Global Warming

With all the news about global warming and it now being public knowlege that the polar ice caps are crucial to the well being of our planet, it boggles my brain to see on the news that countries are racing to see who can be the first to exploit the melting of the ice to establish a new shipping route through the arctic!
I just don't understand it, aren't we supposed to be preserving this important habitat rather than adding to it's distruction?

Surely the best thing would be to leave the place alone rather than adding to the pollution by taking ships and tankers through it?

This is just my laymans opinion, if anyone can explain how this makes sense i would appreciate it because I'm starting to think that the human race is greedy beyond sense.

It seems as if we are hell bent on our own destruction!

2007-10-16 00:14:49 · 17 answers · asked by Chutch 3

Anyone know what the background climate of the East of England is?

2007-10-15 23:59:53 · 5 answers · asked by Harry 2

2007-10-15 22:25:16 · 16 answers · asked by tee_michael_m 1

did it really provoked people to act ?

2007-10-15 22:20:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know it has somthing to do with global warming, but what has global warming got to do with it?

2007-10-15 20:52:17 · 8 answers · asked by allie2299 3

when it comes to trying to pass their denial off on the rest of us?

I was at a funeral today, and the Preacher somehow managed to bring his denial of global warming based on the fact that media claimed we were headed for another ice age in the 70s, into his sermon, at the FUNERAL PARLOR!
how sick is that??!!

2007-10-15 18:44:04 · 10 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7

If global warming is real, does that mean I won't have to shovel my driveway this winter? Can I get Al Goare to shovel it for me if it does snow?

2007-10-15 18:31:53 · 14 answers · asked by davem 5

In those huge parking lots where there´s nothing but asphalt and concrete so it gets too hot in those areas...

2007-10-15 16:01:04 · 16 answers · asked by bayphoto3001 2

http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/157%20evt.sci.fraud.pdf

2007-10-15 15:38:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-15 14:52:28 · 11 answers · asked by Eco Dog 2

If the glaciers in Greenland are beginning to receed due to "Global Warming", then how come they're finding signs of farming and grapevines in the soil UNDERNEATH THE ICE?

Could it be that this has happened before? Now, that would make sense, wouldn't it?

2007-10-15 14:51:50 · 7 answers · asked by Jim C 5

It is a physical fact that heat cannot be destroyed, it can only be moved from one place to another. In our modern society we undoubtably create much more heat then we created in the past from cars, planes, electricity, heaters, etc.... Where does all that heat go? And if all that heat has been created and supposedly held in by the greenhouse effect, why isnt it 20 or 30 degrees hotter instead of just a half a degree? Explain that one to me.

2007-10-15 12:09:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

aren't hybrid cars made MUCH less expensive for consumers to buy? I would think that they would make it more appealing for us to purchase one of these by making it less $$. Same with the energy light bulbs, etc.

2007-10-15 11:55:14 · 13 answers · asked by holiday♥ 4

the rigths and responsibilities of american citizenship have developed throughout history

2007-10-15 11:33:21 · 3 answers · asked by Alicia S 1

They post a link saying 15,000 scientists are against global warming.

What they don't tell you is that the list was never verified. All you needed to be a "scientist against global warming" was to print out some from from a website, fill it out, and send it in. You didn't even have to do climate research or even have a degree. You could just lie about it.

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Jokers Add Fake Names To Warming Petition

Arthur Robinson, a physical chemist from Cave Junction, Ore., who circulated the petition by mail among scientists, said questionable names were added to the petition by pranksters.

While the petition has been portrayed by global-warming skeptics as authoritative evidence that many scientists reject the catastrophic scenario of global climate change, Robinson acknowledged that little attempt was done to verify credentials of those who responded.

2007-10-15 11:16:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why did they ignore data that they didn't like?

READ THIS:

A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.

It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun's output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen.

Dr Lockwood initiated the study partially in response to the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast on Britain's Channel Four earlier this year, which featured the cosmic ray hypothesis.

"All the graphs they showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that," he told the BBC News website.

"You can't just ignore bits of data that you don't like," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.stm

2007-10-15 11:11:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am doing a projet on global warming and polar bears and I want to do an experiment.

2007-10-15 11:07:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Both college dropouts?

Where do I get my man made global warming science?

Well established SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS (not political groups like CATO, Heritage, or amateur websites like junkscience.com created by a CATO stooge)
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1) THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, FOUNDED IN 1919, OVER 45,000 MEMBERS
"Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. These effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century."
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html

2007-10-15 11:04:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

"CO2 can only have a *limited* amount of effect on the atmosphere before reaching an equilibrium (this is the equivalent of the salination of water - water can only absorb so much salt before the rest just sinks to the bottom). That means that it doesn't matter how much CO2 we pump, once you reach equilibrium you can't do more damage with CO2 alone.

To the one who mentioned dogs: Methane emissions by cattle release more greenhouse gas every year than cars, boats, SUVs and whatnot combined. If there weren't people, there'd be more other animals all producing greenhouse gasses.

Did you know the temperature on Mars is increasing at a rate faster than earth? There are no people there, there are no SUVs, there are other factors contributing here. Other planets in the solar system are warming as well - some at rates faster than earth some slower. Unless GM started producing SUVs on Mars as well, then there's something else at play."

2007-10-15 10:50:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

even Ben 'n' Jerry's have set up a kids' camp there to study the place...don't they realise the increasing population is harming the place...

2007-10-15 10:28:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Give me in a 1 par.. .... ok..

2007-10-15 09:57:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Very religious people feel the world is only 6,000 years old. They don't believe in evolution, primarily because it's based on facts about the world being much older. You think it could be the same issue with global warming?

2007-10-15 09:01:23 · 16 answers · asked by Tim 6

Currently valued at over $30 billion, the carbon trading market may skyrocket to over $1 trillion as the price of carbon becomes more valuable.

Your thoughts?

2007-10-15 09:00:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

From the website below:

"The average American is responsible for 10 tons of CO2 emissions annually through their direct energy use at home, driving and flying. However, the average American is responsible for about 23 tons of CO2 when you also include their purchases, activities and the other services we all share throughout the economy."

Carbonfund.org claims that their goal is to make it affordable for every person or business to reduce their climate footprint to zero.

http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/why_offset/category/What%20Are%20Carbon%20Offsets/

2007-10-15 08:56:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Id not herd of global warming until i viisitd Yahooo. is id reel? non of my frends talk about it. Nobdy knows facts.

U have pic of Global warning atacking American wid hockey stic?

2007-10-15 08:40:55 · 52 answers · asked by John Sol 4

The Words ECO INNOVATIONS HAVE NOW been coming up regular on Climate Change and I want to find Out WHICH YEAR did these words come out.

2007-10-15 08:25:23 · 3 answers · asked by John T 1

Is accelerated melting of sea ice not a sign?

2007-10-15 08:07:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can anyone explain why non climatologists (cite the paers if you disagree) in the 70s incorrectly predicting global cooling, implies that climatologists in the 90s predicting global warming are wrong.

Please explain, I find it very confusing.

2007-10-15 07:42:21 · 19 answers · asked by John Sol 4

Answer yes or no and say why, this is a survey.

2007-10-15 06:42:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-15 06:40:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous