Will there be major changes for human society due to climate change within the next 100 years?

Question

What are some possible changes? (if any)

Answer 1

Check this article I found on the impacts of Global Warming:

Global warming will have serious impacts on the environment and on society. Higher temperatures will cause a melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica. This will accelerate the rise of sea level. The speed at which global warming is expected to occur in the 21st century is faster than most plant and animal species will be able to cope with. Some will adapt but others will suffer and may become extinct.

Global warming will affect agriculture. New crops will be able to be grown in areas that are currently too cold to support them. However, more pests and diseases may offset any benefits higher temperatures may have. Water resources will also be affected. Some reservoirs may dry up if temperature increases, especially if rainfall also decreases. Rising sea levels may pollute fresh groundwater supplies with salt water.

Global warming will also affect human health. There may be more heat-related illnesses in hotter summers, and increased breathing problems as higher temperatures increase air pollution in cities, reducing air quality. The malaria mosquito may also be able to spread to other regions of the world where it is currently too cold to survive and breed.

More extreme weather, for example storms, floods and droughts will have severe impacts on the environment and on society. The poorest people in society will unfortunately be those least able to cope with the impacts of global warming.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You will see major changes in the next 10 - 25 years unless we makes major changes in our lifestyles.
Global warming will cause the polar ice caps to melt, which is already happening at alarming rates. It won't be just remote Eskimo tribes and polar bears that will be affected by this: you will see substantial weather changes along both coasts of both major oceans, including floods, tornadoes, and many more violent hurricanes.
The depletion of the ozone layer is another cause of deep concern. This will result in dramatic changes in weather patterns world wide.
Because our 'disposable society' has chosen to toss all its trash in landfills, toxic leach will invade our water supplies and fresh drinking water won't be available to sustain life.
As we continue to allow smoke-belching factories and vehicle emissions to pollute our air, our grandchildren may have to resort to wearing gas masks in order to breathe.
Rain forests are being cut down at hundreds of thousands of acres per hour so that the cleared land can be used for grazing cattle. Why? So that McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants can keep selling us cheap hamburgers. Once the rain forests are gone, weather conditions will be altered and there will be no 'buffer' to protect us from wild storms, massive floods, and deadly tsunamis. The same is true of the mangrove forests, which are being depleted so we can build luxury condominiums. When these natural resources are destroyed, the fragile ecological balance between man, plants and animals is also destroyed. You might not think that a rare species of frogs in the Amazon has any affect over your life, but you'd be wrong. Once the elephants, monkeys, tigers, lions, insects, frogs, lizards, bears, wolves, ants, and mosquitoes disappear, so does the delicate ecosystem that protects and preserves the very environment in which we all must live in order to survive. -RKO- 05/14/07

Answer 3

Ok first some of the worlds floating ice and land based glaciers are melting, reflecting less incoming sunlight back into space, and warming the troposphere further. Which ultimatley starts changing the earths temperatures...In addition, permafrost is melting causing buildings, roads, telephone poles, and utility lines to shift and break. The expecting rapid growing temperature (warmer weather) can cause less water resources, worse weather (wind, fires, storms, huricanes,floods) In addition, wrecked ecosytems resulting in species extinction, increased pests, crop diseases, increased formation of photochemical smog, and more resperatory diseases....please keep in mind these are only a few of the effects we may start seeing sooner then 100 years...

Answer 4

Well, think about how heat affects the vegitation and plants in Earth's Biospehere. The plants and Animals might die off, meaning more intense natural disasters becuase natural barriers such as wetlands would be nonexistant. There would be a smaller diversity, meaning that niches, or jobs that each animal does in an Ecosystem such as decomposing or comtrolling populations as a predator would not be fulfilled. Decrease in food supply, humans reaching their carrying capacity; I could go on, and on, and on.

Do some research on Ecology, it's facinating.

Answer 5

NYC, as well as Miami and most of southern Florida will be flooded when Antarctica ice shelfs fall into the ocean and cause the world's water levels to rise. There is no recovery at that point. Welcome to Atlantis.

Answer 6

ya hello think about it.