Scientists: Bleak Future Due to Global Warming

A group of scientists is about to release the first segment of a four-part report about how much worse human-caused global warming will affect the future of mankind.

The first segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be released in Paris next week. This was written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries.

According to co-chair, Susan Solomon, a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the segment includes “a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate and that it will feature an “explosion of new data” about current global warming.

The 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited by government officials and will be released on February 2. The full report will be released in four stages over the year.

Jerry Mahlman, top U.S. climate scientist who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment, and Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, both showed concerns about the effects of global warming.

Global warming is “happening now, it’s very obvious, as when you look at the temperature of the Earth, it’s pretty much a no-brainer,” said Mahlman, a former director of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab.

The world's global average temperature has risen about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1901 to 2005. The two warmest years on record for the world were 2005 and 1998. Last year was the hottest year on record for the United States.

The panel said the average temperature of the world would increase between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the sea level would rise between 4 and 35 inches by the year 2100.

According to Solomon, their predictions for the future of global warming are based on 19 computer models which is two times as many as before. They have already documented the effects of global warming which are indeed gloomy as weather becomes hotter and sea level rises higher.


Ma. Roma C. Agsalud

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