During this time of human extinction, will small animals survive the upcoming ice age/global warming, but we won't? What are the exact probabilities of survival for humans? Will there be humans that survive the next ice age when the entire globe is encircled with ice at least 1 mile deep? Where will they live? What will they eat? How will human survival take place?
2007-09-13 09:02:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
If we keep going with every nation trying to outdo each other in the nuclear race, it will NOT be very long before wipes himself off the face of the earth.
2007-09-13 09:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by WC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The odds that humans will survive global warming - I'd say 99.99999%. The odds that we'll survive the next ice age - about the same.
The planet has a maximum and minimum temperature that can be acheived through anthropogenic global warming and normal ice age cycles. The max is about 20°C warmer than now and the min is about 10°C colder. Humans would survive these temps quite easily, all that would happen is that different parts of the world would be warmer or cooler and people would have to move to where the climate was suitable.
Don't worry, the planet couldn't be encased in ice one mile thick as there isn't enough water on the planet. If every bit of water froze evenly across the planet it would be the same as sea levels rising 80 metres (260 feet).
What does happen in ice ages is that deep ice forms in the cold polar regions whereas the warmer regions closer to the equator remain free of ice and quite habitable. A global ice age is NOT a consequence of global warming and I'm not sure where this strange notion comes from, it's been mentioned several times of late but has no credibility to it at all.
Please don't worry about another ice age wiping out us humans as it's not going to happen.
2007-09-13 13:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans are the only animal that have adapted to every environment on earth. The reason we can do this is because we change the environment around us and not ourselves. There are many theories on the way humans will eventually become extinct, but most likely it will come with the end of all life on this planet. Even thing such as global warming or another ice age will most likely not kill us all, it will probably be something more drastic such as a nuclear war causing a sudden change, faster then any ice age that we wont have time to adapt to, or (in a very long time) the destruction of the sun. Humans have survived a long time, and have the ability to adapt to practically anything, which makes us some of the most eligialble candidates for outsurviving everything.
2007-09-13 09:13:30 · answer #3 · answered by Ynomeikiba of Illidan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Upcoming ice age...? I don't remember reading that (and if you're basing an ice age off of the movie "The Day After Tommorow" that movie is a total inaccurate representation of what will happen thanks to global warming), but if there is an upcoming ice age, I am sure humans could survive because we've adapted to almost every different enviornment on earth, smaller animals on the other hand, may not adapt and will probably die.
2007-09-13 09:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Nick 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
humans have survived other ice ages and will do so again. not all humans will survive, it will be a devastating catastrophe that would kill millions, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. the plague kill more than one third of Europe's population but it also meant there was more food and jobs for the survivors. plus the technology started improving due to the lack of man power. remember we came out of 500 year mini ice age in the late 1800's. humans will survive another ice age, but first we must survive global warming and eachother.
2007-09-13 10:20:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
in spite of the fact that carbon relationship conflicts coexistence, people and dinosaurs ought to theoretically coexist. merely because of the fact there's a huge predator would not recommend that smaller forms of existence can't exist. for example even even with the shown fact that lions exist in Africa there are nonetheless lots of apes around. in the journey that your going a biblical direction, the consumer-friendly consensus is that the flood wiped out the dinosaurs. or maybe even with the shown fact that geologically there are quite a few websites for meteors to have landed on earth, there remains a extensive debate to despite if that quite wiped out the dinosaurs.
2016-11-15 03:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are hundreds of species that are extinct -maybe more. These were species that were perfectly adapted to their environment, but something happened and they were no longer able to adapt. In time this will happen to the human race also. It's just a matter of time. . . thousands of years, or hundreds of thousands of years. Who knows? We are in a warming cycle now, and will be for several thousand more years. Eventually there will be another glacial age. Then what? Like I said, who knows.
2007-09-13 12:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming will take place next year, sounds like a great band name and they will debut in a hot climate and have dry ice on the stage. Sounds pretty stupid, huh?
2007-09-13 12:32:59 · answer #8 · answered by Becky J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have survived not by adapting, but by adapting our environment to ourselves. If it has led to an environment where we cannot survive, then we are our own problem. Darwinian natural selection will have prevailed. Many other species thrive in much more extreme conditions than we are likely to see.
2007-09-13 09:24:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The atmosphere will be a thick cinder cloud when the next meteor hits and we will all die of asphixiation within minutes.
2007-09-13 10:01:05 · answer #10 · answered by Crushed Ice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