What would happen to Australia if Global Warming continued to gain monentum over the next 25 years? Both East and Western seaboards.
2006-10-05 07:03:32 · 6 answers · asked by Des 2 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
You'll see a 2-5 cm raise in sea level. Which, of course, has happened before in the history of Oz.
BTW, the term is "Global climate change."
30 years ago, I was taught in school that the next ice age was coming. Now you're being taught that the next tropical age is coming. Just so you know.
2006-10-05 07:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by geek49203 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've lived in London, UK, for most of the last 38 years, and the climate here has been the same.
The Earth is about 10 billion times heavier than the human race and all our possessions, so we can't set its temperature. Similarly, we can't control the Earth's flight through space.
I agree with some environmentalist ideas, but the theory of human-induced global warming has always seemed nonsense to me.
Unfortunately, global warming is such a popular theory at the moment that public figures like politicians more-or-less have to say they believe in it.
Hopefully global warming theory will be gradually disproved over the next forty years or so, as the Earth doesn't in fact warm up.
Raising CO2 levels in the atmosphere by a factor of five or ten may well be a good thing, because CO2 is plant food; plants grow much better in higher levels of CO2. As CO2 is only about 0.03% of our atmosphere at the moment, CO2 can be increased by quite large factors and still remain a trace gas.
Having said this, the attempt to build a worldwide "carbon-neutral" economy might be beneficial, with useful technological spin-offs, in the same way that the Apollo programme was beneficial. Massive development of offshore wind farms in shallow seas sounds a good idea to me, provided they're far enough offshore not to spoil the sea view. Biofuels seem quite a good idea, too.
2006-10-05 08:05:19 · answer #2 · answered by martin48732 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Many communities have already been suffering water shortages and have had water restrictions imposed for a few years -- including Sydney.
Droughts are becoming more extreme. Much previously arable land is now being abandoned. Farmers no longer receive enough rainfall to remain viable.
Most Australians live along the coastline. If the ice caps continue to melt at current rates, the ocean levels with rise by up to 40 feet. Very many Australian coastal communities will be flooded.
Already some islands have had to be evacuated and everyone moved to New Zealand because the rising oceans have flooded them.
2006-10-05 21:27:14 · answer #3 · answered by hughgo-a-go-go 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask Ted Danson. He seems to be the only person alive who "seems" to know. Ten years ago; All the brainiacs said we'd be under water in ten years. Now they say it's another ten years. In all honesty; It's whatever it takes to continue the belief in their whacky theories.
2006-10-05 07:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by toby48315 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Home and Away and Neibours will be filmed in a desert, think of how many camel stories they could conjure.
2006-10-05 07:13:20 · answer #5 · answered by Grogsy34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy shares in sunblocker.
2006-10-05 07:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