Does global warming leads to giant freeze ?

Question

Is it hard to deal with giant freeze (once it exist) than global warming?

Answer 1

yes it does

Answer 2

if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age - in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset - and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.

The possible consequences of an ice age include:

Vast areas around the north pole becoming completely uninhabitable as glaciers expand down Canada, Scandanavia, and Siberia.
With so much water locked up in the huge polar caps, sea levels will fall. Many coral reefs will disappear, along with the variety of life that thrived there.
The air will be so cold and dry that deserts will expand, what are grasslands today may become desert, and tropical rainforests will disappear, becoming grasslands.
Many thousands of animal species will become extinct, in both the oceans and on land.

The possible consequences of a global warming spell include:


Sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas. Cities like Miami and New York City may be partly or completely underwater. Many islands in the ocean regions will disappear.
The melted polar caps will leave behind land that may be colonized, but have little or no topsoil.
The tropical rainforests will expand as the air becomes increasingly warm and moist. Most deserts will disappear. Swamps will become common. Outbreaks of disease will be EXTREMELY common!
Many animal species will become extinct, though life will find it easier to adapt than in an ice age.

Answer 3

Scientists believe (roughly) that global warming melts the ice caps, increasing evaporation and increasing cloud cover thus blocking the sun's heat which then causes the planet to quickly freeze over again. Once the extremes freeze over again the cloud cover disperses, whoever the planet remains cold for about 10 time long than the global warming part because the snow and ice reflect the sun's heat, i think i read somewhere that it happens about once every 100k yrs, without our help that is.

Answer 4

what you refer to as "giant freeze" will occur as a result of global warming, and i believe it'll be harder to deal with, because it would be like a new ice age, which means that there would be a mile of ice above our heads. people say that global warming isnt real and blah blah and its a natural process, but they are forgetting that the ice age occured from "natural proccesses" as well. if we can do anything to prevent global warming from increasing, we should do it.

Answer 5

you're asking about going from the frying pan into the freezer. which one is easier? is that a real choice or a real joke? i usually stay clear of absolutes as i have found that absolutes only lead to absolute chaos (and often biting of one's tongue) but i'll let slip my rule of thumb & say that both are positively horrid and they are the extreme ends of a very dangerous swing of the climate pendulum. if you have 10 billion on this planet (of humans), dare i say only 1% or less will survive? flora & fauna won't do much better. but not to worry. this giant heat swell takes hundreds of years to occur & then equal number of years to reverse to the big freeze. since i won't be around to worry, let's dance!

Answer 6

it would be hard to deal with any dramatic change in the weather. it doesnt matter if we go up or down the thermometer.

we'll find out when the next ice age hits

Answer 7

Hi. Nature gravitates towards balance, so perhaps.