Two hundred years the Earth's conservative forecast the future.

World Scientific reports [tech.] News: Beijing April 20, according to foreign media reports, 22 with the advent of Earth Day, we are increasingly global environment outlook is not optimistic. .Global warming has been the scientists, government and industrial leaders in the certain knowledge. .The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a survey on the future of the planet for nearly 200 years to predict the future, most of which are 90% of the changes caused by human factors. .<P> The committee of scientists predict that by 2010, global average temperatures will rise 2 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit, and sea levels will rise by 2 feet. .</ P> <P> scientists even believe that the Earth's rotation rate would have changed a little. .Is now gradually receding glaciers will be gone. .Some places will suffer flood damage, while other places will become desert. .Humanity will face a large area of water scarcity. .Famine and disease will spread, the Earth's surface environment will greatly change, a quarter of the plants and animals will become extinct. .</ P> <P> "Life Sciences" website summarizes some of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, combined with several recent studies for possible future changes in the Earth shows a rough schedule is as follows .: </ P> <P> 2007 年 </ P> <P> more of the world's population will live in urban rather than rural areas, changing land use patterns. .Meanwhile, world population will exceed 6.6 billion. .(Source: "Science" magazine; the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 edition; U.S. Census Bureau) </ P> <P> 2008 年 </ P> <P> said, according to a physicist in Sweden, in 2008-2018 .years, global oil production will reach a peak. .And some people said that this "Hubbert peak (Hubberts Peak)" at least until after 2020 to appear. .Once the "Hubbert peak" in the past, the world's oil production will decline appears irreversible, may be followed by the Great Depression of the global economy, food shortages and the need for major oil conflicts and contradictions between countries. .(Source: University of Uppsala, Sweden, doctoral dissertation, Dr. Frederik Robelius; American Science Applications International Corporation report) </ P> <P> 2020 年 </ P> <P> the whole of Europe will very likely several mountain torrents .outbreaks. .(Source: United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) </ P> <P> rainfall will reduce the number of countries and regions in the global crop yields by half. .(Source: United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) </ P> <P> the world's population will reach 7.6 billion. .(Source: U.S. Census Bureau) </ p>.