CLIMATE GETTING HOTTER FASTER – STUDY
Climate change 'likely to be more severe than some models predict'; Scientists analysing climate models warn we should expect high temperature rises – meaning more extreme weather, sooner
Fiona Harvey, 8 November 2012 (UK Guardian)
“…A new study by the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) found that climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature were likely to be more accurate than those showing a smaller rise. This means not only a higher level of warming, but also that the resulting problems – including floods, droughts, sea level rise and fiercer storms and other extreme weather – would be correspondingly more severe and would come sooner than expected.
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“The new NCAR findings come just weeks ahead of a crucial UN conference in Doha, where ministers will discuss the future of international action on greenhouse gas emissions…The next comprehensive study of our knowledge of climate change and its effects will come in 2014, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change publishes its fifth assessment report…
“…There has already been increasing evidence of a warming effect this year…The International Energy Agency warned earlier this year that on current emissions trends the world would be in for 6C of warming – a level scientists warn would lead to chaos. Scientists have put the safety limit at 2C, beyond which warming is likely to become irreversible…”
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