Is global warming a good or a bad thing?

Question

ok we'll lose some island chains, parts of florida, and lowland asia and europe and deserts will become hell on earth and may spread.

But think of all the land that might become habitable, greenland, antartica, canada ....

lol. by the way I'm not in the first grade (whatever that is). All i was saying is that depending on how 'bad' ie how great the increase in temp. is - there could be benefits depending on where you live. eg England will have might get nice hot beaches etc.

By the way the film 'the day after tommorrow' is a load of codswollop! The first 5 minutes are based on science the rest is follywood. It is not proven that the disruption to the north atlantic drift will cause major freezing and if it did it would liely affect the UK and europe more than north america, unless all the other currents are disrupted to. anyway i'm not sure I buy that film. seems like america or 2otyh century fox dumbing down the idea of global warming and peoples perception of it.

Answer 1

Go see Al Gore's movie.

Answer 2

Here is something to think about don't believe me check this stuff out...

1.Water(H2O) is the only element known to man to expand when it freezes every other element contracts when it freezes so that is the first fact. For example fill a milk jugg with water, now stick it in the freezer... come back later and it will have exploded from preassure of freezing water.

2.Icebergs are massive chunks of ice, only a few percent of the ice is above water, which means the rest of the ice is underwater.

3.The ice underwater because water expands when it freezes is displacing the liquid water. So when that iceberg melts all the ice under the water will contract and fill a smaller space, so the level of the water will be less now because the ice which was displacing the liquid water is unfrozen and now occupies a less amount of space.

4.Scientific models show that if all the ice on this planet melted we would see a 3" DROP in ocean levels NOT a rise but a DROP.

Now isn't that interesting.

Now for the greenhouse gasses.

1.Plants LOVE a carbon dioxide rich air supply.

2.The more carbon dioxide their is the faster they grow.

3.Plants use photosynthesis to get their food so they can grow.

4.When the plants sense a higher level of carbon dioxide they will make up for it by sucking up more and more and one of the products of photosynthesis is OXYGEN!!

5.So no matter how much CARBON DIOXIDE there is the plants will COMPENSATE and suck up more and grow faster and bigger. and the bigger the plant is the more OXYGEN it produces through photosynthesis

Answer 3

I don't think there is any evidence that there would be a lot of "new" land opening up - besides, even if we assumed that was correct, there is a laundry list of other problems that global warming is causing. For example, there is a big problem of coral bleaching in our oceans because of the heat. So what, right? Well, coral is one of the "bedrocks" of the oceans ecosystem - it collapses and it is like taking the bottom out of a stack of cards. Fish go - and then people that depend on fish. Look at Katrina, and the likelihood of hurricanes happening other places (including New York) has increased. Additionally, if we start losing massive amounts of plants that can't adjust to the changes, we lose massive amounts of O2. I could go on.

Answer 4

I know this doesn't get much play nowadays in the alarmist media. But if people decided to do some research you might learn that global warming is a theory NOT a fact.

The earth has existed for BILLIONS of years, yet we think that based on 100 years of data we can conclude that we are going to hell in a handbasket.

Before civilization there were forest fires that burned out of control, producing pollution and CO2. It wasn't the combustible engine as Al Gore would have you believe.

Answer 5

Yes, but lmand isn't a problem in many countries, but their plantations; crops and rainforests keeping weather cool, this is important.

Raise of temperature can desestabilize Forests and many countries just will need change from one culture to another culture.

Desertification process will increase (Sahara will becames bigger, there is the risk to Amazonia becomes an desert).

More stronger Hurricanes and Twisters.

We are talking abut histerical weather util things stabilize, damaging entire food production. It will rise prices and can bring a problems at a political, social and economical levels.

Problem isn't about land, but about dependency from what we have now. Can you immagine just go to Tundra to cultivate crops? How USA would pay that? Their production would decrease largelly.

Higher temperatures can also change food chain in oceans and for examples, decrease 10° Celsius in UK because more water from poles can do it. 10° less means no letugas, salads and a lot of fruits.

Problem is Food, Industries (colapse then will colapse NASDAC and NY stock Market).... deeper, deeper.

Answer 6

It is bad thing if to take scientifically. But emotionally it can be hardly taken as a bad thing because it includes a word "warming" and highest damage for nature is done by countries, which are far not so warm and where people do not like cold. So these key people may be not sensitive to this issue just because it is not "global heating". E.g. frozen Russian people this winter in Russia.

Answer 7

I'm not an expert on global warming... but I guess we should take into acount that with global warming we might get more habitable land, as you suggested, we will also be losing land that is already inhabited... like Holland, which is already below sea level.
As for "good" or "bad"... those are human labels applied to the natural causes of things. Maybe it's not good for us.. but I guess the earth just does what it does...

Answer 8

It will be good for some areas, very bad for others. If there was no preexisting civilization/infrastructure, it probably would not matter that much. There won't be enough of a change to threaten our existence from a climate/physiological perspective only.

And yes, I am a climatologist and a doctor and I shine shoes over the weekend.

Answer 9

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors

Answer 10

like people say, it's only bad if you don't want earth to radically change.
the earth and the universe are so much bigger and more important than humans.
the earth will do as it wants.

it is a shame, that to our knowledge we are the ONLY planet in existance with life on it, and it's sad that humans are the things which have the greatest ability to appreciate it and express themselves about it, and all we do is fk it up and fight each other.

personally I don't think humans deserve the earth, so I don't much care if we all die.

abusing something as beautiful as earth, then loving yourself because you have somthing that you think rewards your right to live, is short sighted and disgusting.

so if global warming kills humans, cool!
or hot..........which ever is actually in motion

christians, pc world staff and fat woman first hahaha

Answer 11

In short term, is a very very bad thing, just watch Ice Age 2 for no brainer. In long term, it doesn’t really mater. Look at us, Homo sapiens are the result of the previous global warming.