Global Warming, when will the Earth give up?

Question

" Global warming isn’t opinion.
It’s a scientific reality.
The science tells us that human activity has
made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our
well-being and even our survival as a species.
The science also tells us we can begin
to make significant repairs to reverse those impacts
— but only through immediate action. "
I've heard many things..(on how long the earth will last) 2012, 30 more years, i'm not really sure. I just want to know, if we REDUCED burning fossil fuel how long would the earth && people last?

I'm just scared to death..
I wanna live to the age of atleast 70, geeze.
(i'm 17 btw)

Answer 1

The Earth itself will be pretty much unaffected by global climate change. It's humans and other organisms who will suffer the consequences.

But according to scientists, even if we cut *all* CO2 emissions we could expect the warming to continue for at least three centuries.

Answer 2

If we stopped burning all fossil fuels immediately, we would last until next winter, when we'd all freeze, because the Power companies would be shut down. The good news is many of us would already be dead from starvation because the crops couldn't be harvested or delivered.
Don't believe everything you hear, people are just trying to scare you to make themselves more important. The fact is that the Science is not clear. You don't vote on scientific facts...you conduct an experiment and prove it. Then you tell the other scientists how you did it, and if they agree on your assumptions and can repeat the same results using your design, then you have a "fact". This has not been done with global warming, and it in fact cannot be done because the earth is too big to model. The laws of physics are not subject to appeal.
Before all these scientists go on telling people that they're gonna be dead in 30 years or whatever, why don't they just try to get tomorrow's weather forecast right.

Answer 3

The Earth and people will survive. There are two possibilities. One good, one bad, neither the end of the world.

The good one is that we start a thoughtful process to reduce global warming, and to cope with the effects of the remaining unavoidable warming. The IPCC has given us some good options:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html

The bad one is that we do nothing to reduce global warming. Gradually coastal areas will flood, first in storms then all the time. Drought and changing temperatures will severely damage agriculture. Storms are fed by heat, they will become more destructive.

Rich countries can cope, but the costs will ruin their economies. I'm guessing you live in a rich country. You will survive, but your life will be harder than it has to be, and much less pleasant.

In poor countries a lot of people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407

It won't be the end of the world. But it would be a terrible and avoidable disaster.

Get this book. It talks about how you can help avoid that. It should be easily available at any book store. Get your parents to read it too, as a favor to you.

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Global-Warming-Solution-Speakers/dp/155591621X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3095021-7940653?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178299803&sr=8-1

A great way to handle your fear is to do something, not just sit there.

Answer 4

that vis anybodies guess ,but things are beginning tomove fast ,but Americans maybe the biggest threat right now .

here is my collection of ends of the humanity


many predictions are for the years between 2012 and 2020
Nostradamus,the mayas ,Egyptians Jesus ,

and Terrance Mckennas time wave who put the magnetic output of the world into a computor projection that stopped at zero in 2012,this means the globe has stopped and it starts turning
the other way ,the resulting change of currents will turn the planet into a giant washing machine cleaning the surface

then there are the meteors storms (armageddon) ,the gulf of Mexico is the result of one that would have made life exstinct for a while ,this would result in an other ice age because globe gets covered in dust for a few years,blocking out the sun.

then there are more posible natural disasters
Volcanos are coming to life everywhere
the weather has giant storms like hurricanes ,tornados ,tidal waves ,earth quackes

a shift of the earth crust ,would change the position of the poles
under Anrarctica were found fosilized tropical plants indication the pole must have been in a different place then (the mainland atlantis is thought to be under it )

Apart from that , the biggest threat to any species of exstinction is ,when there are too little ,and when there are too many ,so overpopulation is also a threat

and the USA appears to be gunning for a global nuclear conflict .it is most likely that this will get us first ,looking at present politics

the planet will probably survive unless humanities bombs result it to be knocked out of its orbit

so many ends to choose from
if it wasnt so serious it would be rediculous

meanwhile enjoy life .and make the most of it at least we are all in the same boat



global warming cannot be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,and being friendlier to out Environment cannot be bad

these are Al gores sites
http://events.stepitup2007.org/............
http://www.stepitup2007.org/

http://events.stepitup2007.org/............

