How much longer before global warming has catastrophic effects?

Question

How much longer before global warming has catastrophic effects?

Answer 1

we already had a couple of catastrophes perhaps not in your street but other places have not been so lucky

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 these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.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

in the last 300 years half of the planets forests have gone

and in the last 50 years

half of our wet lands ,rain forests and ice fields .and 3000 species of animals .

Global warming is but a component, in a group of destructive forces at work such as ;deforestation,desertification,soil and water contamination ,irresponsible or wasteful utilization of bio resources and air pollution.

which we are responsible for ,

We are now witnessing a mass Extinction of animals and plants of Biblical proportions,equal since the disappearance of the dinosaurs

.

There is a series that you can download easy ,called

bbc,Planet earth by David Attenborough.

About 15 ---700mb videos

this is a photographic team that has been filming Nature stories all over the world ,for a very long time .

In 3 of the episodes called --the future--saving species(this one covers extinction and the importance of species)

the future--living together ,ice worlds ,

they compare films they made before of places and species to what they are filming now in the same places.

Many scientists give commentaries as well .

Whole migrations of animals involving millions have disappeared in only 20 years,

in one place in the tundras ,in just 5 years

CHECK THE CLOCK FOR THE SPEED

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

If we want to save ourselves as a specie ,we have to address

the problems

We can correct most of the destructive factors

with disciplines ,changes of attitude and habits,alternative energies ,sustainable design etc.

All species are in Danger eventually,and each is important because all of Life on this planet is interrelated even if it is not obvious

Imagine that the Eco system is a wall and each specie is represented by a brick

Every brick taken out weakens the wall ,and eventually it will collapse ,which brick is the most important ???

they are all important and we are one of the bricks

Answer 2

Never ...  the human race is quite capable of 'riding out' a small increase in temperature (be it 3 degrees or 30 degrees) or sea levels (be it 30 mm or 30 m)

Answer 3

In about 40-60 years [if its true]. The earth's temperature will rise 3 degrees and cause all those hurricanes of category 6 and stuff.

Answer 4

10,000 years.  Global warming started out as an April fools joke, it's going to be really funny when everybody gets it.

Answer 5

40-80 years.  Like the person said b4 "what warming? It is cooling now and has been for 10 years" That is because of the polar ice caps melting causing the cold water to float to the bottom of the ocean(heat rises cold falls) and go to the tropics to warm up(may take 50 years for some water). but now there is so much cold water that it is building and burring the gulf stream, which brings warm weather to New England and that part of the world, Causing extreme weather effects as in 'killer frost' or whatever. Then floods.=]=] fun dont you want to keep killing the ice caps?

Answer 6

20 to 80 years, depending upon where you are on Earth.

Answer 7

a long time

Answer 8

i have heard the polar ice caps will melt by 2010 to 2013, the poor penguins and polar bear. all that fresh water will change the salinity of the oceans and raise the hight of the ocean as well, bye bye NY.

Answer 9

what warming? It is cooling now and has been for 10 years. I prefer warming to cooling but then again I am not agenda driven as the tree hugger dirt worshipers.