floods etc. Such trends are set to continue into the future and the incidence of such events will increase.
In 50 years or 100 years the effects will be more pronounced but even then there will be a great many people who live out their lives and avoid the adverse effects of climate change.
Here's a webpage that looks at how climate change could affect us in the future - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/... and here's a page looking at the present effects - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/...
It will be the same, they just wised up and started taking advantage of natural disasters. The insurance companies may raise their rates but in the end they still wont pay for damages. Just ask anyone from New Orleans.
I tend to feel that it is great conceit on the part of man to imagine that he can influence nature. The power of nature is such that anything we do is comparatively small, even nuclear explosions, when compared to the force of the wind, the sea and land fade into insignificance. We worry about Iran and North Korea with regard to nuclear capability but fail to look onto the sky, where the sun gives out energy that results from thousands of such reactions each day. Nature goes in cycles. You will have periods of stability and periods of change. We think that we are in a period of exrteme change, but I daresay the people in Holland in 1953 thought the same when the dykes burst and a big portion of the country was under water.
Panic buying water is one absurd aspect of human nature.a case of pull up the ladder Jack. (I saw panic buying in Sri Lanka shortly after the tsunami..not a thing to give you a great deal of faith in human nature !!) Insurance companies putting up premiums is just business. I think we will be pretty much the same as we are today, but with possibly more frequent freak weather....which we will adjust to and come to regard as normal weather....a bit like the monsoon in Asia.
although global warming is a very real thing, most people have little clue as to how it will affect us. will england be a desert? i wouldn't worry about that. but will there be deserts in 10 years that don't exist now? most assuredly.
you can look forward to more extensive desertification in africa and other places for sure. and this is important because what it boils down to is less arable land, fewer crops, less food production. combine that with a population explosion that is out of control and the result is serious increases in starvation. as a brit you are lucky in some ways; a wealthy and progressive nation, england can stave off the effects somewhat. but where do you think the people from these desert areas will flee to?
rain forests are another important consideration. cut down a rain forest and you cause serious climatic change. trees exhale water. that's those clouds up there. result is less clouds meaning less rain. the rain that does come down runs off quickly. the water table drops. result more desertification.
the bozos above who shrug all this off will be the first to panic. it's not like this is anything new, we've known about this for decades. more cities, more cars, more people, less food. not like it's just one little thing; it's nature in change. and it's man's impact on the planet that is causing much of the change.
It's such a difficult time for young people who are experiencing these events for the first time and living in a period when the media thrive on stirring public panic.
Try to bear in mind that ALL these events occur in the UK every 50-100-150 years as a CYCLE of natural events that are probably not related to overall climate change, which is a very slow process over centuries.
In 10 years our weather might well be just very plain and ordinary, however what you know of these days will prepare you for times when it's not, so learn from what you've experienced now and try your best not to remain in a state of worry about it all.
No one really knows.and for me, that is the scary part! The climate is becoming less and less predictable, and while some people may argue that there were freak incidents in the past, (which may be true), the frequency of bizarre weather is certainly something to worry about now.
PS. Ashley, what kind of school do you go to? Exxon Mobile High? Or maybe GW Bush Middle School?
By then we could have an ice age,what then?
worse then now
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