What do you feel would happen and why?
2007-09-06 04:59:38 · 16 answers · asked by willow 6 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Sea levels might rise 10-20 feet, but dikes could be built to protect cities and many buildings would be moved inland or raised up on pilings. Growing oranges and palm trees in Cornwall wouldn't be bad. Siberia could become verdant farmland, there could be wheat fields in Greenland and in northern Canada.
The higher sea levels would make the Mediterranean and Black Seas larger and might provide more moisture for the Sahara, so more crops could grow there as they did 10,000 years ago when the climate was much warmer. Change does not equal disaster. People, animals and plants adapt to change or they fight it and die. Change is not bad or good, it is just change.
There would be economic losses for some and gains for others. If more of the surface was water, there would be more evaporation and more rain. That probably would mean less desert but people would have to live away from areas where floods occur or build to deal with floods.
Look at the temperature records for the Holocene, the time since the end of the last Ice Age. Man had no effect on climate, supposedly until about 1850, so explain the climate changes without Man as a cause. The recent warming seems to be a continuation of a trend present in 1850. Look at the last 10,500 years and define "Normal Climate". Then do some more research and do not just accept what the Leftist politicians say or what they have forced many scientists to say. Look at the reasoning behind those who do not accept that Man and civilisation are the sole cause of GW. Think and evaluate for yourself.
2007-09-06 17:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Taganan 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It’s been with us for a long time now. It’s impossible to say just when it started because there are natural cooling and warming contributions that can’t be precisely quantified. The first appreciable impacts began with the onset of industrialisation in c1750. By 1811 the French Physicist Simeon Dennis Poisson was already speculating that we were having an effect on the climate, this was further theorised by Joseph Fourier in 1824 and scientifically established in 1896 by Svante Arhennius. Things began to take off around the turn of the 20th century due to an ever expanding population, the advent of mass mechanisation, electricity, manufacturing etc. As time passed our greenhouse gas emissions escalated and so too did the effects of global warming. Since c1980 the effects have been pronounced and there have been notable increases in the number of adverse weather events and on the environment.
2016-05-22 16:58:00 · answer #2 · answered by jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For s start, climate change is happening and at a pace not known before so it is already rapid in respect of all historical records. Melting ice caps and glaciers causing sea level rise is predicted and will lead to a change of coastline, but so do rising and falling coastlines due to tectonic plate movement. You cannot change the mathematical division of the planet into its 6 fundamental weather cells so you will not get, for example, mediterranean weather in UK or scandinavia. One obvious but rather hidden effect (so far) will be the ability of plants, animals (pests?) and viruses (diseases) to exist in areas where they could not exist before. Very small climate changes can result in a plant thriving or not. It is well known for example that plants growing at Poolewe on the West coast of Scotland (at a latitude north of Moscow) can only thrive because of the micro climate created by the gulf stream. If any of the ocean currents change then the consequences will be massive. At the moment termites only exist as far north in Europe as mid France because further north they cannot currently thrive. A small change could allow termites to infest areas where timber has been used for construction without protection against termites - with obvious consequences. Similarly small changes in climate could allow tropical and sub-tropical diseases to spread to parts of the world where currently they cannot thrive. Currently a virus could be transported to an area through tourism and cause an outbreak but it generally cannot settle in an area where the climatic conditions do not favour its long term existence. Plants, pests and viruses will migrate according to climatic conditions and will threaten populated areas previously free of such threat. Weather events will become more extreme so areas of the planet where life currently is possible could become uninhabitable. On a global scale there will be winners and losers. National and local economies will consequently be dramatically affected.
2007-09-06 20:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by oldhombre 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're already experiencing rapid climate change. I'm 50 years old and I remember playing in huge snow drifts and walking on frozen brooks in Northants (England) - every year during my youth. Now, you can count snow days on the fingers of one hand!!! If that's not what you count as rapid climate change, I'd be interested in hearing your views.
2007-09-06 05:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by Val G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey I've got my bit of high ground and am looking forward to opening my beachfront resort when the sea starts lapping at my fence.
But then I checked on the elevation and sadly the highest point of my bit is only 160ft above sea level, and if ALL of the antarctic ice melts that will leave me with a deep sea diving resort rather than beach frontage, oops!
So I'm now campaigning for green house gas reductions, enough at least to leave some of the antarctic ice in place.
2007-09-07 01:47:03 · answer #5 · answered by Walaka F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global climate is a dynamic process, and as such is always in a state of change. The lesson from the history of life is we adapt or die out.
2007-09-06 05:09:44 · answer #6 · answered by mick t 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its already happening in our lifetime--
the winters will get colder and the summers will get hotter.
a picture in the telegraph confirmed climate change because the picture of what should have been ice and snow was mainly water.
2007-09-06 08:07:44 · answer #7 · answered by opinionated chic 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This covers quite a bit of what's already happened, what's happening now, and what's about to happen. It gives you a pretty good feel for the certainty of the information too.
2007-09-06 09:59:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rapid climate change is going on even as we speak! As winter approaches it is getting colder and colder! We must immediately cease all respiration and oxidation immediately!
2007-09-06 05:30:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are rapid climate change?
2007-09-06 05:02:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