Global Warming has worse effects that you know..
Because of Global Warming, the icecaps of earth melt. The sea level rises. Water vapour levels increase, thus making storms stronger. Landslides can occur. When this happens near a shoreline, it can cause a tsunami. More places will become States of Calamity. Soon, people will be cramped, living together in slums because the governments waste money on hopelessly trying to restore the land prone to calamity. The land masses of Earth will soon disappear due to the rising water. If people do not do something, we will all drown and die.
The day after tomorrow. By the way there's loads of similar topics out there. Just don't worry about it.
Trust me, no one going to take action until it's too late and see the affect of global warming
People (I mean human beings) will not extinct unless a REALLY hard catastrophy occurs. We have the brains to forecast the disasters, and take the appropriate precautions. Will these involve moving underground? We will do so. Or transporting mankind to Mars? Why not? ...
My message is that it is not so easy to destroy a life form as intelligent as we are...
at least as I am...
I think your right, now with todays technology, we can predict mostly every thing that could happen to us, unless its a quick flash flood etc. and the government takes precautions to help us.
| gcity wrote: |
| I think your right, now with todays technology, we can predict mostly every thing that could happen to us, unless its a quick flash flood etc. and the government takes precautions to help us. |
One thing technology can never predict is weather. Try as hard as you may, weather is just to random to predict. Sure meteorologists are able to spot it, but they're forecast is never 100%.
Especially in Michigan. Where one day it'll be 80 degrees, the next day 30 degrees with rain. -_-I must say that Global Warming is not the most likely candidate for wiping out the human race.
I think nuclear war, pandemics or a astroid impact is more likely.
Global warming and its effects may very well cause natural disasters, famine and death of many people, but it is not going to drown everyone, not by a long shot.
It will take something really stong to kill us off. were too resorceful for something simple to do it. but historically we are really lucky.
Global warming will probably not wipe us all out, but it will drastically redue our number, which is what this planet needs anyway. Though as one of my bio professors put it, all the carbon that we are releasing into the atmosphere, was already there at some point in time - that's how the fossil fuels formed. fossil fuels <---- plants <-------photosynthesis <-------CO2
ok. my view on this whole ordeal goes like this... i used to be a very religious catholic, but now i'm ignostic. not ignostic in the sense that im too lazy to think about it, but ignostic in the sense that the higher power that i believe in is nature. no matter what happens, (global warming, asteroid impact, nuclear war, ect...) there will always be nature. nature is always evolving and all spiecies (even humans) only survive for about 3 million years. you may think that's a long time, but it's not even close. no matter what happens, the human race will cesce to nature's ways, and we will be just a chapter in some "text-book" of the future. will all this happen in our life-time?... im guessing no. but will this ever happen?... the answer is yes.
I totally agree, evolution is inevitable and seeing how we are the most advanced species on the planet, it is most likely that we will be the ones more capable to adapt to any changes and avoid extinction. Evolution will eventually wipe humans as we know them now from the surface of this planet, but it will most likely not be global warming, but rather our own evolved descendants. But then again, dinosaurs were rather advanced before they met their end....
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| Evolution will eventually wipe humans as we know them now from the surface of this planet, but it will most likely not be global warming, but rather our own evolved descendants. |
This can only happen if we live long enouf to evolve, but i agree with it unless we decide it is better to kill ourselves or some unforseen disaster strikes this will most likely happen.
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| It will take something really stong to kill us off. were too resorceful for something simple to do it |
This is just simple human arrogance, withs might aswell be our undoing because we think we are to good to die.armegeddon.... that movie was a piece of crap! haha.
since we witnessed the comet attack on jupiter about 10 years ago,
scientists have been looking for ways to stop asteriods.
it seems that there are ways for destroying, or knocking off path most asteroids from the belt.
but, comets aren't detected until their orbit passes the sun, and their tail lights up.
which gives is very little time to prepare for it.
that is the most likely astrological event that would kill us off.
but there is the likelihood of some freak accident with nuclear power,
and we could die off that way.
i mean eventually, there will be more and more nuclear power plants,
what if we had so many, that one went off, and started a chain reaction???
we could die off that way too.
it is enevitable, even if it is way in the future (like the sun going nova)
IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!
kill of the entire human race?
my god I dont see that happening, 6 billion humans all killed in the near future.
Nah
OMG we are all going to die.
