Reply #11: and these are the kinds of things that were predicted 20 years ago

[Lisa]

Recently I went through a bunch of scientific papers and reports from the 1970s and 80s, written at a time when even a lot of climate researchers weren't focused on global warming as an issue. The types of changes which they said would happen, based on mathematical models -- warming especially noticeable in the Arctic and in the middle of the continent, increases in heatwave duration/frequency/intensity, milder winters, changes in precipitation patterns and river flow -- they saw it coming. They even said that by the year 2000, we would start to observe changes in our surroundings.

One researcher I know recently moved up North -- he said that Indian and Inuit elders have been telling him about weird weather and changes in the types of plants and animals they've seen.