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CHICAGO -- Many of the world's climate zones will vanish entirely by 2100, or be replaced by new, previously unseen ones, if global warming continues as expected, a study released Monday said.
Rising temperatures will force existing climate zones toward higher latitudes and higher elevations, squeezing out climates at the colder extremes, and leaving room for unfamiliar climes around the equator, the study predicted.
The sweeping climatic changes will likely affect huge swaths of land from the Indonesian rainforest to the Peruvian Andes, including many known hotspots of diversity, disrupting local ecological systems and populations.
Originally posted by searching_for_truth
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Even though that I won't be around when this happens, it is still alarming to think that the our World will be like this in the future.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Why is it "alarming"?... This has happened several times in the past, in fact most of North America and Europe was covered by glaciers over 12,000 years ago for thousands of years.
Climate Change is a natural cycle the Earth goes through, and btw there are scientists who are predicting that after a couple decades Earth will go into another Little Ice Age like it has also done in the past.
Too many people talk too much about Climate Change/Global Warming without knowing the facts, hence their conclusions are wrong.