global warming scare?

Question

im kinda scared of global warming now that i heard all these things about it. what is the point of going to school and do anything productive if we are all gonna die soon anyway from global warming if it is true and if we die soon. I am 15 so how much longer do i have if the global warming i true. does anyone have any proof if it is real or not also. thanks.

im not sure

o ya and if any what r some of the changes in lifestyle that will happen in my lifetime.

Answer 1

you should check out the documentary by gore. I'm sorry but I can't make you feel better I'm 25 and have a 6 year old and I am so afraid of everything that is supposed to happen. I just want to say I'm Glad that people like you worry because if there are many people like us we can do something. Just want to let you know one thing. DON'T THINK THAT LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING IF THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN REMEMBER THAT FOR YEARS PEOPLE SAY THE WORLD IS GOING TO END AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS LETS JUST LIVE LIFE JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT.

Answer 2

Global Warming is real, is happening, will continue to happen, and has been happening for a long time now. Anyone with any sense can see that. The Ice Caps are melting. The North-west passage can now be sailed through relatively easily. We see more extremes of weather: heat waves, hurricanes, warmer, wetter weather. The other day at work a few of my colleagues were discussing the Tsunami in Sumatra. It's terrible, they were saying. And these things seem to be happening more often. Why is that? Perhaps it's the gas guzzling 4X4's they drive to work every day. OK, not enough to cause climate change on their own, but all these things have an impact. We continue to burn fuels that are harmful to the environment, and use up all our natural resources. The world can't cope. We are all culpable (I am contributing to global warming right now, with my central heating on full blast, and the electricity being used up by my computer). Technology has made the world an easier place to live, but we need to start looking at how the world is going to survive. Saying things like "I won't be around to see it" is a selfish action, and a totally inappropriate one. Am I scared? No. I'm concerned, and angry about the attitudes of so many people, who are either complacent about the real effects of it, or in complete denial.

Answer 3

Global warming and global cooling have been occuring since the beginning of time. It is a natural cycle that occurs about every 100,000 years. The last global cooling (ice age) ended about 10,000 years. While pollution contributes to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, it's affect on global warming in minimal. It would be nice to stop pollution for the planet, but that will not stop global warming, and no we are not going to die. Although many hundreds of species have become extinct over time, and we certainly will too at some point, but that will not happen for a loooooong time, certainly not in our lifetime, unless there is a catastrophic change in the sun -like an explosion or whatever. Remember, our sun is really a star, and all stars burn out eventually.

Answer 4

The National Academies INFOCUS Magazine, Spring 2002 Vol. 2 No. 1

Abrupt climate change is the subject of a recent National Research Council report that says the likelihood of sudden climate shifts needs to be studied more
closely, especially given the current global warming trend.

Scientists don't know enough to predict when abrupt changes will occur, but they know from the Earth's history that periods of gradual change, like now, were punctuated by episodes of severe floods and droughts and sudden changes in average temperatures –

18 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 years in some places.


Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 5

the worst predictions call for a 5 degrees C increase over the next century (according to national geographic) which in all likely hood will mean both you and that woman's 6 year old child will be dead of old age.

What a 5 degree increase in global temperatures will mean to the world is that it will still be 3 degrees cooler than the Jurassic period.

So lets assume the temperature increases 8 degrees C and we are now at a temperature comparable to the Jurassic. There would be more vegetation, no ice caps, the lower lying lands would be covered in water, all the places that were covered in ice (including huge Antarctica) will be livable, and LESS severe weather.

some further explanation:

The difference in usable land will be trivial due to the increased usable from previously cold areas and the decrease from previously low lying (now under water) areas.

Less severe weather comes from when global temperatures rise there be comes a decrease in temperature variance. i.e. temperatures at the poles are closer to those at the equator than they are today. Any meterologist will tell you that the driving force behind severe weather is temperature variance. Remove/decrease temperature variance removes/decreases severity of weather.

On geological time global temperatures are decreasing, and during periods in earths history when temperatures were significantly higher than they are today life was abundant. Bring the heat. its a good thing

Answer 6

I died last week from global warming. One of my co-workers is suppose to die next week from global warming. My Great Great Grandfather died from Global Warming. The tires on my car melted from global warming. The earth should become a sun by christmas.

Answer 7

"Global warming" is a natural cycle caused by the sun. There's nothing to worry about. You're right, it is a scary thought. They're using scare tactics to get you to believe something that isn't true. Try looking up the other side. You'll find out a lot you didn't know.

Answer 8

Global warming is a definite threat, but is probably something that will greatly affect your great-great grandkids or something, don't worry about that.

If you don't want your descendants to have to suffer through how scared you feel now, what you can do is try to make a difference for them. Use solar energy whenever possible,and try to bike to school. This will keep away the affects of global warming for as long as possible, and bring it back to a more natural process rather then letting humans continue to provoke it.

Answer 9

Global warming is just the natural cycle of the planet so you have nothing to worry about.

Answer 10

Yea, global warming is going to kill us all. Just like Y2K, killer bees, AIDS, SARS, avian flu, pollution, and thousands of other things that never came true.

You don't need to concern yourself with these propagandist. They are using fear to advance their goals, and look how well it works.

No one can tell you with any certainty if next year will be warmer or cooler. Right now all these pundits are doing is guessing. They state the extreme specifically to scare you and to control you.

Answer 11

Global warming isn't going to kill us all. In fact, if you live in a wealthy industrialized country like the USA, odds are it's not going to kill you.

What we will eventually see (assuming we don't reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to avoid this) are things like increased droughts, water shortages, food shortages, floods, stronger hurricanes, etc. etc. These things will cause hardships and some deaths, but it won't lead to a massive widespread death surge, and even these things won't happen for quite a while yet.

It's good to be concerned about global warming and do what you can to slow it down, but don't panic because it's not going to kill you.