What would happen if we don't stop Global Warming?

Question

Does anyone know what would happen if we don't stop, or at least slow down, Global Warming?

Answer 1

i be dead before then

Answer 2

Global warming is a HOAX.

Answer 3

Much of the media attention is on CO2 as the lone culprit in global warming. But we must not forget that water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and CFC's are greenhouse gases also.

Now, let's see how this vicious cycle starts. All mammals which respire aerobically (take in oxygen) give off CO2 and water vapor as the 2 primary byproducts of aerobic respiration. This is referred to as the Krebs/Citric Acid Cycle.

Aerobic Respiration:

C6H12O6 + oxygen --> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + ATP (energy)

So, the more mammals--pets, farm animals, birds, bats, furry creatures and just about all animals/creatures on our planet--the more water vapor and CO2 they add to the atmosphere. As long as they have lungs and can respire aerobically, they contribute 24/7. They also give off methane gas, another potent greenhouse gas. Getting rid of all the mice in the world would probably alleviate the flooding somewhat.

Water vapor and CO2 are byproducts of combustion:

Butane C4H10 + 6.5 O2 --> 4 CO2 + 5 H2O

Water vapor, CO2 and methane are also byproducts of metabolism. The more sugary and high fat oils and foods consumed, the more water vapor, CO2 and methane we add to the atmosphere:

Table Sugar (sucrose):

C12H22O11 + 12 Oxygen --> 12 CO2 + 11 H2O + energy (ATP)

Vegetable Oils:

C57H104O8 + 79 O2 --> 57 CO2 + 52 H2O + energy (ATP)

Vegetables and grains:

C6H10O5 + 6 Oxygen --> 6 CO2 + 5 H2O + energy (ATP)

Proteins:

Proteins + Oxygen --> CO2 + H2O + urea + ammonia + energy (ATP)

Fermentation processes such as brewing beer, making wine, etc. give off CO2. Tornados arise from the spinning motion of the Earth, known as the Coriolis Effect, and CO2 feeds it. Take a 2 liter bottle of Sprite, spin it around, and a funnel cloud will form, this is because CO2 is miscible in water. Unfortunately, the Earth is like a fishbowl, it just fills up with water unless some of it is removed.

Write to, or, petition your space agency to offload the excess water by shipping potable bottled water to the moons and Mars. 160+ moons have been discovered so far.  Terraforming and bioforming a moon or planet takes time. Bioforming is a new concept of using mammals to create a rich and thick atmosphere since they produce water vapor, CO2 and METHANE gas. All 3 are potent greenhouse gases which can regulate temperature extremes, at the same time it'll build a rich and thick atmosphere.

Answer 4

We will see increasing rates of mass extinction of the species that rely on the current temperature of the earth.  The more adaptive generalist species will have greater survival than will the less adaptive specialist species.  The more mobile species will have an advantage over the less mobile ones.  Those species with a narrow range of food alternatives will suffer more than the species that have a larger range of food alternatives.

Answer 5

We die. Global warming is a myth, I guarantee you we will be in an Ice age in 1000- to 2000 years from now, Man cannot control climate change its natural and is caused by the sun and the Earths Axis and orbit around the sun

Answer 6

We may go into another Ice Age due to melting of the ice caps which dilutes the Gulf Stream and shuts it down.  The Gulf Stream is what brings warmth up from the tropics to North America and Western Europe.  I imagine the effect would be the same for other ocean currents (the ocean conveyor belt).  

The Little Ice Age brought bitterly cold winters to many parts of the world, but is most thoroughly documented in Europe and North America.  Western Europe experienced a general cooling of the climate between the years 1150 and 1460 and a very cold climate between 1560 and 1850 that brought dire consequences to its peoples. The colder weather impacted agriculture, health, economics, social strife, emigration, and even art and literature. Increased glaciation and storms also had a devastating effect on those that lived near glaciers and the sea.

The ocean current that gives western Europe and North America its relatively balmy climate is stuttering, raising fears that it might fail entirely and plunge the continent into a mini ice age.

The dramatic finding comes from a study of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic, which found a 30% reduction in the warm currents that carry water north from the Gulf Stream.

The slow-down, which has long been predicted as a possible consequence of global warming, will give renewed urgency to intergovernmental talks in Montreal, Canada, this week on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

Then, of course, we have Venus as a prime example of the runaway greenhouse effect.

Under certain conditions we believe the greenhouse effect can "run away". For example, consider the case of a planet like the Earth. The Earth has enormous amounts of two greenhouse gases: water vapor and carbon dioxide. However, for the Earth most of the water and carbon dioxide are not in the atmosphere. The water is mostly in the oceans, and the carbon dioxide is mostly bound chemically in rocks made from compounds that chemists call carbonates (for example, limestone).

Now suppose we increased the effectiveness of greenhouse heating of the Earth's atmosphere, for example by increasing the amount of solar radiation falling on it (thethinning of the Ozone Layer), or by increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (for example, by burning fossil fuels, which produce water vapor and carbon dioxide as byproducts of burning). We would then expect the temperature to rise in the atmosphere (assuming no other effects intervened---a big "if" in the realistic case since the atmosphere is complicated). This would be a greenhouse effect.

It would become a runaway greenhouse effect if the rising temperature approached the boiling point of water, because then the oceans would begin to convert to water vapor, the water vapor would increase the effectiveness of heat trapping and accelerate the greenhouse effect, this would cause the temperature to rise further, thus causing the oceans to evaporate faster, etc., etc. (This type of runaway is also called a "positive feedback loop".) When the oceans were gone the atmosphere would finally stabilize at a much higher temperature and at much higher density, because all the water would now be in the atmosphere.

Whichever way it would go, we need to stop the increase in greenhouse gases.