Can the world come to an end because global warming?

Question

If so, what is the timeframe. How will it happen? What would the process be like? What will be left of the world? Or will the world come to an end for another reason?

Answer 1

This won't be the first mass extinction, but the planet will continue to exist for approximately 5 billion more years 'til the Sun goes nova.

Answer 2

I grew up in the days of air raid Worden's and blackouts.
As a 10 year old I wasn't too concerned but wondering if
we would be attacked. As a 14 year old the Adam bomb
was on every ones mind with our duck and cover routines.
Then my Mother told me this. " When one man learned to
hit his neighbor with a stick, that neighbor was afraid. But
when the neighbor learned to throw a rock, the man with
the stick was afraid. Then the spear, the ax and bow and
arrow. Man has always feared something or someone".
That put my mind at rest. Then 40 or so years ago, there
was talk of a new ice age. But at the same time glaciers
were melting so that didn't make any since. Now ice caps
estimated to be hundreds of thousands years old are
melting at an alarming rate. As long as the sun shines and
the rains come we'll have food. West Tennessee was hard
hit with cold spell followed by a drought.There's not even any
acorns for the squirrels. Leaves going yellow and brown in
August. Small trees dying for the lack of water and flooding
West of the Mississippi. No one person can do anything
alone. It will take all of us. As for the end of the world? We
need to always be ready. A bad car crash could mean the
end of the world for any of us at any time. We are told in the
Bible that the world will be destroyed by fire. I have never
known of anything that burned that didn't get hot first. We
just need to do the best we can and hope for the best.
Yes I think the World - as we know it - can come to an end
because of global warming. At this rate we have time to
adjust to it and perhaps even change it. The answer is, no
one knows the answer for sure. There is one thing we know.
Mankind has always feared something or someone. We are
still here. Lets do our best and be ready both Spiritually and
physically whether our end comes in a car crash or on the
hot desert sands. Wish I could help more. Don't worry.

Answer 3

No. IN fact global warming will actually make life on the planet grow! More area will become warmer enough to sustain life longer each season. People may have to relocate in areas but they should get used to the idea that this planet is an ever changing thing and that nothing stays the same for too long.

There is this thing called continental drift... yah know, part of the process that causes earthquakes and mountain ranges. Well as the contients move, it changes the weather on the planet. Eventually the continents will collide again. Think about how different the weather would be then! The earth will eventually die and probably long before the sun expands or explodes. Our planet will end up like mars when our molten core finally cools and burns out. Our magnetic field will dissappear and the solar wind will strip us of out atmosphere and oceans and earth will become a dessert. Of course this won't happen for probably several million years.

Then if we somehow manage to stick around beyond that there is the yummy hot death waiting for us. As the sun gets warmer and warmer before it becomes a Red Giant, which is before it goes super nova and explodes.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_move_010207.html

That is of course as long as the earth doesn't get hit by a meteor or comet anytime before that. Which is very unlikely there are still a lot of rocks floating around out there with our name on them and sooner or later we will catch one.

One the bright side... we can't really do anything about most of this stuff so you shouldn't worry about it. We as a species can just keep on moving forward and expanding our knowledge and maybe we can figure out a way to start populating other planets in other solar systems to ensure our survival for as long as the universe will let us.

Untill the universe ends in "the big rip" a new theory about the fate of the universe. Of course that isn't for another 20 billion years according to current predictions.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/big_rip_030306.html

All in all nothing is going to happen to destroy earth in our lifetime. So we can focus on more pressing issues like wearing your seatbelt or bigger things like protecting our borders from terrorists.

Answer 4

According to astronomers and astrophysicists, the sun will get 10% hotter every billion years, in approximately 5 billion years, the sun will expand into a red giant and possibly engulf the earth, "frying" it to a crisp.
We may be left with some of the core, but that is conjecture at this stage.
Now that's some global warming!

Answer 5

I know I won't be believed but there was a time the earth was tropical to sub tropical pole to pole. what kept it warm then? water expanse in the upper atomosphere. they have found frozen orange trees in siberia. frozen whole animals with food still in their stomach undigested that they could identify.

how was the land watered? by the heavy night time dew. why do we have snow and ice now? that expanse came down. where is it now? right here on earth. they have found sea life on mountain tops fossilized. which indicates a time that that mountain was undersea water. the pressures of so much water caused the land to sink in spots and rise in others. the earth is after all not solid or in one piece.

so global warming is not the end of life, it may be the end of super cold winters however, what a blessing that would be for people in siberia. it will mean some adjustments but I can't imagine that earth is so static that it can't make needed adjustments to keep balance. those adjustments would mostly be a blessing. the only ones concerned are those who stand to profit by this fearmongering. and those who blieve them.

RRRR

Answer 6

Come to an end? Nah, the world was here before us and will be around after us.

Now if you are questioning whether or not life as WE know it will come to an end as a result of global warming then my answer is "YES".

We are heading in the wrong direction and only picking up speed. The previous post is one of someone who would rather ignore the facts, truth be told we are trashing the planet for future generations and pillaging our resources at an alarming rate.

The good news is: Once we begin to exhaust our fossil fuels global warming will start to subside, but that won't be until after significant sacrifice. Will humanity survive? Yes but there will be many, many casualties.

Answer 7

It's unlikely but still possible for our civilisation to end because of global warming.

Although regardless the speed of the change (a lot faster than any of the natural changes we know aren't happening now) will do a bit of damage in the meantime.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

if there are so many scientists butting heads over the issue, then there has not even been a resolution on the topic. It is not right to say that the world will end on such a questionable topic

Answer 10

No the world will continue to survive, however humans might die out because we won't be able to evolve fast enough.

This wont happen for thousands of years so don't worry.