What are the effects of Global Warming?

Question

I read somewhere skin cancer (from the large hole in the ozone layer) is a direct result of global warming. What are the other results of global warming.. that should scare humans?

Answer 1

Fluctuations in weather patterns and changes in agricultural land use.
Changing borders, civil and military disruptions and conflicts. Ocean levels rising due to melted Glaciers and expansion of the seawater itself.

But the penguins will survive. They already live in South Africa and Patagonia, they can cope with a warmer Antarctica. Although they may become food for human squatters there!

Answer 2

I have to get this off my chest first. Don't see "The Day After Tomorrow" if you are looking for scientific fact. Every climatologist who saw that movie laughed out loud. There is a class at my college analyzing bad science in Hollywood films, and my friend said they spent a week dissecting how horrible it was.

That being said, here's what you should know about global warming.
1) Yes, the average Earth surface temperature has risen by 1 F in the last 100 years
2) Since that number is an average, it would help to know that the largest increase is above the Artic Circle (Siberia, ect) and that the temperature has gone from -40 F to -35 F. Not really something to panic over. The cold air is still cold. Check.
3) The 'increase in wildfires' people state is bunk. Fires are at the same level now as they were in the 20's and 30's. It was during the early periods of Smokey the Bear when people did everything they could to stop fires. What they were doing was building up fuel that nature should have been burning a long time ago. Now it has reached a critical point and this stuff has just got to burn.
4) Al Gore's "200 cities last year broke heat records" is pointless. There are tens of thousands of cities in America, of course some of them will break records (and as stated above, the heat increase didn't occur as drastically over industrialized areas, only in Arctic Circle).
5) As I searched through papers on the subject, people in favor of taking action against global warming (doomsdayers) were always omitting numbers and chopping graphs off at arbitrary points. Their claims are baseless unless they skew their data to look disastrous. If you look far back enough in time, the data looks normal.

I could go on forever so I'll stop. Don't take my word for it. Read both sides of the issue thouroughly.

Answer 3

Thats due to the pollution the Ozone layer is getting effected and the sun rays are direct and sever on us, whis is resulting many factors like, sunburns, skin diseases, hot climate. Other effecte with this global warming are, hot climate which evoparates all the water and there wont be less rains, which leads to many factors later, and because of this the poles are also started melting, the fact for the melting was that the polar bears are reduced and they are not getting the enough food which is resulting their weight loss. Now a days even in some cold countries the climate is hot which people are not able to bare.

Answer 4

Mostly fear and panic.

Global warming has NOTHING to do with the ozone layer. That would be CFC's. Try to keep your disasters straight.

Global warming would melt the polar caps, increasing the water content of BOTH the oceans AND the air. That means more cloud cover, which would reflect sunlight away from the earth more efficiently than the greenhouse effect can trap it. Bottom line? The earth isn't going to die because of a few smokestacks. Volcanoes are far more damaging than mankind can possibly be.

Answer 5

I don't believe that the hole in the ozone layer is as a result of Global Warming. It is as a result of pollution, CFCs and other ozone depleting chemicals/substances released into the atmosphere. I think that most of those are not being used as much as they were...

The theory behind global warming is that there is an increase in greenhouse gases that are causing the temperature of the earth to rise as it is trapping more of the sun's energy.

Effects from that ("Day After Tomorrow" postulates some of them) could be/are increasing temperature in the oceans causing more storms and hurricanes... melting icecaps, damaging fragile ecosystems, changing currents, more extremes of weather....

People who don't believe in Global Warming ("State of Fear" Michael Crichton) don't think that a) it is really happening b) that human CO2 production is not a cause, c) the science behind it is shaky and there is evidence on either side enough to throw it into doubt.

Answer 6

The hole in the Ozone was basically caused by chemicals such as those in solvents, airspreys, deodrant, etc.
Ozone is O3. It's not very stable. When introducing nother chemical to it, it gets broken down. This made a wapping great big hole that caused skin cancer, yes.

And it aided global waring. The warming wasn'yt a cause ina nd of itself, they're just both symptoms of the polution we're creating.

Global warming causes weather polarisation, and a general ehating of the planet - eventually resulting in freaky weather, and a mini iceage.

Answer 7

Other results of global warming?

The melting of the polar Ice caps - this will eventually come and bite us in the rear. Why? because these ice caps are at the north and south pole, and they are there for a reason. Once they melt, the sea level may go up a few feet, and we may fall back into an ice age. Watch "The Day After Tomorrow". There is lots of true and scientific information on that movie.

Answer 8

An increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes MAY be a result of warming. However, scientists speculated, long before "global warming" was a catch phrase, that we were coming out of a long spell of particularly good weather.

On the other hand, I'm told there was a hurricane south of the equator, last yr, and that scientists didn't expect that to happen for at least 50 yrs.

Answer 9

OK, first off- do you know the difference between "junk science" and "real science"?

When you research all these papers on Global Warming- whos paying for the research?

Example: RJ Morris paid researchers to discover that cigarettes wern't addictive, dangerious or contained nicotine. Just so they could go into court and say "Our research shows your wrong".

Follow the money and ask yourself quesitons like "Whos writing these reports and whos getting the cash?"

Example: recycling companys want global warming so they get federal tax breaks. Al Gore wants global warming so he can be the next president of the United States

Answer 10

Oh, where to begin... Lots of things to scare humans, for example...

- Glaciers are melting already (that's a fact)

- Plants and animals are being forced from their habitat

- The number of severe storms and droughts is already increasing

- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.

- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.

- Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide

- Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense

- Droughts and wildfires will occur more often

- The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050

- More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050

Al Gore has a really informative "movie" out called "An Inconvenient Truth"--I haven't seen it, but am planning to see it. I got the above bullets from their Web site.