Are the effects of Climate Change occurring with greater intensity and sooner than many have predicted?

Answer 1

In some respects yes they are. The next installment in the series of IPCC reports will be published in November and this will state that climate change is, in general, happening faster than previously expected.

Unfortunately the Bush Administration (and others) likes to interfere with these reports, the result being that the public document is a 'watered down' version of the original and as such the effects of climate change are often underplayed anyway. Often the scientists predictions are more accurate than the public may otherwise believe.

New and improved data is constantly emerging and revisions to past predictions are needed to bring them up to date. In this respect two of the most important findings are that the world is warming faster than previously predicted and the Arctic ice is melting much faster than expected.

Latest figures show the annual global temperature is rising by 0.0177°C per year (1°C per 56 years), previously the figure was 0.0156°C per year (1°C per 64 years). Latest evidence indicates that in about 40 years the Arctic Ice will disappear completely in summer, it had been thought that this would be at least 100 years off.

There has been a far more pronounced increase in the number of adverse weather events in recent years but because there's only a few years worth of data to go at it's too early to say conclusively that such events are worse than predicted, it seems probable that this will be the case.

Answer 2

A belief in Global Warming actually causes physiological changes in the body that make you more sensitive to the weather. It has also been discovered that the belief can actually change the neural networks in the brain which make you aware things other people aren't aware of. There is also an increase of stress hormones and a weakening of the thyroid gland. Health may decline with the weakening of the immune system due to stress and feelings of guilt. Weather will have a tremendous effect on the organism. The fight or flight response can be activated. Judgment may be impaired. All these effects have been growing with greater intensity then earlier predicted.

Answer 3

The amount of data that has been kept out of environmental reports is staggering. It's really that we have less time to act than the reports say, not that things are happening faster than expected.

The ones doing this are the United States and Saudi Arabia. It's pretty clear that our President and his officials are using the issue to build their personal fortunes (as the Saudi's always have). The same can be said of the War they started.

Answer 4

The effects of global warming has occured a long time ago. However, It is only now that people are starting to believe its truth and act on how to minimize the effects.

Answer 5

During the Industrial Revolution, the planet actually went through a cooling down period, when today's predictions should have pointed to a catastrophic warming up!. It didn't happen. Through the 70's, notably during the oil crisis, the planet warmed up by 2 degrees. All indications pointed to a cooling down. Again the experts were wrong!. During 9/11, a scientist tracked something known as bright skies. When all the aircraft were grounded, there where no vapour trails. The temperature went up by 4 degrees in 2 days. The planet is a living organism and goes through stages of cooling and warming, as it has for millions of years. Weather predictions only go back 300 years. Although ice-cores can show variations in climate patters, it is not a recognised science for calculating what will happen next, because no one really knows!.

Answer 6

Hmm...can you see a 'Day After Tomorrow' coming on here?

I don't think they are happening any faster than they would do normally. Don't forget the climate on this planet has varied hugely in the past.

Answer 7

The models don't line up with the results. Send all you money to the Gorester. By the way check out the "scientific way" data is being collected at climateaudit.org.

Answer 8

No. The IPCC have disagreed and even condemned the 'scare mongering' by people like Al Gore and others.

Answer 9

Scientists have only said enough so that they is no mass hysteria or people acting wrongly, think of it this way, if the scinetists where to say there's about six months left, how do you think epole will cope, not veyr good i imagine.

Answer 10

yh i think things are happening mre sooner than scientists have predicted and thats really worrying