Will the earth get warmer or colder with in the next 50 years?

Question

All environmental and historical data leads to the conclusion that we are due for another ice age. Yet the focus of most people is pointed toward global warming. The earth has many natural cycles where the climate changes from warmer to cooler and then cooler to warmer. Some of these cycles are very long some are quite short. And some bring about mild changes in climate while other cycles bring abrupt and extreme changes. I would just like your opinion and why. Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

my dad thinks its a cycle and global warming is c**p. personaly i think its going to end up like the day after tommrow O___o

Answer 2

weather does what it wants... We barely know all the variables to forecast weather accurately, how much more on this scale? It's all a best guess after all....

Answer 3

Global warming is a scam.

My 2 cents.

Answer 4

We should be skeptical about "scientists" who predict climate future based on computer models. People are trying to play God by saying, 'Oh, this computer model told me 50 years from now that this IS going to happen.' That's an arguable point. and I think we should question it. But to say that someone has absolute knowledge of the future seems to me to be playing something more than a mortal.

There is a difference between thinking something is going to happen and deducing something is going to happen. But saying, 'No, I know it; the debate is over' is just plain stupid to say you know something's going to happen 50 years from now

Answer 5

Some places are going to get warmer and some are going to get cooler, such as Britain. It's something to do with the current or something, so my chemistry teacher says anyway :)

Answer 6

Warmer by several degrees.

http://globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:G...

Your statement that we're due for another ice age is incorrect.  The current stable temperature phase is supposed to last several tens of thousands of years yet.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitc...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

Answer 7

Man is predictable, nature is not. Is it a debate of sheer convenience?  That same (wiki) link some one gave you about the (Imbrie) study also has a contradictory study. I think man has reached a new plateau. That being the incorporation of common sense side by side with science.

Answer 8

Your correct....if you read up and do your homework...we are on a Cooling trend NOT a Warming.......Global Warming is the Democrats that have nothing else to talk about...so they make something up and make a huge deal about it.  The earth has gone through these types of changes for billions of years....none of this is any news at all.....yet Al Gore gets a Nobel Peace Prize.....pathectic:(

Answer 9

WARMER.

Global warming -- a gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures -- is now well documented and accepted by scientists as fact. A panel convened by the U.S National Research Council, the nation's premier science policy body, in June 2006 voiced a "high level of confidence" that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, and possibly even the last 2,000 years. Studies indicate that the average global surface temperature has increased by approximately 0.5-1.0°F (0.3-0.6°C) over the last century. This is the largest increase in surface temperature in the last 1,000 years and scientists are predicting an even greater increase over this century. This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's upper atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.

Average global temperatures may increase by 1.4-5.8ºC (that's 2.5 - 10.4º F) by the end of the 21st century. Although the numbers sound small, they can trigger significant changes in climate. (The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an ice-free period is only about 5ºC.) Besides resulting in more hot days, many scientists believe an increase in temperatures may lead to changes in precipitation and weather patterns. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 - 0.88 m. in the next century, mainly from melting glaciers and expanding seawater . Global warming may also affect wildlife and species that cannot survive in warmer environments may become extinct. Finally, human health is also at stake, as global warming may result in the spreading of certain diseases such as malaria, the flooding of major cities, a greater risk of heat stroke for individuals, and poor air quality.

Climate change is very likely having an impact now on our planet and its life, according to the latest installment of a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And the future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts, and more frequent droughts all look set to affect the developing world more than rich countries, they add. The report is the second chapter of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment -- the most comprehensive summary yet of research into the causes and effects of climate change. To read more, visit Effects of climate change tallied up.

Factors

Greenhouse Gases

The increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is often cited as one of the major causes of global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these gases, mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases build up and prevent additional thermal radiation from leaving the Earth, thereby trapping excess heat.

Solar Variability & Global Warming

Some uncertainty remains about the role of natural variations in causing climate change. Solar variability certainly plays a minor role, but it looks like only a quarter of the recent variations can be attributed to the Sun. At most. During the initial discovery period of global warming, the magnitude of the influence of increased activity on the Sun was not well determined.

Solar irradiance changes have been measured reliably by satellites for only 30 years. These precise observations show changes of a few tenths of a percent that depend on the level of activity in the 11-year solar cycle. Changes over longer periods must be inferred from other sources. Estimates of earlier variations are important for calibrating the climate models. While a component of recent global warming may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that component was very small compared to the effects of additional greenhouse gases. According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues.

HUMANS MADE THIS MESS AND WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN CLEAN IT UP! SAVE THE WORLD! SEA LEVELS WILL RISE, MORE INTENSE HURRICANES, AND DIRTY AIR! RECYCLE: PAPER, PLASTIC, AND BOTTLES! *YES WE CAN STOP GLOBAL WARMING!*

Answer 10

From the research I've done on: Sun cycles, El Nino versus El Nina (which we are now in an El Nina cycle), The temperature of the oceans, which are getting cooler not warmer and a few other factors. I say we are heading for a cooling trend. How long it will last I'm not 100% sure of. But the sun cycle we are heading into is suspected to last about 20 years.

Answer 11

Cooler.