Climate modeling experts have made significant progress in the accuracy of their predictions for future climate change, debunked alternative hypotheses advanced by skeptics and identified the footprint of man-made climate change in every corner of the earth, not only in temperature but also increases in tropical cyclones and forest fires. Other scientific studies have identified human influence in everything from declining mountain glaciers and snow cover, to increases in ocean salinity, to the growing frequency and range of severe droughts. There are no credible alternative hypotheses being proposed by the ever-shrinking group of skeptics, some of whom work for groups funded by industries with vested interest in the continued use of fossil fuels.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presents it's projections for global warming tomorrow, and it is likely they will end up expressing with 99 percent certainty that greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, are warming the Earth.
Their models predict a 3 °C (5.4 °F) increase in global temperate - if carbon dioxide levels stabilize at 550 ppm and a 28 to 43 centimeter (11 to 17 inch) rise in ocean levels by 2100.
Read the article by Peter Fairley at MIT Technology Review
