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Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

icyfroth — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:00:51 GMT

How much the world will warm during your lifetime

IT IS one thing to predict climate change will cause huge increases in temperature for future generations. But how much will you and I be affected?

The Guardian UK has put together a neat interactive using data from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which was released on Friday.

The interactive asks for your date of birth, then uses it to predict how much the world’s temperature will have risen by your retirement and your death.

News.com.au plugged in a bunch of different birth dates, and the results are below. All figures are in degrees celsius.

These numbers may not mean much by themselves, so here’s some context. Global temperatures have risen by about 0.75 degrees in the last 150 years. The worst case scenario below predicts an additional rise of more than five degrees over the next century.

1965

Increase by retirement: 1.1-1.6.

Increase in lifetime: 1.5-2.8

1975

Increase by retirement: 1.3-2.2

Increase in lifetime: 1.7-3.5

1985

Increase by retirement: 1.5-2.8

Increase in lifetime: 2-4.3

1995

Increase by retirement: 1.7-3.6

Increase in lifetime: 2.3-5

2005

Increase by retirement: 2-4.3

Increase in lifetime: 2.5-5.7

2013

Increase by retirement: 2.2-4.8

Increase in lifetime: 2.7-6.3

These temperature projections are based on the IPCC’s “RCP8.5” scenario, which predicts the effect of a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The IPCC has nominated an increase of two degrees as the catastrophic “tipping point”, which would cause irreparable damage to the environment

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:37:08 GMT

its looking very bad. having imbeciles tell me its not happening is the worst part..

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:45:47 GMT

Summer all year lol giggle

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

*ibis — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:49:39 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
its looking very bad. having imbeciles tell me its not happening is the worst part..

from the link in the op

Global temperatures have risen by about 0.75 degrees in the last 150 years

im not going to let alarmists scare me into building a climate change panic room over a less than one degree rise in temperture over the last one and a half centuries

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:51:57 GMT

good for you.

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

icyfroth — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:53:27 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
good for you.

*giggle*

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:54:02 GMT

You've missed the entire point, Icy. Global warming probably won't have any great effect on any of us here, but I have grandchildren and a great grandson who will probably around in 50 years time and, unlike many of our politicians, I care very much about what happens to them

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:54:52 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:

@lakeland27 wrote:
good for you.

*giggle*

arrgghh ..

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

icyfroth — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:55:29 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
You've missed the entire point, Icy. Global warming probably won't have any great effect on any of us here, but I have grandchildren and a great grandson who will probably around in 50 years time and, unlike many of our politicians, I care very much about what happens to them

Oh well that's alright then, she-el.

*giggle*

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

*ibis — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:59:46 GMT

so what it the ideal temperture the alarmists want us to strive for?

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

icyfroth — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:02:34 GMT

@*ibis wrote:
so what it the ideal temperture the alarmists want us to strive for?

have you been pecking your daily requirement of leftover fish and chips lately?

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:03:58 GMT

i dont know any alarmists so i cant tell you. sensible people don't want it to get any worse though, that i do know.

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

*ibis — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:11:36 GMT

geez it was a pretty simple question

why do alarmists always have to be so obtuse?

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:16:43 GMT

what alarmists ? where ?

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:19:16 GMT

@*ibis wrote:
geez it was a pretty simple question

why do alarmists always have to be so obtuse?

Possibly the knowledge that their " global warming doomsday cult is coming to an end"?

...That's my guess.......

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

icyfroth — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:20:46 GMT

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
@*ibis wrote:
geez it was a pretty simple question

why do alarmists always have to be so obtuse?
Possibly the knowledge that their " global warming doomsday cult is coming to an end"?

...That's my guess.......

guesses...

*giggle*

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

kengillard — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:47:27 GMT

giggle Icy

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

ca04 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:52:29 GMT

The planet has always warmed and cooled over the ages and will continue to do so and when it wants to

shake us off it will do so easer than a dog shaking off flees.

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

lakeland27 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:58:10 GMT

@ca04 wrote:
The planet has always warmed and cooled over the ages and will continue to do so and when it wants to
shake us off it will do so easer than a dog shaking off flees.

and you know this how.

Re: Global Warming. How Will It Affect You?

ca04 — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:01:51 GMT

because I know the soldier/