Question:
what is the end result to global warming?
?
2016-04-05 04:56:29 UTC
if nothing was done to stop global warming, what would be the end result?
60 answers:
anonymous
2016-04-05 11:39:00 UTC
Global warming will create flooding, causing erosion of the coastlines all over the world. This could lead to water contamination, resulting in water borne diseases because there is a lot of pollution layered in the melting ice.



When the earth warms, crops will be parched. Then the animals we eat and the vegetables we grow will begin to diminish. With that, there will be severe issues with our food supply.



These are just the surface obvious things that will happen when global warming takes hold.



The world has gone through cycles of freezing and then warming. The global warming period began after the last ice age. The current global warming cycle will end when the next ice age occurs.
Oscar
2016-04-05 08:50:55 UTC
Well gee let me think, what happened last time the climate was warmer? I wasn't around then but I heard something about tropical forest, more diverse species and bigger lizards.



Followed eventually by another ice age. Gee the more things change the more they stay the same. On the bright side I hear warmer climate is better for growing fruit.



The climate changes, always has and probably will till that last great solar flare in the sky turns the earth to a blackened burnt cinder. Or possibly till the sun burns off too much mass and it turns into an ice ball circling a dwarf star. Or maybe squished into a tiny point inside a black hole.



This ain't a disaster movie. Personally I think our best bet would be to adapt considering our present level of technology.
Michael
2016-04-09 17:50:30 UTC
The way I figure it is we people either need to lower all rivers that tie-in with the oceans on earth 80 feet deeper than they are now & continue the channel 25 miles out to sea or start a new channel 1/4 mile wide & 35 to 50 feet deep from the Gulf of Mexico to either the Pacific Ocean or New York State's Atlantic ocean & all concrete cities excess water be drained to each states drains going towards each river that ties in with oceans. If we ALL on earth can do either one of these solution in the next 8 months. Then no one will be bothered by floods & ALL Inland states & Nations can get my flood solutions freely anytime they need it. I figure that if we on earth get this done right away, then sometime in early 2018 The species not of this Universe that controls Global Warming & our weather on earth will go looking for their counterparts out in deep space & most likely wont return. We on earth have shut down Global Warming & i know how to do it again & my Global Teams ran my experiments of how to destroy the LIVE Organism. It takes a long time but can be done. So not to worry. What they're waiting for I had inadvertently destroyed in deep space when my solution Triple Output solution was implemented in another Nation other than my own. NASA sent the pictures through www.stumbleupon.com showing the aftermath of the collision after Halley's Comet collided with the incoming so-called asteroid heading directly to earth. The Dubbed the collision as THE BIG BANG. Global Command
ratatatattie
2016-04-07 12:22:30 UTC
We don't know absolutely for certain what is going to happen (remember there is no 'end' result - things always change.

BUT - with this - we have been aware of global warming at least since the 1970s (that's 40 years) and still ..we seem to be mostly. not 'bovvered' - extraordinary.



What we are pretty sure is going to happen is that the whole system is destabilised.

This is almost certainly going to mean global shortages of food; large areas of land currently populated becoming uninhabitable (includes farmland becoming unproductive).

If your house is well above current sea level - expect millions of refugees turning up and asking for a bed for the rest of their childrens' lives. Many of us Europeans and Americans and our children are very very likely to become refugees ourselves and have to leave our homes just to stay alive, and to have to ask for help from strangers. (I hate the thought of this like I have the thought of getting Alzheimers or a stroke or multiple-sclerosis.)



Wars and rumours of wars, let's face it, will abound.



