What will happen to us in a 100 years if Global Warming continues?

Question

If we do nothing to limit our use of greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 1

Ice in Antarctica could melt and make sea level rise by several feet, putting many coastal areas underwater, including some parts of Manhattan. In some places whole island nations could disappear.

Agricultural patterns around the world could change. What grew before won't grow, so there would be great disruption in the food supply shortages and perhaps even famines.

There will be an increase in storm activity, more hurricanes and tornadoes, worse monsoon rains, etc. In fact that's already happening. Big storms, and the number of people killed by weather around the world, have increased about 400% in the last 25 years.

There might be a disruption in water supplies causing a shortage of water for drinking or agriculture.

Ancient forests and rainforests (jungles) would die off because of climate change, which will cause mass extinction of species. There would also be extinctions in the Arctic, things like seals, polar bears, caribou, etc.

Answer 2

Global Warming In 100 Years

Answer 3

If the polar caps and all the icebergs melt, then given that only 10% of thier surface is above water anyway, and that as water freezes it also expands, that would mean that the frozen portion below water has already displaced more than its volume. Therefore even if it all melts the level of the sea would most likely stay the same or possibly rise a very small amount , to allow for the displacement of the melting ice which is above water level now.
So this should put all you people that think we are all going to drown at ease......Global warming is just as much a money maker , for lots of people as the Y2K bug was.....Remember how the world was going to end ????
It seems as long as people make money and we all live in fear then everybody happy.......

Give that some thouhgt.!!! :)

Answer 4

Because basically all world climate patterns will change, biodiversity might not have enough time to adapt to those changes (usually they require hundreds of years and this is happening in a matgter of 2-3 decades) and that will affect us all (humans, animals, plants, microorganisms, etc.) Not to alarm you but the future does not look any good. To respond to some of the other respondents: one of them use the word "probably" which means he/she is not 100% sure of what he is claiming. Also, another respondent said humans have always been able to adapt (I agree, we have technology, we have AC and heating systems, for instance) but unfortunately animals and plants do not have the same ability. And since our food sources come mainly from plants and animals can someone tell me how afre we going to feed? Do we have a fridge or freezer large enough to put away tons of food while we are going to this lengthy transition? Doubt it. We need to rely on the precautionary principle, basically hope for the best, be prepared for the worst.

Answer 5

You see, this is why I call myself a sceptic.

"Big storms, and the number of people killed by weather around the world, have increased about 400% in the last 25 years"

A lot of people latch on to the worst junk science that gets published and take it as an article of faith. That particular item wasn't published in a scientific journal.

If we increase the CO2 content of the atmosphere significantly and we get a significant rise in temperature (2 degrees or more) we will be in a position to say that the CO2 has caused a temperature rise. If the temperature rise is less than 1 degree or if we have cooling then we can say that CO2 does not have a significant effect on temperature. The IPCC's worst case is for around 6 degree temperature rise - but if we knew that was comming, we would do something about it.

Answer 6

there will be only carbon dioxide in air & no O2 (may be 0.02% in air in 2100, now 22%, 2007 ). all the animals will have evolved in to super beings which will live on co2 instead of O2. fire will use co2 insted of O2 to burn anything ! plants and trees will change over to O2 instead of CO2. there will be business of oxygen credit points, as now we do the carbon credit points. many other planets will be discovered where animals were surviving on co2 even before the earth evolved to that stage, surprising the scientists- why did the earth took so much time to come to that level. that will be the time (2100 yr) when again peope will discuss global warming due to oxygen and again turn to O2 and so on and on they will continue for years to come CO2 (2200yr) >>>>>O2 (2400 yr )>>>>CO2 (2500yr)..............

Answer 7

nothing drastic, it is just the natural cycle. The temperature will stabilize by then. Anything that sounds like a big number or any huge consequence is just the left exaggerating the truth global warming is no big deal.

Answer 8

Nothing. It will be no different 100 years from now as it was 100 years in the past.

Answer 9

Nothing

Answer 10

Nothing will happen to us, because I'm pretty sure we will all be dead.