What are Effects of a rise in earths temperature?

Answer 1

Hotter summers, melting icebergs, flooding, hurricanes, etc.

Some global warming models predict that, though summer might be a little hotter, the largest temperature increases will be seen in the winter. Icebergs melt all the time, and always have. It's a result of exposure to above-freezing water and has nothing to do with climate change or global warming. Flooding will occur because there will be more rainfall, which is a good thing. Hurricanes are caused by the temperature difference between the tropics and the temperate zone. The greater this difference, the more hurricanes will form, and the more powerful they will be. Since the temperatures will increase more in the temperate zone than in the tropics, this difference in temperatures will be reduced. Therefore, there will be fewer hurricanes. What will most likely happen as a result of climate change is the same thing that happened the last three times. Higher birth rates for humans. Lower death rates for humans. Less sickness and disease. Higher crop yields. Less hunger. More abundant animal and plant life. Overall, unusual prosperity for humankind. This is exactly what occurred during the Medieval Warm Period 1,100 years ago. This is exactly what occurred during the Roman Warm period 2,200 years ago. We have historical accounts from those periods that confirm the prosperity of humans under "global warming". We have few surviving historical records from the Minoan Warm Period 3,300 years ago, but archaeological evidence supports the notion that this period was also quite prosperous for humankind. Note the 1,100-year cycle between the previous warm periods, and the fact that the current warm period falls right in line with that cycle, making it likely that the current warming is merely part of the cycle and not caused by anything mankind has done. (There were no SUVs or coal-burning electrical plants back then.) Note also that temperatures during the previous three warm periods exceeded the highest temperatures recorded during the current warm period, and yet humankind prospered. We have nothing to fear from global warming, except that it is very likely to reverse itself long before the alarmists think. In fact, there is evidence that we have already reached the peak temperature of the current warm period, in 1998.

The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, an international project of the Arctic Council (a high-level intergovernmental forum) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), created for evaluating and synthesizing knowledge on climate variability, climate change, and increased ultraviolet radiation and their consequences, have arrived at the conclusion that the concentration of greenhouse gases and the rising temperatures will cause the accelerated melting of the ice caps, the rising of sea levels, increased storms, decreased water in lakes and rivers, radical changes in weather behavior, reduced animal health, increase in insect populations, and drying of wetlands and other inland areas with simultaneous floods and increased rain in coastal regions.

Even with most countries taking measures to diminish the impact of climate changes, there is not a consensus about the "why", "how" or the consequences of these changes. This is a controversial subject and there is available information from diverse points of view as well as neutral information available in books, sites and studies that may allow to each one to have the chance to freely evaluate the issue by oneself

Answer 2

Major physical processes and events have been happening to the Earth throughout its long history and will keep on happening.

Some physical processes are continuous, taking place over a very long periods of time. Other physical processes take very little time by comparison: we humans have chosen to call some of those "catastrophic events" because they seem to have taken place with hardly any warning.

For the past 4,000 million years the outer crust of the Earth has been changing. Its tectonic plates, continually move around forming continents which then break up and re-form in other configurations. The friction caused by the sliding and subduction of the edges of plates against one another causes mountain chains to be thrown up and fiery volcanos to spew out new soil and smokey, noxious gases which pollute the atmosphere.

65 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped out by a major event. It was probably a huge meteorite from outer space which suddenly hit the Earth. The resulting air pollution caused thousands of years of continuing global darkness and bitter cold because heat and light from our Sun could not reach the surface until the pollution was eventually absorbed by the Earth.

An ice sheet on Antarctica began to grow some 20 million years ago. The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat).

The Earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland ice sheet, the Antarctic ice sheet and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. It is likely that people lived in the temperate zones of the Earth before that last glacial period began, along with other animals and plants. After the maximum had occured and the glaciers receded, modern humans were able to migrate from a belt of land around the Earth's Equator towards its poles.

All this says that the physical processes and systems which affect the Earth are much bigger - both in scale and in time - than anything which can be created by creatures who live on its surface or in its oceans. Is it credible that any of those creatures can really affect what happens to the Earth?

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Answer 3

• rising temperatures
• glaciers and ice caps melting
• sea levels rising and flooding major cities and coastal croplands with salt water.
• animal and human habitats destroyed. Occupants move or die.
• severe storms and other weather events, tornadoes, blizzards, heat waves, droughts
• many, many other things.

Like a Doctor said about Brain Tumors - "You do not want to know..."

Answer 4

Global warming has a big effect on our environment. Global warming causes polar caps to melt to cause increased level in sea level. Average temperature of our atmosphere, our air, and the ocean, has been increasing. Also global warming causes severe weather such as, Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, and forest fires. Global warming can also increase the rate of rain fall.

Global warming impacts our environment, governent, and social.

A:Greenhouse gas goes up into the atmosphere from cars, factories, etcetera, and then solar heat comes in, and some of it is "trapped" by greenhouse gas. The heat would normally just bounce off after warming the surface, but the gas has trapped it. More comes in, and the atmosphere lets not that much out. Heat builds up. In the arctic and antarctic, the ice melts. Even a change of a few degrees can cause melting. Sea levels rise. Not only does the heat increase, we get floods along coasts. Arctic and antarctic creatures lose their homes. To top it off, the increased water level means more precipitation, causing extra rainfalls, snows, and other forms. Not good at all.

Answer 5

All liberals will band together to figure out how to convince the population it is their fault .

Answer 6

Less ice, higher ocean levels, less land, hotter weather, less fresh water, etc.

Answer 7

Earth's temperature is rising, the temperature of Earth's Oceans [along with the levels of many other Pollutants] is rising. Unfortunately Apathy is not Abating.