Global warming and natural disasters?

Question

what natural disaster has been caused by global warming

(not earthquakes, tsunamis volcanoes or anything else that would happen anyway) what are the nstural disasters that are occuring due to human interference?

Answer 1

none are caused by humans remember humans' effect on nature is really small...human additions on global warming are only 0.28% .

but the natural consequences are:

Environmental results:

Warmer temperatures.

Drought and wildfires.

More intense rain storms

Deadly heat waves and the spread of disease

Melting glaciers and early ice melt

More powerful and deadly hurricanes

Sea-level rise.

Ecosystem shifts and species die-off

National security results:

Global warming could make large areas uninhabitable and cause massive food and water shortage, causing widespread migration and wars.

Answer 2

Historically, most severe weather events have been associated with cooler temperatures.  The Roman Warming Period and the Medieval Warming Period were characterized by high crop yields and calmer weather while the Little Ice Age that ended in the 19th century caused famine, plagues and catastrophic storms.

Answer 3

U got it all wrong ,but if it continues here is what U are buying. The propagation of Global Warming is the cause because it is a lie. Gore has made millions off of this. If it continues the world could find its self in a depression.

Answer 4

There are none, but they'll still blame it on global warming.

Answer 5

None really, unless you include species extinction as a natural disaster.

In which case one did happen about 8,000 years ago when a sudden increase in global temperatures lead to the extinction of the Great Mammoth.

I have a slight problem with the last part of your question however.

In actuality, man could not cause a natural disaster.

If the disaster was caused by man, then it would be a man-made disaster.

I think I know what you are actually asking however, and again the answer is absolutely NONE!

Answer 6

overflow of water and meliting of ice caps

Answer 7

Climate change is a money and power grab scheme by the bottom feeder politicians and power brokers. It's nothing to do with ecology and everything to do with money.

Con artists like Gore have enriched themselves on this issue, taking home Oscars, Nobel Prizes and millions of dollars. Meanwhile, evangelical leaders are setting up their flocks for extreme fleecing by leftist politicos like Barack Obama, who will appeal for Christian votes by talking in glowing, biblical-sounding terms about "being good stewards of God's creation."

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since

there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 8

My answer is for harshmistressmoon really.

An unnatural disaster:

Oil Spill

Huge explosion at a refinery

Some wild fires that are caused by man

To further this:  Anything not done by nature without the hand of man would be a 'natural disaster'  anything done by the hand of man would be 'unnatural'.  It wouldn't have happened without our 'help'.  Just like grass is natural, but artificial turf is not, because it is made by man.  In your theory, artificial turf would be natural?

My 'better'?  Not exactly.

Onto this other question:

None.

Answer 9

There is none.  Remember with global warming, we're only referring to just 0.5 degree increase over the last 100 years.

And the temperature increase is well within what is considered a normal variance of the climate.

Answer 10

We're moving into the "disaster" phase of things.  I'm not sure we're quite there yet, but disasters have a way of being surprises.

The melting of the glaciers is having the most immediate impact, mostly on the towns near them, but expanding in the scope of effects.  I'm speaking of the glaciers on mountaintops, not the ones associated with polar caps like Greenland.  This would be ones like the Alps, Urals, Himalayas, Rockies, Sierras, Cascades, and Andes.

Right now there are 3 major effects.  

(1) towns near the glaciers are threatened with flooding.  As a glacier melts, tunnels called moulins form, penetrating deep into the glacier.  These are filled with icewater.  As the moulin grows it eventually breaks through the wall of ice surrounding it and empties, dumping millions of gallons of icewater on whatever is below.  The hole then freezes closed, and the process repeats.  This was only recently appreciated (in Greenland), and has been found to be one reason why glaciers are melting faster than predicted.  It has since been observed in all the melting glaciers.  (there are a very few "special case"  glaciers that are not melting, like Mount St. Helen)  This is a different pattern of melting than any ever observed in the past.  Glaciers have always melted from the edges, usually a few inches per year.  Another new phenomenon is that at the higher melting rates we have now, glaciers can detach from the bedrock, and slide or float down from the mountain at much higher speeds.  A town in Chile has seen the "tsunami" effect from the moulins repeat itself several times.  Fortunately the direction of water flow was away from the town.  Around the world on every continent there are towns potentially in the path of a devastating flood, apprehensively watching the ice melt.

(2)  Estimates of when the glaciers will be gone entirely range from 10 to 50 years, depending on size.  Because these glaciers have always been there during human times, people have built towns and economies based on the glaciers.  These include skiing, climbing, sledding, and many other tourist attractions.  From Oregon to Nepal the people in those areas are facing the loss of their economies, and the prospect of having to begin again with something entirely new.

(4)  Water.  The glaciers of the Himalayas supply the great rivers that provide water for drinking, agriculture and industry in China, India, Nepal, Viet Nam, Tibet, and most of Asia.  The glaciers of the Alps provide the water for the rivers that supply Europe.  The Andes glaciers supply South America.  While the immediate threat of the melting glaciers is flooding, the long term threat is drought and starvation.  Immediate means now.  Long term means <50 years.

Answer 11

Overflow of water??? Umm... where... send it to Atlanta

The only natural disaster caused by Global Warming is Al Gore

Answer 12

1. melting of polar ice caps

2. rise of sea level

3. increase in tropical diseases

4. glacier retreat

5. extreme weather events

6. water scarcity