Global Warming, Good OR Bad?

Question

Global Warming, Good OR Bad?

Answer 1

we've had global warming in the past! believe it or not, we've also had mini ice ages!

so i dont know what think?? but then again i love a a nice warm day?

Answer 2

It is good for us as it keeps the Earth warm where we can live. But it is terribly bad if it increases too much caused by the greenhouse gases which will cause a lot of changes to the Earth. There will be floods and droughts in different places in the Earth.

Answer 3

It sure beats the alternative!  The Earth has NEVER maintained a constant temperature.  If it isn't warming, it's cooling.  Where would all of the Canadians live when the entire country's buried under miles of ice?

Answer 4

Depends where you live.  Here in Alaska, most would consider it a welcome change.

Answer 5

Good, Bad and Other

The major effect of Global warming is to change weather patterns. Some prime agriculture areas will become barren, some barren areas will become productive. Rising sea levels (best estimate less than 1 meter) will flood some coastal areas. The two affects together will result in massive population migrations, mostly form tropics toward the poles, which will undoubtedly result in bloody wars. Should expect 1-2 billion deaths from famine and wars before the world stabilizes around the new environmental conditions.

Ozone layer depletion is a separate problem, probably not related to global warming, but possibly -not necessarily - with the same cause. Results are more uncertain than global warming, but probably easier to deal with.

Answer 6

Neather, just a money maker for the Gov'.

In 855 AD the world went into a period known as the medi evil warm spell, it lasted till 1300ish and was so warm that farmars in UK grew Grapes. warming and cooling is nothing new! Just this time they have seen the £££$$$ signs!

Answer 7

big NO!

Answer 8

horribly bad!

Answer 9

bad its going to lead to either

-another ice age

or

-the end of the world

because the ozone layer is getting really thin and theres already a big gaping hole in it so if it gets bigger the sun will incinerate the planet and every life form on it

Answer 10

its a change in the nature and its a matter of how to deal with it and it affects countries and lands in air , sea , land so change in the weather u have to figure it out

Answer 11

natural is fine but made to happen faster by us - equals bad!

Answer 12

If you understand the ripple effects to plant and animal life with rapid, climate change, you wouldn't have to ask the question. Whatever happens to plant and animal life, affects us. We are adapted to our present climate, but I'm not going to sit back and wait for an answer to your question.

Answer 13

According to various sources, its bad.

Answer 14

Death and destruction on a Global scale is usually considered a bad thing for most people .

But there are many who hunger for that ,so whether or not Global warming is good or Bad would depend on your point of view.

Or  to which camp you belong.

Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will stop ,and the drag has gone with it ,also changing the higher warm currents,And only the moon will keep things moving

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

we are always the last to know.

So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

However

confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

The truth is being distorted at high levels,

And lies have been weaved in.

Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

Besides Corporations have other priorities and changes will cause loss of profits ,this also affects the truths being published

Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

There is a lot we can do about being more responsible with what we got ,

In the first world countries many do not care or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

Answer 15

We can speculate how the world would be if the world warms up, or we can look at history and see how the world was like when the earth warmed up in the past.  

Well history shows the earth prospered, and thrived.  These were during the times of the Vikings, and Romans.  I would say good.  People who say bad, do so merely  on speculation.

Answer 16

BAD!!!! watch "An Inconvenient truth"

Answer 17

It's all a bunch of c**p. Thanks Al Gore.

Answer 18

easier to live with than global cooling

Answer 19

The question isn't whether it's good or bad. Some people wonder whether it's happening, whether humans caused it, or whether it can be prevented. But if it's happening, it ain't good.

Answer 20

neither, I can't wait ten years from now, all there predictions will slap them in the face. Oh, I am sure there will be a reason for it though! I predict they will begin calling Global Warming and Global Cooling, ( Global Climate Change. )

Answer 21

Global warming is bad these are its  effects

It's predicted that each 1% increase in annual precipitation would enlarge the cost of catastrophic storms by 2.8%

In historic times, glaciers grew during a cool period from about 1550 to 1850 known as the Little Ice Age. Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed. Glacier retreat declined and reversed in many cases from 1950 to 1980 as a slight global cooling occurred. Since 1980, glacier retreat has become increasingly rapid and ubiquitous, and has threatened the existence of many of the glaciers of the world. This process has increased markedly since 1995. [33]

There have been predictions, and some evidence, that global warming might cause loss of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems, leading to an increase of atmospheric CO2 levels.The sea absorbs heat from the sun, while the ice largely reflects the sun rays back to space. Thus, retreating sea ice will allow the sun to warm the now exposed sea water, contributing to further warming.

Answer 22

It's great. It melted the ice ages and saved the world! Anything beyond that is a myth, stirred up by that nut case, Gore.

Answer 23

It's the change that's bad, because we're set up for something different.

Answer 24

Well it'll be a laugh I should imagine. Right up until the skin cancer.

Answer 25

its definitely BAD!!

Answer 26

Of course not. Its BAD!

Global warming can cause the polar ice caps to melt causing great rising of the level of seawater. Since polar ice caps melt, icebergs soon develop and may cause accidents.

It is not good.... Never will it be either...

Answer 27

hello? wake up?

bad

Answer 28

Bad, of course... VERY bad...

Answer 29

Neither.

It's part of nature and the evolution of life.

Answer 30

Good, hundreds of thousands of people die every year from the extreme cold.  Far more then would be killed from anything caused by global warming.

Answer 31

I would rephrase the question "Global warming, bad or Very Bad"