I got some global warming questions?

Question

How many years will it take for severe global warming to take place?


Why do airplanes have more effect with greenhouse emissions than cars?

In the past decade, how much have greenhouse emissions gone up?


How much Carbon dioxide does 3 gallons of gas put into the atmosphere?

The Earth is increasing how many degrees Fahrenheit per year?

What is the main contributor to global warming?


Ice caps are retreating. What will happen as a result of retreating ice caps?


need answers asap to every question

Answer 1

<< How many years will it take for severe global warming to take place? >>

Hard to say, depends on what you mean by severe. Some people will benefit from global warming, others will suffer. Global warming has already killed many people (the World Health Organisation puts the figure at one death every 3 minutes). It's a bit like asking how hot is too hot?.

<< Why do airplanes have more effect with greenhouse emissions than cars? >>

All forms of transportation contribute 14% of the greenhouse gas emissions (19% of the CO2 emissions). Road traffic is by far the largest contributor but on a mile for mile basis air traffic produces more greenhouse gas emissions than most other forms of transport.

<< In the past decade, how much have greenhouse emissions gone up? >>

Approximately 8 billion tons.

<< How much Carbon dioxide does 3 gallons of gas put into the atmosphere? >>

Approximately 8 kilograms.

<< The Earth is increasing how many degrees Fahrenheit per year? >>

0.0281 degrees per year (average over the last 25 years).

<< What is the main contributor to global warming? >>

The largest single contributor is water vapour in the atmosphere. The largest single anthropogenic contributor is power generation (accounts for 21% of all greenhouse gas emissions).

<< Ice caps are retreating. What will happen as a result of retreating ice caps? >>

The Arctic Ice Cap is floating so it is already displacing it's own mass of water. If it melts there will be no change in sea levels. If the East Antarctic Ice Cap melted sea levels would rise by 64.9 metres, if the West AIC melted levels would rise 8.06m, if the Greenland Ice Cap melted sea levels would rise 6.55m.

Melting on this scale won't happen for a very, very long time. Even in the worst case scenario this is many thousands of years into the future.

The current meltwater runoff is adding to the volume of water in the seas and oceans causing them to rise by about 1mm a year (the warming of the seas is causing them to expand and rise by a further 2mm a year).

Rising sea levels have already impacted hard on many island and coastal communities including the forced evacuation of their populations. Areas affected include Kenya, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Maldives, Antigua and Bermuda. Sea levels have been rising for some time and predictions indicate further rises of between 200 and 600mm by the end of the century. In the US this would affect many coastal regions especially the coastlines of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, cities affected would include Boston, New York, Charleston, Miami and New Orleans.

Answer 2

It is kind of funny you ask those questions. I don't believe that man is the cause of global warming. I believe that it is part of a natural cycle that the Earth goes through. The ice caps have been retreating since the end of the last ice age. Is that the fault of man? Global warming is just a button that politician like to push because so many people are willing to believe that man is at fault for every thing. Who pays for the studies and what are the results? The person or group that pays often gets the answer it was looking for. State of Fear is a good book based on a lot of research by the author into global warming. It leaves you asking a lot more questions and you look at the whole hoopla of global warming a new way.

Answer 3

That is a lot of questions, but I think I can answer a few of them. To start with, the most severe on everybody will start in about 50 years, but a lot of severe stuff is happening right now! For example, small porpoises around Scotland are fighting for survival because warming has killed off their food. It is probably rising about 1.5 degrees per year, but that's just a guess! Ice caps retreating will raise ocean levels. Greenland's glaciers alone could raise the level by, like, 23 feet.

Answer 4

I believe it will take 20 years for global warming to be severe. i wish i could answer your other questions but i don't know the answer. I can tell you that because of the ice bergs melting there will be another ice age. In 2012 there will be a solar storm which will be a big one that will affect us tremendously. It will make the ozone layer move therefore leaving the place with sunlight without protection from the sun. So this will makes us go back to when we had no technology. It is time we do something against global warming because global warming is my future world if it actually happens. I have so much life yet and pollution is not going to make it a happy life.

Answer 5

Mountain Man: You're off on a fox news type rant here my brother. Years ago, scientists who advocated for human caused global warming were ostracized. Now it is the other way around. It is a theory, and let me stress the word theory, that is generally accepted by the scientific community. There is very clear documentation with regard to the reduction in the size of the world's glaciers. The argument can, however, be made that this is due to a cyclical warming unrelated to human activity. The argument that the oceans are not fluctuating in temperature is a hard one to make, but it is easy to ascertain that we [humans] have nothing to do with it. I personally think that we have probably screwed up more than we care to know. Nature is adaptable though. Humans, animals, and plants will likely adjust to changes; and continue to thrive. If we are to be fearful of something, I would suggest the ocean of lava underneath of us. Besides, Al Gore said he won Florida and we didn't believe that. He had a lot of money then too. His word isn't gospel.

Answer 6

15 years and it'll be severe,30 years and it'll be irriversible.Airplanes are bigger consuming special gasoline that has more CO2.They have gone up by 98% since the industrial revolution. 3 gallons put about 1 gallons of CO2. The earth increases about 3 degrees per year in heat .The main contributor of global warming is burning fossil fuels.Coastal places like new York city will be under 3 metres of water by 2050.

Answer 7

#1 2012 will have a small ice age it had nothing to do with a mian calander. #2 planes have way more c02 then cars. #3? #4 the answer is 20 pounds of c02 for every car.#5 is 2,5 #6 big bizzness like the gas and oil comanys we are force to use gas. even that we had ways not to use gas for the last 50years,in 2040 we well lose the north pole the ice caps will melt to help the envirment go to www.savetheamozonforest.com buy a tree for $39,95 us that,s 53.00 us after tax or $65.00 canadian dollors for one tree.it will help restore 20 % of the world clean air.

Answer 8

Gloal warming (AKA global climate changes)

Is affected by huge underwater volcanos, slight shifts in in the earths axis...

Contrary to Big AG there is much larger factors to Climate change than Friggin light bulbs

Answer 9

i'll give you all of your answers simply.

global warming is crap. it is nothing more than bogus statistics and lies used as a politically -driven agenda for the left. humans only account for less than one percent of the earth's greenhouse gas and C02 emissions. we're talking every human in the WORLD, not just the US. however, you will never hear the truth behind this lie because of the media and false propaganda driving it.

you wanna know what the biggest source of heat levels rising in the earth is?

water vapor in the atmosphere.

Answer 10

Retreating ice caps will cause worldwide floods
Airplanes cause more greenhouse gases than cars....well compare there size and you have your answer.
the main contributor, of course Republicans, thats why they deny it so much...lol jk its humans