2007-01-12 13:14:57 · 6 answers · asked by mickey 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Global warming is affecting regional weather patterns. It means more storms, more rain, all around "different" not just warming.
Economics relies a lot on local long term investments. There are all kinds of examples of what is happening. Economics and people may have to adapt faster to changing conditions.
Some examples:
You build and advertise a ski hill and you get no snow.
You have a Florida orange orchard but the crop is completely destroyed by frost every year.
You have an apple Orchard in Washington but a wind storm and snow storm destroy the trees.
You have a oyster farm in the South Atlantic and hurricanes wipe out your 5 year old crop.
The oil refinery production is cut back by a hurricane.
You sell snowmobiles in snow country but their is not enough snow.
2007-01-12 22:03:27 · answer #1 · answered by JuanB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My God! does not anybody be taught history. What in regards to the 30's and the great drought? those issues have been taking place as a results of fact the start. it is barely that NOW it is suggested globally. checklist temperatures in California? In what? The final one hundred years? What in regards to the final thousand or million years. How do you recognize they're records. did you recognize at one time Alaska replaced right into a eco-friendly rain wooded area? did you recognize that even in modern-day (guy's) history Greenland replaced into farmed? They constantly element to the ice in Greenland melting. nicely, you recognize that ice has no longer constantly been there. interior the 70's we've been going to die from an Ice Age by potential of the overdue 80's. Low and behold it warmed up. guy has purely been protecting records for an fairly short while. How do you, I or the "scientists" understand that that's no longer ordinary. How do all of us understand that the Earth is barely getting back to "ordinary" temperatures from the chilly of the final Ice Age? did you recognize Texas have been given hit with a hurricane lots lots bigger than the only the hit New Orleans? It replaced into in the previous the commercial revolution and additionally you recognize what with all this gloom and doom. the U. S. nonetheless hasn't had a hurricane that enormous as a results of fact.
2016-12-13 04:30:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if it's global warming or not that is making us have the warmest winter in New England, but it's hurting our economy terribly. So many businesses depend on snow up here and without it, places are going to have a hard time making ends meet, two years in a row.
2007-01-12 13:23:48 · answer #3 · answered by luna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the short term, the most visible affects will be 1) raising insurance rates due to natural catastrophes, 2) raising food prices through changing agricultural patterns, and 3) decreasing incomes & revenues related to tourist industries because of unfavorable weather patterns (Luna's answer) - I hear skiing in Spain this year is almost non-existent. I'll keep thinking...
2007-01-12 13:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by rghusted 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gives continued financial support to academic hacks, politicians and media knuckleheads who are willing to foist the bogus science behind the global warming myth onto a gullible public.
2007-01-12 13:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by jimdpr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh my goodness think what can happen when Calif breaks off! IT WILL BE A DISASTER LIKE KATRINA WAS!!
2007-01-12 13:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