Environment - August 2007

Global warming hasn't been proven... I challenge anyone to quote any REAL evidence that human behaviour is responsible for global warming or that any flood/storm is caused by global warming!

The truth is the earth's temperature has always fluctuated and the hottest time was actually WAY before humans started driving cars, or riding in planes... The time when you would expect there to have been the most global warming, in the post - war Economic boom when people were pumping the most fumes into the air, there was actually a dip in the earths temperature...

The earth's temperature actually coincides with the activity of the sun... when the sun omits more radiation towards the earth, the earth unsurprisingly heats up.... It has absolutely nothing to do with humans, and I challenge someone to come up with some actual, convincing evidence

2007-08-01 22:11:46 · 12 answers · asked by Lauren 5 in Global Warming

HELP!!

2007-08-01 22:04:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-01 21:41:01 · 8 answers · asked by Mary B 5 in Global Warming

Could rising global temperatures mean more opportunities 4 exploration? Such as possible sea routes across the Arctic? Have u herd about Russia dropping a capsule w/ their flag @ the N. Pole? Also, will there b more opportunitys 2 explore resources, i.e. petroleum, hidden in permafrost or ice shelves, such as the poles and Siberia? In fact, I think Siberia does have a lot of petroleum & minerals, but the bad weather & maybe some mismanagement has hindered exploitation of such materials for Russia.

2007-08-01 18:30:28 · 12 answers · asked by The Glorious S.O.B. 7 in Global Warming

what the heck is co2????

2007-08-01 16:59:42 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

My mother always told me to do all of the laundry in one day because the electricity bill would come out smaller, but I never understood why that would be true. However, the older I get, the more I realize that she was right about most things that I thought sounded illogical.

2007-08-01 16:30:32 · 15 answers · asked by Diana 2 in Green Living

The fish that are in our lakes, and rivers, do you feel they are safe to eat? Would you eat them? Which lakes and rivers do you feel are the most polluted?

2007-08-01 15:30:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Some people say it's natural and we shouldn't worry. Like it happens over 3 million or billion years like a pattern of earth's weather. A lot of people think it's too much carbon and this is all man's fault and the earth will never be the same. I need more people's answers.

2007-08-01 15:07:11 · 12 answers · asked by kool_gal_8888 2 in Global Warming

What types of jobs are there in the environmental fields, that doesn't require a masters degree?

2007-08-01 13:29:52 · 8 answers · asked by wklj 4 in Green Living

it can melt it all.first of all if we do have carbon dioxide in the air it will evaporate the water to create clouds. then the albedo of the clouds is going to reflect the solar radiation to space.

2007-08-01 13:02:20 · 22 answers · asked by V 4 in Global Warming

1. Man increases co2.
2. co2 causes global warming.
3. additional heat creates more clouds.
4. more clouds reflect more sunlight from Earth onto Mars, thereby causing the additional warming seen there.

2007-08-01 13:00:53 · 9 answers · asked by areallthenamestaken 4 in Global Warming

Al Gore was talking about that and he said they are doing a
study of that. He also said that if it comes out to be true, hes
gonna stick a cork up his butt hole.

2007-08-01 12:36:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Due to air drag, cars get worse energy efficiency (gas mileage) at higher speeds. If we lowed the speed limit to 45 miles per hour, not only would it save a lot of fuel, but it would save a lot of lives. Does anyone REALLY need to go on vacation at 65mph?

2007-08-01 12:06:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

Every single CFL that I own that is 15watts or under is not instant-on. The package claims that it is instant-on, but it is not. Why is this?

I own two 20watt bulbs, and one of them is instant-on. I'm really puzzled because I thought that if one of the 20watts was instant-on, then the both should be. Most of my bulbs are the same brand (GE), but three bulbs are from Sylvania.

Please explain!!! Thanks.

2007-08-01 11:35:27 · 8 answers · asked by michiganfan 3 in Green Living

I believe there may be global warming, but who is to blame?

2007-08-01 11:33:44 · 24 answers · asked by alias_JET 3 in Global Warming

According to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, gas prices will only be reduced by one penny.
http://www.savearcticrefuge.org/sections/energy.html

2007-08-01 11:23:45 · 7 answers · asked by crackaboy79 2 in Other - Environment

i hear people talking about it.... but what exactly is global warming

2007-08-01 10:59:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

ok well i dont know how it does and why they wanna illegalize it....which i think is totally stupid...why isn't bottled pepsi getting illegalized then? and tap water is so not the same as bottled. bottled is purified and tap has all that chlorine and stuff in it.

