what position will it place our polar bears and penguins in? extinction? will we lose antartica eventually? will we as humans get too hot?
2006-12-22 06:38:20 · 12 answers · asked by BlueberryEyes 2 in Environment
How? Well they will do what everything on this planet has done over time, evolve or die, the same as us. We need to be smarter when it comes to pollutants. We can't just stop, we aren't a "smart enough" species yet, we are too worried about making money and having fun. Even the people that ride bicycles pollute, do you know what go into a tire, what comes out, do most people even recycle them, or the paint, the metal, it all takes something bad to make, unless you live in a tree and use rocks as utensils you are "destroying" the Earth. So you decided, everyone of you.
2006-12-22 07:53:33 · answer #1 · answered by jr 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one knows and no one can even make a reasonable guess because we have no idea how warm it will get. If it gets warm enough, polar bears and penquins will have to adapt or become extinct. I would say the polar bears have a better chance of adapting to a significant change in temperatures because they are less specialized. On the other hand, there are also penquins that do not live in Antartica so once again, who knows.
No we are not going to lose Antartica, it's a continent and it's not going to get hot enough to melt rock so it will still be there. There will probably be less ice, but then there are parts of Antartica that are not covered with ice even now.
In general, life will adapt to what ever is thrown at it. It always has and it always will. Life goes on.
2006-12-22 07:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polar Bears and Penguins may have to move to the new cold spot. Everyone calls this phenomena Global Warming but it is nothing more than a change in the magnetic field of the Earth. Science has already discovered that the magnetic poles have flipped during its long life time. Yes it is a problem that many animals will have to contend with. Let us hope that the climate changes will be slow enough for them to adapt. It has been proved that animals have been able to cope fairly well as per examples of World wide Zoo's. The comfort range for humans is very large. We have survived in all climates since our brain mass is the main compensator.
2006-12-22 06:55:53 · answer #3 · answered by Pauleinstein 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If global warming was to happen all of the arctic animals would no longer have any place cold enough for them to live and the ocean would start to rise and all of the coastal areas would now be a part of the ocean, the eventually the whole world will once again be nothing but oceans and we would enter another ice age and the surviving animals would start the world again, if you watch discovery channel they talk about that all the time.
2006-12-22 07:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by Ashley Force's Biggest fan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air pollution has little direct effect on animals, though acid rain harms plant life, which animals require for food. Water pollution could make animals who drink the water very sick. Global warming may force animals to migrate to higher elevations or to higher latitudes. Animals which are already at mountaintops or the poles could be in trouble Tatersal So Maxx is using both his regular ID and one of his fake IDs to answer the same question. Doesn't he realize that if the question goes to a vote, that using both IDs for the same question will split the vote and give it to a warmer. Maxx Perhaps Tatersal is imitating you.
2016-05-23 16:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming is and will continue to have a devastating effect on all life. As a consequence of our burning fossil fuels, the world is now arming faster than any other time in millions of years. Animals and plants are unable to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and are thus dieing. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool in complete denial.
2006-12-22 09:29:10 · answer #6 · answered by Toku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I believe that the main cause of the Accelerated Global Heating is in the great and increasing forest fires that are whipping to the planet in the last years.
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2006-12-24 06:20:54 · answer #7 · answered by ELPATRON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The animals have to live in icy cold regions and if the rest of the ice melts they won't have any where to live. They will wander in search another place to live. If they venture far enough into our
'territory'(where there are no food for them). If they get hungry enough,they will eventually attack humans and then you probly know what will happen to them after that.
2006-12-22 06:51:55 · answer #8 · answered by Me 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the rainforest helps us not have global warming, but as pple cut down more and more trees, it's gonna affect us and the animals. yes it will affect the animals and yes they will go extinct. if there was global warming, we'd all die.
2006-12-22 06:41:34 · answer #9 · answered by yo! wuzzup! =) 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Makes no difference as the animals and man adapt or die.
2006-12-22 09:40:56 · answer #10 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