what are the effects of globle warming on humans?
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We'll have to move inland when the oceans rise and cover all the present port cities. New Orleans, Indonesia, you think you had it bad last time...? The next one will not be as fast moving, but it will be deeper. \n\nAnd the main thing is, there's nothing we can do to prevent it because it isn't caused by human activities.\n\nSo: there are no direct health effects, if that's what you meant, but there will be large social, economic, industrial and agricultural effects.
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Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. From my various reading I have learned that the earth was warmer in 1300 A.D. long before cars and it was one of the most prosperous times in history. This was before the Black Plague, of course. More land was arable and human and animal populations were flourishing. It is really impossible to tell as the Earth is in the middle of a natural warming period right now. The tree huggers will never tell you about the glaciers in Iceland that are getting bigger and the parts of Antarctica where the ice sheet is getting thicker. I am a liberal, I am for nurturing the environment. I believe common sense dictates that vehicle emissions are bad for the earth in making our air more noxious, but to answer your specific question, nobody knows because there are too many factors.
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it's really interesting.. the 12% answer is correct as a close approximation.\nThe interesting thing to note is that we are supposed to be causing globabl warming. This figure puts makind really into a good global perspective.\nThe next thing to do is see how much smoke and gas volcanos and thermal springs pump into the world every year. \nThen add in all the gases caused by animal excrement (include human in the numbers), and all the plantlife on the planet (including photosynthesising plants and animals in the oceans) and you start to build a very good picture that mankind is not causing global warmnig.
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OMG...this is a very sad question. The reason why gloval warming NEEDS to affect the earth is because without it, we would all DIE. Think about it, what would we do if there was no heat at ANYTIME. We would all die because we would all freeze to death. Besides in order to keep anything alive we need Gloval Warming. The food we eat need it, the water need it, the plants, animals everything and everyone needs it.
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Global Warming is the increase in temperatures in our climate within our atmosphere. It is caused by liberal politicians and environmental wackos from the US and other western countries yakking, crying and complaining about how our modern way of life ( i.e. anything from industrial, technological and day to day conveniences ) is polluting and destroying the planet. The toxic gasses produced by all their whining and complaining is filling up our atmosphere with warm unfilthy air. The result is a "greenhouse" effect. All that hot, vile and unhealthy  gasses coming out of their mouth is a danger to us all. As a sidebar, I have to note that the environmental wackos and the liberal politicians have different agendas as to why they are crying and complaining, but that is another topic all together. \n\nSo in short, Global Warming is caused by hot air coming out environmentalist and left-wing politicians mouths when whining and complaining about anything. Solution: shut them up. \n\nWhat effect does it have in a million years: it will stump human and humanities growth
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actually, because of Global Warming, we would be in the ice age.  The increase in temperature causes a higher density of water vapor in the air, as a result the net temperature on the surface of the earth drops, and we get lots and lots of percipitation.  The Earth is making drastic attempts to shift it's self to remedy this.  Al Gore thinks we can control it because WE caused it, and so it would stand to reason that we fix it.
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How about the effects of globalization on the developing world?\n\nThe effect of global warming on the Arctic
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The principle behind global warming is the same as the process that warms the interior of a greenhouse. Light from the Sun passes relatively easily down through Earth's atmosphere to the surface. Earth's surface warms and radiates heat in the infra-red part of the electromagnetic spectrum. These frequencies don't pass back up through the atmosphere easily but instead are retained by the atmosphere, thus warming it.
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Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The term is also used for the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming, which attributes much of the recently observed and projected global warming to a human-induced intensification of the greenhouse effect.
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all the heat from the sun's rays will stay trapped in the earth and it will get hotter, the polar ice caps will melt and we will all be flooded, which in turn will cool us down form the heat, but if u can't swim you're screwed.\nstop pollution and start recycling now!!!
