Is global warming a serious threat?

Question

Is global warming a serious threat?

Answer 1

Yes. Global warming is a complex phenomenon, and its full-scale impacts are hard to predict far in advance. But each year scientists learn more about how global warming is affecting the planet, and many agree that certain consequences are likely to occur if current trends continue. Among these are melting glaciers, early snowmelt and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages in the American West.

Rising sea levels will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern seaboard, in Florida, and in other areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico.

Warmer sea surface temperatures will fuel more intense hurricanes in the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Forests, farms and cities will face troublesome new pests and more mosquito-borne diseases.

Disruption of habitats such as coral reefs and alpine meadows could drive many plant and animal species to extinction.

  Recently, researchers -- and even the U.S. Defense Department -- have investigated the possibility of abrupt climate change, in which gradual global warming triggers a sudden shift in the earth's climate, causing parts of the world to dramatically heat up or cool down in the span of a few years.

In February 2004, consultants to the Pentagon released a report laying out the possible impacts of abrupt climate change on national security. In a worst-case scenario, the study concluded, global warming could make large areas of the world uninhabitable and cause massive food and water shortages, sparking widespread migrations and war.

While this prospect remains highly speculative, many of global warming's effects are already being observed -- and felt. And the idea that such extreme change is possible underscores the urgent need to start cutting global warming pollution.

Answer 2

YES. Think about what ice ages have done. It's basically the same thing except hot instead of cold. We are already suffering from it. hurricanes in the past few years, for example, have been more severe than those in the past few decades. The science is there and it has been there for a while.

Answer 3

Yes.  In may ways.  The earth is getting warmer, and the atmosphere is breaking.  The ice from Antarctica, Alaska, and the Arctic is melting, and rising the ocean levels.

Answer 4

The only real threat will be to our money. In the end, this will all end up being an excuse to tax us. That is why the AGW fanatics are trying to push through carbon taxes. They need to get them enacted before the weather naturally turns consistently cooler. By then, they will make some other idiotic reason why they should continue taxing us.

Answer 5

yeah we need to drain the oceans to the earths core because they are causing global warming

Answer 6

No way!

Answer 7

No, don't believe the hype.  The media is using it as a big money maker.

Answer 8

global warming is seriouse theres many things that can cause it like the others said its a seriouse threat to the world we cant stop it but we can slow down the rate of how fast  its going.

Answer 9

Yes..... google it

Answer 10

Global warming is nothing new, it has existed through out the history of the earth. Man kind can not do anything to make the ecology changes from happening, we may be able to slow it down, but we will never be able to stop it from happening. We don't have that kind of technology, knowledge or skills. The global warming event will happen no matter what.