*bolts for the door*
Kill the race? Not likely. Reduce our numbers - possibly. Reduce standard of living - definitely. I guess our top priority for an calamity would be to save what knowledge we already have. Remember, it's been less than a century since the semiconductor revolution.
How would we go about saving our knowledge?
put up everything humans know on a really big hard drive in a satellite heading out of the solar system??
even if we did the chances of someone finding it would be slim.
or did you mean save it for future generations?
humans aren't going to go extinct because of rising waters, will either, make/ convert huge ships for living use, ie. oil tankers, aircraft carrier type vessels. or we will learn to live underwater/in houses on top of the water. Besides, i don't think there's enough water trapped to cover the entire earth, the mountains will still be above the water
| MasterMind wrote: |
Global Warming has worse effects that you know..
Because of Global Warming, the icecaps of earth melt. The sea level rises. Water vapour levels increase, thus making storms stronger. Landslides can occur. When this happens near a shoreline, it can cause a tsunami. More places will become States of Calamity. Soon, people will be cramped, living together in slums because the governments waste money on hopelessly trying to restore the land prone to calamity. The land masses of Earth will soon disappear due to the rising water. If people do not do something, we will all drown and die. |
Hey on the bright side because of where the Earth is located (dubbed "Goldilock's Window") and the nature of the planet, Global Warming will go away and a balance will be obtained again... of course that would be so far away in time's length and we'd all be so gone by then. Oh well hopefully the Roach People don't make the same mistakes we did and screw up the planet again.Global warming may just be a natural cycle that the earth is going through. That's not to say we aren't speeding the process up a bit, but analysis of the past climactic cycles indicate that the earth just goes through natural warm and natural cool cycles.
Nobody here has talked about the oceanbelt theory, so I will give a brief description of this scenario (similar to as seen in The Day After Tomorrow).
The oceans are warming (one reason we are seeing more frequent and stronger hurricanes), that is pretty much unavoidable. The oceans are the heaters of the world. As the oceans warm, the world warms - an as previously mentioned, ice caps are melting.
The ocean relies on currents to move the heat throughout the earth - from the equator to the north/south. These currents are dependent upon the balance of freshwater and saltwater in the ocean.
The ice caps are melting, and the theory is that the imbalance of freshwater in the saltwater will shut down the currents, thus sending the world into a cold snap, or mini ice-age.
At any rate, I'm sure we have nothing too imminent to worry about. Human enginuity is amazing.
I don't think the human race will dissapear. One day we will realize that what we have been doing is wrong, and do our best to fix it. A time like that will only happen when the world finally gets good leaders to lead, instead of money minded bafoons. Or the alternative would be that the greedy leaders of the world start World War III and the world finally realizes that they have to fix the earth.
| Shanghai_Dragon wrote: |
| I don't think the human race will dissapear. One day we will realize that what we have been doing is wrong, and do our best to fix it. A time like that will only happen when the world finally gets good leaders to lead, instead of money minded bafoons. Or the alternative would be that the greedy leaders of the world start World War III and the world finally realizes that they have to fix the earth. |
What most people is saying is that humans will do what you just said, but at a time where the effects become irreversible (by human intervention, it'll eventually work itself out after we all die supposedly) thus well... end of the existence of humans as we know it.I think WWIII would be the most likely canidate for the cause of extinction. Nice thing about humans is that they can adapt relatively quickly, unless we get hit my one big ass asteroid(big enough to completely destroy the world) I dont think we're going anywhere soon(not to say global warming can't cause mass death, but it wont be enough to kill us all off).
Don't forget the asteroid that came within 10,000 miles 15,000km from earth just a few years ago.
The extinction will have to be an act of God. War will have a victor who will survive. Earthquakes and volanoes are local. Global warming will boost the climate in some areas and destroy others.
We're many people around here, so unless you completely destroy the earth, probably a few guys out there will survive and restart the whole mess again (unless we learn from our mistakes? 
AH AH AH that will never happen, we've proven we're too dumb to do that 
). So I guess that, most likely, as some others have said, some events might reduce the population. But hey, no need to wait for the future for this. Just look at the tsunami in Indonesia, the hurricane in USA, and all those wars out there. Population is already slightly moderated this way, just like ants are wiped off every time you mow the grass. Still, their population grow... Everyone will die one day. I'll quite happy if i die drowning.