2007-08-01 10:46:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I heard this on the news. It seems there are alot of sheep in New Zealand.

2007-08-01 10:42:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

The Christian Science Monitor reports:

""MOSCOW — As global warming makes exploration of the Arctic sea floor possible for the first time, Russia has launched a massive expedition to help secure the region's vast resources.

In the next few days, two manned minisubs will be sent through a hole blasted in the polar ice to scour the ocean floor nearly three miles below. They will gather rock samples and plant a titanium capsule containing the Russian flag to symbolize Moscow's claim over 460,000 square miles of hitherto international territory — an area bigger than France and Germany combined in a region estimated to contain a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves. ""

Will global warming skeptics continue to advocate ignoring the global warming crisis as well as continue blocking dvelopement of renewable fuel technology that could free the US and the world from its oil addiction?

Russia sure isn't treating global warming like it's a "big hoax."

2007-08-01 10:38:43 · 6 answers · asked by crackaboy79 2 in Global Warming

It just started on FX and I could use a good laugh today.

2007-08-01 10:05:49 · 7 answers · asked by Evita Rodham Clinton 5 in Global Warming

We have all been hearing about the reasons to "go green" in the wake of global warming. Automobile seems to have become the favorite target to cut down on the green house gases. I have no problem with that, but I am wondering if automobile is the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions. You see, automobiles stay on the road, so I would think that the trees and other greenery would absorb the carbon dioxide. Whereas, airplanes when they emit CO2, there is no greenery to absorb the emissions. Of course, as we all know, the CO2 is heavier than Nitrogen and Oxygen, so it will slowly descend down and get absorbed. So, I think it should be a combination of both the sources that we need to control, but we don't hear about cutting back on the number of flights, which in fact, are on the increase!

2007-08-01 09:44:08 · 8 answers · asked by Cougrr 2 in Global Warming

I mean charging the battery must require a ton of electricity and we all know how we get most of our electricity.

2007-08-01 08:13:14 · 10 answers · asked by KK Jacwitz J Day 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-08-01 07:47:32 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

So called end-point theory? And why NASA is not announcing the rare astronomical event that supposed to happen on 12.21.2012?

2007-08-01 07:41:06 · 14 answers · asked by Zabava 2 in Other - Environment

I know that some people say that its completely natural, and some people say that its all our fault, and i see both sides of the argument, anyone got any strong arguments for their view?

My personal opinion is that the Earths atmospheric temperature has fluctuated naturally in years when no human activity was around, so therefore any warming is natural, however we are not helping it, and we are accelerating the natural fluctuation.

2007-08-01 07:10:12 · 16 answers · asked by malone 2 in Global Warming

Surely we're overdue for a bit of serious thinning out by Mother Nature.

2007-08-01 07:08:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

The consensus of scientist at the CDC and WHO state that the Avian Flu Pandemic is going to happen, it's not a question of IF it will happen, but WHEN.

Over 2/3rds of the population will get this virus, and the H5N1 virus strain is much more lethal than even the bubonic plague!

The virus will spread faster because of global warming and will swiftly cripple total populations of countries. Even the Pentagon is developing strategies to counter the effects of this crisis!

So why is this crisis being ignored? The consensus says it's going to happen, so that means it's inevitable!

Even if they said this back in 2001, it still could happen any day now......

2007-08-01 06:44:28 · 12 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

All the scientific evidence says that if we continue burning fossil fuels, the greenhouse effect will increase, the polar icecaps will melt, and sea levels will rise 40 feet everywhere. 200 million people will become refuges.

All the scientific evidence says that if we continue burning fossil fuels, the oceans will continue absorbing that carbon, the oceans will become warmer and more acidic, and storms will become more severe and more frequent everywhere. The super cells depicted on "The Day After Tomorrow" are unrealistically extreme, but atleast 2 new catagories of hurricane will be established, and the Fujita scale for tornadoes will become obsolete. Millions will die globally every year in disasters.

All the scientific evidence says that if we continue burning fossil fuels, the percentage of methane in the atmosphere will increase proportionally, which will fuel bushfires and forest fires globally, increasing their intensity, speed, range, and frequency.

The list goes on.

2007-08-01 05:32:30 · 21 answers · asked by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5 in Global Warming

Remember when he took credit after Y2K saying his initiatives are what prevented chaos on Y2K. Will he take credit in a million years when the earth naturally goes through its cycle and cools itself off again as it has done over and over for millions of years?

2007-08-01 05:15:53 · 10 answers · asked by Relax Guy 5 in Global Warming