Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Climate Change

Climate change is a change in the distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. Climate change may be limited to a specific region or may occur across the whole earth. There is a conference in Copenhagen that discusses the climate change it is essential for the worlds climate and the Danish government. The UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes. A lot of important political decisions have been made by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. They provide decision makers interested in climate change. Other organizations that are making claims are the World Meteorological Organization, and the United Nations Environment Program.
During the 20th century, sea level rose about 15 cm due to melting glacier ice. Scientists predict that sea level may rise as much as 59 cm during the 21st Century, threatening coastal communities, wetlands, and coral reefs. Arctic sea ice is melting, the summer thickness of sea ice is about half of what it was in 1950. Melting ice may lead to changes in ocean circulation. Sea-surface temperatures are warming. Warmer waters in the shallow oceans have contributed to the death of about a quarter of the world's coral reefs in the last few decades. Hurricanes have changed in frequency and strength. Warmer temperatures affect human health. There have been more deaths due to heat waves.
NAOO is an organization of skeptics that have been monitoring the ocean for climate changed. They decided there were so many scientists and people banking on the world ending and the oceans heating up they would try to prove other wise. They found out that over five years, ocean temperatures have slightly decreased. The IPPC is another group of skeptics that found out that everyone had a field day after finding out the temperature in Antarctica rose .5 degrees but ignored the fact that it also dropped 3.6 degrees. A new scientific study has just been complete by the Danish Meteorological Institute, which compiled temperatures records for Greenland for the last 250 years. The results of the study show that temperatures in Greenland today are in reality lower then they were in the 1940's, thus the temperatures have been on average stable there for the last 70 years.

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