Antarctic climate facing 'rapid' changes: chief scientist

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4. Just about everything I've read on climate change, ...

and the many different models, are tilted to the consequences for the northern hemisphere. The changes occurring in the southern ocean now, were largely left out of the 2007 IPCC report, because not much research had been completed at that time, and there was a shortage of data. Even the predictions of polar ice were much more definitive for the Arctic and Greenland. The research is just now emerging of the effects in Antarctica and the southern ocean.

A reoccurring theme is concern of the changes in circulation for the worlds oceans. Most all of the models and predictions of how and where the climate will change have been formulated before the data was complete. So how accurate are the predictions for southern hemisphere, for the shifting of the global ocean currents, wind currents, rain patterns, etc.

I'm wondering if half of what was thought to be the likely changes in climate is dependable, and whether the next report will be recognizable as an addition and progression from the first report or rather a revision and admission, that the changing effects just aren't predictable with the climate in flux.

So many scientists, so many areas of study, all in relative infancy of their evolving state, all needing consolidation into an accurate perception of what will happen, where and when. I think we are going to find out how little is known about our evolving dilemma.