Alarm at new climate warning

Since the starting of the climateprediction.net project, all the models being returned have all shown an increase in temperature due to CO2 levels. We always thought the temperature would be something like 2-5C, but thanks to everyone taking part in climateprediction.net (including me) they have found out the temperature could be around 2-11C!

Temperatures around the world could rise by as much as 11C, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. This figure is twice the level that previous studies have suggested.

More information here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210629.stm

I'm glad I'm taking part in CPDN (the image shows the model working on your PC).

[Richard M]

I'm sure this has been posted already...mods?

Originally Posted by Richard M

I'm sure this has been posted already...mods?

You are a mod?

[AndrewJ]

uhmm whats going on your a mod...or are you on someones name you shouldnt be.

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by AndrewJames

uhmm whats going on your a mod...or are you on someones name you shouldnt be.

I'm an Administrator, which means (in this case) that I have nothing to do with the forum.
If you look here, you'll see that my primary job is to look after the nthellworld.co.uk and cableforum.co.uk websites.
If you have any questions then send them to the usual address, and no, my account hasn't been hacked Mr. 12 HP.

I can't see it anywhere else.

[Tezcatlipoca]

"Hotter World May Freeze Britain"

Originally Posted by The Guardian

Fifty-fifty chance that warm Gulf Stream may be halted

Paul Brown
Wednesday February 2, 2005
The Guardian

The chance of the Gulf Stream, which brings warm waters around the British Isles, being halted, sending temperatures plummeting by more than 5C, is now more than 50%, a scientific conference on climate change was told yesterday.

The conference, called by Tony Blair to inform world leaders about the urgency of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, was told of a series of new research findings which showed that climate change was speeding up and would be worse than hitherto expected.

(snip)

Anyone seen "The Day After Tomorrow"?

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Richard M

I'm an Administrator, which means (in this case) that I have nothing to do with the forum.
If you look here, you'll see that my primary job is to look after the nthellworld.co.uk and cableforum.co.uk websites.
If you have any questions then send them to the usual address, and no, my account hasn't been hacked Mr. 12 HP.

Perhaps it's an idea to have the distinction between mods and admins reflected in the avatar then?

[AndrewJ]

ooooooookay how that post got there I would love to know, but back on topic about global warming, I dont fully believe that it is all the publics fault, this goes much bigger.


Why are the goverments scared ****less of nuclear and atomic weapons, why?? is it due to the extensive detonation of such weapons which was wrecking the planet, the massive ozone tears due to the sheer power of these early weapons of mass destruction. I think there advisors told the leaders who all stopped altogther.

Hence other countries being scared of the weapons and even firing one up.

Can we have a weird thread award for this one thanks

See ya all in the morning greeny me up

[punky]

So... The temperature will go up and down simultaneously?

Talk about edging your bets. Sounds a bit Mystic Meg to me

Don't get wound up by global warming just yet. It is just a theory and there are equally competent scientists that don't believe it is anything to worry about.

[AndrewJ]

I believe the massive changed i personally have reviewed and seen, including live scans of the ozone showing massive damage over nevada and other sites used for such a weapon, it is late and i am tired speak more in the morning.

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Matt D

Anyone seen "The Day After Tomorrow"?

'Save as many as you can'

[danielf]

Originally Posted by punky

So... The temperature will go up and down simultaneously?

Talk about edging your bets. Sounds a bit Mystic Meg to me

Yes, one of the effects of global warming might be that the (relatively warm) Gulfstream that presently frequents our shores will choose a different course. Surely you can understand that a change in temperature will affect how water flows round the world?

Originally Posted by punky

Don't get wound up by global warming just yet. It is just a theory and there are equally competent scientists that don't believe it is anything to worry about.

In rapidly decreasing numbers, I'm afraid

But perhaps you would like name an eminent one that maintains that position?

[MovedGoalPosts]

This is a difficult issue since nobody has yet got conclusive proof as to what is or even may be going on. The CPDN project is just one of many studies trying to work out various scenarios as to firstly whether global warming is ocurring (or if we are just into one of those natural blips), and if it is real, what the consequnces might be.

The Day After Tommorrow, was a Hollywood spin based on some scientific concepts. Clearly it needed a level of senstionalism for the film to get audience attention. Whether sea currents could change due to temperature alterations I don't know but the theory seemed credible. However a very interesting thought of rising sea levels was for me quite confused when I saw a TV lecture on Channel 4 over Christmas which suggested that (proven by a simple demonstration using a glass and ice blocks) ice when melted does not change water levels, given that most of the ice infact is submerged. What can affect water density and thus perhaps volume and temperatuire is salinity.

Although we may not yet know or understand the consequences, what must be apparent is that we are consuming the accumulated natural resources of our planet, since industrialisation started, at an ever increasing and unsustainable rate. Many resources evolved over millions of years, yet are being consumed in decades. Simple common sense says that that is unsustainable, in that nothing will be left in generations to come, except the byproducts of our excess consumption. Climate change will most likely only be one of the legacies of this indulgence.

[ian@huth]

You don't need to be a scientist to realise that the weather is changing rather rapidly. Why do you think I started the thread http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=22303 .