When will the climate change begin to show irreversible consequenses?

Question

When will the climate change begin to show irreversible consequenses?

Answer 1

I hate to break it to you, friend. But the climate of Earth has been changing since God first created it. It has never had a stable climate. The whole "global warming" schtick is a deliberate lie.

I have researched this question from the resources of the National Laboratory and cannot find ONE scientific paper on the subject that indicates global warming is man made - not one.

But, even if it was, why do you think global warming would be bad? How would more land with a warmer climate - as in longer growing seasons for growing more food - be a bad thing? Less ice caps would mean more water in the ecosystem, which means forests where the deserts are now. How would that be bad?

Sorry friend, they're lying to you. It has nothing to do with "saving the planet". It's about getting you to give them more political control out of fear.

Answer 2

I haven't found any new studies that showed what happened in Antarctica so far this year. All I know is it's now fall down there and our local weather man up here in Minnesota mentioned they were having below average temperatures down there too.

So I really loved to know where all this disinformation is coming from.

Oh yeah another thing. We are having a below average spring up here. And every morning I watch the weather report and my favorite local weather guys shows they are still having a major cold snap (negative temperature) over Canada. So tell me if the Artic air is still that cold so far this spring how it could possibly be starting to melt up there?

I know the Atlantic ocean is slightly warmer than the Pacific ocean, but still that would have to be some extremely warm water to combat that cold air.

Answer 3

uh... it already is...

the polar ice caps are already melting at an increasing rate. A permanent ice cap the size of Texas broke off the part of Northwest territories a year ago and Environment Canada is tracking it's migration. Good lord... this isn't rocket science.. it's quite simple. Even Bush agrees that global warming is a scientific reality.

The real question is... when will businesses wake up and begin to adopt triple bottom line principles to include long term savings in reducing their carbon footprints and sustaining resources to sustain business? When will we realize that for every action there is a reaction?

Uhm.. sorry "Ski" (guy below me), but global warming is a scientific reality. I have a degree in Environmental Science at the University of Waterloo - and I couldn't count how many thesis papers, labs, reports, from students and faculty from UW as well as from other post-secondary institutions and research facilities worldwide that have blatantly proven that climate change is man-made. Also I would like to remind you that no accredited scientific sources have produced proof of the idea of a monotheistic or polytheistic 'God' or 'Gods'.. and the theory of evolution still presides over the creation 'myth'.  And really.... "Less ice caps would mean more water in the ecosystem, which means forests where the deserts are now. How would that be bad?"   Are you kidding me?  You obviously have absolutely no scientific background and are blatantly unaware of the adverse affects of the rising sea level on coastal ecosystems as well as the communities that inhabit them.   Yeah, the earth is changing... but there is solid and acknowledged evidence that we are speeding up that process that will compromise the conditions of the planet that we need to sustain ourselves.

Answer 4

The Earth's climate is always changing.

I don't understand how people who claim to believe in Evolution (environmentalists & liberals) are the ones who turn around and contradict everything about it...including the condemnation of its various mechanisms.  Odd.

Answer 5

Global warming started after the last ice age.  They have tried to fudge some numbers, overlap a few different measurements and utilize other tricks to make you 'think' that it is rapidly and uncontrollably rising in temperatures but...  As you can clearly and obviously see, it's not.  So, irreversible consequences are impossible since we have had about six ice ages, thus indicating a cycle of cooling, then warming, cool again, then warm, then cool, then warm.  

I don't think it is worth billions and billions of dollars to attempt to have one tenth of a one percent chance of slowing that cycle....  Or speeding it up...

Now, about that polar ice cap thing...  Every single decade previously has been the same as this one.  I can show you an article from 2002 where people were horrified at that same Antarctic ice sheet melting....  But, it is melting again.  So, where is this melting ice that is melting any more than previous decades?

That's what I thought...

I wish science and scientists were objective but science has now been sold to the highest bidder.

Give a scientist a living wage and he will give you knowledge.  Give a scientist wealth and he will give you whatever you want.

Answer 6

Would the huge ice shelf that broke off of Antarctica be an "irreversible consequence"? How about the record flooding along the Mississippi river?  How about the increase of severe weather?  What do you want as proof? Extinction?