But increasing warmth will likely penetrate more deeply into Antarctica; a recent study forecasts that the entire continent will heat up by more than five degrees this century.
The study forecasts that pine plantations will keep expanding, to 54 million acres in 2040, while all other forest types decline.
The NASSCOM-McKinsey study forecasts that Indian BPO export revenues will grow from $5.2 billion in 2005 to about $25 billion in 2010, a compound annual growth rate of 37%.
The study forecasts that the annual growth rate of the UK's international postgraduate numbers will dip over the next 10 years, falling 4.1% during the period 2007-12 to 3.5% between 2013-24.
So will wealth go on being created as rapidly as it has done in recent years?For what it is worth, the Merrill Lynch-Cap Gemini study forecasts that the wealth controlled by millionaires will increase by 8% a year to 2005, reaching $40 trillion.
A second study forecasts that it could grind on as long as 87 years.
The study forecasts that the global auto market will grow at an annual rate of 2.4percentthroughgh 2025, lagging expected worldwide GDP growth of 3.3percentt.
One recent study forecasts that the yield of the Colorado will decline 10% by about 2030, and it will keep falling after that.
