If we don't stop burning oil...

摘要

The 20th century was warmer than any time in the past thousand years, but that is nothing compared with how hot the Earth could become over the next millennium. If we burn all the fossil fuels that are left underground, the globe will warm by an average of up to 13℃, according to the first serious assessment of how global warming might progress beyond 2100, the normal time frame of model predictions. That will wipe out most rainforests, destroy the fertility of many soils and leave the Arctic ice-free even in midwinter. London will be as hot as Cairo - except that, along with many of today's most populous areas, it will have been engulfed by an 11-metre rise in sea levels.