Environment - August 2007

i'm a skeptic. here's why:

the IPCC and those who agree with them that global warming is real based their conclusion off of about 100 years of recorded measurements, and base the global warming argument off 30 years of temp. increases (see below for source). they have guesses about what the temperature was before then, but those guesses aren't entirely accurate -- they are simply guesses. the earth has been shown to go through cycles, usually lasting much longer than 100 years. while this argument does not negate the possibility of global warming, it does show that global warming hasn't been proved conclusively.

i would go into why so many scientists believe in if it might not be true, but i don't have enough space. message me if you'd like me to explain. basically, it's if the teacher is all for X, and doesn't state the other side of the argument, the student is inclined to agree.

source for IPCC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen#IPCC_Policymakers_Summary_criticism

2007-08-21 16:30:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-21 16:27:15 · 0 answers · asked by bamschick 1 in Global Warming

Gore pollutes more than the average person..in fact much more than the average joe. But you can't use that to nullify his movie. It’s like saying that Marie Curie’s work on radioactive isotopes should be invalidated because she was infected by radiation poisoning during her experiments. Now I know Al Gore shouldn’t be compared with a brilliant scientific such as Curie. But the fact remains that Al Gore displayed to us information about climate change that is generally agreed upon. So the scapegoatist who use Gore’s lifestyle as an excuse to reject the scientific research he recounts really shouldn’t do so. They’re only focusing on the trivial so they can avoid talking about the escalating evidence that shows that climate change is a reality and is a serious concern.

2007-08-21 15:47:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

What You Really Do For It?

2007-08-21 14:26:55 · 15 answers · asked by sph 3 in Other - Environment

2007-08-21 14:14:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-08-21 14:09:58 · 13 answers · asked by petite me 3 in Global Warming

Where average high is 82 while normal low is 67 deg. One could understand that this is just an anomaly in the local weather, but we're in the middle of a Global Warming Crisis here!

It's hotter world wide with a hurricane in the Atlantic, floods and droughts everywhere, all caused by man! Man pollutes everyday, so temps shouldn't go down.

Maybe the thermohayline conveyor belt changed? Has man just started the next ice age? Now I'm scared.....

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_233143509.html

2007-08-21 14:06:49 · 11 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

I'm not too surprised that this conspiracy has gained so much traction considering the 9/11 conspiracy popularity. Even the man made global warming is somewhat believable to the untrained eye.
Coal and oil burning is right there in your face for everyone to see and hear. What is invisible is the CO2 that is given off by every leaf on every flower, bush and tree as far as you can see when they all fall in the autumn and decompose. Not to meantion all the CO2 that comes out of the ocean every second. All of this is eclipsed by the CO2 that comes out of volcanos.
But lets forget about CO2 for a second. The SUN changes the temperature of any location by 20 degrees or more every single DAY, depending on what time of the day or night it is. It also changes the local temperature by as much as 60 degrees depending on a slight change in angle due to changing seasons. Why is is so hard to believe that a change in global temperature of as much as 4 degrees can possibly be due to Sun activity?

2007-08-21 13:53:43 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I firmly believe that we should reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in order to make the Earth a clean place for people to live for thousands of years. However, whenever im talking to someone about the issue, i find myself at a loss for words about just exactly how to reduce the amount of CO2. i'd like to hear your suggestions and ideas about how make our planet a clean place to live.
and as always: SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY!!!!!!!!!

2007-08-21 12:22:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

No intelligent person would condone that we just bury our raw sewage or dump it into the rivers and lakes. Why bury trash and pretend it goes away?

2007-08-21 11:59:01 · 6 answers · asked by dastardlly 1 in Green Living

2007-08-21 11:57:21 · 11 answers · asked by josiepooh35 1 in Global Warming

I rarely use styrofoam but on the rare occasion that I use it I find myself wondering what to do with it. It has the recycle triangle thingy on it but alot of people have told me it isn't recyclable. Also, how do I sort it? Paper or plastic? thanx.

2007-08-21 11:37:31 · 13 answers · asked by AuroraOz 2 in Green Living

think its real or not?

