When do you think global warming will become a MAJOR health risk?

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Ex: You can't go outside for too long without being badly burned.

Answer 1

Never.  Even if the worst case scenario for global warming pans out, it won't directly kill anyone.  You can adapt to it if you try.  The people who die from it are the people who are already living in dire poverty.

Answer 2

it already is in many places

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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 , air pollution,Non sustainable Agriculture,over pumping carbon aquifers

all concepts which are definitely not part of the Natural Processes of the Natural world

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WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR,

The most prolific growth on this planet is part of the day in the mist and most of the time under clouds ,and the least growth is always directly in the sun .

To exchange the one for the other means changing local climates

We are exchanging Nature with Tar , concrete and open spaced mono cultures.

In 300 years half of the planets forests have gone ,and in the last 50 years half of the wet lands ,and rain forests

These Areas absorb heat during the day and release heat at night ,

Cause cloud formation(shade).humidifying the air on the surface as well as releasing excess water at the roots that keep rivers flowing ,which in turn brings more water into the Environment .

As well as contributing to absorbing carbon emissions as do the leaves of the trees together with the oceans .

All in all many factors which directly affect the local Environment .

and this directly affects humans

The loss of the above resulting in rivers drying up ,less rain ,desertification,loss of habitat for many species and so on.

dryer and hotter surface environments which can manifest in different weather patterns such as tornadoes or bush fires

I may be stupid or Naive but somehow i believe that lots of these local environmental changes, can add up to affect global weather, If there are enough of them (and there are)

And then on top of that comes the story of the effects of pollutants released into Nature and especially the Air ,by MANhttp://earthissues.multiply.com/photos/a...

A cocktail of events and a lot of the ingredients have MAN written all over them

So it is safe to assume that we should look at ourselves , ,for possible improvements ,and rectifying Eco errors that are with in our powers.

23.000 people were killed at  Myanmar

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other disasters have been Happening for a number of year related to climatic changes

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 ,

Many more disasters will follow

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Answer 3

No scientist in his/her right mind would dare go out on a limb to answer something so specific.  So I won't, either.

Suffice it to say it will happen in your lifetime, unless you're over 60.

Answer 4

In 4 to 5 billion years the when the sun exhaust it's supply of hydrogen and begins primarily fusing helium, it will be bad.

Answer 5

now

Answer 6

it already is. animals and marine life are about to become extinct. We are probably next.

Answer 7

When I can no longer afford health insurance because I'm being taxed to death having to pay for "carbon credits."  

Also, I use sunscreen, never had a problem and I'm light-skinned.

Answer 8

The carbon dioxide you breathe in everyday is already a health risk, look at china. Where do you think cancer comes from, the water the air the food. All the pollutants put in the air everyday come down in the rain, into the streams and rivers on the crops being grown we are our own worst enemy. there are so many different forms of cancer curing them is impossible. Why does someone who never smokes get lung cancer? There are towns and cities in the world that are worse than china. I got news For you its already a problem.

Answer 9

now-two years from nnow watch "an inconvienient truth" by al gore