what if global warming stops...what will happen?

Question

i havent lived long....only 14 years....

but will the polar ice caps recover? & will the bad weather lessen? Less hurricanes like hurricane Katrina?

Answer 1

Excerpts reprinted with permission from Tom Gremillion
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Global warming is a hoax, invented in 1988, that combines old myths including limits to growth, sustainability, the population growth time bomb, the depletion of resources, pollution, anti-Americanism and anti-corporate sentiment and, of all things, fear of an ice age. Those that espoused and supported the old myths have joined forced into a new group called “Environmentalists.”
Most environmentalists have no technical or scientific credentials whatsoever. What they have are major news outlets ready and willing to publicize their every utterance regardless of whether or not they are backed up by scientific proof. Atmospheric science requires highly technical knowledge and skills, not possessed by the vast majority of the so-called environmentalists, who yet feel qualified to demand that human activity subjugate itself to the whims of their new deity, Mother Nature.
Environmentalists claim that the Earth’s atmosphere is getting hotter. They claim that the polar icecaps and glaciers will melt and sea levels will rise over two hundred feet, flooding most coastal cities. They claim that many areas of the Earth will turn into deserts. They make all these claims but cannot substantiate them with real scientific evidence. Parts of the polar icecap and glaciers are melting but other areas of the polar icecaps and glaciers are thickening. The environmentalists base their “proof” of the existence of global warming on the melting areas but are strangely silent, even militant to the point of violence, if anyone mentions the areas that are thickening, and those thickening areas are many.
In the past, there have been many times when the global mean temperatures were warmer, sometimes much warmer and colder, much colder than they are now. Global mean temperatures are cyclical with the seasons but also with other normal cycles, as they have been for the entire history of the Earth. Scientific data from ice cores, tree rings and other indicators of global mean temperatures prove this. Human activity has never been the cause of these global temperature swings as the “global warming” advocates claim. If human activity was the cause, where were the SUVs, the power plants and industries in our historical past? They did not exist. If human activity was not the cause of these global temperature swings, what was?
The energy output of the Sun is far greater in one second than human activity could produce in a million years. The Earth rotates around the Sun. Its orbit is slightly elliptical. The energy reaching the Earth from the Sun varies slightly as the distance from the Sun to the Earth varies due to its elliptical orbit. The Sun activity increases and decreases with fluctuations in the solar flares emitted by the Sun. Differences in these fluctuation rates cause increases and decreases of solar energy hitting the Earth. This causes fluctuations in the global mean temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere.
In 2004, the energy from massive solar flares bombarded the Earth with solar energy. This solar energy caused heating of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. Most of the energy of the solar flare eruptions dissipated into space. The amounts of energy ejected were massive, much greater than normal. Had the Earth received a full blast of the solar energy from one of the numerous flare eruptions in 2004, the consequences to life on Earth could have been disastrous. The higher than usual amounts of energy that struck the Earth’s atmosphere did have their effects, however, including some heating of the atmosphere.
Then there is the eruption of volcanoes, such as Mt. St. Helens, ejecting dust and ash into the Earth’s atmosphere. The amount of dust and ash in the atmosphere varies the amount of energy that can cause heating or cooling of the Earth’s atmosphere. Volcanoes also eject the kind of compounds that environmentalists call greenhouse gases. A single eruption the size of the Mt. St. Helens eruption released more of these gases, dust and ash into the atmosphere than all such emissions by human activity since the beginning of recorded human history. And there are numerous volcanic eruptions yearly.
The oceans are also a major source of greenhouse gases, as are trees. Trees and other vegetation take in carbon dioxide and give off other gases such as methane, a major greenhouse gas, and a host of other compounds, many of which are also greenhouse gases. Decaying vegetation also gives off methane gas. Studies of smog in the Los Angeles basin indicate that over 90% of the smog is generated by the vegetation in the area. To aid in perpetuating the hoax, however, environmentalists, aided by major news media outlets, censored and suppressed this study.
Studies have shown that greenhouse gases produced by human activity accounts for around 1 percent of the gases in the atmosphere. The total elimination of human generated greenhouse gases would have a negligible effect on Earth’s global mean atmospheric temperatures. The elimination of all U.S. gasoline powered vehicles would reduce worldwide “greenhouse” emissions by less than 0.2%.” What would be the effect on global mean temperatures? None. Doubling of manmade greenhouse emissions above current levels would increase the global mean temperature by one degree Centigrade, which is within the normal range of temperature swings.
It is the fluctuations of the Earth’s orbit around the sun, volcanic eruptions, the emission of gases by oceans and trees, all natural occurrences, that cause rises and declines in global mean temperatures, i.e., “global warming” and “global cooling,” not human activity.
Satellite data taken over the past 25 years indicate no surface or atmospheric warming. If anything there has been a very slight cooling, on the order of 0.01 degree Centigrade.
Recently, astronomers have noticed a thinning of the polar icecaps on Mars.
Is this “global warming, Mars style” and do Martian SUVs, power plants, and industries cause it? Hardly, but the “environmentalists” think so. Some even blame it on us here on Earth.
Global warming IS a hoax. Those claiming that “global warming” is real have an agenda other than saving the planet from human activity.

Answer 2

Nothing will happen. There have always been bad hurricanes. Katrina was not as bad as others that happened long ago. And I suppose the polar ice would keep melting anyway, because it is just the last remnant of the most recent ice age, when ice covered all of Canada and the northern part of the United States. That melting process has been going on for thousands of years and would continue even if there were no cars or coal fired power plants or any pollution by people at all.

Answer 3

Here is a scientific discussion about the uncertainties relating to this issue:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/07/runaway-tipping-points-of-no-return/

The Antarctic ice cap has yet to be significantly affected by global warming, and Arctic sea ice can recover in a year. The Greenland ice cap is more problematic: it is possible that it cannot grow under current climatic conditions.

The hurricane/globalwarming connection is not well understood---there may not be a well-defined causal relationship there.

Even if all fossil fuel burning stopped today, temperature rise will continue for several decades, and there might still be a chance of natural positive feedback. The concensus is, however, that if burning of fossil fuels ends in the next few decades, the worst predicted effects will not occur.

Answer 4

Let me focus on the question, "will the ice caps recover?"

The ice caps are an ephemeral feature. Sometimes they are there and sometimes they are not. For the last few million years we have been in an ice age with several interglacial and glacial periods with ice advancing and retreating. The ice caps are not permanent nor are sea levels or the climate. Those that try to inform you that they are and that any change is not normal are extremely ignorant of the facts but it has become very "in" lately to think of the world as unchanging. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Answer 5

It's funny that in the 1970's people were concerned about another Ice Age coming...now it's global warming. Anyone considered that the earth goes through patterns of climate fluctuation which is normal and can be documented throughout history?

Answer 6

From NASA:
"It is uncertain, however, whether the world's two major ice sheets-Greenland and Antarctica-have been growing or diminishing"

Bad weather and hurricanes are nothing new. 2006 had one of the fewest number of hurricanes.

Answer 7

If Global Warming stops, then you can start worrying! It means our warm interglacial phase is over and we may be heading into another Ice Age!

Answer 8

My weatherman can't correctly predict the weather a week out, why am I supposed to believe people can predict the weather 10+ years out??

Answer 9

If global temperatures drop back to their normal levels, then sure things will most likely go back to the way they were. This isn't going to happen overnight though. It'll take some doing to remove all that extra carbon from the atmosphere.

Answer 10

I'll tell you what will happen...Al Gore and the looney left will take credit for saving the world. I can't wait for this to happen....too funny.

Answer 11

stops because of what??
If we stop poluting Global warming will continue but much slower