They are saying that the glaciers will all be melted by 2015~ not far off.......are you scared for your kids?

Question

You should be.......people are taking advantage of this planet left and right......will you wake up when it's to late?

Answer 1

Nobody is saying that. Don't be ignorant.

Answer 2

Only a small fraction of Global Warming is caused by the activity of people. Most Global Warming is caused by natural factors beyond our control.

For example, the output of the sun has been increasing over the past 20,000 years. That is what melted the mile thick ice sheets that once covered most of North America.

If we stopped all human activity in the world, stopped using fossil fuels to run agricultural machinery, automobiles, buses, trains and airplanes, stopped using natural gas and fuel oil to heat our homes, stopped producing electricity with fossil fuels, stopped producing plastics with petroleum products, we would reduce Global warmiing by only a very small fraction.

The negative consequences of stopping all modern human activity would be catastrophic. The economy of the world, not just the United States, would collapse. We would be living under circumstamces even worse than what we saw during the world wide great depression of the 1930's. We would not produce enough food to feed the people of the world. There would be mass starvation. Most people would lose their homes. We would have billions of starving homeless people throughout the world. Billions of people would die as a result.

What positive results would we accomplish? Very little. We would reduce Global Warming by a small fraction. The sun would continue to increase its output, and the glaciers will still melt. At best we may slow the melting of the glaciers for 5 to 10 Years at a cost of billions of starving, dying homeless people.

What would we have accomplished?

The answer is very little other than to make billions of people absolutely miserable.

Answer 3

The glaciers melting is only part of the problem-as you may already know. The time line for total melting of glaciers maybe a bit further down the road then 2015.
With all the problems connected with global warming, everyone seems to be forgetting a very important item: How "FERAL" will humans become, just to survive, when all of this is at it's peak?
Yes! I said "Feral." People will kill just to get a bit of shade or a crust of bread, or even a spot on higher ground. This very thing, and many others, has happened before in our history, not because of global warming but for many other reasons. History is loaded with it-"The Human Survival Factor". Those that are not trying to help will become part of the bigger problem.
Have a nice day

Answer 4

Personally I don't have any kids, though it's possible that my wife and I will have one at some point. Honestly one reason that gives me pause is the possible future ramifications of global warming.

Joseph Romm (global warming expert, among other things) wrote a book called "Hell and High Water" about that very topic. In case you couldn't tell from the title, it paints a very grim picture of the future if we don't start taking action to curb our greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade. At the very least we'll be forced to take drastic action in the following decades to accomplish what we could have much more easily done in our present.

To answer your question, at the moment I would be nervous. If a Republican US president gets elected in 2008, then I would be downright scared for future generations (or if a Democrat is elected who doesn't take sufficient action, which is entirely possible). I would hold off on being too scared just yet, because there's probably still time for us to take action and prevent catastrophic climate change from happening, but time is running out.

Answer 5

No, I am not scared. I am sure some other glaciers have probably finished completely melting 10 years ago. I really don't think melting glaciers are a problem. That always happens at the end of an ice age, and we ARE at the end of an ice age. The climate has changed dramatically many times in the 4 billion year history of Earth. The question is, how fast do you believe the climate will change in the next few years and what do you think is causing it? I suspect you think the climate is changing about 100 times faster that the scientists are really saying it is changing, and that you think we are the main cause of that. I don't agree. The climate may be changing faster that past natural changes, and people may be a contributing factor, but it is not too late, and in 100 years it will still not be too late. And the actions we need to take will be necessary primarily because oil is running out and less to combat climate change.

Answer 6

no way in the deepest darkest pits of hades will all the glaciers be melted by 2015. glaciers are constantly growing and shrinking. don't believe the hype. it simply will not happen. do you remember in 1970 when it was said that the global temperature would rise an average of 10 degrees in the next 20 years. didn't happen, remember the 80s. the ozone layer is disapearing and we won't have one in 15 years. yeah ozone layer making a comeback. there will always be some horrifying thing to worry about so live your life and do your best, but don't live with regret and remorse.

Answer 7

Who said that? Do they say what global temperature is need to melt all the glaciers? What rate is the earth supposedly increasing in temperature? This is just bogus hand ringing, wake up, think for yourself, don't mindlessly go changing your life because someone cries wolf.

Answer 8

Go to Glacier National Park while you still can. It's really too bad.

Answer 9

I don't have any kids, and don't want any. So I'm not scared for them.

I'm scared for the fuzzy little baby seals that Sir Paul and his friends will be beating to death with electric guitars to feed to starving polar bears.

The more we interfere with nature and play God, the worse things get.

Answer 10

I am terrified for my future children! not only with the environment but social problems as well... I want my kids to see polar bears and other Arctic animals, i want to to still have cold places like Antarctica on the globe (so it doesn't end up like Pluto and taken off the list), and I want them to be safe! (outdoors or indoors).... I fear that our future generations will not be able to go outside as much is global warming gets too bad and I fear for my younger brother and my future children when it comes to school... shootings are way to frequent in the past years... what is going on with our world?! :o(

Answer 11

Yes. We can reduce it enough to avoid a disaster but we need to start now:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html

By the way, most all of the skeptics arguments posted on Yahoo answers are refuted at:

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics