Climate Change how long do we really have to change things??

Question

I have heard from a friend who attended a enviromental lecture that we only have 4 years to lower our output of carbon dioxide or else we'll never stop it... I would like to know if this is so?? What will the overall consequences be for our children????

Answer 1

It is all a load of codswallop! The earth is actually cooling, last year the earth cooled by 0.6oC!

Answer 2

i heard 8. personally i reckon it's more like -20. i.e. we will have to go further than stopping emitting, and find ways to recapture and store some of the greenhouse gasses we have already emitted.

Answer 3

We have forever because climate change is not a problem.

Answer 4

The green house gas is not there... The plants have the CO2 under control . The plants need CO2 as much as U do oxygen. Please don't kill the plants...

Answer 5

Scientists generally agree that we need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions 80% by the year 2050.  In order to achieve this goal, we need to start reducing our emissions ASAP.  There's not really a specific year by which we need to begin, but the longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to meet this goal.

The consequences just depend on whether or not we manage to avoid catastrophic climate change.  It's still up in the air.

Answer 6

if we can work without using anything that pollutes i say we should continue even if its not necessary anymore

Answer 7

till global warming end's

Answer 8

The main consequences of climate change would vary across the world.  Some regions would be flooded, some would suffer drought, some would suffer storms, some crop failures.  The poorest regions will be least able to adapt whilest the richest will experience mass imigration and economic collapse.

The economic concsequnces will be exacerbated by the fact that climate change is being caused by the burning of irreplaceble fossil fuel resources.  As those resources are depleted they become more expensive adding to the economic difficulties.

The sooner we start to conserve fossil fuels and slow climate change the less it will cost in terms of economic decline and social upheaval.

The good news is that the simpler lifestyle needed to conserve resources and reduce pollution is itself healthier and more fun than trying to keep up with wasteful neighbours.

Best wishes

Answer 9

PLEASSSEEE free your mind from this load of bollox,the biggest producer of co2 is the SEA!!! but you can't tax it,scientists get their funding from churning out this shite because the GOVERNMENTS can raise money on the back of it,the planet has been cooling for the past SIX YEARS,If you have a little look into historic geography you will see the Mediteranean Sea has been a desert twice before.

Answer 10

We don't have anymore time. I can see the oceans coming to kill me as I type.

RUN AWAY PEOPLE WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE FROM TWO DEGREES DIFFERENCE OF TEMPERATURE!!!

(sarcasm)

The only way to stop is to get everybody to stop breathing, and I don't think that's worth it.

*Down with Big Brother*

Answer 11

If anyone really knew, we would know what to do and when.

Estimates range from "it's too late already" all the way through to "nature will repair itself".

The main bone of contention is whether the amount of CO2 we are producing really is making a difference, since nature itself produces far larger amounts of CO2.

All you can do is try to avoid using energy you don't have to. But remember that every time you do something to save energy, another few hundred Chinese will buy a car and a new coal fired power station will be built in China.

Answer 12

Do YOU believe in GOD?

Assuming you do; Do YOU honestly believe GOD made man(kind) more powerful than "nature"? WE can "adapt" to nature, BUT we can't control it!!

Mt. St. Helens did more damage, with one "sneeze" than WE could EVER do. LOOK at Mt.St.Helens TODAY. LIFE is everywhere! Nature rules!!

BTW-How many OTHER volcanic eruptions have happened over the Earth's existence? How many more WILL? What do we do, offer THEM "carbon credits"?