Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating

First time accepted submitter iggymanz writes "More precise modeling has changed some long term climate predictions: sea levels to rise almost a meter more than present over the next century, but past dire warnings of stronger storms or more frequent droughts won't pan out. Instead there will be less strong storms, but peak winds in the tropics might be slightly higher. Temperature rise of global average will be about 3 degree C total, including the 1 degree C rise over the 20th century. In places where precipitation is frequent, it will become even more frequent; in arid areas, the tendency will be to become even drier. Some new arid areas are expected to appear in the south of N. America, South Africa and Mediterranean countries. Overall, hardly a doomsday scenario."

Comments

I still don't get it...

[Kergan]

How did real estate in Florida ever get so overpriced in the run up to 2008, if anyone out there is taking rising sea levels seriously?

It's been a political issue since the 1970s

[hessian]

The only reason people like you think climate change is politically driven myth is because you weren't paying attention *before* it became a political issue.

Try the 1970s consensus that warming was occurring:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-about-global-cooling.html

This has always been a political issue which exists as a proxy for denial of the actual underlying problem, which is overpopulation.