What are some of the problems created by global warming?

Answer 1

The biggest problem created by global warming is politicization.

Yes, there has been a trend towards warmer temperatures in the last few years. However, there is NO evidence that it is being caused by man.

But liberal eco-loons are using this phenomenon, which is probably entirely natural, to undermine American business, the American economy and American sovereignty.

And that's the number one problem caused by global warming.

Answer 2

There are various problems. According to most scientists, global warming may cause the sea level to rise up to 37 centimeters over the next hundred years. This could cause some increased coastal erosion. Climate change may be stressful to established ecologies, possibly leading to the extinction of some species that are geographically isolated. The worst problem caused by global warming, however, could be caused by efforts to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon sequestration schemes involving storing gigatons of CO2 in rock structures could lead to huge releases of CO2 after an earthquake, killing thousands or even millions of people. Draconian carbon taxation schemes could lead to a permanent world depression ending in a global thermonuclear war. On the positive side, the nuclear war would be followed by a 'nuclear winter', eliminating the global warming.

Answer 3

None at the natural level since it does not exist. However it has caused a chicken little epidemic whereas libs think the sky is falling. Also it has created that global warming religion that the tenets of must not be questioned. The new global warming inquisition is starting..

Answer 4

The question should not be "What are the problems created by global warming?" it should be "What are some of the issues that we may have to address?"

Someone said rising sea levels.

Susan Solomon, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (and the co-chair of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) told attendees at the American Association for the Advancement of Science taking place in San Francisco that; Approximately 125,000 years ago, the Earth was around three to five degrees Celsius warmer on average than it is today and sea levels were four to six meters higher. The ice sheets covering Greenland's land mass have trapped a significant amount of that water that used to be in the sea, thereby lowering sea levels. If the land ice on Greenland were to melt completely, the sea levels could rise six or seven meters again, but the current scientific models indicate it will take thousands of years. Both land and sea ice around Greenland are currently melting. (Sea ice is also melting, but it doesn't raise sea levels because it's already in the water.) "It would take centuries, if not millennia, to get a four to six meter rise" in sea levels, she said. Global temperatures would have to be raised by 1.9 to 4.6 degrees Celsius and be kept that way for several centuries, she added.
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Are sea levels going to rise? Probably, but why is that a problem? Could it be said that the problem was, 125,000 years ago the oceans were lowered because all the water was trapped in ice sheets? Could it be said that the problem is not that we are getting warmer, the problem is that 125,000 years ago the temperature started getting colder?

I see issues that must be acknowledged and dealt with. Can we change some of the situations that are contributing to these issues, maybe? Are we going to have to adjust the way we live and the things we do to survive on the planet, most definitely. Are positive things going to happen as a result of these issues, more than likely.

Not all the water that is released from these melting ice sheets is going to go into the oceans, some of it will stay on the land. Is this going to help with the issue of sustainable fresh water?

Warmer climates mean that we are going to lose some of our marginal croplands. Are we going to gain some cropland due to the warmer climate? Are there going to be regions that have fertile soils but are not warm enough, long enough, to grow crops now, opened up to agriculture?

Is the increased CO2 going to make it possible to grow crops faster in productive regions?

Is the issue of rising temperatures going to be a catalyst for developing alternative energy sources?

Change is neither good nor bad. The good or bad part comes from how you deal with the change, and are you able to take advantage of the opportunities that arise from the change.

Answer 5

Some problems created by the IDEA of global warming are hippies,lies, enviro-terrorism, the idea that if you don't do everything those who claim to care about "the environment" say, you are some kind of subhuman, the fact that just twenty years ago they thought the problem would be global cooling, I could go on but there have been so many lies perpetrated by so called environmentalists I would have to quit my job and do it 24-7, and unlike them, I can't take that kind of time because I have to work for a living.

Answer 6

I can not believe that some one said tsunami. So under seas land sides set off by earth quakes are part of this warming. Al Gore was not reaching that far.

How about wetter but Hotter summers and milder winters.

Answer 7

Politico-Economic threat terrorism by apparently ignorant lefties.

Glaciations and interglaciations (warming periods) are as old as the planet.

This most recent one began around 1850 or the US Civil War era, which would be the end of the last little ice age.

Answer 8

Sea levels 1-5 feet higher, causing massive coastal flooding and hundreds of billions of dollars in property losses. Massive disruptions to agriculture. Rich nations spend additional hundreds of billions of dollars to cope, relocating crops and building massive new irrigation systems.

Poor countries can't afford that. Bangladesh, among others, has much agricultural land a few feet above sea level. In those countries millions die of starvation.

Disruptions of warming ocean currents totally trash agriculture in Europe by making the climate colder. Europe goes into an economic depression coping. That hurts our economy even more.

Unlikely problem, but possible. China refuses to cut its' emissions even though the problem is obvious. There's a war by desperate nations to make them stop. It goes nuclear.

Answer 9

Mass hysteria caused by an insidious mental infection called the Chicken Little Syndrome. liberals suffer it most but it is infectious, so be careful and stay away from libs. It can infect otherwise intelligent people and can make them blithering idiots, too. Al Gore was the typhoid Mary in this case.

Answer 10

um first, greenhouse gas emission is increasing and the ozone is growing thicker. Therefore, gas is trapped in creating more heat causing moisture to be sucked out of the soil. Also, many things will die as a result of global warming.