if the earth and all matter in the universe have suffer many changes caused by high and very low temps, from t
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The question is a little bit muddled, but I think I get the idea.\n\nThe atoms that are exposing the age of things are those atoms that are, or were, radioactive.  Any radioactive material decays.  It also decays at predictable, measurable rates that are distinctive to the element.  So you can date things that have radioactive elements (which most things do in some trace amount) or their decay elements within, based on how decayed they are.\n\nUranium-238 ultimately decays into lead.  You can date how long something containing uranium-238 has been in existence based on the ratio of Ur-238 to Pb.\n\nThis process operates at the same rate no matter what the temperature is.
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Local phenomena don't really form evidence for global changes.  Despite global warming, the recent winter has been one of the coldest in years for the last fourty years I have experienced.\n\nWeather changes have a much greater amplitude than the small changes caused by global warming. You need to consult statistics to measure those changes, like number and strength of hurricanes in a 10 year interval (to give an example that can be counted rather than tediously measured).
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um...There wouldn't be anything, there would be no earth, the sun will increase in diameter causing the temp. on earth to rise VERY high, and people will finally build a powerful rocket to go to another planet that's similar to earth or mars...
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our earth would burn due its heat along with the sun's heat
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Two reports that may be new evidence.  Gathered in the\n   flight of the Ark around the entire system.  The one point is\n   it is not hot as we know of hot.  That would be igneous and\n   would react through tunneling into the surface.  The center\n    is a similar but cold material, sort of the co2 type of material.\n    Like hot it is outside of our ability to touch, without data our\n    mind cannot concept it and we could hurt our nerves.  The\n    nearby area is also unknown, that is the radiant, reactives,\n    radiological materials that are emitted into space pass through\n    nearly every material without any noticeable change.  This\n    unknown is called the central web iron.  That material is also\n    undefined because there are no samples on the surface to\n    see, or measure.  The general core is magnesium sulfates\n    these have the properties that make the planet warm, sweet,\n    and vegetative.
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Global warming. If he would just stop talking, the earths' temperature would go down about 3 degrees.
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it is a little of both. yes the earth has heated but weather goes in circular movement. so there are periods of time when the earth heats up and then cools down. yes we are polluting the air and are loosing ozone, but the biggest factor is from methane gas produced by farm animals. we (Christians) are suppose to be good Stewart's of Gods gifts to us. so we need to learn to recycle, conserve and use the planet wisely. one of the things that would help the most is just planting trees. have an cooling effect on earth.
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You have it backward.  The temperature is dependent on some function of time not the other way around.
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because matter can't occupy the same place as another piece of matter, this situation would cause a rip in the space-time continuum and the universe as we know it would cease to exist.
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Climate would change dramatically due to the shift in solar energy focus from a loss of seasonal influence. The much more interesting point is the loss of magnetism, because the rotation center of the earth cannot parallel that of the magnetoshere and maintain magnetism. \n\nAtmospheric mixing would be different, global winds may change to more closely represent those observed on Jupiter, with banding rather than Rosby waves. Ocean currents begin to shift with wind pattern changes, species change migration routes, continental climates become more severe, and icing more prominent in the polar regions, shifting the balance of water storage and available energy absorption in lower latitudes. \n\nThink of an Antarctica on both poles with summer temps all the time within the lower 30 N and S. The reemergence of glaciers observed. Populations move to the equatorial regions. Economies change, agricultural production would be reduced, and fresh water supplies dwindle.
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There very well could be.  The earth has had many temperature cycles.  The crowd that is currently talking about global warming was touting the theory that we were headed into the next ice age  thirty years ago.
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despite the idea of the earth changing drastically - this is still over millions of years .... in your life time, there will be no ice path from Russia to wherever.\n\nWhatever is going to happen with Mother Earth... well there is the general understanding that it will happen over time, a long time - though the oceans have increased two degrees over the past decade - thus the storms in the US of A have become stronger... but to the extent of total chaos due to Mother Nature - not likely going to happen in our life times .... though very cold winters and droughts, and large amountys of percipitaiton, and warm winters, hot summers, cold summers ... these are a part of the changes that are just normal.\n\nThere are some that say because of the rise in water temperature, that the ocean current may change drastically - making Europ very cold, and America very hot... some say there is already a 30% reduction in water that is in the current - bringing cold water to the warmer zones and vise versa - this caused by fossil fuel emmissions - in which case, yes this could be a very fast change, but this is man, not mother nature's doing.  Storms in America would then be ten times as strong, and climate in Europ - prevent a lot of crops from growing... yes this would be chaos, but not the chaos that you think of concerning an ice age.
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Well Global warming is a great threat, it is damaging planet earth. I was reading in this physics book about the effects of global warming and it stated that the rising levels of harmful chemical gases in the earth's atmosphere could damage the earth forever. It says the with the build up of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen, methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, a giant chemical ring will form around the earth's atmosphere blocking sunlight coming into earth, so therefore the earth turns into "lo" one of jupiter's many moons. I'm not saying that this is true, but that's what i read in my book.
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Our earth is warming due to the excessive use of fossile fuels and the thinning of the ozone layer that surrounds the earth. As the ozone layer thins, more UV rays can come in, the temperatures are warmer and this caused the melting of the polar ice caps. As they melt, that changes the temperature in the water currents and raises the water level. Because everything interacts in life, it can eventually change the surface of the earth, cause certain species to become extinct because their habitat changes, and will raise the temperature over the earth. This is not something that will happen overnight, but because it's been happening for years and is getting worse, it's a serious concern with scientists. Unfortunately, it's not much of a concern for our oil loving president and his administration.
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Massive climate disturbance. Less ice will mean the Earth will reflect less sunlight back into space. Habitats, therefore life forms will disappear. Our climate will most likely be ireversibly changed. More heat will mean the ice caps have virtually nil chance of reforming for probably thousands or even millions of years. Flooding probably. Climate change will hit. Areas now receiving lots of rain will probably get less and vice versa. Warm ecosysytems will shift towards the poles, displacing plants and animals already there. Summers will be longer, hotter and drier; spring will come earlier and winters will be shorter and less cold. Cataclysmic changes are awaiting future generations unless these trends are reversed. This will be no picnic.
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The Earth's atmosphere has some capacity to hold in heat but not much of one. A relatively simple calculation would show that the Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months if the Sun were shut off. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 300 Kelvin (K). This means in two months the temperature would drop to 150K, and 75K in four months. To compare, the freezing point of water is 273K. So basically it'd get too cold for us humans within just a few weeks.\n\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=656\n\nBut as for absolute zero, NASA states "The Earth cannot drop to Absolute Zero because the universe would keep it above 2.7 K. Without the Sun, the only energy to the surface of the Earth is the heat from it's own interior."\n\nhttp://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q2895.html
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The ice would melt and ocean levels would rise causing some flooding along most coastlines and possibly upto several miles inland.  As for the earth axis, the axis of the earth rotates and one complete rotation takes about 26,000 years.  This rotation will 'flip' the seasons at some point in the distant future (so Christmas will be in summer).  This axis rotation causes most shifts in the patterns of warm and cold, dry and wet climates.  Don't buy into the tree hugging hippie crap that SUV's cause polar ice to melt, the proof just isn't there!