When will global warming end??

Question

i live in Atlanta and everything is usually in bloom by now but we are in the middle of a snowstorm at the moment. i can't wait for this global warming to end.

Answer 1

Doesnt something have to start to have an end?

Answer 2

IT'S NOT GLOBAL WARMING EARTH IS GOING THROUGH CYCLES

Answer 3

it'll end when the world ends.

Answer 4

1998

Answer 5

It has.... that's why it's snowing still up and down the eastern seaboard.

Answer 6

#1 when people do all they can, also a dem in the white house to sign the kyoto treaty! which W would not do because he might hurt his oil buddy and other mass polluting friends! and also car manufacturers get a grip and put new technologies into action. also when this country takes it as serious as the rest of the civilized world. solar heating,energy saving lighting, more people take recycling more seriously! also cut emmisions down, from vehicles to big manufacturing! we are making strides but not enough people think they can make a difference, but they             can! lets get real we must sign the kioto treaty,australia must as well. i do all i can, i hope you do as well. we must suceed for our children and the planet!! and fox noise has to pitch in along with the other networks and promote,report the fact that it is real! i live near the great lakes, it is truly unbelievable how much the water levels have dropped in the past 10yrs . it's especially lake superior, which is truly a sight to behold! 3000 miles of shoreline without islands! of which there are many, so to sum up you pose a very important question. and i hope as soon as it is possible, and for those who think it's a joke ! just look at the glaciers in greenland and antartica! sorry! my keyboard was locked temporarily!! good luck to future generations for those who don't give a d**n!!! BIG-G,,,

Answer 7

WHEN PEOPLE START CARING

Answer 8

Never.

Answer 9

When there is no profit in it for Al Gore, then it will end!

Answer 10

by the time PEOPLE becomes concern and disciplined!

Answer 11

This 'global warming' thing end when all of the people who don't know what it is, are educated properly, and when everyone stops driving their gas guzzling SUV's, and when people stop heating their houses more that 68 degrees in the winter, and cooling it no more than 78 degrees in the summer. It will end when we have a responsible president elected, or when we stop deforesting national parks. When we start riding our bikes, and help contribute to finding alternative energy sources. It will stop when we put a cap and trade system on carbon emissions. It will stop, when every one else starts helping. Do your part. Do the things listed above, and spread awareness.

Best Wishes,

Lily K

Answer 12

nope. Never.

Answer 13

in 2012

Answer 14

In the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report scientists conclude that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level" and, furthermore, they conclude with "very high confidence (at least a 9 out of 10 chance of being correct) that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming" of the Earth's climate system.



Water in a boiling pot receives heat from an element or flame and loses heat via steam and radiative cooling.

As with every environmental variable, there are multiple factors that contribute to the "warmth" of the Earth. Humans measure warmth as temperature which is a measure of the amount of heat contained in a physical object. One can envision this concept by thinking of a pot on a stove. As heat is applied to the pot from a flame or heating element, the temperature of the pot will increase. But heat will also begin escaping the pot in the form of steam and also through radiative and convective cooling from the top and the sides of the pot. Eventually the rates of both heat loss (cooling) and heat gain (warming) may stabilize and the heat then contained within the pot at an instantaneous point of time would be reflected in an equilibrium temperature. This equilibrium temperature could be measured directly but it also could be calculated by determining all of the flux rates of heat entering (heating) and leaving (cooling) the pot.

One way that climate scientists look at the warmth of the Earth's climate system is to calculate the annual average temperature of the surface of the Earth using temperature measurements systematically collected throughout the year from thousands of land- and ocean-based weather and observation stations. The observed trends in the Earth's annual average temperature is one of the factors leading to the scientific conclusion that the Earth is now in a period of global warming.

In order to attempt to answer why the Earth is currently warming, scientists have conducted accountings of each of the fluxes of heat into (warming) and out of (cooling) the Earth's climate system. Since the measured data show that annual average temperatures of the Earth have been increasing in recent decades, the year-to-year annual flux of heat into the climate system must be greater than the annual flux of heat out of the system. By accounting for each of the fluxes of heat into and out of the system, scientists are able to assess which fluxes and processes are contributing to net annual warming of the Earth's surface. By conducting such accountings, scientists are able to quantify the influence that each natural and human factor has in altering the balance of incoming and outgoing energy in the Earth-atmosphere system and can calculate an index of the importance of each of the factor as a potential climate change mechanism. Each of the factors are called climate drivers and the relative impact or index of each factor's importance to climate change is called its radiative forcing.



