What do you think will be the major implications if people do not begin to address global warming?

Answer 1

I'm not sure I agre with those who say the world will be covered with water. Yes, the Kansas-Nebraska Sea will return when the North polar ice is gone. That extended the Gulf of Mexico up to Montana and Wyoming the last time it happened (during the Cretaceous).

The South Polar cap is rapidly melting also. The last time we didn't have a South Polar icecap was right after the breakup of Pangea (before the dinosaurs).

Because the Antarctic ice rests on a continent and the Arctic ice rests on open water, the North polar cap has freely advanced and retreated as ice ages came and went. The South polar cap did not melt, and simply continued to thicken. as snow fell, century after century. That ice has never melted since the Antarctic fragment of Pangea drifted to it's present location (hundreds of millions of years ago)

Clearly when it's all melted in a few years we will have the deepest oceans we've had since life emerged onto the land. Whether the places that were above water when the North polar ice melted in times past will still be above water, we can't know. This has never happened before.

On the other hand, the ice cap on Antarctica has been accumulating for those hundreds of millions of years, and is in places, miles think. It is believed that without the great weight of the ice, the continent itself would rise by miles in places.

I've long believed that when our tampering with our delicate planet was done, the most likely place that might remain inhabitable would be Antarctica, which was once tropical.

That may not stay true for long. If it goes on getting hotter, more and more water will evaporate and add to the greenhouse effect. Even without the "runaway" greenhouse effect that was discussed in the 1950's, melting of frozen chathrate crystals on the ocean floor will occur at a temperature that is fast approaching. At that point, temperatures 2will soar, and things will be out of our hands. No action by people could reverse the trend, which ends with an earth without liquid water and a surface temperature that would melt lead. Even though it may not be far off, we won't be around to see it if it happens. It is clear that preventing it depends on what we do in the next 50 years or so, which will be times of radical change.

Answer 2

I used to buy into the global warming stuff. Then like other people who have responded to this question I remember when I was little they were still talking about global cooling. As a historian I just have to wonder about methods of research some scientists use and their real agendas. I live in CA and it was still cool here at the end of May when it is normally hotter than ________. (Fill in the blank) I had a great time poking fun at my colleagues who preached global warming every day asking them when global warming would finally set in. I even told them a made a fw extra trips around the block before I got to work because I hate the cold. In the end, if we dont address the global warming problem I predict we will continue to waste money on gutless cars and carbon credits until we move onto the next big thing, problably back to global cooling or the population bomb.

Answer 3

The implications will be small. A small rise in sea level, a few inches over a 100 year time span. A small increase in temperature, a couple degrees. A small change in weather patterns, not more massive droughts or floods that have been seen in the last 500 years, but just different weather. It is not going to be bad.

Answer 4

If we are going to have any chance of stopping Global Warming we must reduce the carbon dioxide emissions on this planet by over 90% of what they are today.

How are you going to do that?

You would either have to destroy the economy and put everyone out of work or you would have to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power plants.

I read that you could supply all of the energy used in the United States with 2,000 nuclear power plants.

You would have to ban the use of all fossil fuels.

Switch over to electric cars powered by electricity from nuclear power plants.

You would have to change the heating and cooling of homes to electricity generated by nuclear power plants.

We should begin building the nuclear power plants as soon as possible. It takes several years to build a nuclear power plant and we cannot build all 2,000 at one time.

If we completed 100 nuclear power plants per year it would still take 20 years to complete the plants and get them up and running if we started today.

We would not complete them all until 2027. That is a long time. And that is if we start today!

We had better start building those nuclear power plants.

Answer 5

I'm hoping the implications are good one . Maybe man will begin to work together again instead of the dog eat dog world that we live in today . Maybe the kids will not need a pair of $200 dollar sneakers if they had to wear rags on there feet it would make them appreciate the $25 dollar pair .

It gets to warm its going to make us all think differently and God knows we need to as it is we are all slaves to the rich the only difference is they don't whip us anymore if we don't do what they say they take our things to survive with like take your car house and whatever .

Answer 6

After all of the ice melts, we will have more beaches and more scantily clad people walking around.

Oh, and everyone will realize that Kevin Costner must have had a prophetic vision.

EDIT: I forgot we will have more hurricanes, less hurricanes, more droughts, more floods, more heat, more cold, blah, blah, blah. I love the way the alarmists have set themselves up to say any weather extreme is caused by global warming even if those extremes are the exact opposite. Before long we will find out global cooling is caused by global warming. Anything to instill fear in the general populace.

Answer 7

AlGorge will not make billions of bux selling his carbon offsets, Nan will continue to jet around in her Gulfstream, The Kennedy klan will continue to hold sway over the public waterways and prevent windfarms in 'their' patch of ocean view, there will be more 'docutainment' movies released in an attempt to force global taxation through guilt....
need I continue?

Answer 8

I'm guessing the implications will be warming......globally.

Answer 9

Nothing significantly different than if they did. The adverse effects of 'global warming' have been grossly (and intentionally) exaggerated, when they haven't been outright fabricated. The extent of human influence on the process is similarly being misrepresented; while the exact degree is unknown, it is certainly negligible.

Answer 10

Their Christmas packages may get lost in the mail!

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