LiveScience.com put out a timeline of global warming in 2007 that runs all the way through the year 2200. Each year describes future effects of global warming including diseases, population and geographical changes.
According to Greenfacts.org, the global average temperature is expected to increase by about two degrees celcius, per decade, over the nest two decades. If greenhouse gasses increase, that average temperature will also increase.
The global average sea level is expected to rise by 18 to 59 cm by the end of the 21st century. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is projected to continue and to contribute to sea level rise after 2100. If it were to keep melting until Greenland ice disappeared completely, global sea level would rise by about 7 m.
Other projected changes include:
- increased acidification of the oceans caused by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere
- shrinking snow cover and sea ice, and decreased permafrost
- increasingly frequent hot extremes, heat waves, and heavy precipitation events
- more intense tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes)
- a moving of extra-tropical storm tracks towards the poles, with consequent changes in wind, precipitation, and temperature patterns
- greater amounts of precipitation in high-latitudes and less rain in most subtropical land regions
- a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean circulation.