Relative importance of climate drivers to current global warming as determined by the 4th Assessment of the IPCC. (Source: IPCC)

In completing such an assessment, the IPCC has concluded with very high confidence that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming. The scientists found that the combined radiative forcing due to increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide is the largest climate driver and its rate of increase during the industrial era is very likely to have been unprecedented in more than 10,000 years. Furthermore, the carbon dioxide radiative forcing increased by 20% from 1995 to 2005, the largest change for any decade in at least the last 200 years.

The IPCC also found that anthropogenic contributions to aerosols in the atmosphere produce cooling effects, referred to as global dimming. However the cooling (global dimming) effects due to human-caused aerosols are equivalent to about half of the warming effects due to the combined radiative forcing of human-produced greenhouse gases, causing a net warming.

Significant anthropogenic contributions to radiative forcing were also found to have come from several other sources, including tropospheric ozone changes due to emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, direct radiative forcing due to changes in halocarbons, and changes in surface albedo, due to land-cover changes and deposition of black carbon aerosols on snow. However the impacts of each of these factors was relatively small compared to the impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (each showing relative impacts of 15% or less relative to the greenhouse gas forcings).

Finally, an increase in solar irradiance since 1750 was estimated to have caused a forcing that contributed to the recent warming of the Earth. However, the impact of the increase in the amount of sunlight striking the Earth each year during this ~250 year time span was estimated to be only about 1/20th of the warming impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 15

I think you are referring to climate change - commonly called Global Warming - and the answer is never. There will always be cyclic changes to the climate BUT the speed at which those changes occur is the battle that we now face. We have precipitated a faster change than the Earth's "recovery mechanisms" can handle and we must either do something to bring that level of change back within the Earth's normal limits or face the consequences.

Answer 16

No it will never end...

Because of the pollution..

Answer 17

way to go, Cath, i love it!!

GlobalColding

RIGHT!!! wake up peepz

Answer 18

Global warming has been going on since the end of the last ice age approx. 10,000 years ago. It will continue for another 50,000+ years until that cycle ends and global cooling begins. There are many, many factors that are involved in global warming. Read up on it by getting any recent book on climate change or global warming from your public library.

Here's an easy one:  Science 101: Weather

Answer 19

We live in an interglacial period.  This is just a temporary relief from the cold and ice.  When we return to an "ice ball" world, all will emphatically agree that our momentary warming has truly ended.

Answer 20

I hear ya... I'm in Nashville, TN and we have 5 inches of snow on the ground and more coming down. I've lived here almost 10 years and never seen it snow in March. If this is global warming, I'd hate to see global cooling.

Answer 21

it will end when life on earth ends

Answer 22

Hi dark s,i think it will end when we all die.Nothing is really being done to stop it.

Answer 23

When everybody pitches in to save the planet!!  The ozone is shot and we did it with gases!!!

Answer 24

It hasn't "started" so there can't be an "end".  This is just a naturally occurring cyle that the Earth is going through as has been proven because of the various "same type" of things that have happened in the past.

Global Warming is nothing more than  politically motivated and scientifically flawed (as has been proven) propoganda.

Answer 25

neverrrrrrr

Answer 26

never

Answer 27

It already has.

In the past few years the temperature of the earth has gone down a degree.

Answer 28

Depends when we stop emitting carbon-based gasses.  If we look past 2100:

- Global and regional warming could more than quadruple after 2100

- Sea level will still be rising at the end of the millennium (3000)

- Ocean pH will fall dramatically for all but the minimum emission scenario

- Business-as-usual could lead to abrupt climate changes

- Abrupt climate changes could occur long after emissions cease

- The ocean carbon sink becomes less effective the more CO2 is emitted

- The land could be a net carbon source on the millennial timescale

"Potential sea level rise on the millennial timescale (excluding the contribution of Antarctica), is 0.5-11.4m in GENIE-1 and 1.0-8.5m in MoBidiC.  Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, if it occurs, could add up to 4-6m on the millennial timescale [Oppenheimer and Alley, 2004]"

“…our relatively conservative assumptions, for example regarding climate sensitivity or the exclusion of the Antarctic ice sheets, still produce the result that only by starting to reduce CO2 emissions in the very near future, and continuing to reduce them such that they are zero by year 2200, can we avoid dangerous climate change on the millennial timescale.”

http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/theme1...

Answer 29

Don't people have to end it?

No one has done anything positive yet.

Answer 30

When the Sun dies.

Answer 31

Global Warming will end when Al Gore ends