Good for you for thinking about the problem early doors and trying to come up with some solution or avoidance of the situation.
?
2016-04-09 13:50:47 UTC
First thing, the climate in the last 10,000 years or so has been the most stable ever known. The earth's climate has swung through hot times and ice ages many times. During the dark ages, there were so many volcanic eruptions that it caused a "mini" ice age. The climate has a way of balancing itself. The atmosphere is so vast, that according to government predictions, we could spend all our efforts and money of the entire planet to clean the atmosphere, and it would only cause a temperature drop of less than half a degree on average. That being said, if global warming persisted, carrying it out to the bitter end worse case scenario, this would happen. The polar ice caps would melt, causing vast global flooding to the land masses. Cities like New York, Boston, Charleston, Miami along with all of Florida would disappear. There would be global famine which would spark wars for food and resources. (Much worse than today) The infrastructure of society would collapse, and surviving humans would be more akin to tribes like in the Mad Max movies. Many animals and plants would become extinct on land. The coral reefs as we know them would die off and eventually relocate after thousands of years to less hot or less deep water. There would be a wave of global extinction as land and marine animals adapted and evolved to deal with the new climate. As global temperatures continued to rise, there would be almost complete crop failure. Man would teeter on extinction as only pockets of civilization would be able to find areas suitable for finding meager food resources. Eventually plants would dominate and along with marine animals,the excess amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be captured and converted into coal or limestone. The oxygen levels would begin to rise and eventually the climate would balance itself and the climate would cool back down.
Jack W
2016-04-07 04:54:47 UTC
The end of global warming comes after the obvious fraud is exposed and the government starts demanding more taxes and attacks against business for global cooling begin to ramp up. The global warming crowd is a sick,sick bunch.
?
2016-04-10 10:54:12 UTC
First off the sea level will increase although do remember this has happened many times in history. Depending on whether it is slow change or abrupt change we would be able to easily adapt if slow. If for example the Earth is going into a ice age as long as it is slow we can adapt. Same goes if the Earth goes into a water age (I don't know what global warming version of ice age is called). As long as it is all slow and steady no one would have much of a problem.
anonymous
2016-04-05 10:37:22 UTC
End results? What time period?



The earth is actually heading for CO2 death. Not by too much CO2, but by the lack of CO2. CO2 has been declining on teh Earth for a very long period of time. At around 150 ppm, plants start dying off. In fact, during the last ice age, the CO2 went down to 180 ppm and massive death of many plants and the resultant decomposition caused it to go back up to around 260 ppm.



The end result of all the CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere is that life will be on this planet for a longer period of time.
anonymous
2016-04-07 19:14:34 UTC
Ask the research grant recipients who will make a killing until another sponsor for global winter comes the rage. The end of the world could be from global warming of a different kind: nuclear annihilation.
Mild Mind
2016-04-09 01:42:50 UTC
Some areas of the ocean already have dramatic increases in carbonic acid content. During a period of atmospheric inversion this carbonic acid can disassociate and drift onshore. This quietly eradicates the coastal animal and plant population due to carbon dioxide poisoning. With most of the human population quietly eradicated, the global warming phenomena will go away in a few centuries.
?
2016-04-06 22:47:00 UTC
At first global warming sounded like a good idea, especially to people in Northern climes. But starting in the 1960s, scientists recognized long-range problems, concentrating at first on sea-level rise and a threat to food supplies. New items were gradually added to the list, ranging from the degradation of ecosystems to threats to human health. Experts in fields from forestry to economics, even national security experts, pitched in to assess the range of possible consequences. It was impossible to make solid predictions given the complexity of the global system, the differences from one region to another, and the ways human society itself might try to adapt to the changes. But by the start of the 21st century, it was clear that climate change would bring serious harm to many regions — some more than others. Indeed many kinds of damage were already beginning to appear. (This essay does not try to cover the entire history of impact studies, but sketches some examples. Current scientific understanding of impacts is summarize
Stacie
2016-04-07 07:55:50 UTC
Global warming naturally occurs, BUT we as humans have done so much crap to this world that we have increased the rise 100x faster than it actually should be. Google global warming map and you'll see the sea levels and smog that has burned through the atmosphere, causing the sun to hit the earth even greater causing much warmer climates. Look up what you can do to do your part in bettering the world we live in!
Kano
2016-04-05 15:42:33 UTC
Not a lot.

If and when all Earths fossil fuel reserves are used up (burnt) the resulting rise in CO2 will be between 400 and 700ppm depending on how long CO2 stays in the atmosphere.

The IPCC says a doubling to 800ppm will give a 1to 1.2C rise in temperature,

So I doubt we would be able to notice any change.
Janette
2016-04-06 20:44:59 UTC
Honestly, nothing. Very small things will happen gradually. In fact, things will happen SO gradually that it will be SO easy for us to adapt/survive. There is NOTHING to worry about. I believe Antarctica melts about one inch a year. Think about how gradual the water would increase. We should worry about it in a billion years, when it will actually be a problem.



