Quote (Interesting @ May 26 2013 05:28pm)
The effects are actually positive right now - which is to be expected. Areas too cold to farm have gotten warmer. "A fine English wine is no longer a joke." (Can't remember where I heard that). Glaciers and snowpacks are melting at an accelerated rate, creating more drinking water for large swaths of population around the Himalayas.
Unfortunately, as the climate warms, a lot of the mainstay farm land will dry up and become unsuitable due to drought and warmer weather. The glaciers will run out and there will be fresh water shortages in a lot of the most populated countries. Some places, like Bangladesh, will start becoming submerged. More intense weather more often will wreak tons of havoc. That will be in about 40 years.
That will happen. How incredibly drastic it all becomes is still in our hands.
Lol 40 years?
Keep dreaming, the current rate of warming is around 1 degree per hundred years.