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Guardian: The chances of northern Europe facing a new ice age, or of catastrophic sea-level rises of almost four metres that swamp the planet over the next century, have been ruled out by leading scientists.
But the risk of tropical forests succumbing to drought brought on by climate change as well as the acceleration of methane emissions from melting permafrost, is greater, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, in its latest climate change review.
The government-run climatology centre also suggests......
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Climate change threat to tropical forests ‘greater than suspected’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 6th, 2010
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