What is the one disaster due to climate change that you are most worried about?

Question

Although everything seems to be connected what is the one side effect of global warming that scares you the most or will effect you the most.

Please only people who believe in global warming answer. I don't want to read through 50 "its not real" answers, Thanks.

Answer 1

That's a very good question. I've studied climate change for years and never really thought about the one aspect that worries me the most.

I guess that's largely because I'm sheltered from the worst effects. If I was a farmer in Africa (crop failure), a farmer in China (desertification) or lived in the Carteret Islands (inundation) the answer would be more apparent.

I guess it would be increased adverse weather events. Now that's a pretty broad answer and affects many people in different ways but overall it's the aspect that's responsible in whole or in part for flooding, droughts, coastal erosion, crop failiure, heatwaves, storms, famine, disease, desertification, economic impact, population migration and more.

The aspects of adverse weather that could perhaps have the most serious consequences are drought and crop failure, on a large scale this could lead to millions of deaths per year.

Answer 2

I definetly believe in global warming. We are already seeing the effects of it. I would say my biggest fear would be more huge tornadoes.I live in New England where they are a rare occurance, but already since may we've had tornado watches and warnings. At one point we had 2 a week for about a month, and that is extremely rare. As I speak, the weather channel has warnings of severe thunderstorms brewing in our area and with this heat and humidity I won't be surprised if the tornado warnings pop up again this afternoon. I hope they don't because I will be in a state of panic. But yeah, that's what I fear the most.

Answer 3

The most serious enviromental problem we humans have is a dwindling fresh water supply. If people believe that we can change the world enough to cause "global warming" then why are those same people not worried about our fresh water supply? At current consumption rates we will run out of fresh water LONG before we run out of oil, or before the sea levels rise enough to cause major flooding.

And wether or not humans are causing global warming doesn't really matter because the earth will most likely will continue to get warmer and as it does fresh water supplies will continue to decrease. Most people can see first hand the effects of water shortages already. I personally know where I get my drinking water and that river is 20 ft below what is was 10 years ago.

Answer 4

The floodng issue, the flooding in Sheffield recently really scares me and makes me aware that the climate change is a real and serious issue. I hope flood will not happen in London and is the thames river wide and deep enough to hold the rain if heavy rain move from the north to the south?

Answer 5

Flooding fits the doomsday scenario, but it will be a few decades before that happens. The worst disaster will be collapse of the food chain due to drought. In Australia this is already happening. Coral reefs are already declining due to rising sea temperature, reducing fish stocks. If honey bee populations collapse, there will be a huge reduction in agricultural production.

Answer 6

Global winter scares me the most. I will never survive an oncoming ice age.
That being said, I currently own a home only six feet from the ocean. If the tides raise up even 1.5 inches, I'm in serious trouble here.

Answer 7

Global warming is definitely real, but I'm not worried about climate change. The one natural disaster I am worried about though is the supervolcano located under Yellowstone.

Answer 8

I'm worried about drought. None of us living in the mid-south really know what it means to conserve water in a big way. Every once in a while we have water restictions put on us so we can't wash our cars or water lawns until after dark, or at all. But what would we do if we couldn't take baths, go swimming, wash our clothes, run our dishwashers, etc because it seriously threatened drinking water levels? It terriefies me to think of having drinking water shortages or contamination.

Answer 9

floods and the thinning of the Ozone Layer

you have a really good point. i can't believe there are actually people that don't believe in Global Warming. its becoming a big issue.

Answer 10

We do not want the crops to fail because of drought. We do not want the ice pack in the Sierras to fail because its too warm to snow there any more. We do not want millions or even billions of people starving to death or dying from thirst, we do not want wars fought for mere survival. At the extreme, we do not want this planet to end up like Venus.