is GLOBAL WARMING bad?

Question

in school i learned about GLOBAL WARNING and i was just wondering if it was really bad ? And also what does it do to you? And when is it going to happen? Is it going to like kill us?

Answer 1

Some people think it is really bad, i do not think so, it comes on slowly and gradually over many years, the earth has been through global warming before, it is most likely a combonation of a phase the earth is going through and man made pollultants. The reason to this so called global warming is that there are too many people.

Answer 2

There are good points to global warming and there are bad points, the bad points outnumber the good.

On the plus side it means frozen ground melts which can then be used for growing crops, some plants and animals prefer warmer weather, there will be less people who die or become ill through cold related conditions, in some parts of the world it will be possible to grow two harvests a year instead of just one.

On the downside there will be more severe weather leading to flooding, droughts, wildfires etc this in turn leads to crop failure, famine etc. Sea levels are rising very slowly which means that in the future some coastal communities will be underwater, already some low lying islands have been lost to the sea and their populations displaced. There are some animals and plants that will die or become a lot rarer as the world warms up.

Here's a couple of webpages with more info about the effects of global warming that are already happening and are predicted to happen in the future http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/effects.html and http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/future.html

You asked when it's going to happen. The world entered a natural warming cycle 18,000 years ago, this will continue for a long time yet. About 200 years ago we, as humans, began to accelerate the speed at which the world is warming, this was largely through the burning of fossil fuels and agricultural practices. The acceleration has been increasing ever since, so much so that temperatures are now rising many times faster than has ever before been known.

Finally you asked if it’s going to kill us. No it’s not. Global warming will kill some people, the World Health Organisation has counted that 150,000 people have died each year recently because of global warming (it causes diseases such as malaria to spread, heat stroke, heat exhaustion etc) and that the figure will rise to 300,000 a year in the next few years. This might sound like a lot of people but it’s a small number compared to those who die in road accidents for example.

The people who are already the worst affected and will continue to be in the future are those living in the developing nations of Africa and Asia. In America and Europe the effects will be less severe and here we have the money and resources to deal with many of the consequences of global warming.

Answer 3

Since your question is so extensive, here is the short version with sites to get further information.

OK, you have probably heard a lot of people say that Global Warming is just a natural cycle, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it from occurring. While there is some truth to that (Global Warming is a natural cycle, and it's going to occur no matter what) there's something else out there that's messing up this natural cycle, and is making it like nothing the world has ever seen before. That new factor is human activities. Human activities directly affect the greenhouse effect (which directly affects Global Warming), you see greenhouse gases a natural in the atmosphere to keep us from freezing over, but since the beginning of the industrial age, we (humans) have added excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that aren't suppose to be there (and the more we add the harder it is for the earth to remove them). These excess gases trap more heat and release less causing the whole earth to heat up (a.k.a. Global Warming) this is NOT good because the slightest change in the earth's climate systems can affect the entire thing. Causing new climate patterns to emerge that we may not be able to adapt to (and about 1/3 to 2/3 of the worlds species as well).

But there is still hope. We currently have all of the technology, money, man power, and resources we need to EFFECTIVLEY slow Global Warming back down to its modest warming over thousands of years.

To get more information, evaluate your daily impact, and to find out how you can start reducing your daily impact (cheaply) go to climatecrisis.org and/or think.mtv.com and/or nasa.gov and/ or http://liveearth.msn.com/green/myths

And if this still isn't working for you then I have a question for you. In about 30 years (if humans haven’t decide to change our ways, go green, and slow down the effects of Global Warming to its natural rate) and the effects of Global Warming have set in so far that there's nothing we can do or any one after us can do to reverse what WE have done, and my children/grandchildren and you children/grandchildren have to live with the horrible effects What are you going to say? What are you going to say when they ask you, "What were you thinking? Why didn't you do anything?"

Answer 4

Just a theory if the north and south pole melt half the sea will be fresh water and when it happened the volcano under the sea will respond in high speed of process for faster weather change and that is why it much active tornado now than some century ago? The percent of the sea salt is now less, because the sea salt are the shield of the sea? It is not easy when everything must be done in balance. If you have found in the old days the quality of percent of sea water we may have a chance to bring back the balance of the sea? but its only a theory?

Answer 5

Yes, because C02 (carbon dioxide) and other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide, get released into the air and heat up the atmosphere. Because of global warming, glaciers have melted. Polar bears and penguins have little ice to live on anymore. Warmer waters are fueling more hurricanes, typhoons, and tsunamis. Cold waters usually kill them off. Mount Kilimanjaro, an inactive volcano in Tanzania, has lost most of its snow and glaciers, because the earth's rising temperatures melted it away. Global warming is a major cause of concern, because it is throwing our environment and planet earth out of wack. If we don't cut down on carbon emissions, the effects of global warming will be, sadly, irreversible. The effects of global warming already have killed people; take for example, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2003 drought in Europe that killed 35,000 people; and the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. If we don't do something, this is going to keep happening.

Answer 6

On its possess, international warming is certainly difficult. A lot of it is dependent upon in which you are living, and areas which can be impacted most likely don't have as so much say as to what is going on. But, along side international warming, we additionally obtained Peak Oil. Basically, we've got hit approximately the midway factor in international oil construction, so now we begin to go into a interval in which costs for crude oil will develop as its availability starts to drop. Let's additionally don't forget, it'll quite often be the younger folks paying the cost as those parties spread. They is probably not joyful.

Answer 7

Sweety gloabal warming is already happening. If you live in the southern states of the U.S you can feel it getting hotter. What it does is it warms up the earth and the glaicers and ice caps melt and then all of the states that are at ocean leavel are gone. The Florida Keys yused to be huge now look at the size. Global warming is happening and yes it will kill us.

Answer 8

It is not bad for life in general. But it will be bad for coastal cities, because rising sea level will eventually flood them and billions of people will loose their homes. And some other species may be harmed, like polar bears who depend on the ice. But other life forms will benefit from the warmer temperatures. Including many humans who now live in cold climates and not in low lying areas that could be flooded by rising sea levels.

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Answer 10

Yes it is very bad because it is creating a hole in the ozone layer! Which is not good.