Originally posted by AKIron
Aside from the fact that I hate hot weather what detrimental effects can we expect to see with global warming?
Radical weather flucations.
Of course there will be radical changes in global weather patterns but who can say what the result of that will be.
Well we can say they will be radical changes. Daughts followed by floods. Well also see more violent weather and violent weather of great intensity. Typhons, hurricanes, tornados. The US would definately be subceptable to those. We are talking about a phenomenal amount of engery being added to the atmosphere.
Also, since warm air is capable of holding more moisture might we not see our crop producing regions increase even beyond what could be expected simply by the warmer temperatures?
If it wasn't for the radical weather change perhaps, but it will also mean that the great number of storms of greater intensity will have alot of precipitation in them. That water isn't going ot be doing crops much good if there is to much of it or if it's a massive hail storm.
Originally posted by Rude
Haven't weather trends and data only been collected for 100 or so years?
As was said earily, ice core sampling. As well as trees, some have been around for hundreds of years.
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Scientific data shows that we are at the end of a warm spell and appear to be heading for a cooling trend.
No it does not. It shows relatively stable temperature over the past 10,000 years, and a rapid (unprecidented in human history) increase of earth surface starting in the late 18th century/ early 19th century. And the increase if growing faster. Certainly no slow down or cooling happening.
You can find 10,000 year and 25,000 year trends here.
http://www.washington.edu/research/or/symposium/stone.pdfYes, damage from warming tends to be irreversible, but nature is consistently adaptable.
Sure nature will survive, but what will be the cost to humanity?
Originally posted by mosgood
First off, I am not an expert on this (unlike most of the rest of the community) but I believe that global warming will also increase the cloud layer, which blocks sunlight.. (last part of that sentence should be obvious to most of us)
I'm afraid clouds don't block infrared (the part of white light that causes heat) so more cloud cover wouldn't help.
Originally posted by VFJACKAL
"In my view, climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today," he wrote in Science magazine, "more serious even than the threat of terrorism."
What a Frikin Moron. Noone else find this statement a bit bizzare?
Apparently not the Pentagon.
"Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'"
The rest of the article can be found here.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html
