what are the effects of global warming?

Global warming is a new name for a normal process

Changes in global temperatures are natural. There is no proof that temperature is affected by anything that man has done.

In fact, recent severe weather has been directly attributed to a natural phenomenon that occurs every so often called El Nino. It causes ocean temperatures to rise as tropical trade winds actually reverse for a time.

The resulting temperature changes cause severe storms, flooding and even draught on every continent on earth.

t's completely natural. El Nino has been wreaking its havoc across the globe since long before man appeared.

BUT BUT THE POLAR ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!!!!

Well, yes they are. In fact, they have been for about a million years or so. We are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North American and Northern Europe.

There's at least one dolt of an environmentalist, named Al Bore, who is panicking over the possibility that we may soon lose Glacier National Park in Montana because the ice is melting.

So who wnats to break it to him that we've already lost the glacier that used to cover the whole country?

grr stupid followers

Like the glass panes in a greenhouse, certain gases in the Earth’s atmosphere permit the Sun’s radiation to heat Earth. At the same time, these gases retard the escape into space of the infrared energy radiated back out by Earth. This process is referred to as the greenhouse effect. These gases, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor, insulate Earth’s surface, helping to maintain warm temperatures. Without these gases, Earth would be a frozen planet with an average temperature of about -18°C (about 0°F) instead of a comfortable 15°C (59°F). If the concentration of these gases rises, they trap more heat within the atmosphere, causing worldwide temperatures to rise.

Scientists predict that increases in these gases in the atmosphere will make the Earth a warmer place. They expect a global rise in average temperature of 1.4 to 5.8 Celsius degrees (2.5 to 10.4 Fahrenheit degrees) in the next century. Average temperatures have in fact been rising. The 1990s were the warmest decade on record, and 2005 was the warmest year on record. Some scientists are reluctant to say that global warming has actually begun because climate naturally varies from year to year and decade to decade, and it takes many years of records to be sure of a fundamental change. There is little disagreement, though, that global warming is on its way.

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On the earth, there are HUGE mountains of 'pure and only' ice which remain freezed for round the year. If temprature rises, these moutains will start melting and this will raise the sea level very high. Which will make the sea water enter onto the land making the flooding.

Any city or place which is just at the sea level will go below the sea.

Well that is currently a historical question because 3 years ago the sun went into a severe minimum and things are currently cooling. Slowly at first, but after another 5 to 10 years the cooling could get rather severe and the current predictions are for 50 years of cooling minimum.

Some scientific information revealing the truth about global warming, when it happened and what probably caused it.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_warming.h...

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data....

http://reasonmclucus.tripod.com/CO2myth.html

http://mc-computing.com/qs/Global_Warming/Atmosphe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation

Where the heat came from and why it was abnormally cold previously

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/research/global/215....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_minimum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%B6rer_Minimum

Didn't you get the memo? It's global climate change now, because somebody found out the earth will be cooling for the next 30 years.

Over the last hundred years or so, the instrumental temperature record has shown a trend in climate of increased global mean temperature, i.e., global warming. Other observed changes include Arctic shrinkage, Arctic methane release, releases of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions and Arctic methane release in coastal sediments, and sea level rise. Global average temperature is predicted to increase over this century, with a probable increase in frequency of some extreme weather events, and changes in rainfall patterns. Moving from global to regional scales, there is increased uncertainty over how climate will change. The probability of warming having unforeseen consequences increases with the rate, magnitude, and duration of climate change. Some of the physical impacts of climate change are irreversible at continental and global scales.Sea level is expected to rise 18 to 59 cm (7.1 to 23.2 inches) by the end of the 21st century. Due to a lack of scientific understanding, this sea level rise estimate does not include all of the possible contributions of ice sheets. Slowing of the Meridional Overturning Circulation is very likely to occur this century, but temperatures in the Atlantic and Europe will probably still be higher due to global warming. For a global warming of 1-4°C (relative to 1990-2000), there is a moderate chance that partial deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet would occur over a period of centuries to millennia. Including the possible contribution of partial deglaciation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, sea level would rise by 4–6 m or more

The impacts on human systems of climate change will probably be distributed unevenly. Some regions and sectors are expected to experience benefits while others will experience costs. With greater levels of warming (greater than 2-3°C, relative to 1990 levels), it is likely that benefits will decline and costs increase. Low-latitude and less-developed areas are probably at the greatest risk from climate change. With human systems, adaptation potential for climate change impacts is considerable, although the costs of adaptation are largely unknown and potentially large.Climate change will likely result in reduced diversity of ecosystems and the extinction of many species. Adaptation potential for biological and geophysical systems is estimated to be lower than that for human systems.

last effect=end of the world.

God bless the guy above me, everything he said I couldn't agree with more