What could possibly happen?
2007-08-23 05:56:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
In your lifetime, you can pretty much look at the last 100 years and get a good estimate: essentially an imperceptible change in temperature, climate, and sea level rise. I can guarantee you that the greatest impact will be political/governmental intrusion into your life. You WILL lose freedom. You WILL have less wealth.
2007-08-24 21:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by 3DM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The long-term effects of GW depend mostly on feedback of greenhouse gases---in other words, does the warming release more greenhouse gasses, or cause them to be removed from the atmosphere? These processes are not at all well understood, but our future depends on them.
In the best case, negative feedback of carbon dioxide might well solve the whole problem: all the human-generated CO2 could be absorbed (by plankton, for example) and the problem could disappear.
The worst case might be very bad indeed. The current warming is much faster than natural warmings have been in the past, and this might cause large positive feedback of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses such as methane. If there were enough of these gasses to cause the infrared spectrum of the Earth's atmosphere to become totally opaque, then the temperature would increase by about 30 C. There seem to be precedents for this in the fossil record, the Permian extinction in particular. Such an event would not be survivable by most individuals or species on this planet, although it would not be the end of life on Earth.
2007-08-23 19:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will be warm until the planet naturaly changes and gets cool again.
2007-08-23 13:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Beach front property in Nevada!
2007-08-23 13:04:53 · answer #4 · answered by Wounded Duck 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
less heat bills
2007-08-26 10:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