Concerns About Global Warming

According to UN report, the world will be a much hotter place by 2100. This will be the impact:
2.4 degrees: Coral reefs almost extinct
In North America, a new dust-bowl brings deserts to life in the high plains states, centered on Nebraska, but also wipes out agriculture and
cattle ranching as sand dunes appear across five US states, from Texas in the south to Montana in the north.
Rising sea levels accelerate as the Greenland ice sheet tips into irreversible melt, submerging atoll nations and low-lying deltas. In Peru, disappearing Andean glaciers mean 10 million people face water shortages. Warming seas wipe out the Great Barrier Reef and make coral reefs virtually extinct throughout the tropics. Worldwide, a third of all species on the planet face extinction
3.4 degrees: Rain forest turns to desert
The Amazon rain forest burns in a firestorm of catastrophic ferocity, covering South America with ash and smoke. Once the smoke clears, the interior of Brazil has become desert, and huge amounts of extra carbon have entered the atmosphere, further boosting global warming. The entire Arctic ice-cap disappears in the summer months, leaving the North Pole ice-free for the first time in 3 million years. Polar bears, walruses and ringed seals all go extinct. Water supplies run short in California as the Sierra Nevada snow pack melts away. Tens of millions are displaced as the Kalahari desert expands across southern Africa
4.4 degrees: Melting ice caps displace millions
Rapidly-rising temperatures in the Arctic put Siberian permafrost in the melt zone, releasing vast quantities of methane and CO2. Global temperatures keep on rising rapidly in consequence. Melting ice-caps and sea level rises displace more than 100 million people, particularly in Bangladesh, the Nile Delta and Shanghai. Heat waves and drought make much of the sub-tropics uninhabitable: large-scale migration even takes place within Europe, where deserts are growing in southern Spain, Italy and Greece. More than half of wild species are wiped out, in the worst mass extinction since the end of the dinosaurs. Agriculture collapses in Australia
5.4 degrees: Sea levels rise by five meters
The West Antarctic ice sheet breaks up, eventually adding another five meters to global sea levels. If these temperatures are sustained, the entire planet will become ice-free, and sea levels will be 70 meters higher than today. South Asian society collapses due to the disappearance of glaciers in the Himalayas, drying up the Indus river, while in east India and Bangladesh, monsoon floods threaten millions. Super-El Ninos spark global weather chaos. Most of humanity begins to seek refuge away from higher temperatures closer to the poles. Tens of millions of refugees force their way into Scandinavia and the British Isles. World food supplies run out
6.4 degrees: Most of life is exterminated
Warming seas lead to the possible release of methane hydrates trapped in sub-oceanic sediments: methane fireballs tear across the sky, causing further warming. The oceans lose their oxygen and turn stagnant, releasing poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas and destroying the ozone layer. Deserts extend almost to the Arctic. "Hyper canes" (hurricanes of unimaginable ferocity) circumnavigate the globe, causing flash floods which strip the land of soil. Humanity reduced to a few survivors eking out a living in polar refuges. Most of life on Earth has been snuffed out, as temperatures rise higher than for hundreds of millions of years.
Carbon Dioxide Rate is at Highest Level for 650,000 Years and UN Report
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0203-03.htm
Scientists: Humans 'very likely' cause global warming
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.change.report/index.html
Study links carbon dioxide emissions to increased deaths
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/co-010908.html
Arctic Warming Faster Above Ground Level
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080102-arctic-warming.html
Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts
http://www.news.wisc.edu/11878
Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0420_040420_earthday.html
The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame, No Polar Ice By 2060
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html
Hydrogen Vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle
Global Warming, Earth Absorbs More Energy From The Sun Than It Is Able To Reflect To Space At Night
http://bioresonant.com/news.htm
How Global Warming Can Chill the Planet
http://www.livescience.com/environment/041217_sealevel_rise.html
Carbon tax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
A Future World Without Ice Caps?
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/antarctica-warming-the-past-50-y...

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[seasprayandvinegar]

I am inclined to think man is affecting the temperature of the Earth, but at any rate, I am certain that man's blind range-of-the-moment greed has done and is doing unimaginable damage to all life. Cool that you don't want to own a car. I have refusd to own one either. Love listening to you - you make lots of sense :) Thanks, John.

[HaleyMary]

@seasprayandvinegar

Thanks! yeah, especially after what happened to the gulf coast with the oil spill, it's not only gas emissions from vehicles polluting the air. that's cool that there are other people who don't want to own cars either. I mean, having a car would make it easier to get around the city sometimes, but taking buses or walking is more environmentally friendly. Thanks for commenting and sharing your thoughts. Peace! :)

[Mazeta774]

This video has a very good point!

[futuristfood]

but yes, human behaviour sucketh to the max.

[RazzRafrica]

tbh nothing will happen other then it will be hot. yes the northpole will smelt but it wont do difference. If you put a block of ice in a glass of water the water will raise abit cause of the weight and if the ice block smelts there wont be a difference other then the water will be cold. but the global warming should fix that

[666Desolate999]

Fuck it all

[usergently]

The sun is heating up all planets right now.

[justinncoviello]

there is no such thing as global warming. thats just a scam the Gov't came up with. there is proof of the same temperatures during the first ice age. its just a warming trend

[skater3shefik]

@x11115 I am not going to just deny his theory, I just think more studies need to be made. We can't really tell if it's man made or natural.

I know we pollute the air with chemicals and too much C02, but I don't believe it affect the Temp. I would not mind if we tried to lower the C02 usage, but I still think it has nothing to do with Global warming.

[anonymous915]

@x11115 Katrina can't hold a candle to the hurricanes of the 60's. It's a fact that they did more damage when the numbers are adjusted for inflation. Hurricanes are not getting worse. 

[anonymous915]

@x11115 "it doesn't matter what the study says what matters is the temperatures of the ocean"....

Just where are you getting your info? Nasa says the oceans are cooling. Google "Oceans are cooling according to NASA" You say they are warming but YOU haven't checked in the last few years!!!!

"If the tempertures are high the ice will eventually melt."

And at what temperature does ice melt?????

[anonymous915]

@HaleyMary No, it doesn't; the jet stream that causes cold air to be pushed down to the rest of the world. The arctic ice caps are not melting. Yearly summer melt is normal. It refreezes every winter (and started earlier this year, btw) If you think you can do anything to control the jet streams and ocean currents, you are sadly deluded. Our miniscule 3% of the total volume of CO2 does not drive the weather. There are much larger factors at work.