will global warming affect us greatly in our generation?

Answer 1

Well, it will in our area. Last winter we got alot o' snow. This year Squat Zilch Nada...I can't even tell its winter! Not to mention money spent on jackets and what not. What do i have to show for it? Nothing. Not even a lousy snow-day...(don't take this rage in as against you. just answering in my own strange way)
(Dumb childish answer aside...)
Not to mention, if o-zone goes bye-bye, so do we. i doubt it would fatally deteriorate in our generation. (not mine at least, (Middle School)

Answer 2

Did global warming stop in 1998?



The official thermometers at the U.S. National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005.

Actually, global warming is likely to continue—but the interruption of the recent strong warming trend sharply undercuts the argument that our global warming is an urgent, man-made emergency. The seven-year decline makes our warming look much more like the moderate, erratic warming to be expected when the planet naturally shifts from a Little Ice Age (1300–1850 AD) to a centuries-long warm phase like the Medieval Warming (950–1300 AD) or the Roman Warming (200 BC– 600 AD).

The stutter in the temperature rise should rein in some of the more apoplectic cries of panic over man-made greenhouse emissions. The strong 28-year upward trend of 1970–1998 has apparently ended.

Fred Singer, a well-known skeptic on man-made warming, points out that the latest cooling trend is dictated primarily by a very warm El Nino year in 1998. “When you start your graph with 1998,” he says, “you will necessarily get a cooling trend.”

Bob Carter, a paleoclimatologist from Australia, notes that the earth also had strong global warming between 1918 and 1940. Then there was a long cooling period from 1940 to 1965. He points out that the current warming started 50 years before cars and industries began spewing consequential amounts of CO2. Then the planet cooled for 35 years just after the CO2 levels really began to surge. In fact, says Carter, there doesn’t seem to be much correlation between temperatures and man-made CO2.

For context, Carter offers a quick review of earth’s last 6 million years. The planet began that period with 3 million years in which the climate was several degrees warmer than today. Then came 3 million years in which the planet was basically cooling, accompanied by an increase in the magnitude and regularity of the earth’s 1500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles.

Speaking of the 1500-year climate cycles, grab an Internet peek at the earth’s official temperatures since 1850. They describe a long, gentle S-curve, with the below-mean temperatures of the Little Ice Age gradually giving way to the above-the-mean temperatures we should expect during a Modern Warming.

Carter points out that since the early 1990s, the First World’s media have featured “an increasing stream of alarmist letters and articles on hypothetical, human-caused climate change. Each such alarmist article is larded with words such as ‘if’, ‘might,’ ‘could,’ ‘probably,’ ‘perhaps,’ ‘expected,’ ‘projected’ or ‘modeled’—and many . . . are akin to nonsense.”

Carter also warns that global cooling—not likely for some centuries yet—is likely to be far harsher for humans than the Modern Warming. He says, “our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate. But for more than 90 percent of the last 2 million years, the climate has been colder, and generally much colder, than today. The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming.”

Since the earth is always warming or cooling, let’s applaud the Modern Warming, and hope that the next ice age is a long time coming.

Answer 3

i've got faith it grew to become into any incorrect way around for a protracted time, scientists that supported international warming have been refrained from and that i've got faith it is genuine that the medical information that the Bush administration amassed on international warming grew to become into altered. in spite of the undeniable fact that there's no question that the earth is warming up merely seems at how plenty the glaciers international have shrunk in spite of the undeniable fact that i think of that the call remains out. each and every ice age has been preceded via a warming era and scientists have reason to have faith that the time-physique for it isn't any longer inevitably thousand of years yet would desire to be plenty plenty swifter. So are people inflicting international warming? I take a grey approach of the placement and say we specific the heck are no longer helping. you won't be in a position to deny the effect that people have on the ambience. seem at China with it is lax rules, the area is an environmental nightmare. according to probability international warming is a conflict cry for liberals yet whats up could it no longer be extra useful for us and the international if we went eco-friendly besides international warming or no longer? Oh and surely come across a practicable option to grease. we might make the international a cleanser place decrease down on respiration illnesses, acid rain, smog and better of all tell all those crackpot dictators who administration each and every of the oil what to bypass do with themselves! Heck merely that on my own could be sufficient for the government and massive employer to push for replace. regrettably I worry that the U. S. would be left interior the dirt lower back. the jap and Europe will prefect the hot technologies and industry them to us and as quickly as lower back this united states will of dropped the ball on the subsequent vast factor.

Answer 4

Yes. Try going to Google or something and search Global warming and see what comes up.

Answer 5

According to very well respected professor at UCLA, Jared Diamond, at the current rate of destruction of the environment the earth will no longer be able to support human life in about 50 years.

Answer 6

It already has. In Massachusetts it always snows from Nov. to March. It hasn't snowed once yet. In two days,Jan. 6Th 2007 the weather has been forecast to be 64 degrees. It's supposed to be in the teens this time of year with tons of snow . My grass is still as green as it is in the summer time. It is supposed to be brown and dead all winter.

Answer 7

Nope. Because in 15-20 years, not only will global warming STILL BE A MYTH, but scientists will have reverted back to the 'global cooling' theory that was as popular in the 60's and 70's as Global Warming is now. Straight and simple: Earth goes through warmer and cooler cycles, and humans have such a minimal effect on it, that it's not even worth considering.

Answer 8

Well if the polar icecaps melt then some of easttern and western america will be flooded ( Trust me i know this stuff im really a duck Quack! Quack!)

Answer 9

Probably were i live we are supposed have quite a bit of snow here and it hasn't snowed once


IT's changing the climate

Answer 10

Yes,

"Every Action has a reaction. We've got one planet, one chance."
-- Rise Against