What are the consequences to global warming

robtri

Let me first of all say that I am not a global warming skeptic, I do believe that the earth is heating up, I am skeptic as to what is the percieved issues causing this..
My question to you all is, if global warming continues as such, what do you see as being the consequences?? any links or references allways welcome to back up what you say.....

derry

If this global warming nonsense is true our goose will be cooked:eek:
Failing that we can just worry ourselfs to death that we use more oxygen than we recycle and we will run out of air to breath in 65,000,000 days from now or about 200,000 years
Or you could get a life:D
Invest in worry beads

Derry

baldieman

I used to be a believer, but im all right now
At least I no longer feel we're heading for a climate catastrophe, but on the other hand i was secretly looking forward to a bit of global warming. I would'nt worry too much about it. In fact you might be more concerned about cooling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLBqB0qDko

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/science_policy_general/000318chris_landsea_leaves.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081221/winter_storm_081221/20081221?hub=CTVNewsAt11
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/09/21-spotless-days-and-solar-magnetic-field-still-in-a-funk/#more-4479

Húrin

I expect that the principle effect on Ireland and the other countries of Western Europe will be a large influx of refugees. These people will be fleeing their homelands for various reasons, such as drought (in Pakistan, India and sub-saharan Africa), flooding (south east Asia). Their homelands will be no longer able to support their current populations so they will need to move to literally greener pastures here.

There will be changes to Ireland's weather, which are explored in detail on www.met.ie

basically everywhere except Donegal will get a bit warmer. Dry winters and wet summers are becoming more common.

Húrin

baldieman wrote: »

I used to be a believer, but im all right now
At least I no longer feel we're heading for a climate catastrophe, but on the other hand i was secretly looking forward to a bit of global warming. I would'nt worry too much about it. In fact you might be more concerned about cooling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLBqB0qDko

Taking advantage of a uninformed audience, Klaus makes a number of obviously false claims, at 0:22, 1:26*, 2:34, 3:04, 5:04, 7:17, 7:39

I checked out the nature of this authoritive sounding "New York Climate Change Conference March 2008", and discovered that it was nothing more than a party for climate change sceptics, hosted not by the UN or a renowned scientific institution, but by The Heartland Institute, a right-wing politicised think tank. It has no credibility.

*actually this is more sophisticated than a simple lie: contrary to what he implies, no scientist or climate activist denies that the main greenhouse gas is water vapour.

Chris Landsea is politicised: he has Republican connections. For entirely ideological reasons, the US Republican party oppose taking action on global warming.
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1107

Your other two sources do not constitute evidence at all because a cold winter in Canada this year is an anomaly, because 2008 has been the coldest year so far this decade due to particle pollution. Yet 2008 is still the tenth warmest year on record.

The other is from an amateur blogger. I'm not interested. If you know the author he might not like to see
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=6233

I think your position comes more from wishful thinking than from careful consideration of the facts.

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I don't particularly care if people agree or not that climate change is being caused by people or not. I just object when sceptics put my future at risk by trying to suppress action being taken to protect against runaway climate change.

Húrin

Húrin wrote: »

There will be changes to Ireland's weather, which are explored in detail on www.met.ie

basically everywhere except Donegal will get a bit warmer. Dry winters and wet summers are becoming more common.

I followed your link..... met eireann is a bit vague is there a more specific link?
This link:
http://www.met.ie/climate/climate-prediction.asp
has a link to "The Community Climate Change Consortium for Ireland (C4I) "
www.c4i.ie
where they predict at this link:
http://www.c4i.ie/index.php?page=projection.html

Temperatures in Ireland are predicted to increase by 1.25-1.5°C by 2040 compared to 1961 to 2000. Rainfall is expected to increase in winter by about 15% and summer projections range from no change to a 20% decrease.

Little bit of info on C4i

The Community Climate Change Consortium for Ireland (C4I) Project was established in 2003, and is based in the headquarters of Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, in Dublin. Its main objective is to consolidate and intensify the national effort in climate change research, by building a capability for carrying out regional climate modelling in Ireland and to provide assistance to Irish scientists utilizing climate model output for their analyses. External funding for the project finished at the end of 2007. However, climate modeling work continues as a core activity of Met Éireann.

Húrin

Deleted User wrote: »

I followed your link..... met eireann is a bit vague is there a more specific link?
This link:
http://www.met.ie/climate/climate-prediction.asp
has a link to "The Community Climate Change Consortium for Ireland (C4I) "
www.c4i.ie
where they predict at this link:
http://www.c4i.ie/index.php?page=projection.html


Little bit of info on C4i

These sites are indeed what I was thinking of though my memory made a mistake.

BigUnit

robtri wrote: »

what do you see as being the consequences?? ..

We all get fleeced, because the white coats say so. The whole thing is a farce designed to crash the global economy.

http://www.green-agenda.com/

BigUnit

baldieman wrote: »

I used to be a believer, but im all right now

Good, did they stop your pay check??? That seems to bring reality to a lot of these white coats.

Húrin

Húrin wrote: »

These sites are indeed what I was thinking of though my memory made a mistake.

its what you said just reversed. So what are the implications of that much of a temperature increase locally?

Húrin

Deleted User wrote: »

its what you said just reversed. So what are the implications of that much of a temperature increase locally?

I'm not sure really. I live in Dublin so the city council might get a bit more serious about limiting people's use of water.

derry

Húrin wrote: »

I'm not sure really. I live in Dublin so the city council might get a bit more serious about limiting people's use of water.

Yikes you mean we might have to share and double up in the same baths :eek: tubs or worse have big communal baths guys and gals and all togehter like nordic countries do all just to save water why its outragous ;)cant wait for it

Derry