Global warming change

The Royal Society (London), The Greenhouse Effect the scientific basis for policy. Submission to the House of Lords Select Committee, 40 pp. (1989). See also Global Climate Change, Information Pamphlet (12 pp.) i.ssued by the American Chemical Society (1990) B. Hileman, Global Warming, Chem. Eng. News, April 27, 7-19 (1992) and references cited therein. 

Global warming would also be expected to influence surface waters such as lakes and streams, through changes induced in the hydrologic cycle. However, the last published report of the IPCC states no clear evidence of widespread change in annual streamflows and peak discharges of rivers in the world (IPCC, 1995, p. 158). Wliile lake and inland sea levels have fluctuated, the IPCC also points out that local effects make it difficult to use lake levels to monitor climate variations. 

Global warming would also be expected to influence things such as snowfall, snow depth, and snow coverage (or extent), but studies examining changes... 

Five components of the hydrosphere play major roles in climate feedbacks - atmospheric moisture, clouds, snow and ice, land surface, and oceans. Changes to the hydrologic cycle, among other things, as a result of altered climate conditions are then referred to as responses. Interactions with climate can best be explored by examirung potential response to a climate perturbation, in this case, predicted global warming. 

Whilst the effects of global warming are still somewhat controversial it is likely to cause more storms and flooding, melting of the polar ice caps and changes in animal distributions. 

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