A graph showing potential temperature increases from the present to 2100 shows temperature increases ranging from around 2 degree's Celsius to above 10 degree's Celsius. The graph was released by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
What the graph fails to show is 90 percent of the model runs were near the lower end of the range, while only 10 percent of the runs included the upper portions, said Dr. Lupo, an IPCC working group 1 scientist and professor of the University of Missouri-Columbia Atmospheric Sciences Department.
The graph was taken from the http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/vol4/english/101.htm
This graph was taken from the 2001 IPCC report.
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The reason for the rise may be in question, but that is not the important question. If the rise is real, the more important questions are pragmatic. Can anything be done about it, what are the costs of doing nothing, and what are the costs of the proposed solutions?
I will provide further data on issues which might make you think about current temperature trends. In the next few days I will post a topic about rises and falls of civilizations correlated with warm and cold periods throughout history. My opinion is nothing can be done. The climate has changed and will continue to change with or without our help or discouragement.
So another question might be are our efforts of possible capping and trading of carbon credits really going to do anything? Or even if the world drastically reduces emissions and temperatures keep fluctuation as throughout history anyway, were those efforts in vain and all the money invested for nothing?
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