Greenhouse effect predicted
One of the talking points at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was the likelihood of a warming "greenhouse effect" produced by a build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So far, predictions of this have been rather vague, accurately reflecting deficiencies in the understanding of the mechanisms of climatic change. But a team working at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has now come up with a more detailed scenario for a warmer world. The crucial importance of this study is that it pinpoints the way rainfall patterns might change as the world warms.
The scenario suggests, in particular, that the changes associated with the warming would bring drier conditions to most of the US, across Europe, and over the great grain-growing regions of the USSR. Just under a year ago, a meeting at the World ...
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