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Anonymous asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 1 decade ago

Can Global Warming lead to the end of the world? Explain.?

The increase of the atmospheric CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) concentration has been increasing since the 19th century. Glaciers / Ice are melting, polar bears are about to face extinction, the world is heating up, and nobody cares (people are still polluting); if the world doesn't do anything about this, cities are going to be flooded, and there will be less land. Does this mean the world will end? Or not? Tell me what you know. Be specific! BUT, no simple answers. Simple answers will not be rated best answer.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The world does not end so easily,only species do.

    One time the Atmosphere was 60 carbon monoxide,and nothing was walking around

    There was not much life around when most of the world was frozen or when it was mostly desert.

    But this world keeps on spinning.

    Now again climatic events on our doorstep, are big enough to affect all that walks the earth.

    Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

    A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

    when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

    Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting,

    When the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will lessen drastically ,and the drag with it , changing the higher warm currents,

    Stagnant situations will develop.

    This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

    And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

    In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

    .A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

    Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

    . these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

    In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

    The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

    The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

    This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

    All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

    we are always the last to know.

    So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

    However

    confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

    The truth is being distorted at high levels,

    And lies have been weaved in.

    Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

    Besides Corporations have other priorities ,expensive changes will affect profits ,this also affects the truths being published

    Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

    This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

    But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

    On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

    The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

    But there is a LOT that we can do,about being more responsible and economic with our natural resources ,Or be more sympathetic towards Nature, After all out lives depend on that.

    How ever

    In the first world countries too many do not care or rely on the Gods to take care of everything.

    Some or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

    So I guess we will have to take what is coming.

    The question is too big to go into Specifics and you will have to be content with this simple minded version.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes and No it could lead to the end of the world....... As we advance further into the coming years we are increasing the air temperature, some signs of this are in Bangladesh, over 50-55% of Bangaladesh is under water and the monsoon rains are no making it any better; estimates predict that in 20-40 years Bangladesh may be besieged by water, this cycle may be reapeated to many other countries in the years to come as the sea level is increasing rapidly as the earth is heating up. So yes Global Warming may result in the end of the world, but yet so far there are not many major signs of the world coming to an end!

  • 1 decade ago

    Global warming is an issue that will make you wish that the world would end but I do not think that it will end it. We need to be more worried about the way that people treat each other both as individuals and as countries!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:65_Myr_...

    http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/gt/cen...

    http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/gt/cen...

    http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/gt/cen...

    http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/faq/gt/cen...

    The world has been a lot warmer

    95% of the Cenozoic (age of mammals)epoch has been 5 to 10 degrees warmer.

    right now we are in the interglacial period of a ice age.

    it would not cause "the end of the world" if the temperatures

    rose to the average for the cenozoic

    it would not even be "the end of the world" if the temperatures rose to the high end of the cenozoic.

    as the temperatures rose the sea would evorate faster causing more cloud cover and this would cause global dimming.

    also cloud cover would cause it to be cooler during the day and warmer at night.

    no where does any scientist have any proof that global warming will cause THE END OF THE WORLD.

    That is total bulls**t

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes the earth is getting hotter, but so is the rest of the planets. Not something the belivers of man made climate shange will share with you. It is cyclical, data far back as 900ad. hottest year to date was 1300 ad england recorded, where were the suv then? no jets. no fossil fuel burning. So it kinda trumps the argument that it is because of the use of fossil fuels. If you take the fact that our natural air scrubbers convert carbon gases in to oxygen gases and look at the data about the amount of green plants and trees in on the planet you can decern the truth as close as it can be understood. Also remeber every anomilis large space body that passes our planet adjust our orbit slightly. That can make a big change as well in our tempratures over long peiods of time. To many variablies to get a acurate reason but if the shoe fits, I undersand the largest contribution to our climate change is the mass and tempreature of the sun. It is a cyclical anomaly as well, gets hotter then cooler as its core reacts with its internal enviroment. by the way mathmatics says we wont survive for ever so why delay the inevitable?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think you need to watch the National Geographic Channel on sunday night, there's going to be a program on it explaining called "6 degrees,can end the world" something like that, sunday night at 8..watch it

  • anne c
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I wonder how many people are aware of the fact that one really big volcanic eruption releases more ozone depleting gasses than all of the history of mankind? Believe me or not. And if the ice caps melt, and the world floods, some will live and some will die. The world will go on, different than before, but it is arrogant to figure the world cares about humans. If all the humans were gone, the world would heal from whatever, and go on.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Unless you mean the global warming that will occur when the Sun expands to swallow the Earth, No.

  • 1 decade ago

    The world, as in the earth, will be fine it's been here for 4.5 billion years and gone through volcanic eruptions, ice ages, and meteor strikes. We are like a case of fleas to the earth.

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