How will global warming end the world?

Question

yea if all the ice melts it will destroy the major cities but this is the predicted map if all the ice melts and it shows that alot of land will be left http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/pmelt.gif

Answer 1

very right!

its the global warming that will the more disaterous to humans than anything (the so called "wars on terror" are just a distraction from actual issues!)

When its the thick headed Bush who refuses to accept all the global warming reports from all over the world....he's always ready to burn off billions and trillions on "occupying" but nothing for actually saving the world

Answer 2

You are kidding right???

Would you do one experiment for me?  You understand how big the oceans are right?  You also know how big Antarctica and the North Pole is right?  Now, take a bathtub full of ice and toss it into a swimming pool.  

Seriously, that tub of ice is almost double of what the North and South poles are and see how much of an increase you get.  Just do this experiment and you will see how screwed up your alleged picture is.  

The settlers first came to the US and landed on Plymouth Rock right?  That was how many hundreds of years ago?  So, with all of the melting since then, where is Plymouth Rock at?  Did they have to save it and transport it to a museum, or is it at the same place and the same seal level that it has always been.

Please, think and study real facts and real science before scaring the people that truly don't know any better.  I am so afraid of many of these kids committing suicide already because of all the c**p they are hearing here.  

The responsibility we have is to at the very least tell them the facts and that they will not go anywhere and we will be the same in 100 years as we have been in the last 400 years.  Otherwise the industrial revolution without Greenpeace, the EPA and Global warming fanatics would have literally killed us in the 40's, 50's and 60's.

Yahoo should be more responsible as well by allowing these scare tactics and this form of terrorism to continue.  This one young lady came on here seemingly in tears at the fear of what our future holds.  That is just plain ridiculous and irresponsible.  We have already had enough of Jim Jones, David Koresh and Hale Bop.  We don't need the same government sponsorship c**p like that!

Answer 3

GEEE. This is starting to sound like THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW movie in real life. I bet cities will be swiped of by Tsunamis as water levels will increase and the on going drilling in the earth's crust will triger them. Maybe, floods will be more frequent everywhere.

Answer 4

It will not end the world, but we might be alot more crowded.

Answer 5

just a few degrees warmer ..and the entire world can truly change..dramatically.

think..species extinct, severe droughts, very intense hurricanes, malaria outbreaks, mosuito-borne diseases, food shortages, the worst "natural" disasters ever!!

Answer 6

When the sun goes from a main-sequence star to a red giant.  It will be Bush's fault.

Answer 7

It will not.. Fire is more likely..

Answer 8

What you are about to read is going to change your world forever, this I can promise you. I actually apologize that I have to be the one who brings this unsettling news, but you must know if you wish to survive, for what is coming will either be DRY and heat or ICE and freezing.

Global warming has been in the news for over 40 years, and by this time we have become complacent. Our scientists have come to the agreement that global warming will eventually cause major changes and problems in the world, but in their way of thinking it will be 50 to 100 years before we will actually have to deal with the effects.

The general idea is that global warming will be slow and the world will find time to discover the solutions to the problems.

New powerful evidence strongly suggests that this scenario is simply wrong, and we had better prepare for another more abrupt possibility.

DISCOVERY MAGAZINE

One of the first hints that something may be different than what we are being told (especially here in the US) was published in Discover magazine in September 2002 with the cover announcing “Global Warming Surprise, A New Ice Age”, “Oceanographers have discovered a huge river of fresh water in the Atlantic formed by melting polar ice. They warn it could soon bury the Gulf Stream, plunging North America and Europe into frigid winters.”

That was almost two years ago, and no one listened. Life goes on oblivious to the incredible danger approaching.

ENGLAND & SIR DAVID KING

Then in January 2004 enter Sir David King. Sir King is the Prime Minister of England’s chief scientist. Sir King went to Mr. Blair and told him of the impending worldwide disaster and that they needed to tell the world of what was about to happen.

Tony Blair told Sir David King to be quiet and not speak. But Sir King felt that this was simply too important for him to say nothing, so in January of this year he deliberately went around Mr. Blair and went straight to the American journal Science where he published his information and concern.

