Will the world really end in about 50 years?

Question

To much water, No land will be dry anymore and we will drown.

Answer 1

That's it!?? Everyone RUN!!

Answer 2

If ALL the ice was to melt everywhere, the sea level would rise by 68 m. That is 223 feet.
If you check an elevation map, you will see that most land is more than 68 m above sea level, so plenty of land will remain.
Of course, very large chunks would be flooded; all of Florida, for instance (bye bye sweet orange juice...)
But to melt that much ice would take much (much much) more than 50 years.
Note: I am not saying that this will not happen, I am not saying that human activities do not have an impact, although it remains to be shown that said human activities are the primary effect at play -- there were time in the past when global temperature was actually higher than it is now (see link), and evidently something survived.
If there is a problem, perhaps we should spend some time finding a solution to it, and that may even involve orbiting shades or something like that, to reduce the heat we get from the sun.

Answer 3

Predictions like this are based on mathematical (computer projections) They're not accurate for short term predictions, they work fairly well to tell HOW something will happen, but not when. Some predictions show a waterworld, others say if the Gulf Stream is stopped by the addition of too much fresh water, that the world will freeze. Others say that global warming will drive the water to unreachable depths.
I think if the world gets worse, we will either:
A) have a world war in which the resultant population decrease will ease the strain on our resources,
B) we will learn to work together and solve a very real problem, or
C) we will work together to colonize other planets.
In any case (and I'm sure there are others) the solution involves people--which don't appear in the computer projections.

Answer 4

THE answer is: nobody knows.

To the general question of the world ending, I suppose it depends on what you mean. My world will certainly end before then. As to floods of super biblical proportions; as far as I know nobody is seriously predicting that (scientifically). So the specific answer is "No, not by flood".

Perhaps you have read (or should read) "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams? Ask Arthur Dent.

The most serious threat to mankind is mankind. Climate change is real, it happens all the time, but slowly. Even woman-made (I want to be evenhanded - and the driver for our contribution to climate change IS babies! ;p ) contributions to climate change will only be apparent slowly from decade to decade. You probably wouldn't even notice it, if there was nobody saying that the "cause" of this or that unusual weather is "Global Warming".

Assuming we can get our population growth into control to be sustainable, then even the threat by us to ourselves seems not likely to cause the extinction of one of the more sucessful species on this planet anytime soon (that's us - if I do say so myself). Species go extinct all the time, but the world has gone on for billions of years and will continue to support life for a long long long while.
Of course, there are threats we don't know about. What if the next generation of supercollider we're building produces a black hole, what if someone makes a super-sterility virus with 100% contagiousness and 100% effectiveness? What if there is a Vogon fleet heading our way?

Answer 5

The Bible itself says no one knows the day or the hour, but every generation for the last 2000 were sure that the world would end in their lifetime.

The Book of Revelation is nothing more than a guy's nightmare. Nothing more and nothing less.

Yes, there are real threats to world survival right now, whether it is global warming or some overzealous individuals who are set to kill their enemies even at the threat of their own lives and with nuclear weapons. Who knows?

We faced that threat 50 years ago, and we're facing it now and the difference is that our new enemies aren't as afraid to die.

So to answer your question, who knows? But instead of worrying as to whether the world will end in 50 years, we need to take active measure to prevent such a possibility today.

Answer 6

when the world is going to end soon in about short 50, it would not have been as peaceful as now. you wouldn't even get the chance to visit yahooanswers.

unless unexpected disaster suddenly happens.

Answer 7

NO! This is a cheap trick used by Dems and other socialists to convince YOU that THEY must be put in charge "to save you from yourself." No one knows when the world will end. It's like predicting earthquakes- it can't be done.

Answer 8

It's the weekend, lighten up. For some, this is even a holiday. Go have FUN!!!

Answer 9

the world as we know it ends every day and is reborn. and if there is a world wide flood, we will persevere. ever see waterworld?

Answer 10

not 50 years, 5000000000 years is more accurate.