Tell me what is so bad about global warming ?

Question

Tell me what is so bad about global warming ?

Answer 1

If you know that one you might also know the meaning of life

Answer 2

its kinda destroying the earth lol. like melting ice caps ect..lol..

Answer 3

nothing, if you don't live on the coast, which is going to disappear.

Answer 4

AL GORE

Answer 5

It causes coastal flooding and damage to agriculture.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNe...

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.h...

Those will cost huge sums of money to deal with.  It's far cheaper to reduce it some.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096...

Answer 6

hi

Answer 7

Warming has always led to prosperity.  Cooling has always led to calamity.  Now we are supposed to turn off our intelligence and believe that warming is necessarily bad.  Bob says that the ocean has risen.  Well maybe an inch in my lifetime.  Go to the beach and show me an inch.  It is meaningless.  Rising oceans might present some problems but they are grossly exaggerated and the benefits far outweigh the consequences.  We are supposed to believe that global warming is responsible for African famines.  Since when?  There have been famines and droughts as long as there have been people.  To try to blame them suddenly on industry really reveals who the alarmists are.

Note: JS says, "IF 58 per cent of species die .....  As the old saying goes, If is for children.  You shouldn't worry about something unless there is sufficient reason.  If monkeys fly out your butt, that might be bad too.  It seems to me that some people seem like they should be reasonable, but somehow simply miss the mark for whatever reason.

Answer 8

if it is not stoped it could change the very geogrophy of the planet.melting ice caps,flooding coastal areas,raising the ocean,killing off plant life,over time our planet would be much like venus hot,toxic,unliveable

Answer 9

the fact its melting the polar caps and making the oceans rising. with that its destroying the homes of the animals who live there also if the oceans keep rising as fast as they are much of the land we live on will be under water not over thousands of years mind you but will happen.

Answer 10

Although some people may argue that global warming is a natural process, still doesn't change the fact that we're speeding it up. There are many sources claiming every year that each decade, the northern and southern poles of the earth will completely melt. Scientists have come to the conclusion that in less than a decade, all the polar ice caps would be melted, which would cause coastal areas to be submerged in water, a rapid change in the environment, and many deaths.

Answer 11

It's not weather or not this is good or bad. The point is that it is happening. It is not our fault as humans. It all has to do with the evolution of our planet and universe. Their is nothing you or I or the human race can do about it. Concentrate on the whole picture of the events which are happening. To limit youself to this one thing is a waist of the brain.

Answer 12

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, says global warming could upset the livelihood of as many as 250 million Africans in the next 13 years by reducing access to water and food, degrading forests, mangroves and coral reefs and causing large migrations of people."

Starvation and thirst will predominate throughout much of the continent.  According to the Chief Science Adviser of the British government, David King, "An additional 70 million Africans could be at risk of starvation by 2080"

Edit: jim z, that is only for places that are not already warm.  While it might help temperate Europe and northern Asia, it will cause devastation amoung parts of the Americas, Southern Asia, and of course Africa.  Most of these countries are not wealthy enough to help their people adapt to the climate, unlike Northern Europe.

Answer 13

If as this study suggests, up to 58% of all species on the planet die, we could have some very bad times.  

A simple example: if local environments collapse and we lose a significant percentage of insects, how would our food get pollinated (to eat and to provide seeds for nest year's crops)?  

http://www.killerinourmidst.com/methane%...

A careful examination of a large number of species in numerous parts of the planet projects that a stunning portion of them will be "committed to extinction" in just 50 years, with only modest global warming (Thomas, 2004).

The findings are the result of a comprehensive examination of more than a thousand terrestrial species -- plants, insects, mammals, birds, frogs and reptiles -- in regions representing about 20% of the Earth's surface. The regions studied are located in all continents except Asia, and represent a wide variety of environments: boreal (northern), temperate, and tropical forests, tundra, grasslands, savannah, deserts. The amount of warming that was projected in the study was shockingly small. Three projections were used: 0.8 to 1.7 °C (1.4 to 3.0°F) in the minimal warming case, 1.8 to 2.0°C (3.2 to 3.6°F) with mid-range climate change, over 2.0°C (3.6°F) at maximum (Thomas, 2004; Pounds and Puschendorf, 2004).

But with only this rather minimal amount of warming, and even with an assumed ability to disperse to more favorable environments, 11, 19, and 33 percent of total species (in minimal, mid-range, and maximal cases, respectively) will disappear. Mortality among those species with little or no ability to disperse will be considerably higher (34, 45, and 58 % in the respective no dispersal cases).

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Furthermore, it appears that rising CO2 levels make food less nutritious, so we'll have to find ways to grow more of it (while growing conditions have become a lot more challenging through heat, drought, etc.):

Warming may change the nature of the food we eat

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/Suzu...

Answer 14

Absolutely nothing.

Answer 15

It kills microbe populations ,wich affect the insect populations that follow and the animals that live of them , and it also kills people

A while ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will be drastically affected,which in turn will affect the warm currents,since all moving bodies of water are connected in series.

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And 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

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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 16

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.