Reasoning A new government body is about to publish a number of scenarios hypothesising how our climate might change by the year 2100. The information provided will be used to help decide how to start adapting our society to changes resulting from global warming which will be particularly important when considering large infrastructure projects with a long lifespan. Whilst all agree that there is some degree of global warming, some scientists argue that we are overemphasising this long-term approach and should instead be focussing on shorter range natural variability which is not well understood and often difficult to predict. They claim that there is no way of knowing how accurate these long range hypotheses will be, and also question how useful the hypotheses will be for predicting the climate for the next 10 years. All existing long-term predictions suggest that within fifty years our summer will be drier and heat waves will be the norm, but what, if anything, does that tell us about the next two or three years? How do we reconcile long and short-term predictions?

159. Over the next 50 years the summer each year will be hotter and drier

	(a) True
	(b) False
	(c) Cannot say
	(d)

160. Some scientists do not agree that global warming is happening

	(a) True
	(b) False
	(c) Cannot say
	(d)

161. Government scientists are not able to accurately forecast what the weather will do between now and the year 2100

	(a) True
	(b) False
	(c) Cannot say
	(d)

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