Tim Flannery: Ten Predictions About Climate Change That Have Come True

6) That species would start going extinct as a result of climate change.
7) That Australia would start drying out (Hadley Centre scientists)
8) That tropical diseases would increase
9) That food crops would be adversely affected
10) That the CO2 would begin to acidify the ocean

The ten biggest changes to the weather wrought by climate change
1) Shorter winters
2) Less runoff into dams and reservoirs in many regions of the world
3) More violent and longer hurricanes
4) Fewer chilly nights
5) Fewer predictable seasonal conditions
6) Less snow
7) More heat waves
8) Less rain in many regions at various seasons
9) More severe storms in the North Sea and parts of the southern oceans
10) Generally warmer conditions

The ten places in the world / animals in the world most endangered by global warming
1) The glorious Cape Botanic province in South Africa, particularly the succulent Karoo flora.
2) Amphibians everywhere (a third of all species are already gravely endangered or extinct.
3) Coral reefs
4) Species on mountaintops (many populations are already extinct.
5) The tundra
6) The Arctic Ocean
7) The Antarctic Peninsula
8) Australia - where the drying trend is already precipitating a new wave of declines and extinctions.
9) The Amazon, where drying will affect forests and rivers
10) The boreal forests, where pest infestations are destroying vast areas of trees.
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