Global warming?i don't understand

Question

ok so will the human species die from global warming in 150 years? im scared will it happen in 500? i dont know

Answer 1

people who say global warming doesnt exist are obviously very uneducated. I wouldnt worry too much about your future generations being "cooked" as much as the effects of global warming and the reasons why its happening. One of the major causes for concern is the weather change. This is changing habitats and causing harm to animals that live in that habitat including those animals that live in the ocean because water temperature is increasing causing a change in habitat and certain diseases. Also- certain regions that grow a particular crop because of the conditions wont be able to grow that crop anymore. Also, one of the reasons why global warming is happening is increased co2 which is having an affect on the growth of plants- especially the rainforests. Do some research and you will see thats global warming is not just about people being uncomfortable from heat cuz its really not about that at all. Some places are heating up- others are cooling down. Animals are moving to different areas where they can better live and this all is having an extreme cause and effect situation.

Answer 2

Al Gore created Global Warming to scare undereducated idiots....Just like he created the Internet to advance the left-wing media!!

Answer 3

Put it in perspective.  The climate is always changing.  We are fortunate to be living in a period of relative warmth.  The only error you can make is to expect it to stay like this.  It won't.  Never does, never has.  Will not kill you.  Depending on which way the system swings, things could become a bit difficult and require changes in where we live.  There is nothing new in that, at all.

Answer 4

Global warming is a scam that Al Gore has used to make himself over 100mil and used by the liberals to try to control America's free market.  There is no evidence that supports that the one degree temp increase in the last 100 years has anything to do with auto emissions.  In fact, the temperature has gone down in the past 6 years.

Answer 5

'Were' not sure.

Although, there are people taking many strides, or some little steps towards trying to stop the global warming. Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem: each individual can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late. Dont worry about it so much,though, you must get on with life, sure you can do a little research and all.

you can help too by:

-Drive Smart!

A well-tuned car with properly inflated tires burns less gasoline—cutting pollution and saving you money at the pump. If you have two cars, drive the one with better gas mileage whenever possible. Better yet, skip the drive and take public transit, walk, or bicycle when you can.

-Buy Local and Organic

Did you know the average American meal travels more than 1,500 miles from the farm to your plate? Think of all the energy wasted and pollution added to the atmosphere - not to mention all the pesticides and chemicals used to grow most produce! So go to your local organic farmer to get your fruits and veggies.

-Support clean, renewable energy.

Renewable energy solutions, such as wind and solar power, can reduce our reliance on coal-burning power plants, the largest source of global warming pollution in the United States. Call your local utility and sign up for renewable energy. If they don't offer it, ask them why not?

Also, support a national renewable electricity standard (RES). The Energy Bill signed in 2007 lacked key components that address our energy security and global warming emissions: a renewable electricity standard of 15% by 2020 and a tax package that will provide investment incentives for clean energy alternatives. Use our action center to urge your members of congress to support the renewable electricity standard and tax package!

-Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.

Especially those that burn the longest each day. Compact fluorescents produce the same amount of light as normal bulbs, but use about a quarter of the electricity and last ten times as long. Each switch you make helps clean the air today, curb global warming, and save you money on your electricity bill.

Saving energy at home is good for the environment and for your wallet.

Start with caulking and weather-stripping on doorways and windows. Then adjust your thermostat and start saving. For each degree you lower your thermostat in the winter, you can cut your energy bills by 3 percent. Finally, ask your utility company to do a free energy audit of your home to show you how to save even more money.

-Become a smart water consumer.

Install low-flow showerheads and faucets and you'll use half the water without decreasing performance. Then turn your hot water heater down to 120°F and see hot-water costs go down by as much as 50 percent.

-Buy energy-efficient electronics and appliances.

Replacing an old refrigerator or an air conditioner with an energy-efficient model will save you money on your electricity bill and cut global warming pollution. Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances or visit their website at www.energystar.gov to find the most energy-efficient products.

-Plant a Tree, protect a forest.

Protecting forests is a big step on the road to curbing global warming. Trees "breathe in" carbon dioxide, but slash-and-burn farming practices, intensive livestock production, and logging have destroyed 90 percent of the native forests in the United States. And you can take action in your own backyard — planting shade trees around your house will absorb CO2, and slash your summer air-conditioning bills.

-Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

Producing new paper, glass, and metal products from recycled materials saves 70 to 90 percent of the energy and pollution, including CO2, that would result if the product came from virgin materials. Recycling a stack of newspapers only 4 feet high will save a good-sized tree. Please...buy recycled products!

-Mount a local campaign against global warming.

Educate your community about how it can cut global warming pollution. Support measures at the national, state, and local level that:

Answer 6

if humans don't stop using fossil fuel and we keep wasting electrisity then we wont die but places wear the water levels are low they will flood

Answer 7

the humans will eventually die.

but global warming is just the ozone layer depleting.

the ozone layer is like a big pair of sunglasses.

and with out that crops might be too hot and everything will be like in the 200s or so.

but science ight find a way to make it cool.

just dont use anything that depeletes it and help by buying the shirts and stuff that helps the global warming things.

Answer 8

because ur gonna be alive in 500 years right?

Answer 9

How long do you plan to live? Relax, there's nothing to it.It's all propaganda and scare tactics by the left.

Answer 10

I am also scared I might be cooked in the year 2350

Answer 11

Even expertst are divided about global warming. Read the article below.The Earth's climate will change over time for reasons independent of man's pollution.

David Evans | July 18, 2008

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot.

Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you'd believe anything.

2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.

3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.

4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.

The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician's assertion.

Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming.

So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions.

In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved.

If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don't you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?

The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory.

What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.

The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.

Dr David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.

Answer 12

no, the human species won't die.

there are lots of more primitive folks that will do just fine w/o the rest of us pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

to which it should be added, that once the oil lobby moves out of the white house, we should see more progress on the problem.

i've no clue where you got the 150, or 500 from.

if i had to guess, it was from some denier trying to scare you.

people who are honest and have a reasonable handle on the science would never say that.

it is, however, a serious problem, and people have died already.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/da...

http://oldsite.globalsolutions.org/progr...

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?C...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Answer 13

Global warming is a very real thing, but you probably won't notice anything in your lifetime.  The earth is heating up and that is a fact, but its not at a quick enough rate to damage the earth any time soon.  We might see animals go extinct like polar bears :(  who are already losing hunting space because of shrinking polar caps, but humans will find a way to keep surviving.

Answer 14

the earths average temperature has gone up by 1.5 degrees due to global warming so far so it's not that it's gonna get much hotter but if it goes up by even a few degrees it will cause the climate to start shifting ex. glaciers melt causing sea levels to rise, there will be stronger hurricanes  

Answer 15

relax, dont be scared. you and me will both die before this will happen. so, there's no need worrying because it wont happen to YOU.