Has anyone seen what they think are direct effects of GLOBAL WARMING in their region of the country? Explain.

Answer 1

You are not yet going to see it clearly at any one time. What people see is the weather (short term and local), which is not the climate (long term average, spread out) People sometimes confuse weather with climate. At any time the weather can be anything. The climate is the long term average.

But the IPCC report contains the data showing that global warming is happening. The science and the data based and peer reviewed IPCC report have setlled the debate.

This is not going to be like a Hollywood disaster movie. Very gradually coastal cities will start to flood, first in storms and then just all the time. Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns will severely damage agriculture. Rich countries will be able to cope, but it will cost them huge sums of money and lower their standard of living. In poor countries people will die of starvation.

It's a disaster in very slow motion. The worst disaster in human history. It will take another 20-50 years for the worst effects to appear, but if we are going to reduce those, we need to start now.

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, R-Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush

Answer 2

you can not tell on local level the effects of global warming, you may be able hypothesise that something is happening because of global warming. Example, the pine trees on my property are dying at an alarming rate, because the bark beetle propagate better in the warm weather. But bark beetles have been around for millenium so I can only guess if this natural or due to global warming or a drought northern California. It is not until you look at effects on global level do you realize that the pattern of excess bark beetles occurs in more places then we have ever seen before.

The only obvious local effects of global warming that I can think of, would be the milting of glaciers. And eventually the rising of the sea.

Everything else is studied more on a global level because it is hard to say if it is fluke occurance or part of a bigger trend.

Answer 3

In Alaska I took part in several studies on the melting glaciers. The change in their sizes was truly amazing... by far the greatest changes since Europeans arrived there.

In New England, the changes have been just as dramatic.... until a few years ago they were having annual car races on top of the ice on the big lakes in Central NH. Now some of the lakes havent even frozen over and others have very thin ice... I noticed that several ice fishing contests that have been held in the northern US and southern Canada have been cancelled for lack of ice.

It takes a pretty big temperature shift to change the course of events in a large lake.

Answer 4

I live in New Zealand.

2006/2007 has seen a very mild winter with very late snow falls when it should be spring, little rain in some areas and a late summer.

definately global warming is having an effect here.

Answer 5

The question isn't which area is maximum susceptible, its which section is least susceptible, because this is a international disaster that has outcomes on really all and multiple, in merely about each and every way. I recommend hitching a journey on the Atlantis scuttle in the previous europe is going into an ice age......... because governments are not doing squat.

Answer 6

I'm in central Saskatchewan, Canada. For especially the last few years, we have had horribly hot - 30 degrees Celsius - summers - from June til September. "Normally" we would only have a few bouts of this throughout the summer, usually end of July, beginning of August, but these hotter periods have been more often and lasting longer.

Answer 7

Because of global warming, my pond froze completely for the first time (overnight) since I have lived here.

Answer 8

Yes we have made several low temp new records for the date ,one broken record went back 100 years.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

How can something that is not real effect anything?