Global warming ‘already disrupting’ world’s climate

EVIDENCE is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world’s delicately-balanced climate system and the damage will reverberate for generations, a top science conference was told yesterday.

“There is no longer any doubt that the Earth’s climate is changing,” said Dennis Tirpak chairman of the conference titled Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change.

“Globally, nine of the past 10 years have been the warmest since records began in 1861,” he said. “Rising greenhouse gases are affecting rainfall patterns and the global water cycle.”