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Uncertain climate change predictions: Is it helping the cause?
Made Popular May 1 2008
# Natural variations in climate could halt temperature rise, scientists have said.
# Global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may not happen
# The melting of the Arctic ice is happening quicker than predicted and may now be close to its ‘tipping point‘ when the changes cannot be reversed, a conservation group has claimed.
# There is a need to consider climate variability and climate change together when making predictions over timescales of decades but such predictions will always be uncertain to some extent.
Moses
May 1 2008
London,
United Kingdom
Experts all over the world may disagree about how climate might change in coming days, but they have same concepts on the existence of great uncertainty in any projection of future climate. No need to focus on simply describing uncertainty when the scientific objectives are there to tell how to reduce it.
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A well conducted scientific research program might improve the understanding of the climate system in future. It may reduce uncertainty after years of deep observation and complete understanding of data measurement. It would help in predicting the change in climate.
this is making people think the way John Coleman thinks - global warming as 'the greatest scam in history'.
Whatever people may think or say, climate change is for real and we in India are seeing direct effects of it in the form of hotter summers, colder winters and unpredictable monsoons. A few Indian islands even have seen rises in sea level.
Not really as the ”scam” lobby continues to hold on to a shred of evidence to argue their hopeless case. All those who are against devoting resources to ward off the problem get another shot in their arms with the uncertain predictions.
What needs to be realized that even as there is bound to be differences in predictions regarding magnitude and timings of changes that will occur, there is a consensus regarding the inevitable direction that these changes will take.
What needs to be realized that even as there is bound to be differences in predictions regarding magnitude and timings of changes that will occur, there is a consensus regarding the inevitable direction that these changes will take.
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