Sir King said in this article, “In my view, climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”

England placed a gag order on Sir David King, and now he is not even allowed to discuss this subject publicly without threat of detention.

AMERICA & THE PENTAGON

A month later in February 2004, the Pentagon became involved, which has stirred the world to action.

The Pentagon has been studying Global Warming for many years because of its possible national security problems associated with the kind of changes that could present themselves to the world through Global Warming.

A special study was conducted through one of the Pentagon’s departments, the Office of Net Assessment, which is directed by Andrew W. Marshall, 83, who has the responsibility of identifying long-term threats to the United States.

Mr. Marshall went to a US based think-tank called Global Business Network to compile the possibilities of Global Warming on US national security. A study was completed in October of 2003 and released to the Pentagon, which was looking at this problem from the point of view of what is the worst that could happen. It was named “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.” The summary went far beyond what most Pentagon experts had expected.

Realizing the incredible possibilities of this study, Mr. Marshall made a decision to publicly report this and other information to the American people. And probably because of President Bush’s stance on Global Warming, which is beyond negative, he also decided to go around the president, and he published his information and concern in Fortune magazine on February 9th 2004.

In his article in Fortune, Mr. Marshall explains how the melting North and South poles and glaciers from around the world are composed of fresh water and within this fact is the basis of the impending global weather disaster.

The Gulf Stream or scientifically referred to as North Atlantic thermohaline conveyor is a stream of warm water that comes from south of the equator and flows over the surface of the ocean toward the north where this warm water keeps Northern America and Northern and Western Europe from freezing. It also holds most of the world’s weather patterns in the way we are used to.

Then as this Gulf Stream cools down, it drops to the bottom of the ocean and returns as a river in the ocean to the south where it warms up again and rises to the surface and then returns to the north one more time in a continuous convection current. It is a huge three dimensional figure eight.

The motor that keep this warm water flowing is found in the north where the Gulf Stream drops to the bottom of the ocean. It is the salt density of the ocean that causes this river to drop and pulls the warm water up from the south.

Now that the poles are melting and fresh water is flowing into the Atlantic Ocean and the salt density is decreasing, the Gulf Stream does not drop quiet as far, which results in a slowing down of this Stream. The Gulf Stream has been dramatically slowing down now for at least ten years.

As the Gulf Stream slows down, the warmth is not brought to the North Atlantic region, and the weather patterns begin to change for they are dependent on this warmth to keep a balance.

THE MELTING POLES

The Bush Administration

During the Bush administration when discussions have been held on the melting of the North & South Poles, this government and US corporate entities alike have stated that the world’s scientists are all wrong on their conclusions that say there is great danger, and have led the American public to believe there is no real problem at all.

However, George W. Bush was the focus of attack by Sir David King when he wrote his article in Science, for the world’s greatest scientific minds, at least one thousand seven hundred of them with the Union of Concerned Scientists say that Mr. Bush is ill informed at the least.

Since the US government is 25% of the CO2 pollution in the world that is creating Global Warming, a discussion of Mr. Bush’s Global Warming policies is paramount. Perhaps one of the best articles that summaries Mr. Bush’s position will be found in the ROLLING STONES magazine article of May 19, 2004 by Tim Dickinson. What follows in italics is a portion of this article.

Given the imminent threat from global warming, even the Bush administration might be expected to launch a War on Heat. After all, as a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush vowed to "establish mandatory reduction targets" for carbon-dioxide emissions, saying he would make the issue a top priority.

Once Bush became president, however, reducing carbon emissions was the first promise he broke -- and his record has been all downhill from there. Only two months after taking office, the administration withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, the global treaty that the United States signed in 1997 to set strict limits on greenhouse emissions. Instead, Bush instituted a voluntary emissions plan that has been an abject failure: So far, only fourteen companies have pledged to curb their CO2 output.

The president also folded the interagency group that monitors climate change into the Commerce Department -- led by Secretary Don Evans, a former oil and gas executive. And he called for additional climate research that would delay any meaningful regulation for at least another decade. "We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future," Bush declared in a speech in the Rose Garden. Such statements spurred an open letter signed by twenty Nobel laureates, who blasted the administration for having "consistently sought to undermine" public understanding of man's role in global warming. (Bush's science adviser refused to be interviewed for this article.)

