When is global warming going to start harming the earth?
♥Edward♥ ♥Cullen♥ asked:
We all know about global warming, and how it is causing the ice to melt, the earth getting polluted, and all the other things happening to the earth, like rising temperatures and such, but when is it really going to come into effect? When will we experience everything? In 5 or 10 years? In 100 years? In 1000 years? in 10 000 years?
Is there a definite answer? Or will the earth just suddenly ‘die out’ one day?
Mike
We all know about global warming, and how it is causing the ice to melt, the earth getting polluted, and all the other things happening to the earth, like rising temperatures and such, but when is it really going to come into effect? When will we experience everything? In 5 or 10 years? In 100 years? In 1000 years? in 10 000 years?
Is there a definite answer? Or will the earth just suddenly ‘die out’ one day?
Mike
May 7th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Marie
it depends if we continue to contaminate and all that stuff the ozone layer wiil dissapear.This will cause the poles to melt and the oceans waters will rise.Parts of the world will dissapear and this will cause a lot of destruction.
May 10th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Phyllis
Looking at the rates the sea level hae gone up and the rates the temperature has gone up, it wont start really effecting peoples lives until another 50 years or so. Before that I am sure the heat would be uncomfortable but it really wouldn’t get to the point where we cant do anything in it tell 50 years or so have passed.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Regina
It already is. Have you heard of the severe weather, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, tidal waves? These are not like we have experienced in the past they are much stronger. The ice is melting endangering the polar bears and seals. For years people have been saying, “Save the Planet” but that is all wrong. It should be “save the humans, the planet will take care of itself”. I see the earth is cleaning itself as it has in the past, however the pollution has dirtied the earth more. So more drastic measures need to be made to clean it. The planet won’t care if we become extinct like the dinosaur.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Glenn
It is already harming/ affecting the earth.
The polar bears are going extinct because they can’t swim across the longer and longer distances of water. The distacne they have to swim is growing because the ice is melting. Fish are having a tought time surviving in the warmer water. Carbon dioxide that is trapped at teh bottom of the ocean, is already starting to release and come loose, killing many fish and adding to the global warming. there is more of a shortage of water in most places across the world. in 50 years the water level around the world is estimated to raise by at least 100 feet. Water levels are already raising, but it is so slow that people don’t notice it. scientists chart it, but nobody really notices because the level of the ocean changes so slowly anyway that people don’t notice the change. If water levels were to raise 12 inches in a single day, it would be all over the news. But since that is extremely unlikely, people don’t notice.
There is also a theory that after a certain amount of global warming, the earths magnetic poles will switch, which will basically mess everyone up and may even tear the planet apart. but even that process would be slow.
a timeline for all this can’t be completed, due to the uncertainty in future pollution levels, and the amount of variables that need to be take into consideration. but it will be at least 50 years before it causes a problem for us humans. The problem is that many other animal species are less adaptable, and will probably go extinct before that. there will probably be food crises also because of the temperature and environmental change making it hard for plants to survive.
the key is not waiting for immediate change, but taking immediate action so as to avoid slow change.
May 16th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
June
frankly, it’s not. there is more proof of global cooling than warming. more icebergs are getting larger than smaller. don’t worry, the world isn’t going to become one giant pond or anything.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Ernest
According to the original gloom and doom prognosticators it should have happened already.
But, it hasn’t.
In fact it’s not even warming anymore.
Jello’s right - this IS just like Y2K.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:28 am
Shirley
Well it looks like its going to be a while. While many still try to push this issue there are many climatologists who are saying “wait a minute!”. For 10 years now it temps have not risen on a global basis and for the last 2 have actually fallen. Also the sun is in a state of calm not seen in decades and many have attributed much of the warming to sun activity. So it appears to many that we have just begun a period (maybe a long one) of global cooling.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Adam
Never
May 26th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Brandon
What does it matter? There are 7 billion people on this Earth that are contaminating the Earth. Most people continue to be ignorant about the state of the planet. If we continue this destructive behavior there will be serious problems for later generations.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Georgia
It won’t.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Carmen
Well it’s a slow process but I’d say around 20 to 30 years. I just heard a statistic that global CO2, rather than decrease, went up 3% last year, mostly due to China, India and other developing countries, even the scientists who have been working on this for many years are now realizing that things are happening faster that even they predicted.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Manuel
It ended in 1998 so it’s already done all the damage it’s going to do.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Edwin
well we can already see a difference but i think the earth is just going to have enough and make major storms killing humans but earth will grow again i just dont think will be in the next earth because we create so much damage
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Corey
No one in the science community has ever said GW will hurt the Earth Sea levels in the distant past have been at least 100m higher and 100m lower depending on the climate at the time. The Earth wasn’t harmed at all, the creature that live on the Earth are another matter several of those previous events have caused mass extinctions of up to 90% of all life, like this.
With world temps rising 6°C over 20,000 compared to the current event were temp has already risen 0.6°C and is expected to rise another 2-3 by the end of the century which is a total rise of 3-4°C in just 200 years with 35 to 50% extinctions , this is why scientists are worried.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Frederick
where have you been in the past couple of hundred years?
since man had started to burn fuel we have been damaging the earth it would have started years ago but it wasn’t that big of a deal
but now it is…
June 10th, 2009 at 3:47 am
Allen
It is just not going to get as warm as the alarmists are claiming it will and when they finally admit that it is the sun not an insignificant plant food that causes the world to warm and cool the panic will end. The sun is a variable output star and until we learn how to throttle its output we are going to have to continue living with its natural cycle as we always have. The world has gotten about .7c warmer on the average over the last 150 years. Yes it got warmer. During the period from around 1500 to 1650 it warmed up by 3c and cooled back down again in less than 100 years so the warming we have had currently has been slow and mild in comparison. This happened between the Sporer and Maunder minimums for any who want to check it for themselves because it is extremely well documented historically and scientifically. Everything that is happening currently has happened several times before during the 3,000 years of recorded history and most of the time it happened faster than the current optimum has happened.
AGW outright lies.
This warming is unusual and happening to fast and getting to hot.
The seas are going to rise and drown millions because of melting ice.
Polar bears and other arctic and Antarctic animals are going to become extinct.
Ain’t going to happen because all of these species have been through more extreme warm periods in the last 2,000 years at least twice.
None of these statements has any evidential support and in fact are deliberate lies intended to alarm the less educated for financial and political gains by the persons originating the lies.
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