How long do you think our future generation of people would be living before the global warming ends the world

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Answer 2

Global warming is a serious problem and it is already impacting on the lives of many people but it won't bring about the end of the world, certainly not for a very long time anyway.

In order for the world to end there would have to be catastrophic global warming and that's not going to occur for a few hundred years at the very earliest. Long before that happened even the most ardent of skeptics would accept the seriousness of the problem and there would be a clear route ahead to resolving the problem.

There are several schemes currently under development or consideration that could be implemented to mitigate the effects of global warming. We do in fact already have the technology and capability to put into place systems that will remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the only things preventing this from happening sooner rather than later are a lack of financial commitment and skepticism from some quarters.

Such schemes could be up and running within about 10 years, because of the physical properties of the greenhouse gases the global temperature will continue rising for perhaps 20 to 40 years after implementing such schemes. If there was enough commitment we could start reducing global temperatures within 30 to 50 years.

There is however a spanner in the works known as the Tipping Point, this is effectively the point of no return. Beyond this there is nothing that can be done to repair the damage. Quite how far from the tipping point we are is open to debate, some think we may have reached it, others beleive it may be as much as 50 years away. The 'average' opinion is 20 to 30 years.

We're facing a situation that has never before been encountered, there's no books to reference, no similar events on other planets to observe. The best that anyone can do is to make informed guesses.

Answer 3

Global warming is not going the end the world, unless of course you mean the global warming that will occur when the sun expands and swallows the Earth in about a billion years or so.

Answer 4

Global warming will not be the end of the world---it will be a mass extinction event, and that is bad enough: the extinction of many of the world's species, and quite probably a large reduction in human population.

But some humans will survive, and in the next civilization to arise, after the Earth recovers, there will no longer be fossil fuels to burn, and so they will have to start from the beginning with renewable resources. Hopefully much of the art and science of our civilization will survive as well.

Answer 5

I think that's an awefully cynical question, but I have read that global warming will finish off the glaciers on the north pole within 100 years. If you had to take into account the population growth, increase of pollution, depletion of resources (such as the overfished oceans, rainforest timber, and of course natural gas) I'd say the answer is obvious:
all too soon.

Answer 6

I think your starting assumption is inaccurate. Global warming is extremely unlikely to "end the world", although it certainly is and will keep on causing changes in the world's systems (weather systems, ecosystems, etc.) People are, if nothing else, extraordinarily adaptable, so I wouldn't worry about human extinction - lots and lots of other organisms have gone and are going to go, though. Life will change; countries will change; people will move; cultures will die out. In other words, as far as people are concerned, things will continue to go on as they have for the last few thousands of years. The world's going to be a nastier and poorer place though.

Answer 7

There is NO global warming. And this "global warming" of yours will NEVER end this world. The only being that can end the world is God. I don't care if you're a Christian or not, but Jesus said that all of your predictions of when the world is going to end are and will be false. God is the only one that can end the world and knows when it's going to happen.

See this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064691a6571.html

Answer 8

Climate change won't end the world.

Climate change will CHANGE the world, with some notable negative side effects, but it won't end it.

The world will get along just fine. Humans, on the other hand, is an entirely different debate.

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Answer 9

perhaps, if you were a parapalegic, and you sat down up to your neck in the ocean and sat there for 140 years, and nobody came to drag you away from the rising ocean,...THAT person might meet their maker because of it, but most of can move more than 1 or two inches in our lifetimes to avoid catastrophe.

Answer 10

after this warming trend ends it will be 2 decades of cooling.

Answer 11

It's only going to screw with the people who aren't smart enough to move north or tough enogh to fight for land. It's part of nature except it dosen't exist.

Equilibrium.