Then the censorship began. In September 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency released an air-quality report that - for the first time since 1996 - included no mention of global warming. Seven months later, the White House made wholesale revisions to the climate-change chapter of the EPA's "Report on the Environment," playing down human influence, deleting references to the health impacts of global warming and inserting climate data funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute. The EPA withdrew the altered chapter, acknowledging in an internal memo that it "no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change."

Even some Republicans have been astounded at Bush's meddling in EPA affairs. "What seems constantly evident with George W. Bush is that EPA is expected to take its marching orders from the White House on regulatory matters," says Russell Train, who headed the agency under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. "During my time, I never had that happen. Never." Train, a recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom from the elder Bush, calls the administration's approach to global warming "totally wrong" and "irresponsible."

Bush can rely on key Republicans in Congress to block any efforts to curb pollution and stave off disaster. Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, dismisses global warming as a "hoax." In a speech last July, Inhofe compared the IPCC to the Soviets and extolled the virtues of what he called a "CO2-enhanced" world. "It is my fervent hope," he concluded, "that Congress will reject the prophets of doom who peddle propaganda masquerading as science in the name of saving the planet from catastrophic disaster."

From another point of view in the same article we hear: “They (the Bush Administration) do not have a credible plan, either domestically o

Answer 9

your scenario isn't a credible one. it won't happen for many centuries, if ever. over the next century even the direst predictions are for a sea level rise of 10 meters, more likely about 1 meter. that is likely to "destroy" very few cities.

Answer 10

In 7.5 billion years, when the sun runs out of helium and oxygen or whatever it  has, it will start using some sort of fusion thing and expand into a red giant, swallowing mercury, venus, earth and possibly mars. This will be all bushes fault because it is not a natural process and he didn't do anything about.

Answer 11

in a few hundred years yes but we wont be alive so what do we care although do everything u can to help global warming beacuse pretty soon we will have no earth left if we treat our planet like ****..

Answer 12

global warming is bullshit. the temp decreased enough this past year to offset all the temp "increase" that occured in the past 100years. it snowed in baghdad for the first time in recorded history (which dates back 1000s of years), baby seals in the artic are dying because of the extreme cold. for every "scientist" that says global warming is real, there are 2 that say its not. al gore won the nobel prize, true. but he also split the prize with a scientific organization that specicalizes in global warming, many of its members dont believe in global warming. 1970's, the world was fearing another iceage, 2000;s the world is fearing melting ice caps. its all bullshit, and we pay taxes to go to fight something that doesnt exsist. human impact on green houses gases is extremely minute. most of it comes from water vapor from the oceans, and yes it comes from the SUN (imagine that)! now democrats want to elect a person who wants to increase taxes to fight global warming. did you know that 40cents of the price you pay for gas per gallon goes to prevent CO2 emmisions to combat global warming, and in a couple years highway taxes will be implemented, further costing the average american more money, to fight something that most scientist are starting to believe isnt real. just the left wing media playing on a gullable american viewer.

Answer 13

I agree with tdxn92a.  It will not end the world, but it will be very disruptive and pretty catastrophic.  Millions of lives will be lost, cultures will be wiped out, geography will be irretrievably altered, and we will all be set back several centuries in terms of infrastructure.  

Best advice:

1)  Stop killing each other.

2)  Stop wrecking the little ball we call Earth.

3)  Start hedging our bets as a species by spending the money we saved by not killing each other to:

a)  Protect our current little ball.

b)  Colonise other little balls in the neighbourhood, and...

c)  Figuring out how to get to other neighbourhoods with other little balls to live on.

Answer 14

STOP FARTING !!!!

Answer 15

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Answer 16

It won't end the world, just all life that exists on it, including humans, We think that the world evolves around us, that when we die, the world will too because we are so 'helpful' for it. No, we will just kill every animal on the planet because we are too lazy to do anything about it. There will be no land left, silly.

Answer 17

In 7.5 billion years (more or less) the aging Sun will expand and swallow the Earth.  This will cause some serious global warming leading to the vaporization of the planet.