The future of England according to top climate experts :
The apple orchards have been replaced with orange groves, the turf covered over with gravel and the summer borders replanted with cacti. They may look like scenes from a Portugese holiday, but these images could be the future of the traditional English garden, plant experts claimed yesterday. The striking images are part of a National Trust campaign to highlight how gardens will look if global warming brings Mediterranean weather to Britain in the next few decades.
In some areas warming could be significantly higher (10 degrees or more).
The Arctic could warm by up to 15.2 °C for a high-emissions scenario, enhanced by melting of snow and ice causing more of the Sun’s radiation to be absorbed.
For Africa, the western and southern regions are expected to experience both large warming (up to 10 °C) and drying.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/news/latest/four-degrees.html
Steven,
That picture looks terrifying – we had better hope the snowy weather holds up for our friends in the British Isles.
/sarc off
So what really is the problem with a slightly warmer, wetter climate? Enjoy it while it lasts. Cold kills. I didn’t coin the phrase, but here it is: “Global warming – another term for nice weather.”
Oh the horrors! Yeh, I’d hate to live there.
I found this to add to the MET Comedy of errors:
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6811