We are all familiar with the term “climate change”, but “climate replacement” might be more accurate, or even “climate disappearance”. In 100 years half the world’s climates may have vanished for good as a result of global warming.
That’s the conclusion of the first assessment of how all climates will be affected as the world heats up. Gone too will be thousands of species, and new types of climate will emerge, with higher temperatures and more rain.
“It’s the coldest climates that would be replaced,” says John Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As temperatures rise by several degrees, so glaciers will retreat and ice disappear from mountains such as Kilimanjaro.…
