Do you think we will reach the point of no return as global warming continues?(see below)?

Question

Do you think we will actually be smart enough as a world and as a people to bring global warming under control? Or will we just continue to be business as usual and just royally screw up our planet to the point of no return?

Answer 1

Yea, doom and gloom, the end of the world, just like Y2K all over again.

Answer 2

Yes we will be smart enough to bring global warming under control. In 100, or 500 or 1,000 years. There is no point of no return. There is only a point where we don't know how to make a difference with present technology. The idea of a point of no return assumes no changes in the status quo. There are always changes. Usually totally unexpected ones, but some expected ones too. For example, the world will run out of oil in about 100 years. Maybe later, maybe sooner, but some day it WILL run out. Coal will last longer but also run out in the end. That will end global warming for sure. But I expect other unexpected changes to occur first that make these global warming worries look silly. Because running out of coal and oil without having developed new energy sources is too terrible a fate to contemplate. FAR, FAR worse than the worst global warming can throw at us. If you think otherwise, you have no idea at all how much we depend on our energy sources for our very lives.

Answer 3

The IPCC recently concluded the following:

"emissions of carbon, which comes primarily from fossil fuels, must stabilize by 2015 and go down after that. Otherwise the consequences could be "disastrous," said IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071117/ap_on_sc/climate_change_conference

I doubt that we will be able to stabilize our global CO2 emissions within 7-8 years, but it's a possibility. At the moment there doesn't appear to be sufficient public demand that we address global warming, but more and more people are acknowledging the scientific reality all the time.

I'm rather pessimistic that we will do enough to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, because we need to take serious actions to avoid them. My conclusion is that it's possible, but unlikely.

Answer 4

There is no point of no return, because this assumes that we can actually stop global warming. We might be able to slow it down, or even reduce the ultimate effect, but we will never be able to stop it. This is because there is a natural componet to warming, and this cycle has repeated itself multiple times over the eons. It would be the height of arrogance to assume that we could do anything to stop this, and it would be ill advised to do so if we could (let's not mess with mother nature, God's plan, or the natural climate cycle depending on your belief system).

Answer 5

there's a considerable dispute basically in US mass media. No extreme mass media argue in different international places. the subject is so huge that distinctive acts have no genuine result. basically governmental movements are helpful. the only extreme one, Kyoto protocol, grew to become into basically a typical step and is no longer signed and utilized by way of the biggest polluter. Now, US mass media are changing their message, now they tell: that's actual, even with the undeniable fact that that's a organic cycle (comparable message: purchase oil). in accordance the 2500 scientists contributors of the UN scientific team for climate substitute, confident, we've reached the component of no return. in accordance to them, this point of greenhouse gases has no longer been so intense in the final 650.000 years, and increasing speedy. modern mammals (which consists of humankind) didn´t exist at that component. different animals have been on earth as we've considered in video clips. confident they disappeared. As you assert, that is no longer a remember of saving life, all of us comprehend that life will bypass forward. Can a man or woman proceed to exist into an ecosystem over a undeniable point of CO2? No, no man or woman can. Can different residing beings? confident, some can. maximum eco-friendly bushes and flowers, anaerobic beings, etc. it form of feels that we are going to overview the place that time is, i'm hoping we can give up all emissions as quickly because of the fact the 1st people die because of the fact of "organic" asphixiation. because that 2d. count type 50 years and we can examine if humankind has survived. If no longer, sooner or later, some residing beings will complex theories approximately why humankind disappeared, (they are going to upload: humankind had some intelligence, no?) Does each and every person have self belief that this susceptible being noted as homo sapiens can proceed to exist to hurricanes, deserts, etc. Does each and every person have self belief that we are in a position to proceed to exist with any CO2 share into the air? for sure, in case you think it then placed further and extra CO2 into the ambience, yet once you don´t have self belief it, what are you waiting for?

Answer 6

Smart enough as a world? to think we could do anything about is careless. Global Warming is natural, and it is good. Global Cooling is the enemy, and you better start thinking about it, because it is coming.

Answer 7

Yes, we will reach a point where our freedoms have been taken away by government regulation, international bureaucrats, and a one-world government. And we will not be able to regain our freedom. After it becomes clear that global warming was a hoax, we will not be able to get rid of the government regulation that was fraudulently imposed on us.

Answer 8

its in human nature to believe that "the worst wont happen to us" therefore, every generation will probably just look the other way until our world is royally screwed. then, we will all look back and be like "wow, we were dumb"

Answer 9

Please join the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Taliban. They are "Doomsday Cults", like AGW supporters that claim to be scientific but work for the DMV and could not do a differential equation if their life depended on it.

Answer 10

We reached it long ago. But we'll adapt. or perish....