ROAD traffic will regularly grind to a halt and train services will
increasingly be disrupted as a result of global warming, a scientist at
Britain’s Meteorological Office said last week. Anthony Astbury told a
conference organised by Britain’s Transport Research Laboratory at Crowthorne,
Berkshire, of the havoc to come for road and rail travellers over the next
century.
The average temperature of the world is now 0.8 °C higher than it was in
1900. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects the temperature to
rise by a further 3 °C by 2100. As the world warms up, extreme weather will…
