Would it be better to have global warming or global "cooling"?

Question

I had just thought of this question while being bored in class and was wondering what opinions there were on this. Just note that there are so many implications from both situations that both seem as bad as the other.

And your thoughts?

hmm, lemme add examples of each:

global warming = warmer weather = dying crops = dead humans if we do not stop?

global cooling = cooler weather = utilization of more electricity = more emissions = global warming? or maybe dead people from no ample coal/light left?

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Answer 1

Planet Earth's climate has been changing throughout the course of human history!

This question is a perfect example of how memories don't really go back beyond those of our grandparents' generation. If something is in the memory of someone we know, then that is what we base our conclusions of the world on. If in grandpa and grandma's time they had cold and nasty winters, and in our time we have mild winters, then in our two to three generation memory we are having "global warming".

To make an honestly educated comment on this issue you have to look way past your grandparents' memories and read real histories going way back.

I've done this, and realize that climate is ALWAYS CHANGING.

Life on planet Earth is very adaptable as is the human race.

The climate is dynamic. It is always changing. The planet has gone through warming periods and cooling periods.

Between 1300 and as late as 1850s our planet has some of the coldest and wettest weather since the end of the last ice-age (ended about 10 - 12 thousand years ago). In fact that period was called The Little Ice Age. Glaciers advanced so much in the Alps, villages were crushed by the advancing ice!

Before the Little Ice Age, there was a WINE GRAPE growing industry in ENGLAND. The climate in the British Isles has never been that warm since. The climate is still warming. Maybe one of the results of "global warming" will be a resurgence of the English wine grape industry.

Before The Little Ice Age, there was a Viking colony in Greenland. The advancing ice and global chilling wiped out the Vikings in Greenland and almost wiped out the human population of Iceland.

Oh, and during the Little Ice Age the European nations of Spain, England and Portugal set out on the explorations that founded the countries of the Western Hemisphere. The weather may have been cold and nasty, but it didn't stop the Age of Exploration and the colonization of the "New World".

So, in the face of The Little Ice Age, human civilization did not grind to a halt. Humanity did not die out.

My guess is that with this warming period we are now in, the human race and the rest of the planet will carry on just fine.

Some species will die out. But some will rise up in their place.

Our climate is indeed warming up. Is that bad? No, not really.

Radical political elements in our society would like to use climate change as a means to take total control of the planets economic systems and put unnecessary controls on our lives. These elements would really love to stick it to the West. There are also elements in the West that would love to stick it to the West as well. Do we really want those people in charge? They are called watermelons; green on the outside and socialist red on the inside.

Answer 2

Yes you are true!
Both as bad as the other because why? It is because when sky is fulled of CO2 (global warming), the air contains with fossil fuel and the Sun could not penetrate the Earth. Thus, it contributes to global cooling. While global cooling or dimming some might call it, it is dangerous because it will reduce the tempreture and creates acid rain which can distrupt the PH in the air, water, land, plants and etc. It is becoming acidic and it could affect the nutrition value of vegetables, fruits, crops and staples food that we eat everyday.
It should be realised that climate scientists were perfectly well aware that predictions based on this global cooling but trend was not possible to make any conclusion. It is because the trend was poorly studied as compared to global warming. Finally, to curb global cooling we humans must reduce global warming 1st because more and more cases of strong hurricane, asthma among children, declining in size of ice berg in the Artic and extreme warm tempreture in the Summer.

Answer 3

In response to IndieFilmActors comment: The Earth's climate has been changing throughout the course of human history, but the change has not been so drastic as it has in the last few decades. The industrial age has caused a great increase in CO2 gases in the atmosphere. This level of change has never happened in the history of the earth- the speed of the warming has been the fastest ever recorded. The earth has warmed in the past but not at this rate. You are being ignorant in claiming we will just get along fine.

Answer 4

Geez, a real optimist you are. Are these our only choices? I would like to choose, let's fix the problem not choose how we plan to die. If I had to die in one of these ways you have given then I choose global cooling. I'd rather freeze than cook. Also if we freeze to death we will be preserved in permafrost so the next inhabitants of this earth will see us and learn from our mistakes. Be more optimistic about things.

Answer 5

thats really a good question but it is a world known fact that excess of everything is bad and global warming n cooling means excess of hot n cold . so neither is good

Answer 6

Heat is energy and according to some the life evolved on this planet due to "hot primeval soup of organic matters". But extremes are always bad.

Answer 7

If you talk about humans, humans can easily adabt to a warmer world.

Answer 8

cooling as we survived the ice-age

but we have not yet experienced global warming
(in the real sense)

Answer 9

Both global freezing and global boiling are equally good.

Answer 10

Neither. Life exist on earth b/c the conditions are perfect now.