POSITIVE ACTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown 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

here are a 100 more ways

http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

Answer 5

The U.S. has already reduced its output of pollutants by 50% since the 70's.

Why are y'all laying this off on the U.S.? India and China belch 30-40 times the amount of pollutants more than the U.S. ever did. What is your solutions for these gigantic, seething masses of humanity? (Challenge #1)

The Earth will heal its self from just about any degradation including pollution. Man will survive with the cockroaches for food.

Those who are promoting all these warnings have an agenda and it isn't good for the American people. They know the fringe left will shout down any reasonable attempt to bring common sense into the conversation. They live for the day to scare the be-jabbers out of children and the innocents.

(Challenge #2)
Show me one reputable scientist, by name, and give me twelve hours. I believe I can give you his nefarious and sick agenda and why. Every one that I have looked at is backed by Far Left big bucks, a questionable sponsoring group, has been picked apart by his own fellow scientists and or shunned by the Movement (?) Leaders.

(Challenge #3)
Any of you World Thinkers up to this last challenge? Can you show this misguided questioner any ray of hope at 17 yoa?

Keep your one word answers to yourselves.

Answer 6

You have a better chance to live to 70 by taking care of your health and not worrying about global warming. Its a bunch of left wing nutjobs trying to scare the crap out you. It is happening but the world isn't coming to an end. Just do whatever you can to conserve energy use, water, and minimize pollution and we will be alright.

Answer 7

Since righteousjohnson and jube already provided the important information on why politicians like Gore would lie about this topic, (politician's lying?) I will not repeat the great points made by them. I will point out some scientific lies that we are being told. My degrees are in physics and I have yet to find one other physicist who agrees with global warming.Gore's favorite toy is the graph of the correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature. He shows a very undetailed view of the graph that is condensed. If you were to stretch out this graph you would see that each period of higher CO2 levels is actually precluded by higher global temperatures. How can one thing cause another that occurs before it? The reason for the correlation is that in times of higher temperature more life forms flourish. More animals mean more exhalation of CO2. More plants mean more CO2 (even though they "breathe" CO2 and exhale oxygen) because they also release CO2 upon decomposition.
Another graph used is Mann's "hockey stick" graph. This graph has already been proven grossly inaccurate due to the fact that the "proxy" data used to produce this graph does not show the existence of well known periods of temperature variation such as the medieval warm period and the little ice age.
One more "Inconvenient Truth" lie (there are 14 in the movie). is the claim that global warming has caused massive loss of the world's glacial ice. Not only is it not true, but is a physically impossible claim. While some glaciers are receding, others are advancing. This is due to the cyclical change in the wobble of the axis of the earth's rotation. Gore's claim that the dramatic melting is a result of the 0.7 degree rise in temperature over the last hundred years is laughable. Since Gore does not have a science degree he does not know **** about physics.If he did he would realize that all elements and compounds have a specific heat of fusion. This is the amount of heat energy it takes to change a compound from liquid to solid or from solid to liquid. water has a heat of fusion of 80 calories per gram. In contrast, it takes 1 calorie of heat to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree celcius.This means it takes 80 times more heat to change 0 degree ice to 0 degree water than to raise 0 degree water to 1 degree water. For the glaciers to melt from conduction from surrounding air and water in the time frame Gore shows them to have done, the water surrounding the ice would need to experience(after diffusion) a 8-10 degree rise in temperature. Gore isn't even dumb enough to claim that much regional temperature increase.
The sad thing is that this has become a political argument rather than a scientific one. I am not a republican in any way shape or form but everyone assumes I am because of my stance on this issue. Most people are too stupid to think for themselves and will accept anything that their political party affiliation tells them to think. Don't let politicians use scare tactics to influence your views. They all have selfish agendas and never have our best interests in mind.

Answer 8

About as long as if we don't.