Sunday, March 25, 2012

Study: Global temperatures could rise 5 degrees by 2050


As the USA simmers through its hottest March on record — with more than 6,000 record high temperatures already set this month — a new study released Sunday shows that average global temperatures could climb 2.5 to 5.4 degrees by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

The study findings are based on the results of 10,000 computer model simulations of future weather overseen by researchers at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

"These are the first results to suggest that the higher warming scenario could be plausible," says study lead author Dan Rowlands of Oxford.

It is a faster rate of warming than most other models predict.

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2 comments:

  1. This is crazy, we are destroying our planet slowly but surely ..

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  2. A even HOTTER Arizona !?
    Oh my goodness, shoot me now.
    This is why I shall never have children... and because of the whole giving birth part.

    Hi Mr G, I would love to catch up with you sometime soon before summer begins. Contact my Facebook ;)
    Hope all is well ..

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