The world will NOT end due to the climate change, so there really is no END result. The world will most likely end before climate change becomes a problem.
?
2016-04-08 11:07:58 UTC
When the earth warms, crops will be parched. Then the animals we eat and the vegetables we grow will begin to diminish. With that, there will be severe issues with our food supply.



These are just the surface obvious things that will happen when global warming takes hold.



The world has gone through cycles of freezing and then warming. In fact, things will happen SO gradually that it will be SO easy for us to adapt/survive. There is NOTHING to worry about. I believe Antarctica melts about one inch a year. Think about how gradual the water would increase.
Cutter
2016-04-08 19:59:11 UTC
There is no end under the dinosaurs there was no polar ice. Plenty of vegetation and animal life.

Could lead to more tropical regions. And. Exposure of new land in canada siveria and antartica.

New farm lands.

Faster world travel through north pole.

As stated above it has hapoened before as part of a natural cycle. Eventually balance will be achieved.
briana
2016-04-06 15:23:27 UTC
This is a very good question! Although world events have indicated that global warming is indeed a real problem, it is comforting to know that the Bible clearly indicates that the earth will never be destroyed. God will one day restore the human race to the way he meant it to be.—Read Psalm 37:11, 34.



3. How will Paradise be restored?



Paradise will be restored on earth during Jesus’ rule as God’s King. In a battle called Armageddon, Jesus will lead God’s angels and destroy all who oppose God. Then Jesus will imprison Satan for 1,000 years. God’s people will survive the destruction because Jesus will guide and protect them. They will enjoy everlasting life in Paradise on earth.—Read Revelation 20:1-3; 21:3, 4.



4. When will suffering end?



When will God bring an end to evil on earth? Jesus gave a “sign” to indicate when the end would be near. Present world conditions threaten man’s survival and show that we now live in “the conclusion of the system of things.”—Read Matthew 24:3, 7-14, 21, 22.



During Jesus’ 1,000-year rule from heaven over the earth, he will bring all suffering to an end. (Isaiah 9:6, 7; 11:9) Besides serving as King, Jesus will act as High Priest and will cancel the sins of those who love God. Thus, by means of Jesus, God will eliminate sickness, aging, and death.—Read Isaiah 25:8; 33:24.



People who obey God will live in Paradise. (1 John 2:17) Jesus sent his followers to search for meek people and to teach them how to become acceptable to God. Today, Jehovah is preparing millions of people for life in the future Paradise on earth. (Zephaniah 2:3) At Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, people learn to be better husbands and fathers and to be better wives and mothers. Children and parents worship together and learn how to benefit from the good news.—Read Micah 4:1-4.



I hope this helps a little:)
?
2016-04-08 04:51:12 UTC
The ultimate result of global warming is to destroy entire globe and converts places of mountains to ocean and oceans to mountains . Even there will be no possibility to survive for human beings and other living creatures
aaron
2016-04-06 20:25:14 UTC
Global temperature increasing, CO2 levels high in atmosphere, initial rise in sea level due to melting of polar ice caps however increased temperature will reduce sea level gradually, higher increase of skin cancer among humans, Death of many plants, animals and humans through various environmental conditions major being drought.

This is not the first "global warming" to occur in Earths history, it is occurring at an increased rate due to industrial production / car emissions and agricultural production of CO2 levels
Sagebrush
2016-04-07 07:00:14 UTC
Scientifically we cannot give you an answer because:

1. It hasn't been properly defined, either scientifically or legally.

2. It hasn't been proven that CO2 level has any affect on the Earth's temperature.

3. What we know, it is not within man's power to control or alter Earth's temperature. No one has proven otherwise.

4. Every prediction that man has made, has turned out false.

5. Every climate model has been grossly mistaken.



Knowing these facts, is there anyone who knows enough to give you a decent answer?
Brad
2016-04-07 01:30:18 UTC
We'll have to live underground with water and air recycled by machines and food grown in greenhouses lit with halogen. Humans will number in the low thousands at best. Billions will have died horribly by then, likely in nuclear and chemical warfare brought on by mankind fighting for the last scraps of food and other resources.
IA
2016-04-07 04:58:38 UTC
When global warming reaches its peak, no one living species cont sustain the life in Earth and u and people like me are not in a position to give the answers to this type of questions..........
Almighty_1964
2016-04-08 08:45:05 UTC
If everyone planted one tree, and not chop it down. It would drink from the raising waters, and store it. It would grow tall and convert more CO2,everyday it lived. There is no problem on earth that can not be corrected. As long as we take the time to change it.



