I know many would say "you can see it now". But I disagree. I certainly don't see dramatic changes. Where I am, our winters seem shorter and warmer, but there have still been shorter and warmer winters in the area's history.
How long before we can see (with our own eyes) the impact of global warming right in front of us, in our daily lives?
2007-08-29 13:22:51 · 17 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Many people are astonishingly good at denying things, even things right in front of their noses, so it may be quite a while.
Under the very worst GW scenarios, the US doesn't become lethally hot for several hundred years in the future. And of course the worst-case may not happen (we hope).
2007-08-29 14:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by cosmo 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the context that you're referring to, you'll probably never notice the changes. Climate change is a slow process, there won't be any sudden or dramatic changes.
It's like the people you know, you see them every day and they always look the same but look back at a photo of them 10 or 20 years ago and they're very different. Same with the climate, slow and subtle changes over short periods of time, only noticeable over long periods of time.
If you're looking for dramatic eveyday changes you're not going to find any. Look for the subtle changes and the long term changes, that's where the differences are to be found.
2007-08-30 02:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
LOL i about agree with permaculture most people hair is going to have to be on fire but if that happens they will just call it spontaneous combustion and ignore it . Don't worry God loves some of us he,s not going to let us all die. If you cant see it now then your to young to remember what it was like . Read a little history from about 50 years or so ago . 30 years ago the great lakes would freeze over we would drive our cars on them to go ice fishing now we don't even get 1/4 inch if that you cant even walk on it . Lets see what this winter brings
2007-08-29 20:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by dad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll get warm, it'll get cold. Historically we are nearing a peak of high temperatures.
Over the last 40.000 years, a cycle of highs and lows has repeated. We are approaching about 85% of the way toward the high end of the typical cycle of temperature swings.
Once the peak is achieved, temperatures will cool quickly and we can expect a couple of thousand years of another ice age.
This cycle has been well documented. Climate change is a fact of life on planet Earth.
Have you ANY solutions? Are you arragant enough to think any act of man can stop the NEXT deadly ice age?
Is there enough land close to the equator to provide food and housing of the entire human race?
Will people die from the heat? Yes!
Will the human race be destroied by the following ice age?
I hope not, but you can know a LOT more deaths will occur from the cold.
It WON'T be caused by greenhouse gasses.
2007-08-29 20:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by Philip H 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The thing you have to understand is that this earth is constantly in motion and things are constantly in flux. Species rise and fall, climate changes from one end of the thermometer to another. There is no way to know why a particular change happens. It may be natural and it may be caused by man. There are things that scientists do not begin to understand about this earth. And change in climate might not even be caused on earth, there are factors to our global climate that occur in space that we do not understand and can do nothing to change. And animals make changes to the enviroment too. Beaver damns destroy the surrounding ecosystem, but there arent any enviromentalists harking on about the beavers.
2007-08-29 23:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by enders_shadow90 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since those who believe are stating the temperatures are rising 0.7DecC over the last 100 years, who could ever perceive an annual rise of just 0.007DegC?
Any increase is purely statistical, not perceivable. It would take thousands of years for any noticeable change.
2007-08-29 20:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your child suffering from malaria? Your family starving? NYC under water? Is that what you need to be sure?
Any devastating results are still deniable, how do we know it isn't just part of a cycle after NYC is under water?
The undeniable evidence is already in front of you, it's not a weather pattern, or pictures of melting glaciers, or any other shocking image.
It's science
The greenhouse effect is undeniable, and our contribution to increased greenhouse gas concentration is undeniable.
2007-08-29 20:41:45 · answer #7 · answered by PD 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Americans couldn't see that Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo were going to cause problems until Pearl Harbor explained it to them in terms they could understand.. Believe me, if anything they are dumber (and obviously less educated) than they were at that time. The exceptions you find here and there are kept on the defensive on all fronts, not just environment.
2007-08-30 08:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
When George Bush still decides to do nothing about it. Its quite soon, watch the day after tomorrow...good movie.
2007-08-29 22:08:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats is a good question
the rest of the world have no problem with noticing it now
And now the official figure for global warming related deaths is 150.000.
Americans however may remain unawares until their hair starts burning
2007-08-29 20:34:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