Whats so bad about Global warming?

Question

Hotter, longer summers.

More interesting wildlife coming to britain.

Exciting tropical storms on the horizon.

Potential to be in some kind of global adventure like in the film 'The Day after Tommorow'

Global Warming………I say go for a drive tonight, get your aerosols out and speed the process up……bring it on!!

Answer 1

Superb Question! LOL

Most people are talking about the problems of sea level rises on here, so just a comment...

Isn't it amazing that planet Earth has had sea level rises throughout its history, and nobody thinks that they were a problem in the past. BUT, now that it's going to affect US HUMANS, NOW it's a BIG problem and it must be prevented at all cost! How arrogant are we???

A couple of comments on things others have said...

DanE said - "There is also a POTENTIAL for large-scale and POSSIBLY irreversible impacts which pose risks that HAVE YET TO BE RELIABLY QUANTIFIED; their likelihood is PROBABLY VERY LOW but is expected to increase with the rate, magnitude, and duration of climate change." - You've got to love quotes like that, haven't you?

mannyhoggstrom - "Burn and crisp like a roasted concor
And freeze likea popstickal " - So we're going to burn AND freeze? However will we manage that???

Kidambi A - "Well for one thing, there won't be any land left for you go for a drive.." - So rising sea levels are going to cover ALL the land now, are they?

LOL

You've got to love scare-mongerers, haven't you? :)

Answer 2

Haha, I think you're baiting us, but...

It sounds like you're in Great Britain. You should know then, that the gulf stream, which keeps you from having the climate of, say, Greenland is dependent on the temperature differential of two masses of water in the ocean. As the oceans heat up this differential is reduced.

This could *possibly* shut down the gulf stream. Rather than hotter, longer summers, say hello to permafrost and two months of no snow!

Fun!

-Mike

PS- Aerosols are implicated in Ozone layer destruction, a different environmental problem.

Answer 3

I couldn't agree more that in 50 years of this pollution, we will certainly live in adventurous times.

I must comment I find it hilarious what some of these folks have written. 140 degree temperatures? Besides a rare occurence in the Jurassic era, you are going back 3 billion years when our atmosphere had no oxygen and the seas boiled. Sea level increases to bury Great Britain and large swaths of land? Read a report on estimated sea level increases.

I may be against carbon emitting, but whacko-environmentalists and dooms day theories make it much more difficult to make progress in reducing emissions.

Answer 4

Many observations indicate that global warming effects has taken place during the 20th century. global warming effects has resulted in a increase of the average surface temperature, a decrease in snow cover and ice extent and a rise of the sea level. Moreover, global warming effects affects precipitation, cloud cover and extreme temperatures

Regional changes in climate, particularly increases in temperature, have already affected some physical and biological systems.

Both natural and human systems are vulnerable to climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. This vulnerability varies with geographic location, time, and social, economic and environmental conditions.

Some extreme weather events and the damage, hardship, and death they cause are projected to increase with global warming. There is also a potential for large-scale and possibly irreversible impacts which pose risks that have yet to be reliably quantified; their likelihood is probably very low but is expected to increase with the rate, magnitude, and duration of climate change.

Man will have to adapt to and cope with the climate change consequences that are not prevented by mitigation. Economic losses can be expected, especially in poorest regions; the higher the warming, the greater the losses. Promoting adaptation, sustainable development and equity can be mutually reinforcing.

Answer 5

I'm still waiting to wear my autumn/winter coat and it's pretty god damn cool.
Serious though, we'll live in a totally different world the way it's going, some of the most unique and interesting wildlife face a fight against extinction.
I know the motor industry has a lot to do with this. But isn't it time we looked into aeroplanes as well. The amount of damage 1 flight does is unprecedented.

Answer 6

Well for one thing, there won't be any land left for you go for a drive..

And there won't be any wildlife.. because, for wildlife to exist, there should be land and some forests.. so on... which won't be there.. the whole world will be covered with one long boring ocean...

And it will all happen in a couple of hundred years, which is too small for evolution to give all the land species gills, which some more movies profess will happen...

And btw.. britain might be one of the first few places to sink.. it being such a small island...

Answer 7

The biggest worry is if the Antarctic melts. It will cause sea levels to rise by quite a bit. Even a 10 meter rise in sea level would cause a dramatic reduction in usable land. Some countries, such as Bangladesh, would almost disappear, and many island states would completely disappear.

Answer 8

Couldn't agree more. I for one welcome the onset of global warming. I don't have to put on my central heating until November, I can keep my natural tan topped up for longer and surely the extra water from the melting polar ice caps will come in useful for something.

I'm with you. Let's "warm the globe". Which incidentally fits quite neatly as a replacement for "feed the world" if we ever needed a motivational song.

Answer 9

I agree. The hotter it gets there will be no need to fly abroad to exotic places; it will be warm enough here! The reduction in plane carbon emmisions will be enormous.

Just invest in shares of sun cream manufacturers, get the deck chairs out and enjoy!

Answer 10

So you are welcoming the next ice age? It will come eventually but why speed it up?