Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Us and Earth, where are we heading? pt. 2

But of course when talking about a thing as critical as the future of our dear planet earth is something that not only one person can manage on their own. At least the thoughts about everything have to be able to get along with the ideas of others. So just beneath this text I will list some things I found on the following site: http://www.livescience.com/environment/070419_earth_timeline.html
Well then enough talking by me, just read the text I took directly of the site:

2050
• Small alpine glaciers will very likely disappear completely, and large glaciers will shrink by 30 to 70 percent. Austrian scientist Roland Psenner of the University of Innsbruck says this is a conservative estimate, and the small alpine glaciers could be gone as soon as 2037. (IPCC)
• In Australia, there will likely be an additional 3,200 to 5,200 heat-related deaths per year. The hardest hit will be people over the age of 65. An extra 500 to 1,000 people will die of heat-related deaths in New York City per year. In the United Kingdom, the opposite will occur, and cold-related deaths will outpace heat-related ones. (IPCC)
• World population reaches 9.4 billion people. (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Crop yields could increase by up to 20 percent in East and Southeast Asia, while decreasing by up to 30 percent in Central and South Asia. Similar shifts in crop yields could occur on other continents. (IPCC)
• As biodiversity hotspots are more threatened, a quarter of the world’s plant and vertebrate animal species could face extinction. (Jay Malcolm, University of Toronto, Conservation Biology)

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