http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11463-global-climates-face...
Global climates face threat of fearsome changes
22:00 26 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Andy Coghlan
Within a century, half of the world's climates as we know them will have vanished forever as a direct result of global warming, taking thousands of species with them.
These are the gloomy projections of John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, US, and colleagues, who have carried out the first global assessment of how all of the Earth's local climates will be affected as the world heats up.
New, previously unseen types of climate will also emerge, they say, with hotter temperatures and more rain.
(see full article for some worrying graphics)
