How soon will Earth reach record temperatures of 150 degrees F?

Question

Levels of CO2 are increasing at a rate that is predictable. In what year will the Earth reach temperatures of 150 degrees farenheit?

Answer 1

Not for hundreds of years. But it doesn't matter.

Our advanced civilization, with massive coastal development and intensive agriculture, is very sensitive to climate change. The problem is not that we'll fry.

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.

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.

Long before we hit 150, we'll be bankrupt and struggling to feed ourselves.

Really good website for more information here:

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

The above answer based on the "swindle" video is flat wrong. The video was debunked by scientists a long time ago. Even the TV channel that broadcast it (which wasn't the BBC, they'd never have shown this piece of junk) nows says it's wrong:

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html

and here's a point by point scientific rebuttal:

http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMISSION_final.htm

The British press took it apart:

"A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

Answer 2

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How soon will Earth reach record temperatures of 150 degrees F?
Levels of CO2 are increasing at a rate that is predictable. In what year will the Earth reach temperatures of 150 degrees farenheit?

Answer 3

How soon? Not for thousands of years, probably millions of years if ever. The earth's temperature flucuates all the time. The earth is temporarily in a warming trend but it has nothing to do with CO2 and it is not caused by man. Yes, there is a strong positive correlation between levels of CO2 and global temperature, but Al Gore has the cause and effect backwards. It's not high levels of CO2 that cause temperature rise. It's high temperature that causes CO2 levels to rise. Why? Because there's a lot of CO2 disolved in the ocean and the solubility of CO2 in water is temperature dependent. Ever notice that opening a warm soda makes more noise than opening a cold soda. The cold soda can hold more CO2 in solution. The records of CO2 and temperature show that the rises in CO2 level lag behind the temperature increases by several hundred years (slow because there's a lot of ocean to heat up). So what causes global warming? Less clouds. Why are there less clouds? The water evaporation in the ocean is enhanced by cosmic rays, and the cosmic rays are "blown" off course by solar "wind". More solar activity causes less clouds. It turns out that there is a very good fit in the data between high levels of solar activity and the warming of the earth. That also explains why the planet Neptune is experiencing the same warming (and cooling) pattern (without any man-made influence). So, stop worrying about man-made global warming. And don't worry about the polar bears. It was much warmer 1000 years ago and they survived just fine. Watch the movie, "The Global Warming Swindle" (Google it). It not only debunks Gore and shows the real science. It also explains why so many are pushing the global warming scare (follow the money).

Answer 4

Engineer Dave,

The amount of non-solar cosmic radiation hitting the earth's surface is negligible. Its effect on water evaporation is insignificant.

I don't know why people try so hard to clutch at straws to disprove global warming, when there is overwhelming evidence that humans have a role in climate change.

Answer 5

Hi. Look at the temperature history of Death Valley and extrapolate. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml

Answer 6

man! 150 deg F! hopefully never! if we all do our part to help conserve our earth, hopefully we will never get near that number.