when will global warming kill us all?

Answer 1

sounds like a question for Al Gore

Answer 2

Never, Humans have been around for eons now and we have adapted to every climate change we have ever experienced.

I've read peoples answers in many other questions, stating the sea levels will rise dramatically. I don't buy that, since there are lots of storms every year over the oceans and seas and that hasn't caused major changes in the levels of the oceans. Also these oceans are huge, they actually cover more land mass than our continents cover, so it would take a whole heck of a lot of water to cause sea levels to rise dramatically. Especially since the oceans don't just retain water, water evaporates from them to cause clouds to form. Also you don't just do away with winters all of a sudden, that would take an extremely dramatic increase in total global tempatures. So when one pole is melting during it's summer season, another is freezing, because it's winter.

The reason some places like Africa's deserts are becoming lrager, is do to the fact that man hasn't figured out a way to reclaim a desert. And if you clear the forested land around it you will actually cause the desert to expand. So I feel we need to be looking at man made reasons, besides Global Warming to figure out why some deserts are expanding, and find a real way to stop it from happening and not Global Warming legislation, since that won't cure the problem.

I also read a comment that the fighting in Darfur is being caused by Global Warming. I won't believe that for a minute, since tribes have been fighting in Africa since there were tribes in Africa, to say this fight is being caused by Global Warming just tells me how far Gloom and Doomsayers will go to try to make people believe something.

Let's say we switch everything over to a carbonless society (Except for Humans and Animals exhaling CO2) and we still see the CO2 levels rising? Then what?

Answer 3

Probably within 50 - 100 years unless we take immediate actions to prevent it. It amazes me how millions of people still reject the notion that global warming is some kind of 'hoax' just because they don't want to have to make any sacrifices to their lifestyles.
If scientists told them that driving gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs was good, they'd accept that in a heartbeat. But because they don't want to give up their extravagances, they choose to ignore the scientific community's findings, refusing to consider how their waste and neglect will impact on their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
We've polluted our air, destroyed our rain forests, ruined our mangrove forests, poisoned our water supplies, over fished our oceans, ripped up our rich soil and replaced it with asphalt or shopping malls, and ignored the delicate ecological balance between all man, plants and animals so necessary for our very survival. And yet we stupidly choose to ignore the fact that our 'industrial revolution' of the past 150 years has accelerated the natural cyclical process of global warming to a point where man, plants and animals cannot adapt quickly enough to the coming climatic changes. Arrogance, ignorance, selfishness, and hubris has set in; we as a civilization are definitely doomed! -RKO- 12/08/07

Answer 4

It won't kill us all in a single sudden event.

but it has already contributed to the deaths of many through increased weather events, eg Bangladesh, wildfires, and starvation and wars eg Darfur.

It will mostly affect the poorer people first, ie those that have contributed least to the problem. Mega-rich global execs will probably be able to live out their lives totally safe from any effect.

Answer 5

global warming itself won't kill us but it's side effects will. As the seas rise at an increasingly faster rate coastal areas become flooded storms increase in intensity rainfall is redistributed and areas that are experiencing drought now will feel it intensify. these areas will become uninhabitable and the people will have to move elsewhere. resources become more scarce so conflict arises and wars escalate for said resources.
It will be the wars that kill due to populations being packed more densely as well as much stronger and more frequent hurricanes etc.
another way to think of it is no one dies of AIDS they die from a common cold that develops into severe pneumonia due to the bodies inability to fight infection.

Answer 6

It doesn't help people to understand the reality of this, if we exaggerate the effects. It's not going to kill us all. But the reality is bad enough to demand action.

It won't be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them. The best scientific analysis is here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

Most scientists say, in 20-50 years. But we need to start right now to fix it, fixing it will take even longer than that.

Really good website for more information here:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Answer 7

maybe we will not reach the point when global warming will kill us because we have done somehow a step to slow down its coming so i hope we will not die because of that

Answer 8

In any discussion involving DEATH by Global Warming....... maybe this skeptic's views may help lower the level of anxiety--

http://mobile2.wsj.com/beta2/htmlsite/html_article.php?id=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119387567378878423.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Answer 9

never ! enjoy ! go out have can of beer, dance, surf, may be swiming.............
the global warming has not killed a single person till date and no one will be killed in future.u may die a natural death which people will label as death due to global warming. seas will not researe u crazy. i am living near sea all my life and sea never goes beyond its limit.CO2 is 0.02% in air it will rwmain asit is. (not 35 ppm as someone in other answer said. 35 ppm is very little)
Mahesh / MSc / India.

Answer 10

No one knows when,where or how?
But its effect are killing people right now!