Global Warming!?

Question

Hey,
I am 14 and i am very interested into the subject of Global Warming! Please could you tell me if there is going to be an ice age in my life time and how hot could it get over the next 60 -70 years?

Chz----Jordan.

Answer 1

You will see very, very, little if any change in the climate over your life.

If people weren't talking about "warming", no one would notice.

Answer 2

Ice ages have occured every 100 thousand years since the earth came into existance, scientist are still trying to figure out why. There is a mini ice age every 20 thousand years and we are at the end of a twenty thousand year cycle. We could experience a mini ice age at any time. The earth's temperature has varied by 10 to 12 degrees for the last 3 million years, it's normal, probably only 2 - 3 degrees in 100 years. I don't believe that we humans can do much to influence this by a few fractions of a degree or maybe 20 years or so.

Answer 3

When I was at school we were told that there would an ice age soon - that was in 1960! I have since discovered that rapid global warming is indeed the precursor to an ice age - the gulf stream will stop/reverse and then the ice caps will start to enlarge - it has happened many times before but it could be in 50 years or 500 or 5000 who knows.

Answer 4

You are right to ask this in the context of so much propoganda about scientists believing that global warming, allegedly due to man's carbon emissions, is goiing to happen which we get told on newscasts night after night! Yet no mention whatsoever of scientists also being convinced that a nuclear winter is likley to happen within the next century and perhaps within the next 10 or 20 years because experts say it is "OVERDUE".

Disasters that could lead to a nuclear winter could be a VSI explosion of index 8 eruption of a super volcano. This could be Yellowstone in the USA or perhaps one of the super volcanoes in Japan or Indonesia or New Zeland, but wherever it happens it could well mean the biggest catastrophe in the history of man on earth and amongst other things will cause temperaturees o drop by about 21 degrees centigrade worldwide,( which is rather more of a disaster than the 1.8 degree increase in world temperatures the scientists keep going on about from our carbon footprints)!.

There are various other possible reasons why a nuclear winter could happen much sooner than anybody thinks. It could be due to Islamic suicide bombers getting hold of nuclear technology, which is a distinct possible if Iran gets the capability to make atomic bombs. Or it could happen as a result of a major landslide causing an island in the Canary islands to sink which would create a gigantic tsumani that could destroy most of the cities on the eastern seaboard of the USA, or it could be by a near earth object in outer space hitting earth!

There are all these possibilities talked about by scientists but at the end of the day nobody knows, and we can do absolutely nothing to prevent any of these terrible things happening should they be going to happen. But they may not happen at all in your and my lifetime, we just do not know. So keep your fingers crossed.

Answer 5

I'm really moderate on the issue. Here are the issues as I understand them:

- All scientists believe that the Earth is heating up overall based upon empirical evidence. Glaciers are melting and temperature readings across the world are increasing a few degrees.

-A great majority of scientists, based upon significant evidence collected over the last few decades, strongly believe that global climate change is occurring due to increased greenhouse gases emitted by humans. These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane.

- The concentration of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere. In other words, the air we breathe contains more CO2 than the air that our grandparents breathed.

- Some computer models are predicting that global warming will flood areas such as much of Florida within 50 years. This is due to the current melting of glaciers in the Arctic/Antarctic.

- The U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol due to the non-participation of the huge developing giants of China and India, among other reasons.

- It appears that much of the U.S. Industry is helping develop new global climate change legislation. This legislation will likely be passed with the new Presidential administration. States, such as California, are independently developing legislation on their own. The Supreme Court recently ruled that CO2 should be regulated under the existing Clean Air Act.

In short, it appears that global climate change is happening. This happens relatively slowly, and will likely affect your kids, but most people feel that we have a responsibility to try to fix this problem. We try to fix it by driving less and using less electricity. Will it be enough? No one knows. I hope this helps.

Answer 6

You need not be in panic. No such upside dow change would take place. Instead a remarkable and feelable difference in lower and upper mercury levels within even 10 to 15 years.

Answer 7

Hope no,
but you just do the right thing bud n recycle all you can n look after our wee planet, cause its all weve got.
get all your family n friends to recycle aswell, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN !

Take care.

Answer 8

global warming great news we will be as hot as the south of france and holland will sink beneath the waves

Answer 9

Only time will tell, but don't read too much into it - even the scientist have conflicting views!

Answer 10

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