Here is the weather forecast, it will get hotter

While many of the Met Office Climate Projections 2009 in the UK are fuzzy in nature as they address science uncertainties, one thing is clear: without global action to reduce the effects of climate change Britain will face a much wetter future then people may think possible as well as much higher temperatures.

Additionally, the implications of climate change will lead to intense and frequent shifting weather patterns globally with disastrous implications for many people as the sea level is also expected to rise about 36cm by the year 2080.

Temperature rises expected to rise by about 1.6C throughout the 2020s and 4C by the 2080s. Rainfall is estimated to rise anywhere between 10 to twenty percent by the 2080s from their current rates which could lead to more flooding.

Members of the European Union aim to keep global temps from increasing past 2C of normal pre-industrial levels but the report from the Met office questions if the target goal is reasonable in Britain.

Professor of Earth Sciences at the Open University Bob Spicer stated that no matter how scientists want to address the validity of the report the fact is that it cannot be ignored because without proactive action towards climate change people will be affected adversely.

Bob Ward the communications and policy director of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and Environment at the LSE offered a different view stating that such drastic specifications may be overblown leading to undue panic as it is hard to say for sure what the future brings based on the studies of the two separate time periods.

However, Ward did go on to comment that all three scenarios offered by the Met Office paint the same picture, meaning that the future will look grim if something is not done about climate change.
So our grandchildren may find themselves visiting the famous Bradford wine route or eating olives from the groves in the arid countryside outside of Birmingham or a juicy Preston grown Jaffa oranges