Global Warming is Worse Than Thought
I have posted before about how most of the heat from greenhouse gases is going into the oceans , and I've posted before about how global warming may be nonlinear and accelerating rather than linear as most forecasts are. A new study supports the nonlinear change in global warming. [A] study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests that oceans are warming far faster than the estimates laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global organization for climate data. In October, the panel released a major report predicting that some of the worst effects of climate change, including coastal flooding, food shortages and a mass die-off of coral reefs, could come to pass as soon as 2040 if human greenhouse gas emissions continue at current levels. The I.P.C.C. report showed that scientists may have been underestimating the severity of the world’s present climate trajectory. The new ocean temperature estimates, if proven accurat...