How wil the climate of Denmark change after 50 yrs of Global Warming?
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If Baffin Island is White Bread then Demark is Toast!
1178649
we would notice a change right away, the direction and position of where the sun's rays hit are what cause our temperature differences. if we had a drastic 90 degree turn in our axis it would throw off our global climate over the course of a few decades. changes would happen drastically however, and until things settled down over those decades or even centuries we would be in a state of climate-chaos
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The normal cycle is (very simplified): rain, transportation to sea, evaporation.\n\nThe main thing that mankind does to change this is after the rain has fallen and before it reaches the sea.  The main thing being irrigation which diverts water from the river into the surrounding land.  Obviously when water is soaked into the ground it cannot evaporate and so the 'residence time' in this part of the cycle is increased.\nBuilding damns and other structures (ie. cities) will also have similar effects by diverting the natural course of a river.\nWith global warming comes another problem.  Obviously the warmer something is the more energy it has.  This extra energy causes an unstable atmosphere leading to increased rainfall in some areas and less in others.  Rising sea temperature, which is also connected to global warming, will increase the rate of evaporation (which is why there are more hurricanes in the Atlantic).
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The earth has been going through cyclical warming and cooling for millenia.  It has only been in the last 70 years or so that appropriate methods for data collection have been available.  It is more hype to get government dollars than pure science.  The models that have been developed can't even predict weather patterns that already happened with known data, let alone what will happen in the future.
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Probably most of it will become peat, a kind of early form of coal.  Of course, glass, metal, and some plastics may not have changed change much.
512257
The irreversible effects of global warming will be seen within the next 15 to twenty years...rising water levels and increased storm activity (ie, more extreme weather).
634522
Climate change is a natural cycle for the Earth and will happen regardless of human interferance. In fact if you look at the cycles of Glaciation and Warming over the past few hundred millenia, we are probably due for a massive cooling phase, maybe even dramatic glaciation, sometime in the next few hundred years. A number of things affect this, most notably the tilt of the Earth in relation to the sun. This is effected by the cycle of the planets and their orbits, and cannot be changed or prevented. We are due, and when it happens it is likely that large portions of the northern hemisphere will become covered in glacial ice, as happened about 20,000 years ago, and lasted until about 8,000 years ago. The mini-glaciations happen in about 10,000 year cycles, so our current warm period (an inter-glaciation, not a warm period) is due to end soon. \nOne of my archaeology professors said to me once that it may well be deemed that the breif delay in this caused by carbon emissions may be deemed the greatest attempted effort of human engineering well in the future.
1177252
Yes, global warming has started and finished and started and finished.\n\nThe earth has been much warmer before and much colder.  It will be both much warmer and much colder again many times.
860373
The most important change would be with the weather, for example California would have more rainfall but the east would have substantially less. This would also cause a shift in the ocean currents and the vast rivers under the oceans could be reversed causing further climatic change.
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The last time we had global warming was in 1000 AD.\nScientists call this the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)\nand it persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th and 15th centuries. Warmer climate brough a remarkable flowering of prosperity, knowledge, and art to Europe.  As the temp. increased so did agricultural yields. Marshes and swamps dried up, removing the breeding grounds of mosquitoes that spread malaria. Former wetlands were converted to productive farmland. Infant mortality fell, and the population grew. From 1100 to 1300 AD the population of europe increased from about 40 to 60 million.\n\nThe surest sign of warming climate in Europe was the settlement of Greenland by Vikings from Iceland. The Greenland settlements reached a height of prosperity in the 12th and 13th centuries when 3000 colonists occupied 280 farms. The settlements came under duress in the late 14th century due to the onset of Little Ice Age cooling. They finally perished in the 15th century.\n  I don't know how long it will take.
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many different factors, one being us. Humans speed the natural process of global warming, just like an ice age, the earth every few million years goes through a process of warming, but greenhouse gases and other things that humans do have been speeding up the process. However, we are not the ones that cause it, since it's a natural cycle, so basically this was bound to happen. This has nothing to do with the end of the world or anything crazy like that. Some theories suggest that this will bring another ice age (a lot of water evaporates and creates a thick layer of clouds, preventing the sun from reaching the surface...the temperature gets colder and an ice age occurs. We will probably not live to see these events since they happen over a Long period of time.
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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.
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Yes definetly, infact it has already started. there are many theories that link to global warming including that the glaciers would melt because of the rise in temperature and that will cause sea levels to rise. It may also cause a problem for geese migrations. Summers will get even more hotter, a decrese in snow may also be possble. But thats just my opinion
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We've known for decades that the earth is in in a perpetual state otemperate fluctuation.  Over thousands of years, the earth has seen numerous ice ages and thaws.  Our fear of this change is largely due to incomplete or imprecise data.  Humans didn't start acurately measuring GLOBAL temperature trends until the 1960s, and the first trend they saw was cooling.  I predict that in 40-100 years, we'll see another slight cooling cycle.  Remember, average global temperature has only warmed a fraction of a degree.
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Depends on how you look at it..we seem to be in the effects of global warming..that does mean that the planet as a whole is warming up... but there are areas..where..global warming means more severe temperatures and weather as well..it certainly is hard to tell what the planet is doing on its own and what exactly we as humans have done to cause changes..I would say nope we are not near another ice age..it really wasn't that long ago that we did have an ice age..
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I think it's gonna be real cold.  Like Michigan (where i live).  But no, If it is in fact a ice age, that means that  huge amounts of water  are frozen into glaciers (and because we only have so much water on earth) sea levels will actually go down because water is locked in the glaciers.  Global warming causes glaciers to melt and hence rises sea level.  And by the way, we are still technically in an ice age (we still have huge ice sheets) we are in what's known as an inter-glacial period.  The last glacial maximum was about 22,000 years ago.  Sea levels were so low that humans could walk across dry land from Ireland to Britain then to the mainland of Europe! Check out a map!
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with the global warming increased\nmore green cars and powerstations will be inverted