Is Global Warming going to dramatically effect the Earth in our lifetimes?

Question

It seems like it might, what do you think?

Answer 1

it already is for many people
in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 2

Anybody who has been following the scientifc discourse on this subject would be compelled to conclude that we are already seeing the effects of man made global warming.

Some, however, perfer to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that golbal warming, like the inevitablity of death, will somehow not affect them.

A case in point:

Tyrus, like many who have trouble facing reality attempts to make 4 points;
1) Those who believe global warming is fact are gullible. I guess that would include the world's top climatologists who now say that global warming is a fact, not conjecture, Thank god we have the wisdom of tyrus who claims to be smarter than all of those scientists put together and whose keen scientifc mind can spot the flaw in the thinking of those who have been analyzing the problem since before Tyus was born.
2) Man has nothing to do with climate changes. This is factually incorrect. The meeting in Paris that concluded last week stated that there is an 80-99% chance that mankind HAS altered the climate.
3) Technology will solve the problem. Nice idea tyrus. If you're so well informed please give us the details of these miracle technologies you claim exist.
4) Clinton is a communist. This whole paragraph is irrelevant and is just rehashed rush limbaugh. Tyrus, do you have any thoughts of your own on the subject of global warming? Or do we have to wait until Monday's rush program airs for you to give us your new, fresh, and original ideas?

Answer 3

Tyrus - you may be correct - it could just be a natural Earth cycle.

However, the super-patriot administration is blocking scientific environment studies saying its bad science. This is not the first time scientific fact has been blocked or manipulated before an actual conclusion based on ALL the data can be made. We can't tell what the big lie is without that data and research can we?

You are also right that if you tell a lie enough it becomes truth.... the current administration certainly knows this quite well - that's the problem.

Gee whiz George, I knew you and Shooter were involved with oil profits, I knew you appointed an ex-oil executive to the energy policy leadership, but I didn't know you have doctorates in all the sciences that dispute your determination of bad science. How did you find the time while you were running the Rangers?

Sorry, but the very minimum for me to trust someone's scientific opinion is the ability to correctly pronounce the word 'nuclear'.

Answer 4

In this century and in some parts of the Earth it will, according to experts later reports. In south of Spain, for instance, summer temperature will reach more than forty five celsius, what is practically insufferable. The worse of it is that it seems that it will happens even if we start to do the best to stop the causes of enviromental disequilibrium. Once the complex system that the echological environment is has been disturbed, it takes many many years to get another equilibrium state, and there is no guarantee that it will be go back to its former one, to which current living species (included humans) are adapted.

Answer 5

Every day the Global Warming rises it's level and now we are starting to receive strange weather conditions. Here now it should be snowing but the snow is almost all melted and I saw and heard birds and animals that only in the spring you can notice them. yes it will but not dramatically, it's a predator acting slow and with patience. Now it's getting stronger than ever,

Answer 6

1. Only for those that are gullible enough to believe the big lie.
2. Man has nothing to do with the natural climate changes that occur approximately every 1500 years via Sun spots, volcanic activity, and other such natural phenomenon...
3. Pollution is a problem that is created by man as well as one that can be controlled by man via technology.
4. Throughout history and to this vary day communist scumbags such as Stalin, Marx, Roosevelt, the Rockefeller's, the Clinton's, Gore, Levin, Scheumer, Kerry, Palosi, Boxer, Dean, Carter... as well as turn coat republicans such as the Bush's, Cheney, Schwarzenegger, and many more... all of whom know that if a lie is told often enough sooner or later it becomes the truth, thus these greedy tin gods with the help of their mainstream media monsters, have and continue to manipulate uneducated sheople via propaganda...

Answer 7

The earth receives hotter, and vine yards will spring up everywhere in the south downs in England, generating a impressive cheeky pink wine, i'm hoping. Many subscribers have written in the previous with reference to outcomes, yet also keep in suggestions ,over the years nature will deliver in the status quo, and reason international cooling.

Answer 8

Ask the people of New Orleans.

Answer 9

not unless you are going to live another 200 years

Answer 10

Yes, everyone is going to be nuts.