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what i read global warming maybe hot a bad thing if u search before the ice age?

if u go back to the merozoic era u find before the iceage the wind didn't blow no storm it was calm after the iceage when we started have our trouble would it be bad if the ice melted high put no storm what i want know what bad about that

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1. Mass extinction isnt a fun thing, thats probabley the downside to this...
2. Our economy isn't designed to run in a world warmer than what we have. Many large cities are built close to the sea, which will flood, and diseases such as malaria and dengue fever will run rampant in areas where it is foreign today. With the global population of today, our agricultural system can't handle a change this quickly. What is farmland today in the central and western US could very well become desert. Where do we then grow our grain? Of course land that is today too far north in Canada would be the likely answer, but that land will take several generations to become productive farmland. Not to mention that in doing that we would be digging up the largest boreal forest on the planet which would aggravate global warming even more. Sure you can go back thousands of years and find examples where the earth was much warmer, but we were not trying to feed 6.7 billion people then. When you think of it, if we allow global warming to continue unchecked, we probably won't have 6.7 billion people on the planet for very long.
4. Well the melting of the ice will raise the sea level. The fresh water from the icecaps can raise sea levels in feets. That would mean major cities such as NYC (mine) will flood and then NYC is at sea level, those that are unlucky enough to be below sea level will be totally submerged. Increase in the heat will also effect the ocean. Coral reefs are dying in Austrialia because the increase in temperature causes the coral to expell algea. The coral is dead and that means sea creatures also lose their homes. The CO2 in the air also gets absorbed into the water. The acidity rises and animals dies. Global warming will also shift the wind currents, it will effect our weather long before we hit the ice age. I assume the hurricane activity in the US and the tsunami scares in the Pacific are caused by the global warming. Truefully we probabaly won't be effected by Global warming as much as our children or grandchildren but the rise in temperature, even just a few degrees, effects so many things. It's a cause and effect chain and considering that I'm only 16, I'll probabaly live to see alot of what is going to happen. I rather try perventing it as much as possible.