EPA: Irish temperatures may rise 1.8C by 2050

[pete2]

Intense rainfall and heavy droughts will change the Irish climate dramatically in 40 years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
In the Irish agency's latest report, it predicts that average temperatures will rise by between 1.4C to 1.8C by 2050..

The research was carried out at NUI Maynooth and published by the EPA. It found that winter rain could rise by 10% and summer rain fall by 12 - 17% by 2050 across Ireland. The biggest rainfall increases are predicted for the midlands. Longer heat waves and droughts may occur, especially in eastern and southern parts of Ireland. Professor John Sweeney, NUIM, the lead author of the report - "Climate change in Ireland: Refining the Impacts for Ireland" - said: "We are looking at changes in extremes at both ends of the spectrum, more rain and more intense rainfall at one end and then heat waves and droughts at the other...

Professor Sweeney said that by 2050, reductions in summer rainfall of between 20% and 28% are projected for the southern and eastern coasts. This could increase to between 30% and 40% by 2080 - which would support the belief that the commercial growing of potatoes could become impossible. Floods could also become much more frequent - with the "10-year flood" happening every three years.The report said the main challenges to farmers across Ireland would come from wetter winter and drier summer soils.

BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Irish temperatures may rise 1.8C

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http://www.epa.ie/news/pr/2009/name,26009,en.html
Climate change - Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland

[Factorem]

NUI Maynooth...

[Geckko]

When they can get any decent measure of accuracy for forecasts for next Winter, I will bother to even read this nonsense in full.

[jpc]

Will we be able to get sunblock on the medical card?

[X-ray]

I look forward to it, as a bonus the beach will be a few miles closer too.

[X-ray]

Recent studies indicate that 43% of climate change research is complete sh1te

[wysiwyg]

Yeah, I wish all this climate change nonsense would hurry up... it's a divil canvassing in the rain

[imokyrok]

I look forward to it, as a bonus the beach will be a few miles closer too.

The beach is not much use in the rain.

[X-ray]

The beach is not much use in the rain.

But the entertainment of looking at flooded houses would more than make up for it.

Anyway if they are saying it will rain more I will probably be able to fry an egg on a crabs back.

[Dillinger]

I love the heat, I think the milkman was Spanish.



Could they by any chance bring these predictions forward, 2050 is too long to wait.