global warmming

[Hebrew]

Is there anything to do against this ?

Can you reduce its chance to happen ?

Is there anyway to reverse the process?

Can it turn snow into a more useful land ?

[Blaupanzer]

Global warming is caused by employed nukes and nuke plant meltdowns. The designers hate nukes, so GW cannot be stopped once unleashed, and has no beneficial effects (such as melting ice). It can be prevented if no one uses nukes and meltdowns are kept to a minimum. The UN has a resolution related to ending nuke building which can be useful. Unless you get to the end of the game with mostly psychos, the resolution will pass, with the side effect of reducing the chance of global warming.

[BeBMan]

I always get lots of it once I'm going into the industrial age (and even without nukes). I hate it

[The Mad Monk]

CivIII allowed you to turn off global warming effects in the editor, what about CivIV?

[sorinache]

Global warming is caused by employed nukes and nuke plant meltdowns. The designers hate nukes, so GW cannot be stopped once unleashed, and has no beneficial effects (such as melting ice). It can be prevented if no one uses nukes and meltdowns are kept to a minimum. The UN has a resolution related to ending nuke building which can be useful. Unless you get to the end of the game with mostly psychos, the resolution will pass, with the side effect of reducing the chance of global warming.

However nukes are most likely not the only reason for Global Warming - in my current game (3 or 4 more 2-hours-each turns, ouph !) the "No nuclear proliferation" resolution passed a mere 4 - 5 turns after Manhattan project has been built (by the Khmers near me). I checked the Khmer and Arabian cities one by one (I'm at war with both now) and there's no nuke of any kind in any of them. I don't know how the Khmer AI has been coded but if it's anything to do with real life, the co-nationals of Pol Pot should have no scruples using them. The fact that they built Manhattan yet built no nuke make me think that no nuke was used whatsoever in this game. I for my part do not have uranium anyhow, so I was glad to vote in favor of the "no nukes" resolution.

Yet I lost a tile to global warming in 1943 and ANOTHER one in 1944. Two tiles lost to GW in two consecutive turns ... What are the chances for this in a game in which no one used nukes ? I mention I don't know about nuclear meltdowns - I do not ever build nuclear power plants and as far as I've seen, there has been no nuclear melt down in either the Khmer or the Arabian empire - more than that I cannot say

[ColdPhoenix]

It was either a patch or expansion expanded global warming. Having coal plants (and possibly factories and other buildings) increase the chance. More forest and public transport decreases the chance.

There are other factors too (population or unhealthiness in cities?).

[duke o' york]

Green faces on the city name mean that you're damaging the planet. Build recycling centres to reduce them.

[Theben]

Once you have heavy industry you can have warming.

[Saqqq]

What actually global warming do?

[Branded Swine]

Hi

If you want to correct this permanently: (Make a copy of the original file first to be safe, then update to newest Official patch BEFORE making changes)

Search (using Windows search engine) in the civ folder on your HD for the file known as: "GlobalDefines.xml"

Look for the Code:

GLOBAL_WARMING_PROB
20
Default value is 20... if you change it to zero, you remove it all-together.

If you still have problems then try clearing the cache:
Documents & Settings//Local Settings/Application Data/My Games/Beyond the Sword/cache

Or

Move or erase your save game files also since some things are saved in them (not sure about the warming affect though)?

This has worked for me with the BTS 3.17 patch installed without any problems.

I personally do not believe global warming "really" exists fo I turned it off period.

Branded

[Branded Swine]

Can it turn snow into a more useful land ?

Would probably just make a big wet puddle...

Seriously though, No I have never sean it do anything but damages when turned on my systems.

Branded