Originally posted by SpastiGovAlright, you want to play the "discredit the spokesman" game? I can find plenty of other (I'll even say more credible) scientists and scientific research backing each of those negative effects.
Pure conjecture and guesswork. You are merely repeating the sacred Al Gore mantra which is based on sensationalist melodramatic and completely arbitrary scenarios derived from nothing but computer modelling. Unfortunately for you, it's utter nonsense.
But you got the benefits right. I hope the planet IS warming!
Strengthened intensity of severe weather:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=181
"Hurricane forecast models (the same ones that were used to predict Katrina's path) indicate a tendency for more intense (but not overall more frequent) hurricanes when they are run for climate change scenarios."
(And before you even attempt to say "models aren't accurate," reread "the same ones used to predict Katrina's path." They predicted it very accurately. Trust me, I live near the coast.)
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8002
"A massive global increase in the number of strong hurricanes over the past 35 years is being blamed on global warming, by the most detailed study yet. The US scientists warn that Katrina-strength hurricanes could become the norm. Worldwide since the 1970s, there has been a near-doubling in the number of Category 4 and 5 storms..."
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1123560v1
Results show that the increasing trend in number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for the period 1970-2004 is directly linked to the trend in [sea surface temperatures]...