Global warming in 20 years?

Question

I heard in 20 years global warming will not be as bad is that true? I heard a lot of people are beginning to see it. I heard in a bit they will only sell energy efficent lighbulbs. And many stores like Walmart are turning off their store lights to save energy. And Zellers is using recycled pape and plastics to make school supplies. So do you tink we can change in 20 years?? I hope so!!

Answer 1

It will be forgotten about much like the Y2K bug.

Answer 2

Well planet earth has been around for billions of years and life has been in existance for atleast 5 billion years.   And over those billions of years how many volcanoes do you think erupted and spewed poison and Co2 levels much higher than today amount present in to the atmosphear and blotting out the sun for years.  Also  if global warming is real then why isn't it warmer?     I live in South Caroina and the weather hasn't changed one bit over the past 30 years.  People think that just because it hot that it must "elnino" or whatever it's called but they don't understand that the warming is caused by a far more sinister climatic event called  "SUMMER"    it happens atleast once a year even in Alaska !

Answer 3

I hope the world is like WaterWorld. Costner's raft kicked ***.

Answer 4

Considering it's fashionable and more of a political hot button than it is a scientific matter, it will go by the wayside sooner or later much like Y2K, African aids epidemic, and global cooling.  Also, I'm not trying to infer that the African aids epidemic isn't something that should be of concern, but the media and pop culture latched onto it for a few years  15 or so years ago pushing for legislation, international aid, etc.  Eventually the world's focus on that faded and attention was turned elsewhere.  This is the same thing.

Answer 5

It's possible that this is backwards. The World Meteorological Association, part of the UN, is now expecting several years of cooling due to cooling in the oceans. The problem is that nobody predicted the oceans would get cooler and it's hard to be sure why they did cool. But they have a much stronger impact on the atmosphere than the reverse. It's possible that our inactive solar cycle is part of this but it's too soon to know that.

More than likely, once the ocean's thermal currents return to their previous cycles it will get warmer, slowly as it has since the Little Ice Age ended. The most curious fact in the global warming debate is that they chose to say the ideal temp and CO2 level occurred soon after that cold period ended. Who's to say that was the ideal temp for human and other life on Earth. With additional CO2 and a slightly longer growing period and slighly warmer temp, life of Earth is thriving more than it was back then. Plants grow faster and need less watering and animals depend on plants to survive.

I for one avoid the compact fluorescent bulbs since at some point they will end up in a landfill and the mercury they contain will leech out into the soil. If that contaminates the groundwater where you live, your grandkids will be very sorry you bought these bulbs. Hopefully they'll have bright enough LED lighting fixtures soon and we can switch to them, but in the meantime I've gone back to incandescents.

Stores are turning off their lights to save energy. Nearly all the hoopla about 'going green' on the part of corporations is in their own interest. Banks want you to go green by doing your banking electronically, but that's because it saves them money. Hotels want you to re-use towels to help the environment, I'm sure that has nothing to do with the savings they get from doing half as much laundry every day, right?

As for recycling it's a sad fact that that for most products it doesn't pay and probably never will. So unless the government mandates it, preferably along with an economic incentive for it, not much will be recycled. It's much cheaper to make new products than recycle old with a few exceptions like aluminum cans and newspapers. I hate to throw away an appliance that has failed but when it costs twice as much to repair than to replace, it's much easier and cheaper to buy a new appliance.

Answer 6

Never, what we did to mother Earth in these 200 years, do you think we can change that in 20 years...??  

Answer 7

People will probaby chuckle about it like they do roller disco and 8 track tapes.  It'll be a thing hopefully we can all say "what were we thinking?" to.

I, of course, can say, "I didn't believe it."

And people will say, "Sure you didn't, everyone says that now."

Answer 8

Nope, we're all doomed.

Answer 9

Global warming is real.AS IS the fact that the ice age real. I t is not caused by humans any more than any other historical climate change. The earth has still not warmed back to it's pre ice age temperature. We cannot change it but we must adapt to it for our survival. The political and economic powers that are profiting off of the fallacy that we can somehow avoid normal climate change are disgusting and preying on the ignorance of those who have no understanding of global weather patterns throughout history. READ! I don't mean articles by these idiots. I mean READ about meteorology and the history of the climate during the lifetime of our planet. Clean energy is important but cannot prevent nor have any substantial impact on global warming.