Or you can do nothing and your kin can learn to swim. Ever see a movie called "Water World"
shahin
2016-04-08 04:22:38 UTC
Global warming naturally occurs, BUT we as humans have done so much crap to this world that we have increased the rise 100x faster than it actually should be.
?
2016-04-06 04:49:05 UTC
Both President Obama and Algore have explained that if we don't stop climate change then the earth will become uninhabitable. Billions of people will die and diseases will get much worse. We also would have more wars and the crime rate would skyrocket because it would be to hot for most people to go to work.
?
2016-04-05 20:47:39 UTC
First of all, the Arctic and Antarctic animals will be extinct.Secondly, the mainland will be submerged by sea.Finally, the human will die for many reasons of global warming.
?
2016-04-07 15:32:28 UTC
The ice in the polar regions will melt and the ocean will flood coastal cities throughout the globe. Everywhere will be much hotter and people will develop skin cancer. Also some plants will not be possible to cultivate.
?
2016-04-07 09:54:15 UTC
Global warming will create massive flooding, drought, heat and when an ice age
anonymous
2016-09-02 08:57:41 UTC
the ultimate result of global warming is to destroy entire globe and converts places of mountains to ocean and oceans to mountains ... even there shall be no possibility to survive for human beings and other living creatures
Sportaman
2016-04-05 17:42:05 UTC
ice caps will melt causing seas levels to rise and flood seaside cities and the green house gases will continue building up until eventually the earth will suffer a run away greenhouse effect like Venus
anonymous
2016-04-06 18:17:44 UTC
1. rising sea levels

2. decrease in total land area

3. temperature increase throughout the globe

4. disruptions in ecosystems
DeMoNsLaYeR575
2016-04-05 05:05:13 UTC
worst case would be

Global flooding (raise of water level of about 10-40 feet)

MASSIVE climate change causing huge storms

if the temp increased too fast thousands if not millions of species would go extinct
?
2016-04-05 05:57:50 UTC
Saudi Arabia would lose it's oil( It will submerge in it) . A 1 degree rise there could have adverse effects on it's land.
anonymous
2017-02-24 17:22:10 UTC
global warming naturally occurs, but we as humans have done so much crap to this world that we have increased the rise 100x faster than it actually should be... google global warming map and you'll see the sea levels and smog that has burned through the atmosphere, causing the sun to hit the earth even awesomeer causing much warmer climates... look up what you can do to do your part in bettering the world we live in!
?
2016-04-06 22:12:53 UTC
Temperature rise, More droughts and heat waves, sea level will rise 1-4 feet.
vulcan_alex
2016-04-05 06:20:57 UTC
What is "nothing"? The correct answer is that nobody knows in details. The changes would be something as people are eliminated not to mention many other things.
jsl
2016-04-10 20:55:11 UTC
Same as the end result of Y2K.
Rebecca
2016-04-06 14:34:55 UTC
I am really not sure about the end result but I don't think its good :(
?
2016-04-07 19:34:05 UTC
It has no end result.
?
2016-04-05 05:42:22 UTC
Most plants will die, and therefore produce less oxygen. There will be mass flooding and lots of living things will cease to exist.
John
2016-04-07 07:24:16 UTC
END OF THE WORLD
anonymous
2016-04-06 19:36:25 UTC
saudi arabia would lose it's oil( it shall submerge in it) ... a 1 degree rise there could have adverse effects on it's land...
Rebel
2016-04-10 03:47:29 UTC
We will be severely overrun by misinformed liberals that don't know the truth!
aj
2016-04-05 18:31:25 UTC
Space exploration, terraforming, life in space and on other planets. Rinse,wash and repeat.
The Football God
2016-04-07 14:55:31 UTC
Colder?
antarcticice
2016-04-06 22:20:37 UTC
The higher Co2 goes, the warmer the planet gets as it warms permafrost melts, adding methane (also a greenhouse gas) as we warm, the atmosphere itself can hold more water vapor (also a greenhouse gas)

We know from previous natural glacial cycles that sea level rises and ice retreats, large glacial fields like Antarctica are slower to react but as they start to contribute to sea level rise the rate of rise goes up markedly.

