07-20-2008, 04:40 AM
I doubt anyone can predict accurately what the future climate of any locale will be--even Hawaii's. I felt pretty confident that HI would remain temperate with rain on the rainy side continuing, but then I read on Punaweb that the Trades brought the rain and they could change.
Staying out of the debate about what is causing climate change, but focusing on the agreement that it is changing and, for now, getting warmer, we see that glaciers and arctic and antartic ice is melting and that sea levels are rising. So we know that Hawaii has been affected already and will continue to be affected--no matter what the root cause.
How do we know that the Pacific will continue to moderate the temps and climate in the same way that it does now?
(This is a real question, not meant rhetorically.) I know that computer models make predictions, but who knows what really will happen or what the time frame will be?
april
Staying out of the debate about what is causing climate change, but focusing on the agreement that it is changing and, for now, getting warmer, we see that glaciers and arctic and antartic ice is melting and that sea levels are rising. So we know that Hawaii has been affected already and will continue to be affected--no matter what the root cause.
How do we know that the Pacific will continue to moderate the temps and climate in the same way that it does now?
(This is a real question, not meant rhetorically.) I know that computer models make predictions, but who knows what really will happen or what the time frame will be?
april
april