what is the significane of global warming to us in the near future?

Answer 1

oh dear there are still people that don't beleive that human induced global warming is occuring. the fact that the planet has cooled and warmed over the millenia and the centuries is not altogether relevant and certainly doesn't discount human induced global warming. The key word here is RATE. Yes the earth is possibly going through a natural warming phase but the rate of that temperature increase is far more rapid than anything gone before. (and the rates are known from studying air bubbles in ice arctic ice sheets) And so this great rate possibly spells doom for many living ecosystems. Coral reefs are already suffering with a third already dead.

But to all the global warming spectics: Do you really think the thousands and millions of tonnes of Co2 we churn out every month doesn't have some sort of effect on climate or at very least the atmosphere ???

Answer 2

Putting the freak weather and flooding aside, the changes that we already see in the UK, such as daffodils appearing increasingly earlier in the year at an alarmingly noticable rate, are evidence that we are seeing an increase in temperature here. Daffodils, along with many other plants, insects, animals and other organisms can be very sensitive to minute changes in temperature.

For instance, a 1 degree difference could determin whether a particular fungus thrives or not. This fungus may have one or several species that depend upon it solely for food. If the fungus does not thrive, due to new temperature conditions, the dependant species might also have problems thriving, and populations will decline. It will then have some sort of knock on effect with its predator, either by limiting the food supply, or causing the predator to prey on other species, suddenly limiting their population too. It can go on from there.

Similarly, if the fungus thrives moreso under new conditions, it could upset the balance, and have similar detramental effects.

Indeed, the world has been changing for a very long time, and who is to say that it is our business to protect every species that we come across and try to keep the world as status quo? Perhaps it is not. But perhaps then it is not our place to be inducing change in such an uneducated, naive and self indulgent manner.

By the way, fossil fuels are only gonna last us another 20 or 30 years or so if we carry on at this rate. Anyone up for putting an investment into hydroelectric power?

Answer 3

Since the last ice age 10 000 years ago the earth is getting warmer this fluctuates from century to century .In the 1650 s the climate here was far warmer than Spain so much so that malaria was common place.This mas histeria by media dont buy it.The earth will not end nor will there be any more hurricanes etc than there is now

Answer 4

In the near future the significance is certainly "insignificant." In the long term the significance cannot be predicted anymore than one can predict the weather 364 days from now regardless of what the global warming soothsayers claim.

Answer 5

The earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years even before we were here I think it's arrogant to think that man can make that much a difference on the earth. The Mt St Helen eruption in the 80's put more ash, soot and carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that all cars ever made and that was just one volcano.

Answer 6

in the near future...not a lot, in about a hundred or a thousnd years, ...considerably.
but then again, its what you should expect, when without doubt, we are on a sliding run, towards the next ice-age.
they come around every eleven thousand years or so, and bgger all we do, is gonna change the geological, or astronomical life cycle of the earth!

Answer 7

Larger than normal variations in weather conditions: dry spells/droughts, heavy rain/floods. It's already happening.

Answer 8

Our ability to adapt, individually and as a species, will be sorely tested.

Some people will no longer be able to go to bingo.

Answer 9

it will get really hot and melt the ice caps (north pole and south pole) and then that extra water will overflood the world

Answer 10

NONE JUST ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CON TRICK, SUPPORTED BY THE GOODY GOODY NERDS WHO LIKE HIGH TAXES ETC ETC, READ YOUR BOOKS ,ITS JUST A PHASE HISTORY REPEATS IT SELF!