What are the effects of climate change?
The effects will not happen in your lifetime, nor your children’s lifetime, but you’re going to have to pay for it with a phony global warming climate change tax. http://current.com/items/90013770_aipac-…
It is predicted that, if current trends persist, air temperatures could rise by between 1 and 3.5C by 2100. Q: How bad would that be? A: As the planet warms, the average sea level is expected to rise — by between 15cm and 95cm by 2100 compared to 1990 — as a result of thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of polar ice. We can also expect long dry spells, frequent hurricanes and extremely high temperatures sometimes. Q: Pretty bad — what is the worst-case scenario? A: The “runaway greenhouse effect” in which all the factors that cause global warming would eventually override the factors which work against it. Forests, for example, are thought to counter carbon dioxide emissions, because plants absorb carbon dioxide. Q: What causes climate change? A: Energy from the Sun in the form of short-wave radiation reaches the Earth’s surface undisturbed and warms it. Most of this energy is emitted back into space in the form of long-wave radiation, but some of this radiation is trapped i
As we have seen, it is difficult to predict just what changes will occur, where and to whom. Science is not agreed, and there are several “models” in use to predict the outcome. Changes are more likely to reflect extremes in weather patterns than either a general rise in temperature or a fall. One area of change is in the water cycle. Levels of water vapour in the atmosphere will be subject to increase in various parts of the world.
