What will happen to mankind if Global warming carries on?

Question

I want to know what will happen to us if GLOBAL warming carries on?

Answer 1

Supposedly lots of floods due to melting of the ice caps. Actually, global dimming was also a problem but is being tackled more quickly than global warming (getting rid of particulates in the atmosphere). Now, the reduction in global dimming is letting the full effects of global warming (that dimming was masking), be felt.

Answer 2

The real answer is.... not much.

Despite what the scare-mongerers would like you to believe, the results of global warming will *not* be as bad as they are suggesting.

Always remember that it has been hotter than it is today in the past and we survived without any problem at all. During the Medieval Warm Period, at the beginning of the last millennium, it was 3°C warmer than it is today. The Vikings had settlements and farms on Greenland where today there is nothing but permafrost, and we could grow grapes in England.

You hear a lot of nonsense about what is going to happen. On this question, the award for funniest bit of scare-mongerering is currently held by "nived j" with his quote...

"supposedly by 2060 the Earths temperature would rise 2 degrees above the existing temperature which would melt down half the ice caps both on the north and south pole, which would in turn raise the level of sea water submerging 25 percent of the existing land around the world"

25%!!! ROFLMAO

Please note that 80% of the glaciers being monitored in Antarctica are *growing*. And I say again, it was 3°C warmer than now during the Medieval Warm Period and southern England didn't disappear under the sea!

Oh, and global warming will *not* cause famine. Actually, plants *like* warmth and CO2, so they'll grow faster and we'll have bigger crops, so more food.

And of course, the latest news is that temperatures have not risen as much as predicted over the last few years. So, the global warming alarmists have told us that this is because the extra warmth has been absorbed by the sea. Oh really? Strange that the sea only started doing this now. It couldn't be that they're just plain wrong, now could it?

Answer 3

A United Nations report due out next year will say that mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25%.

Whilst it predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, this is significantly less than some of the Global Warming scaremongers have been predicting.
The IPCC has also been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise in the next hundred years from 34 in to 17 in.
Global Warming enthusiasts have distorted and grossly exaggerated figures. Such transparent wrongful data has harmed their cause substantially. The US government has actually cut back on related energy research and many people are seeing Global Warming as bunk.
But there is a real problem that is called Climate change. Most scientists in the field and most sensible people interested in the environment have recognised it for years.
Whilst the dire prediction of the Global Warmers are grossly exaggerated they do detract and distract from the real problems of the world climate. They have become the real problem and threat to the world!!!
It is time to ditch the discredited term ‘Global Warming’, recognise the term ‘Climate Change’ and get on with the problem of identifying, quantifying and seeking solutions. We need to curb carbon emissions, find new power sources and fuels, but most of all we need some good scientific research and honest and open minded debate.

Answer 4

IF Global warming increases at this rate..Then supposedly by 2060 the Earths temperature would rise 2 degrees above the existing temperature which would melt down half the ice caps both on the north and south pole, which would in turn raise the level of sea water submerging 25 percent of the existing land around the world and it would also make a great difference in the climatic conditions around the world. You would have long winters..or long summers... Drought...or extreme rains. Due to which the crops wouldnt grow which in turn would result in famine... Many people would die due to plague. Many new diseases would arise. Many species would get extinct. Cyclones and tornadoes would be common. and much much much more.

Answer 5

Hello,

If mankind goes on comsuming the earths limited resources at its present rate of consumption (which logically isnt sustainable in the lomg term) and also carries on polluting the planet in the same ways (dumping stuff in the sea's, the air, into the soil,etc).

The consiquences on the global eco-system will be clear and obvious (are already, the writing is already on the wall metaphorically speaking). The theory that has been put forwards by climate scientists is that as carbon emmissions will increase and that a tipping point will eventually be reached and climate changes will nolonger be controllable or reversable.

**The worst emmissions come directly from Aviation & Car engnes. But jet engines do the most harm, why because the pollution goes directly into the top parts of the atmosphere and thus do the most damage. I heard it said that Jet engine exhuast is x3 more damaging than anything else. Let alone the amount of tons of carbon added to the atmosphere.

**The impact will result (worst case senario) in ever increasing gloabl warming, this will leading to wide spread temperature changes which will threaten human suvival. Deserts will expand on all the major continents, that means loss of farming land and hence loss of crops used to feed human populations, sea level rise due to water unlocked from the polar ice sheets as the ice caps melt. Life for humans doesnt look very secure if the worst case scenario comes to pass.

**I stress this is the worst case scenario but nobody knows how fast or slowly this might happen. And nobody knows if the earth is itself capable of self correction or a kind of rebalancing in the entire system.

**I doubte I shall see catastrophic climate changes in my life time, I think we are talking 50 years plus. Its the future generations we need to worry about, what kind of conditions will they face, what kind of planet will they be left with? After our selfishness, as a result of our greed, as a result of global capitolism.

IR

Answer 6

Throughout time, the climate of our planet has been changing. Sometimes it has been much hotter than current times, sometimes colder, it is not a "fixed" system. In the past climatic change has caused extinctions because certain species could not adapt, these extinctions opened niches in the ecology for other species to evolve. Modern man has evolved into his current environment because he is able to adapt, the last 11 to 15 thousand years have been climatically benign allowing "modern civilisation" to evolve.

As the climate changes, and it will as it always has done, I suspect this "modern civilisation" to break down. Wars will be fought over dwindling resources, over population will use up living space and I suspect starvation as crops fail. It's called evolution in action. I don't think the human species will become extinct, but there will certainly be far less of us and our descendants will have a very different society from those of us today.

Global warming or climate change will carry on, it is a fallacy to believe man can stop it, we will have to learn to live with and adapt to it just as our ancestors did.

Answer 7

global warming is going to carry on and heres what will happen..
ice caps will melt, polar bears will die, sea levels will rise, half of the south (of england that is) will end up under water and the tiniest bout of rain will result in flash floods! Also the ozone is being destroyed so more of the harmfull rays from the sun will get in and more of us will die from cancers of the skin and stuf.. However one should bear in mind that the gulf stream is slowing and within 10 years this bad boy could stop which would somehow result in another ice age so don't throw your coat away just yet! I aint joking! x

Answer 8

If global warming continues and maybe accelerates, it will cause severe problems in maybe 200 years time. There are more imminent and dangerous threats to humankind. Widespread release of radioactive material of long half-life is the scariest.

Answer 9

Don't worry; it won't - as the oil, and indeed, all forms of fossil fuel, will run out long before 'Global Warming' has any meaningful effect.

Answer 10

us?.....well your right ...we are part of the chain.....but what can happen is the ocean temperature changes...and a lot of species live for that , for navigating to their breeding grounds, which in the long run they cant breed, the food chain of all animals change...which in effect will effect us.......it is somthing to worry about.......but there other things besides global warming.......like polar change...which is due anytime....thats where the north becomes the south, and the south becomes the north.....flips..but anyway, dont worry about things like that, just be you and treat your fellow man kind................