Im lost. does anyone have a clue when global warming will really take a stand and have a major impact??

Question

as in people dying from it??

dont you wish we could just go back to the 60s..

Answer 1

It might be within your childrens future childrens lifetime, but there is not real way of knowing.. we've no basis for comparison! Scientists can guess, but they know all too well that the number of variables involved  makes it hard to guess.

Are you worried? You can do your best, and do your bit. Politically we're screwed, so just do what you can. Otherwise, I think the earth is due a well earned rest from us humans.

Answer 2

Prince Charles says we only have 18 months to act.

Ted Turner says you will turn into a cannibal in 20 years.

Others say that global warming is taking a break till 2020.

No one knows.  No one can predict the future.  It's all just a guess.

And no, no one has died from "global warming" but hundreds have died from the cold we had last winter.

Answer 3

Its already making an impact...we just haven't seen yet and no one knows for sure when it will get severe...I've heard everything from 40 years to a 1,000...

Answer 4

Well, I can answer both questions (when, and if I want to go back to the 60's) with one fact.

From about then (late 60's) until 1990 or so scientists were CONVINCED we were going into the next ice age. Without a doubt, the world was getting colder.

My point? There are a lot of people who call themselves "scientists" who have NO idea what's going on.

If Al Gore had been paying attention then he'd have asked us to conserve jackets and fur caps.

Answer 5

PEOPLE ARE DIEING FROM THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING,  WHEN YOUR FOOD STARTS TO GET SHORT YOU'LL KNOW WHEN.

Answer 6

I'm still waiting on the flooding, much less a host, vector relationship. Pathogens are unique they usually are transported, and/ or migratory avians.

Answer 7

That's one of the remaining uncertainties.  Exactly when.

But it won't be sudden.  The real impacts to humans will be death from starvation in poor countries, due to damage to agriculture.  And increased deaths from extreme weather events.

It won't be like a Hollywood disaster movie.  It's a giant disaster in extreme slow motion.  And most effects to humans will be indirect.

Answer 8

Climate change is a long term global process, masked by short term noise (normal weather fluctuations), so it's difficult to pin individual droughts or deaths to climate change.

However, some specific new developments such as the spread of malaria to new regions are able to be attributed to ecosystem changes.

The World Health Organisation says malaria is now appearing in the Papua New Guinea highlands and other areas once considered too cold for the mosquitoes that spread the disease to survive.

WHO officials are warning that more than half the annual estimated 150,000 deaths it forecasts will occur as a result of climate change will be in the Asia-Pacific.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/20...

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says global warming could lead to a major increase in insect-borne diseases in Britain and Europe.

Three countries in the European region covered by the WHO - Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Turkey - are already danger zones for mosquito-borne malaria.

The WHO says the disease is likely to spread to further areas within eastern Europe, and from there, possibly, to western areas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

Here's more on the effects (not just death):

Effects of global warming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_...

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Funny that even factual posts get a lot of "thumbs down" responses.  What is so threatening about the facts that some people feel the need to discourage their appearance?

Answer 9

The air was more polluted back in the 60's, sweetie. You need to go back to pre-industrial times for pleasant air, but not too far back (say, a few million years ago) when it was much hotter than it is now.

The weather man can't even get the forecast right for the next day, how can anyone even predict if 'global warming' is going to wreck the planet?

Man, there's some serious brainwashing going on today. Agnostic thought and common sense are going right out the window!

Answer 10

There is so much noise in the data.  Models predict that global warming will lead to more severe hurricanes, and we've had more severe hurricanes.  But we also know there is randomness and cycles to hurricanes so we can't know now whether the severity has been affected by warming.  It will be a gradual process and will never be possible to know what would have happened even if we had reduced greenhouse gasses.

The most visable signs -- flooding of millions of homes -- won't likely be seen until the 2080s

Answer 11

The day you get addicted to Prozac. Dreams from the government.

Yes. Lots of people are dying of fears & panic attacks because of this hoax manipulated by the governments.

Enjoy life!

My 2 cents.

Answer 12

it won't. it's a gradual (almost nonexistant) change, and it's entirely natural. if it really got so bad that people could die from it, we would've adapted to it by then.

don't freak out over this. it's all media c**p...be worried about terrorists. yeah, having clean air will do us good when the crazy middle easterns blow us all up and we're dead.

Answer 13

People aren't dying yet, but animals already are. Their homes are being destroyed, leaving the animals abandoned, with death only in their future. Just look at the polar bear situation. But yes, in time, we will be next. Maybe in the next 50 years we will see humans dying from this epidemic we have created upon ourselves. And maybe then, people will finally realize how horrible we are and that we deserve this for not doing something sooner.

Answer 14

The fact that you have some ignoramuses that claim we already have had shows you the gross ignorance that is rampant in the alarmist community.  Every heat related death will be attributed to global warming yet these people never seem to be able to subtract the number of cold related deaths that would be reduced.  In fact, many more people die from cold related deaths so if there was any warming that humans caused, it would reduce the deaths unless it warmed far beyond current or reasonably expected trends.   Obviously you couldn't assign either cold or heat related deaths to human caused climate change.  Any attempt to do so would assume a knowledge that they don't possess.  They sure like to pretend to be experts and all knowledgeable.  I don't know the extent of human impact and they don't either.  Certainly any past or current impact is miniscule.  Future impacts are generally exaggerated beyond all reason.  It is a necessity to continually ramp up the alarmism.  Next years alarmism will be more shrill than this year and it doesn't depend on increasing knowledge.  It simply depends on the need for additional shrillness.

Answer 15

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 artist and politicians (here unnamed, but you may call him "Mr. Environment") 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 who will speak with great charm in the 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.