UPDATE: Brentbo sums it up nicely in comments: Global warming of 7C could kill billions this century. True, in the same sense that Tina Turner could have a kid by the pope.
A new study out of MIT predicts “a 90% probability that worldwide surface temperatures will rise at least 9 degrees by 2100.“
This is more than twice what was expected in 2003. The Telegraph reports
“Global warming of 7C ‘could kill billions this century‘. Global temperatures could rise by more than 7C this century killing billions of people and leaving the world on the brink of total collapse, according to new research“A similar 2003 study had predicted a mere- but still significant- 4 degree increase in global temperatures by 2100, but those models weren’t nearly as comprehensive, and they didn’t take into consideration economic factors.
So what has changed since 2003 to cause the scientists at MIT’s “Centre for Global Climate Change” to believe the world is going to boil over this century and send billions of us directly to a toasty demise similar to our featured movie?
Since 2003, global temperatures have been dropping.
More lovely graphs etc, and an interesting question, at Watts Up With That?
And the alarmists wonder why fewer and fewer people are taking them seriously.
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Global warming of 7C could kill billions this century. True, in the same sense that Tina Turner could have a kid by the pope.
You say what I want to say, but in fewer words!
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