Will the world end as we know it? Climate change too late to change?

Question

I have watched many upon many documentaries on this subject. Some say our planet will drasticaly change around 2020 Some say 2050 and now I've seen 2080 predicted by a news report i saw in Japan. Surely this alone shows the real lack of knowledge between country to country therefore proves wer'e all doomed?

Answer 1

The earth has heated and froze since being formed a billion or so years ago. Sea shells found in Texas some 600 miles from today's coastline shows us at one time the earth was much hotter than all the speculative predictions of the current warming. To answer your question, given enough time, the world will change as we know it, into another ice age, warming, another ice age, more warming, etc. Both extremes will be devastating. We had what was called a mini ice age in the 1300's, outside of that, what is our 2007 year old calendar, compared to a billion years? Documentaries, print news, network news, movies are all fueled by the political views of the ultimate person in charge, take them all with a grain of salt.

Answer 2

The effects of climate change are slow and in many instances go unnoticed. Quite oten the effects are compound ones so the consequences become more pronounced the more time passes.

As for when the world will end as we know it, that's going to be a long, long time away. Even in the very worst case scenario the world will still be more or less as we know it for a good few hundred years. There would be dramatic changes and we would have to adapt, unless there was a concerted worldwide effort there would be devastation in many parts of the world but in the areas such as America and Europe, which are better placed to deal with the consequences of climate change, life would still go on.

Is it too late to change? No it's not. There are many things that individuals, organisations and governments can do to lessen the effects of climate change and to delay the consequences. The sooner these are implemented the better but it's never too late.

It may be too late to reverse the damage that's been caused and in this respect I'm referring to something known as the 'tipping point' - the point in time where the damage caused to the planet becomes ireparable. The trouble is, no-one knows where in time the tipping point lies. There are some people who believe we have already passed it but the general feeling is that we have perhaps about 30 years. If that's right then maybe we have enough time to save the planet. It's not really something we can afford to gamble with so we need to address the issues of climate change sooner rather than later.

Answer 3

Most projections are that we'll start to see the worst effects of global warming somewhere around the year 2030, and the effects will become much worse around 2050.

It's impossible to predict with a lot of accuracy because we don't know what will happen in the next 20 or 40 or 70 years. Maybe we'll drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, or maybe we'll wait until it's too late. That's why the best predictions like in the IPCC report have a range of possible outcomes, depending on what our reaction is between now and then.

Answer 4

Of course climate change is the end of OUR 'world' as we know it, because we already have made big changes to our lives, homes, communities, infrastructure, etc, to manage it, and people have moved away from their home land, so our human world will drastically change this century.

As for the entire Earth ending in total destruction, I don't think that'll ever happen, because it's suffered massive events in the past yet life has continued to exist in some form. But I do think human life as a species is coming to an end, because we're pretty rubbish as a species and don't do much good for the planet.

Choose the end; there's SO MANY dates scheduled! Next Spring they switch on the giant reactor that might create a Black Hole, so it all might end then. 2011 will be the Solar Maximum when we'll be hit by major solar storms. 2012 is the acknowledged year from many ancient civilisations for our end. Then of course there's the meteor in 2014... so many dates and many more!

Answer 5

The climate is changing already. Last year in the UK, we had absolutely no rain. Grass dried up and died, there was a ban on watering lawns, etc. Now, half the country is flooded and the army is being sent out to rescue people. The temperatures have not often gone above 20 degrees, and almost every day is raining. Forget 2020---global warming is HERE, NOW. I really doubt most of the planet will be inhabitable by 2020.

Answer 6

Come on people! Do you really buy all that crap about climate change?

Think of this.....If the dooms dayers were all running around right now crying "GLOBAL COOLING" instead of global warming, and the government told us all to buy bigger automobiles to help warm up the planet....would you do that too?

Sounds pretty rediculous huh?

Well it sounds just as rediculous to say we are causing global warming with our SUV's.

We are insignifigant. Our activities are miniscule.

One volcano adds more C02 than 3 years of mans activity.

Moreover total Co2 increase in the atmosphere has been approximately 25 to 30 PPM ( parts per million ) over the last 20 years. The most active 20 years in mans history on the planet.

At that rate it would take 400 years to reach a difference of 10,000 PPM , a 1% increase in Co2. And that is only if we could sustain the current level of fossel fule use for the next 400 years.

But of course we can't because at the current level we will run out of them in 180 years.

So all this hype is for absolutely nothing. Because we will be completely switched over to solar, and wind and nuclear and hydrogen.. long....long before we run out of dino poop!

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Answer 7

"Live life for today and not for the future"

Really?

I can't imagine why America is facing a massive personal debt crisis...

Even if the world "as we know it" comes to an end, this does not mean that the earth will in some way be destroyed. Made more difficult to inhabit for humans and other species may be more like it. In essence, it's not the end of the world, it's the end of man... in a worst case scenario sort of way.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Humans have done an enormous damage to the global environment. We're losing thousands of species everyday and that's something, which is simply irreversible.

However, the majority of the scientific community believes that this damage is reversible IF we act now and take steps to reduce global warming and adopt more earth friendly behavior.

But We Must Act NOW!

Answer 10

We are being duped by politicians, actors and pop stars!
Turn off a light, go to the bottle bank and save the world, while these people jet around the world have massive carbon footprints.
Take one supermarket, electricity and lights glaring 24 hours a day, and they say we should make a difference!
We're doomed I suspect, not if, just when!