What are the possible effects of global warming?

Question

So far, I know there would be climate changes, depletion of the ozone layer, possible flooding, polar ice caps melting...

Note the "possible"

Answer 1

1. Increase in global temperature by 2 to 5 c by 2100
2. Shifting of vegetation belt from equator towards poles
3. Increase in the populations of insect & pathogens
4. Melting of ice & snow caps. The glaciers are recedind towards poles
5. Rise in sea level leading to submergence of coastal areas & adveresly affecting the coastal ecosystem
6. Loss of biodiversity due to extinction of many species of flora & fauna
7. Change in climatic pattern across the globe.

Answer 2

Taxes Bans Mandates Loss of individual freedom Socialist style big government Barbecue bans and patrols UN domination Global taxes No results on climate from all above.

Answer 3

Conceptual assessment of the risks and impacts of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and how those risks increase relative to increasing global temperatures. Bars at the left hand side indicate projections and estimated uncertainties associated with the range of possible climate scenarios.The predicted effects of global warming for the environment and for human life are numerous and varied. The main effect is an increasing global average temperature. From this flow a variety of resulting effects, namely, rising sea levels, altered patterns of agriculture, increased extreme weather events, and the expansion of the range of tropical diseases. In some cases, the effects may already be occurring, although it is generally difficult to attribute specific natural phenomena to long-term global warming.

Proposed responses to the effects of global warming fall into two categories: mitigation and adaptation.

Projected climate changes due to global warming have the potential to lead to future large-scale and possibly irreversible changes in our climate resulting in impacts at continental and global scale

significant slowing of the ocean circulation that transports warm water to the North Atlantic,
large reductions in the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets,
accelerated global warming due to carbon cycle feedbacks in the terrestrial biosphere, and
releases of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions and methane from hydrates in coastal sediments.
The likelihood, magnitude, and timing of many of these changes is uncertain. However, the probability of one or more of these changes occurring is likely to increase with the rate, magnitude, and duration of climate change...
It is not possible to be certain whether there will be any positive benefits of Global Warming. What is known is that some significant negative impacts are projected and these drive most of the concern about global warming and motivates attempts to mitigate or adapt to the effects of global warming.

Most of the consequences of global warming would result from one of three physical changes: sea level rise, higher local temperatures, and changes in rainfall patterns

Answer 4

It won't be a Hollywood style disaster. But it will be very bad. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries (which struggle to feed themselves now) many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

It will not be spectacular, but it will be the worst disaster in human history.

Answer 5

Watch the movie, An Inconvient Truth. It's at any movie rental place now (like Blockbuster). Al Gore put it out. It was really, really interesting and kind of makes you think.
-Crystal
http://www.myspace.com/152012175

Answer 6

better question is what are not the effects of gloabal warming. We just dont know them all is the problem (add radation poisoning and birth defects, changing of marine and land ecosystems, loss of thousands of miles of land)

Answer 7

The frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean will thaw and go into the atmosphere, poisoning us. You don't hear about that, now, do you?

Answer 8

water lost,dead animal and plant life,drought in other parts of the world,heat waves,skin cancer,shortage of water in the body due to the heat, suffocating but new born.

Answer 9

i think that industry has contributed especially in the period of the industrial revolution.
like foundrys or mills i might be wrong

Answer 10

more insects... 0.0.. eww... there will also be higher tides.. etc...