I'm confused... if global warming is going to cause the next Ice Age (due to disruption of the global...?

Question

...conveyor ocean current), should I buy a house closer to, or farther away from the beach? At first I thought maybe farther away due to sea level rise, but if there's another ice age, won't sea levels fall?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this question is facetious or not, but assuming it's sincere:

The possibility for cooling in some regions is one reason why the term used by scientists is "climate change." Although the average of temperatures around the world will become warmer, changes in precipitation patterns, drought, storm severity, and in the case of northern Europe, cooling, are all examples of why the term "global warming" is slightly misleading. But this variation in damaging effects around the world doesn't make it any easier for people or ecosystems to adapt, and is no reason for us to dismiss the science of climate change because it appears inconsistent.

Answer 2

Well Global Warming is causing the polar ice caps to melt which results in more water into the ocean causing costal flooding. And the sea levels wont fall during an ice age they will just freeze. If you havent seen the day after tommrow its kida like that but the supercells where made up.

Answer 3

LMAO ... silly question, but, simultaneously, a really good point!

I would recommend if you are worried about sea level rise and fall affecting beach front property during the period of your lifetime that you buy a motor home or sailboat rather than a beachfront house.

In fact, regardless of sea level rise or fall I would recommend mobility. Why waste your life looking at it through your living room window, get outside and enjoy it all! Just leave it the way you found it.

Answer 4

There will be an environmental change similar to that which caused the previous ice ages , but due to the higher temperatures we have created, the loss of water and increased salt concentration, it won't end up as a 'frozen' world.
Watch the Al Gore movie,( out on DVD ) and the explanation is there.
OR if you consult a Bible reader we will all be burned to a crisp by a fury of fire, sounds feasable now doesn't it?

Answer 5

Actually you should build your house in a tropical rain forest so you'll have enough wood to burn. Make sure you hide it well, though Someone might see you upsetting the precarious ecology which has only existed through 7 or so Ice Ages.

Answer 6

international Warming is truly about climate substitute and the storage of power interior the ambience. As our ecosystem turns into more suitable (an increasing type of voluminous), it shops extra thermal power radiated from the earth (the earth is heated by the daylight, and the earth re-radiates that power, as warmth, to our ecosystem). a hotter ecosystem motives extra water to evaporate. also, a hotter ecosystem can save extra moisture, and subsequently turns right into a particularly extra voluminous ecosystem. Then, the ambience can save particularly extra warmth power. And evaporate extra water. And save it. And save extra warmth. And on and on until eventually we've were given a truly great, moist ecosystem. maximum precipitation starts as snow... Rain is many times snow that melted on the way down... If we commence to make sure great, helpful climate structures that unload wide quantities of snow (in say, April?), then a great number of image voltaic power will be pondered decrease back into area (until eventually say, August?), and shall we witness an entire year in which ny or OR or Canada would see snow on the floor. that is the way it starts... That twelve months, ought to we fail to maintain sufficient image voltaic power, ought to bring about an enduring cover of snow which will reflect away a wide area of image voltaic power for the subsequent ten-thousand years or extra. no extra summers in Atlantic city. take in igloo making.

Answer 7

Don't worry about it. by the time that a noticable change in the oceans happens, you will have paid enough off to sell the house, and buy a new one!

Answer 8

THE GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERICS STRIKE AGAIN

By William Rusher
Thursday, February 22, 2007

The media have recently been blaring what they depict (inaccurately, by the way) as the latest grim warning from the practically unanimous ranks of the world's climatologists concerning global warming. It is time to take two aspirin, lie down and consider the matter calmly.

The global-warming controversy is powered by three mighty engines, which are almost never recognized. The first is the natural human impulse to fear allegedly forthcoming disasters, especially if they are clothed in the raiments of scientific certitude. The media can be depended on to ferret out and wildly overhype any potential negative development that any so-called scientist is willing to predict and deplore. Remember "acid rain"? The factories of the American Midwest are supposedly belching enormous quantities of sulphurous gases into the air, which then drift eastward, pollute our pristine lakes and lay waste the Appalachian forests. We had barely had time to digest this awful news when the same media introduced us to the ghastly phenomenon called the "ozone hole," a gap in the Earth's protective layer of ozone that had developed (thanks to human pollutants) over the Antarctic and threatened to increase hugely the amount of deadly interstellar radiation reaching the planet's surface, causing millions of fatal skin cancers. The subsequent news that the ozone hole was actually diminishing was lost in the gratifying burst of terror over the discovery of global warming.

Forrmer U.S. vice president Al Gore speaks at a news conference for the 'Live Earth' concerts in Los Angeles,, California February 15, 2007. The planned July 7, 2007 concerts will take place in Sydney, Johannesburg, London and other cities to mobilize action to stop global warming. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES) The second engine (which was also influential in the flaps over acid rain and the ozone hole) is the traditional liberal hatred of "American corporations," which is mobilized whenever some new misfortune can be laid, however speciously, at their door. All sorts of manufacturing operations emit carbon dioxide, which are thus responsible for some uncertain part of the seven-tenths of one degree Celsius by which the earth's surface temperature rose in the 20th century. Actually, believe it or not, cows emit far more greenhouse gases (from their rear ends) than corporations do, but corporations are easier to hate than cows. So the ancient cry has gone up, "Stop the corporations!"

The third and final engine is, as you might expect, money. Do you have any idea how many billions of dollars the United States paid "scientists" (mostly in universities) last year to study this or that aspect of global warming? They are raiding this El Dorado with both hands, and you can imagine their attitude toward any colleague who dares to doubt their warnings.

The latest incitement to panic over global warming is the recently released summary of a 1,400-page report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We won't get to see the actual report till May, but the IPCC's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, says "I hope this report will shock people."

Given the media's hype concerning the human causes of global warming, it undoubtedly will. But the actual figures, when compared to those in the IPCC's last report in 2001, are downright encouraging. Christopher Monckton, a British analyst, points out that the new summary "more than halved its high-end best estimate of the rise in sea level by 2100 from 3 feet to just 17 inches." (Al Gore predicts 20 to 30 feet.) Monckton adds that "The U.N. has cut its estimate of (the human) net effect on climate by more than a third."

Part of the problem is that the earth's temperature is always in motion, up or down. At the moment, it is trending slightly up -- three-hundredths of a degree Celsius since 2001. Before that, in the midyears of the 20th century, it was actually falling -- providing grist for the media's hysterical predictions of a "new Ice Age" back in the 1970s.

Meanwhile, you can count on the liberals to demand savage cutbacks in the output of America's "greedy" corporations (never mind what that does to the economy) and on the opportunistic hacks in the science faculties of our universities to carve still bigger grants for themselves out of the federal and state budgets to finance more justifications for the panic.


William Rusher is a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy

Answer 9

well no mater what we will all die one day. so dont sweat it. well I mean you can sweat it at the beach.