What are the projected outcomes of Global Warming?

Question

Is there a general consensus or more controversy on the subject?

Answer 1

we will need to use the air conditioner more. all the world's polar bears will be in alaska and canada. there will be more rainfall. we release carbon dioxide that sucks in heat but also release particulates that reflect sunlight and actually cool the earth. believe global warming if u believe u are a descendent of monkeys.

Answer 2

To provide a satisfactory answer would take too long so instead I'll refer you to a consensed version of a report I wrote a few months ago which addresses your specific question...

The effects of climate change
http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/future.html

Effects in the future
http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/effects.html

As for a consensus, there is a very strong consensus that human activities have influenced the climate. See the link in Bob's answer and also here http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm where there's a whole bunch of surveys from CNN, ABC, Gallup, Fox News etc. Amongst the scientific community there's an even greater consensus, this is my line of work and nowadays it's extremely rare to find a scientist who doesn't beleive humans have contributed to global warming. I don't have figures but it would be safe to say that the consensus amongst scientists is at least 98%.

Answer 3

Every body has their own idea on what will happen due to global warming 1 planet will burst into flames. 2 the polar caps will fully melt and the world will be under water.3 the Earth will lose it atmosphere due to the depletion of the Ozone layer and then end up like other planets eg Mars.
But the one out come we can say is life on the planet will lost-ed and what does survive will be something completely different to what we know now that is of-course should any life remain

Answer 4

Coastal flooding, damage to agriculture and ecosystems. More details here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/329.php?nid=&id=&pnt=329&lb=hmpg1

And, because of the scientific data:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"