Global Warming

Nasa's Global Warming Research

CSIRO's Sea Level website

I found an interesting reading while going through the CSIRO's website called The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis  and it stated that "Even if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were stabilized in the near future, thermal 
expansion and deglaciation would continue to raise the sea level for many decades.  
Continued growth of GHG emissions and associated global warming could well promote 
SLR of 1m-3m in this century, and unexpectedly rapid breakup of the Greenland and 
West Antarctic ice sheets might produce a 5m SLR"

 and that "Within this century, 
hundreds of millions of people are likely to be displaced by SLR; accompanying 
economic and ecological damage will be severe for many.  The world has not previously 
faced a crisis on this scale, and planning for adaptation should begin immediately." http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/02/09/000016406_20070209161430/Rendered/PDF/wps4136.pdf accessed 17/08/2012.


Extreme weather systems and global warming

Another interesting article on severe weather systems and their associations with global warming called A decade of weather extremes argues that "heatwaves, but also precipitation extremes — there is now strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate."

The article argues and demonstrates the obvious correlations between global warming and the more frequent occurrence of severe weather systems. for example: 

I haven't finished the reading yet however I'll definitely be using this research further into the semester.   http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n7/full/nclimate1452.html Accessed 17/08/2012