As for Rasing Caines comment, sorry but as usual they are mostly fiction, this is a long term graph of Earths Co2 content

http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Phanerozoic_CO2.gif

There is an initial drop in Co2 around the time life emerged onto land, Co2 didn't disappear it moved from the atmosphere to being locked up in biomass, millions of years of plants and soil, but then it rose through quite a long period then dropped again but with a number of spikes due to massive volcanic activity, there is little doubt we will see such activity again as the continents continue to move and crash into each other, but that may be 10's or 100's of million of years from now. Hardly relevant to what is happening here and now.

As for the drop of Co2 to 180ppm during the last glacial period, this at least is true, of course that was also true through at least the previous 7 glacial periods before that. Most likely it dropped that low through each glacial cycle going back to the start of the glacial cycles about 2.5 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period#/media/File:Co2_glacial_cycles_800k.png

Many plants died during these periods not because of lower Co2 but simply because the land itself was covered by ice and plants don't grow in ice. As deniers used to be so fond of telling us the ice extended down to New York so all the forests of Canada and Europe would have been under hundreds of meters of ice.

Through the last 800,000 years (and probably the last 2.5 million years) of glacial cycles Co2 has fluctuated between ~180ppm when glaciers rule and gone up to ~280ppm whan glaciers have retreated.

This is the low point in the above graph showing the long term history of Co2, yet now Co2 is up to just over 400ppm and at current rates of rise will be up to around 700ppm by the end of this century, the blink of an eye compared to the timescale of the graph above, this is about 2.5 times the low point of the graph above.

This graph show the last 400 thousand years in finer detail Co2 is the middle graph (in green)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core#/media/File:Vostok_Petit_data.svg

This graph shows the historic Co2 levels taken from ice cores, the graph stops at 300ppm, take it up to the current 400ppm and you would be well up into the graph above, take it up to the 700ppm likely by the end of this century and you are out of the total graph, entirely. in fact a level of 700ppm is a level not seen in perhaps 20-25 million years.

Current sea level rise estimates don't attribute much contribution from Antarctica as just 2% of Antarctica melting would add ~1m to sea level rise, and current estimates of sea level rise which use thermal expansion and contributions from both Greenland and Antarctica are for ~1m of sea level rise. But new work on the longer term effects of AGW out to 2500 suggest rises in sea level of up to 15m as Antarctic moves from being a small contributor to a major contributor.
?
2016-04-07 07:42:18 UTC
you will never see a difference in your lifetime and hundreds of years after you are dead they will not see a difference .. We adopt to our changing climate We have been doing this for millions of years..(surprise)
anonymous
2016-04-09 02:21:54 UTC
Many low land cities will sink.
thegreatone
2016-04-06 20:19:44 UTC
Earth turns in to Venus.



And so, ALL life dies, and all water disappears.
anonymous
2016-04-06 19:48:39 UTC
Nothing
?
2016-04-07 13:43:30 UTC
The living will envy the dead..
ester
2016-04-09 19:51:15 UTC
ask the research
stevefwb
2016-04-06 16:47:52 UTC
the planet would evolve into a new planet.
luisa l hi
2016-04-06 00:54:00 UTC
SIMPLE,THE CONCRETE OF YOUR BUILDINGS KEEP THE HEAT AND DESTROY THE SIMPLE NATURE AWAY?
NONE
2016-04-07 12:03:21 UTC
Death
anonymous
2016-04-05 14:31:34 UTC
Nothing .
hasib
2016-04-11 09:05:35 UTC
NICE QUESTION
?
2016-04-06 04:08:16 UTC
death
anonymous
2016-04-08 08:15:03 UTC
YOUR A$$ ON FIRE ?!?!
anonymous
2016-04-07 19:21:40 UTC
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