What are the social effects of global warming?

Question

Especially regarding raising children. I have a four year old son who loves to be outside, but is very fair skinned. I dont let him out between the hours of 11 and 4, because even with a good sunblock he burns.

Now my father griped, "When I was a child, we spent all day outside. It didn't hurt us."

Whats different now? Alot, actually. The planet itself has changed. Thinner ozone means higher U.V dangers. This is especially difficult on young children, and old people.

Then too, higher temperatures make the playground scalding and dangerously hot for certain hours of the day.

My son brings his little spiderman umbrella on the hottest days when we need to go outside in the early afternoon, and people look at him oddly for it.

I wonder what other everyday things are going to be changing for people, because of hotter days?

Answer 1

It is a threat to health, since a warmer world is one in which infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever will spread further and faster. Innnumerable other infectious diseases will thrive. It could imperil the world's food supply, as rising temperatures and prolonged drought render fertile areas unfit for grazing or crops.

Answer 2

There are no social effects from man made global warming, because man made global warming doesn't exist.

There will however, be catastrophic results from stifling our energy sources, limiting food production, and paying outrageous Global Carbon Taxes, in an effort solve a problem that doesn't exist.

The summer of 1934 was hotter than any year since.  Where I live, in the Southeast, the last ten summers have been cooler that the ten prior.  

I have eight grandchildren and I know that global warming is no threat to their health and happiness.  However; I have great concern that their health, happiness, and freedom, are under grave threat from Global Elistists who are stealing our wealth and freedoms under the false banner of "Global Warming".

Answer 3

The predicted effects of global warming on the environment and for human life are numerous and varied. It is generally difficult to attribute specific natural phenomena to long-term causes, but some effects of recent climate change may already be occurring. Raising sea levels, glacier retreat, Arctic shrinkage, and altered patterns of agriculture are cited as direct consequences, but predictions for secondary and regional effects include extreme weather events, an expansion of tropical diseases, changes in the timing of seasonal patterns in ecosystems, and drastic economic impact. Concerns have led to political activism advocating proposals to mitigate, eliminate, or adapt to it.

The 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) includes a summary of the expected effects.

Answer 4

The only thing that's changed is man's awareness of UV rays.  The sun is no more dangerous than it was 30 years ago.  Playgrounds are no hotter than they were a generation or two ago, either.  My dad says the same thing as your dad does...as he undergoes yet another chemical skin peal to remove the cancer forming on his face, arms, and legs.

BTW:  A big, floppy hat would probably be a better shade for your child than an umbrella:  Less stares, less chance of injury, and both hands free to play.  Those stares will really affect a child later in life.

Edit:  Ooooohhhhh....you're in Canada....never mind then.  Carry on...

Answer 5

If your son enjoys playing outside, take him to a park in the early evening when it is cooler.  Or, let him play in the shade in your yard or encourage him to wear protective clothing.  You could try taking him indoor swimming for exercise.

Answer 6

The sun is about the same as it has always been.  

There is no significant difference in your lifetime.

However  - Since PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT THEY CAN MAKE A BUCK BY SCARING YOU.  It has all of a sudden become a concern.  Not all people get cancer - some people do, they are more susceptible,  Sorry for them - however everyone is not the same.  

The Media (who gets paid to report horror stories),  Drug, and sunscreen companies (whom get paid for product), and the doctors - (who need YOU to be afraid - so they can keep living large - with staffs of people who do very little[VANITY]) - need you to pay attention, and spend money on them.  They will keep trying to get you believe they have irrefutable SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that there is a problem when there is not.

If you did not have an issue it is very likely that neither will your children.  Be sensible - just as your parents were.

Gobal Warming is a SCAM.  The blinds are coming off the windows everyday.

Answer 7

Fair skinned children need to be protected more. You are a good mother.

Try to find playgrounds in the shade. Most county, city, or state parks have one.

Answer 8

Nerd suggest infectious diseases will increase.  He is obviously misinformed.  In fact, if it warms, that will decrease exposure to infectious disease.  Many more people die of cold related infectious diseases (such as in winter when doors are closed and people are indoors) than heat related.  One of the last biggest malaria outbreaks was in Siberia, which is one of the coldest places on Earth.  The sun is the same as it was before.  We are marginally warmer as it has warmed since the cold period in the 1970s and generally since the Little Ice Age that ended around 1700s.  My doctor would be glad you are protecting him from too much sun but he is a boy and if you let him sit in front of a Nintendo all day, that would be far worse for his health.  That is the problem with medicine, it doesn't seem to matter what you do, there are always negative consequences.  I would suggest that if he goes out to play, that is the far healthier past time.

Answer 9

The problem with the ozone layer is only distantly related to global warming (and it'll eventually fix itself as we've mostly stopped using the substances that caused that problem).

The temperature increase on a global scale isn't that much (but you don't much to cause problems) although the seasons are becoming more extreme (i.e. hotter summers and colder winters) and there are significant local variations in terms of temperature trend (if you are in an urban area there is also the heat island effect to add to any increase from global warming).

If someone is burning even with sunscreen then it's a good clue that the sunscreen isn't any good (a tanning response is a also a similar clue (it is the body trying to limit further damage)).

Answer 10

What HOTTER days?

Answer 11

Mass hysteria and delusion.

Answer 12

Actually I read where the sunblocks we are using are depleting us of Vitamin D which come from the sun.  Apparently most people these days are not getting enough D, a vitamin that is beneficial to our immune system.

My parents said they used to get sun-burnt all the time, but they didn't worry as much about it as we do.  We seem to be a little too preoccupied with the little things.  Maybe we have too much free time.  That comes from too much prosperity.  Something our parents didn't have.  They had to work hard all the time and didn't have time to worry about things like sunburn.

The real social effects of "global warming" have to do with the raising of taxes that will affect your children drastically.  Imagine them having to pay $20 a gallon for gas all because the media says humans cause global warming.  Or imagine not being allowed to use air conditioning in the summer or heating in the winter.  

Most scientists don't agree with the man-made global warming theory, so why should we have to pay trillions in new taxes for an unproven theory?

Answer 13

The ozone layer is as good as ever .. I always blistered when I was young. I worked so much in the sun I now have skin problems...

The weather people are confused and call the pollution ozone but it is NO2. Ozone is O3 and will kill U. O3 does not come out of the exhaust of a car..

Answer 14

where did your father grow up?

weather and sun are very different in different parts of the country.

there has been a drought for the past 20 years in the US southwest.

it is hotter there than it had been in the past, although not a lot.

and while i've not read, i'm pretty sure that means less cloud cover.

does your father have naturally darker skin?

did his family not know about skin cancer.

it certainly was not a significant topic when i was a kid.

that said, when i was young, i did play outside more.

also, it's sunny here, but i'd not force my child to carry an umbrella because he'll be the but of the neighbor kids jokes forever.

find a stronger sunscreen, if you need to.

let him gradually, out so he gets a tan.

ummm, if he brings his umbrella, do you bring yours?

or is that too embarrassing?