Will there be a greater demand for biologists in the near future due to global warming?

Question

I know that the fight to help stop global warming is getting stronger, does that mean there will be more jobs for biologists? My major is wildlife biology, I'm just wondering how the job outlook is going to change with all these environmental problems and species going extinct.

jarrow I'm not in it for the money. If I was interested in money I would have kept my major as an electrical engineer. I'm just worried if I'll be able to find any job at all with my new biology major.

Answer 1

It could potentially. When the climate of the world changes it affects the species that have adapted to those climates. Plants won't be able to move, however they may be able to disperse seeds to new territories. Animals will try to migrate and so forth. Therefore there is potential for expanding research areas due to global warming. Bottom line is there are going to be a lot of questions that need to be answered if global warming continues at the current rate. While wildlife biology is definitely going to be important, ecosystem dynamics as a whole are may ultimately be what requires the most attention.

Answer 2

I think that with the increase in human population there will be an increase in emission of green house gases into the atmosphere and destruction of our ozone causing global warming and species extinction.More over species extinction also due to fragmentation of large forest areas and other threats that humans impose on wildlife(e.g pollution) wildlife would always be under threat so yes we would need more biologists in the future..not only to combat global warming.

Answer 3

If you live on the East Coast, I hope you're preparing to hunker down this weekend: Two-plus feet of snow are predicted in Washington, D.C., perhaps enough to break the record. New York is also expecting more snow. So perhaps it's time to revisit climate science, again. Does this winter's flurry of harsh weather mean that we can breathe easier about the climate? Sadly, no. In fact, quite the reverse, according to a recent report from the National Wildlife Federation. The report documents that winters are, on average, shorter and milder than they used to be. But "[e]ven as global warming is slowly changing the character of winter," it says, "we will still experience familiar year-to-year variability. Because many different variables affect winter conditions—including temperature, moisture availability, storm tracks, and natural climate oscillations—and because global warming affects these variables in different ways, scientists do not expect a steady progression to less wintery conditions." NWF climate scientist Dr. Amanda Staudt put it perhaps even more bleakly in a statement about the report: "Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature."

Answer 4

I fail to see how global warming would increase the demand for biologists. It would make more sense that it would increase demand for Geologists and Climatologists as their scientific fields are much more directly related to global climate. Biologists deal with living things - the climate is not a living thing, so clmate change is really outside their field of study. They may be usefull in studying the effects of global warming on living things (for example, the effect of climate change on polar bear populations)... Still I think that they would play a much more minor role than climatologists and geologists - climatologists because they study climate, and geologists because in order to understand climate change you must understand what the climate was like in the past and to do that you must be an expert in geology.

Answer 5

Global warming simply put is a myth blown out of proportion by people like Al Gore. Al Gore has done a lot for the environment, but global warming has not been his best work. All historical records show in the past that before a major ice age, the Earth heats up slightly. Today's warming has nothing to do with green house gases or with humans at all. We have just slightly speeded up the process, but barely. An ice age is coming because this year was the first year in record it has ever snowed in L.A. county. Global warming is simply a natural process which cannot be affected by humans or any other species here on Earth.

Answer 6

I don't know that any number of bilogists would be able to help stop global warming. That being said I do think that the job demand may increase due to the need to maintain current life forms.

Answer 7

No, There will be a need for boat drivers!

Answer 8

no one can predict the future, except miss cleo, so give her a call.

Answer 9

I would not hire u.