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Exactly none. There is a finite amount of energy stored on the planet in the form of fossil fuels. Burning it releases this energy. You cannot add more. There has been heat RELEASED by the burning of fossil fuels onthe planet, which many people believe causes global warming. The only heat energy added to the planet is solar energy.
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Global warming refers to the increases in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans that has been observed in recent decades.
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The earth is protected by the Ozone Layer, which helps us from the sun's damaging uv rays.  As people pollute the air, the ozone layer becomes damaged and evenutally will diminish causing the sun's damaging rays to enter the earth's atmosphere increasing temperatures.  The increase in temperature would cause areas of extremely cold temperature where icebergs are found to become warmer; thus causing icebergs to begin melting.  The increase in temperature will also cause many of the plants that survive and grow in the tropics to die.\n\nAir pollution contribuites to GW by causing the ozone layer to dissapear, leaving sections of "holes" where the powerful ray's of the sun will cause increase in temperatures damaging life forms to include plants, animals that survive on such plants, polar caps melting which could affect the animals (polar bears, penguins, etc).
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global warming and ozone depletion is related. read this....\n\nGlobal Warming Can Increase Ozone Depletion\nScientist's are concerned that continued global warming will accelerate ozone destruction and increase stratospheric ozone depletion. Ozone depletion gets  worse when the stratosphere (where the ozone layer is), becomes colder.  Because global warming traps heat in the troposphere, less heat reaches the stratosphere which will make it colder.  Greenhouse gases act  like a blanket for the troposphere and make the stratosphere colder. In other words, global warming can make ozone depletion much worse right when it is supposed to begin its recovery during the next century.\n\ncheck the following link...it might help you!
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Global warming melts the polar icecaps which dilute the salinity of the water. In a process we don't fully understand yet, this slows down the circulation of the undercurrents. \n\nThe earth is in a delicate climatic balance. One of the beneficial effects of "bad" storms(such as hurricanes) is that they act as an equilibrium- bringing cooler air towards the equator and warmer air towards the poles. If this is upset, the results often bring wild swings. \n\nSo if the pendulum swings too far, it could swing too far the other way.
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Global warming is believed to be an average raise in temperature.  Not all areas will experience it (if it even exists).  But the Earth goes through weather cycles (as in the cold cycle when there were glaciers covering the Earth, we are now just entering into the warm phase).  This is my theory.  But, as I said, it will not be total, constant raise in temperature.  Some spots will notice the difference, others won't.  It's an overall average.
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Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The term is also used for the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming, which attributes much of the recently observed and projected global warming to a human-induced intensification of the greenhouse effect. On this theory, the increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, and, to a lesser extent, land clearing and agriculture, are the primary sources of warming. The natural greenhouse effect keeps the Earth 30 °C warmer than it otherwise would be; adding carbon dioxide to an atmosphere, with no other changes, will make a planet's surface warmer. Current research is attempting to find out more details about the processes and factors that would affect a temperature increase especially about positive and negative feedback mechanisms, to allow a more precise quantification of the effects of global warming.\n\nTemperature change is just one aspect of the broader subject of (human-induced) climate change. The scientific opinion on climate change, as expressed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and explicitly endorsed by the national science academies of the G8 nations, is that the average global temperature has risen 0.6 ± 0.2 °C since the late 19th century, and that it is likely that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" [1]. A small minority of qualified scientists contest the view that humanity's actions have played a significant role in increasing recent temperatures. Uncertainties do exist regarding how much climate change should be expected in the future, and a hotly contested political and public debate exists over what actions, if any, should be taken in light of global warming.\n\nBased on basic science, observational sensitivity studies, and the climate models referenced by the IPCC, temperatures may increase by 1.4 to 5.8 °C between 1990 and 2100 [2]. This is expected to result in other climate changes including rises in sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. Such changes may increase the frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes, change agricultural yields, or contribute to biological extinctions. Although warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events, it is very difficult to connect any particular event to global warming.