I have been reading, and there is no denying a change in climate. I don't want to hear about polar bears, species have been going extinct for billions of years. I'm sure the first people of the planet were distraught to find no mammoth, but I'm sure they didn't miss sabre tooth tigers eating them. Climate change will change the coastline and our weather, but is it going to kill us, or will our coasts just move, and our humanity adjust and survive?
2006-12-16 09:14:49 · 8 answers · asked by bsquared 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Just look at how long global warming has been going on: the last Ice Age ended 11,000 years ago. In that time frame humankind has increased from several million (just a guess, I don't know the real number of humans 11,000 years ago) to over 6 billion. I don't see how climate change has hurt us yet.
2006-12-16 10:45:34 · answer #1 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
http://www.ktvu.com/globalwarming/9410704/detail.html
This is a link I found. I have heard that the Earth has a "fever," which is startling scientists right now. The scientists have been watching the migration of plankton (which live in the warmest of waters in the south). The plankton are moving north, because the warm waters that they like are getting too warm.
Also, I have been keeping track of this "fever," which is also going to kill off most of the 6 billion people living on this planet, leaving about less than a tenth.
Do not quote me to these estimations, these are just things I have read as I have been following the developments.
Read some of the things that Al Gore have been saying. He's trying to make people aware of this this planet is going through.
2006-12-16 09:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by Tasha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Hard to say. With the exception of current species, ALL species even formed have become extinct. Just part of the process. Certainly our over-population is not sustainable, with or without climate change.
2006-12-16 09:23:31 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We will adjust and recover. Hopefully enough of our records will survive to remind us as a species not to engage in fanciful flights of technological utopianism.
2006-12-16 10:04:01 · answer #4 · answered by Dwain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is doubtful we will become extinct. we have lived through ice ages before, and our big strength as a species is our adaptability. It may, however, destroy civilisation, and all the things that go with it. I would suggest you learn how to grow food.
2006-12-16 09:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It won't be climate change making you extinct.
2006-12-16 09:23:05 · answer #6 · answered by LucySD 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are right. We are all goners.
Start having wild unprotected sex and spend all of your savings. Live like there is no tomorrow. Because there isn't.
2006-12-16 09:24:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can only hope...*
*note: ambiguity of answer is deliberate...
2006-12-16 09:28:22 · answer #8 · answered by K V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