2007-08-21 11:28:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

...reduce the population dramatically through war, genocide, or by some means of birth control that guarantees that no couple can have more than one child?

Think about it - it is not what we do that is making the CO2 worse, it is merely out exisence. Even if we ended civilization as we know it and all live in tribes like Africans, or the Native Americans of the 1600s, we still are going to burn fires every night which not only would contribute alot to CO2, but strip the world's forrests in no time.

My point is that it is not how much CO2 EACH person produces, it is the collective CO2 that all of humanity produces combined. Even if everyone on earth reduced out "carbon footprint" by 10 times, in 50 years the increased population of the world would collectively produce as much CO2 as we are now.

Is there a real, practical, long term solution other than war, genocide, or birth laws of some sort?

2007-08-21 11:18:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

As for me I am guilty. What small thing could I do to change things for all of us now? Is it time to admit that the world is one village?

2007-08-21 10:45:04 · 39 answers · asked by kipper 3 in Global Warming

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aju0HCEDY..DclwiX4KsL3YAAAAA?qid=20070820163713AAbpVEZ

Notice that I gave this person three links to that "secret" report: from gbn.com, an AMERICAN newspaper and the History Channel.

2007-08-21 10:28:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-21 10:18:57 · 8 answers · asked by Granny in KS 3 in Global Warming

All my family puts in the recycling bin is plastic bottles and newspapers, but I think there are more things we can put in there. What else? What about paper towel roll?

2007-08-21 10:02:44 · 8 answers · asked by mandieshaw13 3 in Green Living

Back in the 70s people were fretting of the world freezing and now 2007 were scared of global warming Have you people not realized all Democrats want is a stronger GOVERNMENT!! If you take it too consideration this is just like communism! people telling us what to do like buy a hybrid use one piece of bloody freaken toilet paper I mean people get a life do you think in thousands of years we are capable of destroying the earth? I think we should live life not do worthless crap with it all the democrats want is a stronger government so go ahead vote for Hilary but if you do your lives will be hell

2007-08-21 09:37:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I'm wondering if the cost of your electriciy bill will go up a lot when you start charging your new hybrid car (such as a Prius)? Does it completely offset the MPG savings in gasoline? Do you break even? Does it cost MORE in electricity?

2007-08-21 08:51:21 · 10 answers · asked by monkey 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-08-21 08:51:20 · 5 answers · asked by demandfreespeech 5 in Other - Environment

how much co2 emission is produced by just one household using a clothes dryer everyday ?????

2007-08-21 08:45:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I've seen many global warming skeptics/deniers raving about this paper:

"Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System"

http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf

Because it concludes that if the atmospheric CO2 levels double, it will only lead to a ~1°C global warming. However, as a member of RealClimate notes:

"Even if his result is correct (which it isn’t), it by no means “kills AGW theory.” It simply changes the numbers. In fact, Schwartz’s analysis implicitly assumes that the planet *is* warming, and that the primary cause is man-made greenhouse gases."

post #30 here - http://realclimate.org/index.php?p=467#comment-49237

The author of the Brookhaven paper is also pretty clearly skeptical of his own results, and notes that his model is rather simplisic.

What puzzles me is how GW deniers can say that climate models are unreliable, then claim that this climate model's results are the final nail in the coffin?!

2007-08-21 08:42:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-21 08:38:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

How long after it is proven to be of no concern will they cling to their agenda?

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=84e9e44a-802a-23ad-493a-b35d0842fed8&Issue_id=

"Washington DC – An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analysis, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.” The latest study to cast doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed studies have cast a chill on global warming fears."

2007-08-21 08:03:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I am thinking about starting an environmental club at my school to help with the recycling program I'm also trying to get set up. Other than recycling, what else could we perhaps do? Thanks!

2007-08-21 08:01:28 · 3 answers · asked by kenzie 2 in Green Living

2007-08-21 07:58:58 · 13 answers · asked by deepblue 1 in Green Living

2007-08-21 07:01:10 · 11 answers · asked by Lord of Chaos 4 in Global Warming

2007-08-21 07:00:18 · 10 answers · asked by Pedro B 4 in Global Warming

2007-08-21 06:48:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living