Global Warming

I mean if the world was changed so drastically that civilisation collapsed and humanity found itself in a cool mediaeval-like fantasy world, threatened by monsters (nuclear plants might collapse, causing weird mutations) and surrounded by the incomprehensible remnants of an older far more advanced civilisation (so that would be like magic).

Wouldn't that be excellent?

2007-08-08 00:53:59 · 9 answers · asked by garik 5

Pass carbon taxes and restrict business and industry in the U.S. and Europe and you'll accelerate outsourcing of manufacturing and services to Asia where pollution laws are more lax.

2007-08-07 21:43:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

So when can I start to get worried about it..

2007-08-07 20:54:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please be very specific.

2007-08-07 19:50:12 · 12 answers · asked by Robin Answer 2

With the enviromental issues and the threat of global warming what has two of the biggest most polluted countries done in an effort to reverse the damage? Does anyone know?

2007-08-07 19:14:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or that people who listen to his message will all of sudden stop listening because some noodlehead needs to vent?

There's a lot of good information available to corroborate much of what Gore has been saying all these years. Some of the climate change projections are just very educated guesses, yes. Theories. But anyone who read "Earth in the Balance" once upon a time knows that Gore has been on this message and on the message hard since before it was "popular" to do so.

2007-08-07 19:08:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

how can you deny the obvious? you all need to look at your life and do what you can to lessen your carbon footprint. i dont want my grand kids living in a bubble city.

2007-08-07 17:06:35 · 21 answers · asked by Bobbi 2

i forgot

2007-08-07 16:14:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 14:33:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

How serious is global warning as a threat to our planet?

2007-08-07 14:20:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Stern Report and the IPCC Report have already shown us that unless we take measures to halt massive global warming our economies will suffer drastically, and yet you refuse to acknowledge the valid science underlying these reports and actually set targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Without a safe environment and safe living conditions for humanity we will have numerous problems both nationally and internationally, including millions of environmental refugees who will be forced to flee their homelands. Please understand that the environment and economics are inextricably linked and without a safe environment you cannot have good economics.

2007-08-07 14:13:40 · 8 answers · asked by angela c 1

Our planet is dying and no one seems to have answers how to fix it do you think there is still hope to reverse the damge we have done to his planet?

2007-08-07 14:06:07 · 14 answers · asked by sarah76 3

2007-08-07 14:02:35 · 18 answers · asked by sarah76 3

2007-08-07 14:01:14 · 14 answers · asked by sarah76 3

its real people and im not scared by al gore he is helping us by telling us solutions we can do ... and cant you feel it i mean each summer is getting hotter my big question is WHY dont some people beleive in it

2007-08-07 14:00:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean, I am very energy conscieous, so I never turn on the A/C in my home unless the temp goes above 92 degrees. But most people just leave it on set at 70 degrees. The result is that the hotter it gets, the MORE the A/C comes on. In a cooled down house, the Water heater will come on more often, and you would use more hot water than you would if the house was hot as hell. All this energy comes from COAL burning at the local electric power plant. Add that CO2 to the additional CO2 produced when you drive around with your windows up and the A/C on full blast and I woud say that you have to agree that Global Warming is definitely CAUSING increased production of man-made CO2. So couldn't the data just APPEAR as though man-made CO2 is causing global warming when in reality its the other way around?

2007-08-07 13:54:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

for those of you who deny global warming, how would you argue against those who say prove is all over the place.

2007-08-07 13:47:22 · 15 answers · asked by Razgriz01 4

Remember that the planet has experienced fickle as well as changing weather conditions across the globe over hundreds of thousands of years. So why do the governments decide now that the human species is mainly to blame?
And please realise that all the experts that offer supposedly scientific graphs and reports to qualify governments imposed remedies on us to use less of everything and yet pay more for everything. Whereas the reality is the main problem is the Sun in our sky has the greatest impact on all out weather conditions. And this we cannot change. But governments and much as certain well-known politicians will continue to bombard us with their extermely clever conditioning, and the general public swallow this wholesale.

2007-08-07 12:55:51 · 21 answers · asked by swifttruman 2

I want to start a global warming group for my school. does anyone have any suggestion on how to get started or any activities or stuff we can do. anything will be great!

2007-08-07 12:06:13 · 8 answers · asked by reptar 3

It has dawned upon me that people who dislike Al Gore don't support the Global Warming and Live earth issues. Now its all basically saying, clean up your back yard, stop using too much electricity and try to recycle. Is that so bad/hard to do? What is the big deal? Global Warming issues existed long before Al Gore decided to run for president the first time, so please Wake up and smell the fresh air, plant a tree....

2007-08-07 11:56:24 · 13 answers · asked by Sarah 4

This really boggles my mind. The man is a science FICTION writer. He wrote 'Jurassic Park' - a story about dinosaurs being cloned and put in an amusement park.

GW deniers say 'but look at all the references in his book'. Have any of you even bothered to read those references? How do you know he interpreted them correctly? I know of one example he distorted terribly - James Hansen's 1988 climate predictions.

In 1988 Hansen predicted future global warming based on 3 different scenarios, depending on how our greenhouse gas emissions changed during that period. Crichton ignored two of those scenarios (one of which - the one Hansen predicted to be the most likely - turned out to be extremely accurate) and focused only on the most inaccurate scenario, concluding:

"Dr. Hansen overestimated [global warming] by 300 percent" (p247).

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74

This science fiction novel which distorts the evidence so badly is one of the best GW denier sources??

2007-08-07 11:55:42 · 7 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

Why are todays youth not in the streets about global warming which will make their lives truly horrific and miserable if its not stoppped. Anybody under 30 should be rioting the government and corporations about global warming. Why are todays youyt ASLEEP and what will it ytake to get them to WAKE UP??

2007-08-07 11:42:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 11:30:58 · 19 answers · asked by Kiwi4lyfe 1

2007-08-07 11:13:46 · 12 answers · asked by DT 4

My conservative friends say it's split 50%, while my liberal friends say it's 100%. I know neither is right, so i was hoping someone could provide me with a link to a survey or something.

2007-08-07 11:09:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 11:09:24 · 11 answers · asked by DT 4

As George Monbiot writes, James Hansen's research suggests that this is the case.

"The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59cm this century. Hansen’s paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at the poles does not melt in a gradual and linear fashion, but flips suddenly from one state to another. When temperatures increased to 2-3 degrees above today’s level 3.5 million years ago, sea levels rose not by 59 centimetres but by 25 metres. The ice responded immediately to changes in temperature."

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/07/03/a-sudden-change-of-state/#more-1072

Hansen's paper available here:

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_etal_2.pdf

If Hansen is correct, our tendency not to react until a problem's consequences are very tangible may be our downfall.

2007-08-07 11:07:13 · 5 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

2007-08-07 08:47:07 · 16 answers · asked by GrapeMSH 3

The milankovitch cycles can predict long term climate patterns, when it's supposed to get warmer, when it's supposed to get cooler. It's not a mystery.

This is NOT a time when the earth should normally be increasing temperature so quickly. The milankovitch cyles PROVE this.

Why do people still think that mankind is not contributing to global warming?

2007-08-07 08:42:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Never before in history has man discovered this number of new and unseen species These species range from Whales to Mushrooms and everything between.

Clearly warmth is good for life. This is why co2 values lag temp values by some 800 years.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=number+of+newly+discovered+species

2007-08-07 08:25:49 · 8 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7