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May I plead with you?
Tell all your friends, tell all your families, acquaintances, enemies... everyone, especially the media raconteurs (journos and opinionators) and your local politician (whether in Australia or in any other countries) about this particular article... You can tell these people about the rest of this site as well, especially those on global warming, but this article here is HIGHLY important to my life and yours — far more important than those about the lying Bushes of this world...

The biosphere of the earth is warming up, fast.
The deniers would have you believe that this is not happening or that it "can't happen". Bollocks.

it has been estimated that 500 million years ago and possibly 120 million years ago, the centre of Australia was covered by an "inland sea" That shallow sea was connected to the greater ocean north and south. The world sea level was higher than it is today, of course. Enough sea to let the picture above be a reasonable interpretation of those times. Eventually when the sea retreated, the salt from its evaporation and run-off ended up in Lake Amadeus and Lake Eyre (a large salt-lake 14 metres below present sea level). Uluru as it is known to the Aboriginal people of the centre of Australia is a rock (sacred rock to them), presently an island in a "sea of earth", but in those time-past was an island in shallow seas.

500 million years ago, the "rock" had been part of a plateau of sedimentation origin (deposited about 600 million years ago in a shallow sea as well), that had broken away from its original Karst (the Nullarbor plain in southern Western Australia is a flat Karst — sometimes considered the largest monolithic piece of "rock' on earth — about 700 by 500 kilometres). The break up of Uluru was created, and up-ended at about 85 degrees to near vertical, by progressive geological turmoil including the seas...

The "rock" became thus at some stage, an island. The climate was warmer.

Make no mistake, times such as these HAPPENED before on this planet and in geological time spans, not that long ago.

And despite what the deniers are throwing at the reality, the earth is presently "galloping" fast towards an extraordinary warming of magnitude not too distant from that of those times.

The present culprit is CO2 mostly.

Read climate change line of articles to understand the possible changes.
At this stage, it is my latest learned opinion that "without warning", climate change could progressively go as high as 14 degree C above present average, by 2100.

This would only involve a rise of 0.15 degree C per year worldwide and this is not out of the range of what is happening. Much bigger increase in temperature (in heat-energy) per annum happened at times, 12-10,000 years ago, during the last big melt...

As the "ice of the world" is presently melting at a much faster speed that our climate change models have anticipated (climate change models are quite conservative) there is a dangerous illusion of plateau-ing of warming, as the energy is mostly "absorbed" by the melting of the ice, but soon the temperature hike will race-off again, beyond our wildest anticipation. And the sun activity, slightly dormant at the moment, might kick in to boot.

It is my personal learned prediction, based on past events such as described in the picture above, that by 2032, the warming will have reached at least 1.5 degree extra on present average, and that by 2070, warming will have reached 3 degree C extra than present average.  By 2100 or thereabout, a full blown rise of 12 degree C is not out of the question. From 2070, the range opens upto between 9 and 13 degree C... But should by 2032, temperature already reached 2 degree extra on present average, the range in 2100 is on a higher scale...

A 12 degree on to top of present average means that Singapore would get temperature of above 40 degree C all year round (some days, the cloud cover makes it drop to about 36-37, other days it would reach 45-50 degree C).
This means too that Sydney's winter temperature would be 25 degree C on average — and summertime temperature could be 38 degree C on average. One can still survive in such condition, albeit with restrictions, but the relationship of Australia and the southern Antarctic ocean may create some days at 56 degree C and days at 25 degree C in summer. Please note: the earth has experienced such high (55 plus) temperatures before, even during the mesozoic period.

A single dry day at more than 48 degree C (Sydney has experienced temperature of 45 degrees C before) could wipe out nearly 50 percent of exotic plants and 20 percent of native plants... Bush fires could wipe out a lot of plants too. The process slowly baring the land. Remember last February Victorian bush fires saw temperatures above 47 degree C and winds at more than 50 knots fanning the flames.
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Should you be living in the temperate world, you will likely experience temperatures on average 12 degrees C higher than now by 2100‚ and sea level at least 15 metres higher than now. Mitigating factors could tone this down at tad — such as cloud cover and massive storms modifying this picture by 4 to 6 degree C lower on some days, but it would still be massively uncomfortable as average of temperature would be 12 degree higher than present. Hotter days could be 25-30 degree C above your present average. Most crops would fail... And the rest of crops be wiped out by droughts and storms. Most wild animal life would suffer greatly...
For example, It has been predicted by global warming models, that in the middle of this century, droughts in Australia would occur 40 per cent more frequently than now (!), even with a projected modest rise of 2 degree C by 2100.

But in my present prediction, the faster rise of temperature between 2032 and 2070 (give 5 years either side) could modify this, due to rising sea levels and added humidity in the atmosphere... By 2100, the middle of Antarctica, presently experiencing temperatures of minus 50+, would be on average 25 degree warmer. Thus on the edges, there would no ice and a fast shrinking layer of ice at the centre...

As the political systems of the world are not doing enough to reduce emissions of CO2, and as our moronic Liberals in Australia are wasting our time, It is my learned opinion, we have to prepare for the worse.

This is not armageddon, but uncomfortable high heat that will leave little time for species to adapt.. and sea levels that will take away much low coastal areas of continents...

You have been warned.