Global Warming - when is the world going to end?

Question

With all the Global warming going on at the moment, I believe they have predicted the ice will melt in the next 100 years. Do you believe this or do you think it might end sooner?

I am crapping it, dont want it to happen im my life time, i have another 30-40 years to go yet.

Answer 1

My advice would be to calm down and stop worrying.

There’s a hell of a lot of scare-mongering going on about global warming. Various groups want your support and/or money and what better way to get it than to scare you into believing that, if you don’t support and/or pay them, there’s going to be a catastrophe!

I’m sure you’d have to admit that you’ve never heard anything about the *benefits* of global warming, have you? I’m sure you’re probably thinking “Benefits? They’ll be *benefits* from global warming?!” Of course there will be, but no one who wants your support/money is going to tell you about that, are they?

An example; plants need both CO2 and warmth to grow. An increase in both will mean that plants will grow better/faster. The result will be that *more* food will be produced as a result of global warming. Don’t hear that every day, do you?

And don’t be fooled by people who say that it’s a fact that global warming is being caused by man. It’s not a fact at all, it’s just a theory. Despite that fact that these people constantly bang on about there being a “consensus” among scientists, they are, in fact, lying to you. A survey (http://downloads.heartland.org/20861.pdf) of 530 climate scientist from 27 countries shows that only 56% of them think that man is causing global warming. That’s barely over half - hardly a “consensus”!

As ever with global warming – don’t believe the hype.

Answer 2

If you took a POLL of climatologists:
Asking: Do they think that Pollution is "majority" contributor to Global warming. You would find that they would be SPLIT.
WHy?
Because, the science of the green house effect is true. However, since there are so many NATURAL sources of green house gases that could effect the climate before pollution.
(ie/ methane production from animals,
volcanos emmitting sulfur & fine particulate and most important of all; the SUN!)
In the 1970's, climatologists impregnated a similar "fear" into society as they are doing now. Except, they were predicting the exact Opposite! In the 1970s a Mini ICE AGE was forcast. Right in the middle of a mini industrial revolution! When gas gozzling cars were emmitting peak amounts of toxic emmissions (green house gases) Industry was careless dumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. The green house effect was certainly available for debate then too, but the temperature was certainly not going up at that time. Records show that the global temp was going down. Why? Well for about 5-7 years, the sun was producing fewer SOLAR STORMs.
(analogy: if you turn the BBQ knob down, there will be less heat? (1970's). If you leave the BBQ on for an hour (today) the grill is extremely hot?)
So in comparison, those who theorize that the Global warming due to Carbon emmissions argue that THE SUN is the dictator of our EARTH's climate and not just pollution.

Since the Earth has been bombarded by a continous array of Solar Storms for the last 15 to 17 years,(longest in history?) it would be safe to say that the SUN has major influence on the increase in today's global average temperatures.

Sad, for todays' fundamental pro Global warming scientist but more likely than true. We have really no control of the climate.

So why not focus on something that is definitely a concern; CONTROLLING POLLUTION levels.
In the end it will probably will curb green house gases anyways???

Answer 3

No relax the world is gonna be OK ,
climate change(Global warming) is just going to affect all that lives on the surface

but there are so many other possibilities

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

Answer 4

This world as we know it won't end until something far more drasitic than global warming happens. We've had a warming trend since the peak of the last Ice age. Before the last Ice Age started we had the same thing.

Mother Nature has compensated for meteors hitting the Earth and more. The Earth will probably last in some form simular to what we know till the Sun goes nova.

Answer 5

They have not predicted ALL the ice will melt in 100 years. But even if all the ice did melt, it wouldn't be the first time. All the ice in the world, including at the poles, melts between each ice age. Since we have had several ice ages, the poles have melted and refrozen more than once in Earth's history. It is no problem. It is natural. Even if people are causing an artificial warming now, it won't be any different than past natural warming. It is simply not a threat to life. It just isn't.

Answer 6

In a long, long while... i think, if based on environmental factors alone. But the end of the world - will be caused by mankind, trigger - maybe if the oil runs out, and no other efficient alternative has been developed yet.

Global mean sea level has been rising at an average rate of 1 to 2 mm/year over the past 100 years, which is significantly larger than the rate averaged over the last several thousand years. Projected increase from 1990-2100 is anywhere from 0.09-0.88 meters, depending on which greenhouse gas scenario is used and many physical uncertainties in contributions to sea-level rise from a variety of frozen and unfrozen water sources.

Answer 7

It's not the end of the world, it is a dramatic shift in the world's environment and ecosystem. The effects of this on human civilisation are difficult to predict, but will be quite detrimental, we will have to change our lifestyles quite significantly afterwards.

But yeah, at current rates there is a possibility that we will live to see a dramatic reduction in size of the northern ice cap.

Apart from the devastation to the polar ecosystem and the repercussions around the world this will cause, northern deglaciation is small potatoes compared to that of Antarctica, though there it appears to be somewhat more stable for the time being.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Global Warming will happen according to whoever is in power at whatever time is good to be elected. If only politicians will realise that WE humans which are such insignificant creatures on this planet CANNOT change the course of nature, they might learn a thing or two.

Answer 10

dont worry u have 40 long yrs to go n u ll not miss it becoz scientists say the ice is gonna melt after 40 -50 yrs if global warming goes on at this rate .We have another option
that is u can go to Mars if the experiment works.
so be patient n dont take tension