heat wave or ice age?

Question

reading literature relating to climate change some people seem to say that the world is gonna keep getting hotter and more of a desert, others suggest that it will eventually lead to an Ice age. Which do you think will happen and why?

Answer 1

Since this is an opinion, and I don't feel like getting evidence. Basically if you believe in global warming then eventually the icecaps should melt. After they melt the earth will flood; however, anything after that is simple guessing. Perphaps then the water will evaporate at such a pace that storms will cover the world. Then again this is just an opinion, to be honest anything can happen.

Answer 2

I think that at this stage we are headed for improvement. Did you hear about the article where the ozone layer has stopped growing over antarctica? IT said that the hole will shrink to a managable size over the next 30 years or so. But--- if we keep moving on a steady pace filling up ALL the ozone holes than eventualy i think we will havea second ice age. The trick once we get to the point where the ozone hole are all a size where they will protect us from heat and from coldness is to continue to be enviornmentally consious--- and try to keep the status how it is. Now that it is stopped we still have to ry and fix it- we have to be EXTREMELY careful of how much pollutin is exhurted into the atmosphere and how much we recycle etc etc.

We will have to see what happens after the ozone holes have healed more-- if we do too much and the ozone holes start filling up and GROWING so that there is too much protection, we will be frozen popsicles....
but if we screw up again theres gonna be a heat wave.
We are walking a fine line.... tipping to one side slightly could alter the universe. WE have to be very particular and follow proffesionally laid down guidelines in order to keep the climate the way we want it.

My personal opinion is that finding a way to conserve our fossil fuel resources and use wind, solar, tidal and hydroelectic power is the main concern we need to be worried about right now,
Finding a way to not kill ourselves while using hudrogen would be LOVELY too.
Concealing fission (energy generating proces of the sun) would be great if we didnt start to turn the world into a flaming ball of doom. :)
There is so much that science can do for us and our atmosphere and it is all in the growing stages. If you ask this question 5 years from now everything people say is going to be different. Once again we are walking a fine line and we have to be evironmentally consious or something bad is going to happen. :(

thanks for reading such a long answer.

Answer 3

This depends on where and when you are. In the UK for example; the forecast warming of the Earth due to climatic perturbations and anthropogenic (human) influence, it is expected that in the next ~10,000 years, we will be in an 'ice-age' situation. This is because we are at the same latitude as Moscow, and our current climate is temperate due to the gulf stream bringing warm water from the tropics to our oceans. Long-term predictions are that the melting of ice in a warming Earth in the long term will be sufficient to inject cold, fresh water into the thermo-haline circulation of the North Atlantic ocean. This may have the effect of closing down the gulf stream, and hence the UK reverting to the climatic characteristics that are typical of other countries on this latitude. The shut down of the gulf stream in our case would overcome a change in temperature of a couple of degrees from global warming, leading to a colder climate. This will vary across the world, depending on latitude, and importantly atmospheric and oceanic circulations. So yeah, a bit of both really

Answer 4

Here in the UK we are in for a mini ice age shortly. This will have to happen prior to heat wave due to the North Atlantic Deep Water Effect. Warmer water going from the equator north will eventaually stop the current causing the northern hemisphere to cool (http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011116meltwater.html). It is a very interesting topic and one that us "flat earthers" an look at to counter the question of global warming and mans input

Answer 5

Could be either....we are so insinificant on this tiny Planet that it makes no difference one way or the other. The vastness of space and time leave us standing....maybe our Sun is going through a normal cycle of cooldown which has probably happened a hundred times before....the trouble is that these cycles happen over millions of years, impossible to comprehend in our pathetic little narrow minds. We will all be wiped out just like the previous Earth colonies were and after another few million years maybe another Frog will crawl out of the sea to begin the next generation

Answer 6

The polar systems of our world are depleting due to climate change, this can cause land erosion, severe weather conditions, whatever, we will adapt. The real problem is for those people living some fifty million years from now, each year, the moon slowly moves away from us, there will come a time when it will just be too far away to control our gravitational point, (this is what stops us from hurtling out of control) and thats when our descendants start worrying.

Answer 7

Seems that at least part of the world is going to get a bit of an ice age in the near future, as soon as the ocean conveyor up into the north atlantic shuts down...

Answer 8

It'll have different effects depending upon where you live.

In the UK for example, it's like that as the ice caps melt and eventually as the less and less water comes from them, then the gulf stream will falter. That being the case, the UK will be cooler than it is now.

The planet as a whole will get warmer though.

Answer 9

Heat wave. Well, the earth is very much warmer compared to centuries ago. See how our very own earth get baked by emission of CO2, CH4, CO, HFC... All e greenhouse gases due to our ever increasing demands. And scientists have shown that we are now warmer than any year in the past. Therefore in future, all due to our needs and the desires of all countries in developing economicall, none of us is spared from living in a warmer earth...

Answer 10

the heat wave is related to global warming. the 2 are related but the republicans keep denying such a thing exists so they can keep polluting the environment and make more profits. did yu see Gore's movie? scary! Gore for president?