Scientific articles about the future

[stefaan]

I would like this thread being used for posting readable scientific articles about the future.

Starting with this one:

Will marine currents change ? (http://www.manicore.com/anglais/documentation_a/greenhouse/currents.html)
Here is nicely explained how for instance the Gulf Stream could come to an end. If oceans loose their salinity, what is happening now, the streaming comes to an end, warmth doesn't spread anymore, and an little ice age starts...

[stefaan]

If you can call it scientific I don't know, but a nice link is :

www.exitmundi.nl (http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm)

All kinds of End Of Times scenarios bundled in a nice collection.
Sometimes heavy to digest, but sometimes also very funny...

[stefaan]

Colony Collapse Disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder)
About disappearing bee colonies. This is no future but very much the present.
Quotation attributed to Albert Einstein: "If the bee disappeared from the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live."

[stefaan]

Amphibian Ark (http://www.amphibianark.org/)

Much life is treatened by extinction. The amphibian extinction is just one of them. But this one shows how severe the situation is. Amphibians are strong, they survived when dino's didn't. The extinction level we produce is higher than the impact of a meteor crash.
All about amphibians and how to save them on the site above.