Foreign Perspectives

One big misunderstanding that many people have is that global warming means that everywhere will get warmer.

Let’s face it, if it were the case that everywhere would get a couple of degrees warmer then many people would be OK about some low lying areas of the world disappearing under water.

Except, of course, it isn’t quite like that. That couple of extra degrees not only raises sea levels but it also changes weather patterns. Areas that might formally have been great spots for growing crops could easily become deserts and vice versa. Plus there’s the not insignificant matter that weather could also become more extreme: perhaps the flooding that we’ve seen in several world regions in recent years is a forerunner of that.