2007-07-04 06:46:08 · 10 answers · asked by erika smith 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
unpredictable weather
rising sea levels
2007-07-04 06:48:08 · answer #1 · answered by David 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seems obvious that any significant change in climate on a global scale should impact local agriculture, and therefore affect the world's food supply. Considerable study has gone into questions of just how farming might be affected in different regions, and by how much; and whether the net result may be harmful or beneficial, and to whom. Several uncertainties limit the accuracy of current projections. One relates to the degree of temperature increase and its geographic distribution. Another pertains to the concomitant changes likely to occur in the precipitation patterns that determine the water supply to crops, and to the evaporative demand imposed on crops by the warmer climate. There is a further uncertainty regarding the physiological response of crops to enriched carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The problem of predicting the future course of agriculture in a changing world is compounded by the fundamental complexity of natural agricultural systems, and of the socioeconomic systems governing world food supply and demand.
http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/summer95/agriculture.html
According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the Earth's average surface temperature has increased 1.3 degrees F over the past 100 years. Most scientists agree that this increase is caused by human activity - primarily the burning of fossil fuels. What may seem like a small temperature change has devastating consequences - rising sea levels, loss of Arctic habitat, extinctions, increasingly intense hurricanes, and drought and famine.
http://www.audubon.org/globalWarming/GetTheFacts.php
2007-07-04 14:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by Michael N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No more cold winters. People living in the northern states won't have to go south for the winter to get warm. Instead, the people down south will have to go north to cool off. Love it!
People in the midwest won't have to drive so far to get to the ocean.
Many present day ocean navigation hazards will disappear.
All forests and plants will grow like crazy, weedkiller and chain saws will be the businesses to be in. Everyone will grow a garden. 50 Lb watermelons and pumpkins will become the norm.
It will be impossible to become hypothermic.
Ice fishing will go the way of the DoDo bird.
Penguins will each have their own private refrigerator.
2007-07-04 22:24:19 · answer #3 · answered by gatorbait 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is called global warming, due to this the sea level will be rised, Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather may happen,Plant and animal range shifts and population changes etc. may happen.
2007-07-04 13:54:50 · answer #4 · answered by Narendra 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
higher ocean levels, thus flooding the majority of the continents. and The biological of the inhabitants would most likely perish. only a few dgrees would cause these effects.
2007-07-04 13:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by Justin S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More intense and unpredictable natural disasters, and a rise in world wide ocean levels.
2007-07-04 13:48:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, rise in sea levels and intense weather phenomenon.
2007-07-04 14:17:07 · answer #7 · answered by Dogna M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jobs for phony scientists, and amusement for people who know that global warming is a hoax.
2007-07-04 13:48:37 · answer #8 · answered by Always Right 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
penguins extinction and polar bear extinction
2007-07-04 13:51:15 · answer #9 · answered by yellow victory 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
constipation and common colds.
2007-07-04 13:48:35 · answer #10 · answered by Barb B. 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