Global Warming

I have just finished it and I wanted to know what your thoughts are if you have read it. And if you have not then I would encourage you to...it's brilliant. I just have to warn you, if you are all for the threat of global warming as a legitimate accusation, then you might not like this book, but you should read it anyway......just remember to keep your mind open. Thanks.

2007-09-20 14:00:35 · 13 answers · asked by Taran Wanderer 4

Over the next decade or more, will the Pacific Northwest receive more or less rain due to Global Warming?

2007-09-20 13:53:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

...there is many other "contributes," which aren't in the Media's spot light?

...Sorry, I have no time for you,...I must go organize my recycling box now,...or plant a single tree. Hopefully I'll be saved.

2007-09-20 13:07:28 · 9 answers · asked by Stony 4

Arctic sea ice may have started rebuilding after reaching a record low, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Arctic ice now covers 1.61 million square miles, the agency said Thursday, up from 1.59 million Sept. 16, which appears to be the minimum. (Snip) The Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the coasts of Canada and Alaska remains open but it starting to refreeze, the center said.

2007-09-20 12:24:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If we all suddenly came to an agreement today that manmade greenhouse gases are the problem, are we all going to stop driving our cars and kill the power to our homes and businesses or will we have to wait until a "green" source of energy is available? How many people can realistically afford to convert their homes to solar? If CO2 is as bad as reported, just a small reduction is not going to help.

2007-09-20 11:00:47 · 7 answers · asked by Larry 4

According to Lockwood and Frolich, "over the past 20 years, all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the Earth’s climate have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures."

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf

They even discuss Tomcat's pet theory:

"Figure 1d shows that recent values of TSI have fallen below the minima of approximately 1365.5 W/m^2 seen during both of the previous two solar minima. Values for 2007 have fallen below 1365.3 W/m^2...and although they are provisional at the time of writing, the recent solar minimum is showing lower TSI values than the two previous minima."

They conclude:

"Our results show that the observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified."

SGW theorists have a rebuttal?

2007-09-20 08:24:17 · 11 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

We know that the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere (troposphere) are warming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Satellite_Temperatures.png

But at the same time, the upper atmosphere (stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere) are cooling:

http://www.wund.com/education/strato_cooling.asp

Now it seems to me (and climate scientists - see 6 minutes into the video below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gUd6y3zKU&mode=related&search=

that if solar activity is responsible for global warming, then the layers of the atmosphere closest to the Sun should be warming.

This link illustrates how climate scientists explain the upper atmospheric cooling though global warming theory:

http://www.wund.com/education/strato_cooling.asp

Can those who believe the Sun is responsible explain why the lower atmosphere and surface are warming, while the upper atmosphere is cooling?

2007-09-20 07:03:35 · 14 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

Anthropogenic global warming deniers and skeptics continue to raise the issue of the validity global surface temperature measurements and the effects of urban heat islands on those measurements. Although this has been dealt with before:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahj_9Ts6XCPlEPR8x0ZiSSPsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070913123734AAgAWkc

The issue continues to come up. An important point is that measurements of the troposphere from satellites agree with the surface temperature measurements:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Satellite_Temperatures.png

Note that these are Christy's measurements. He was featured in the Swindle as saying they didn't agree, which was due to an analysis error which Christy has since corrected.

Considering that there are no urban heat islands in the atmosphere, can we now all agree that the surface temperature measurements are valid?

2007-09-20 06:46:39 · 11 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

2007-09-20 06:46:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Last night I went to the beach and made a mark in the sand where the water reached. This morning I went back to check, and the sea level was a full 5 feet further back!

Clearly this means the sea levels are dropping at an alarming rate! Those damn scientists who are saying that sea levels are rising are ignoring the dangerous reality that sea levels are plummetting! What should we do about it?

2007-09-20 06:26:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yesterday at a $25000 per person meet and great, Al Gore stated that "the entire polar ice cap will be gone in 23 years if we do not stop global warming". Does anyone out their think that Al really believes this nonsense or is he just doing it so he can be in the spotlight?

2007-09-20 05:50:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is an extensive read, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
What do you think?

http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaundercf/id12.html

2007-09-20 04:40:25 · 12 answers · asked by Larry 4

Some scientists think that CO2 levels are higher now than they have ever been. If that's true, then were did all the carbon come from? The law of conservation of mass says that it was all on Earth from the beginning. It was CO2 to start with, then was converted by plants into sugars and fats, then animals ate it, died, and became fossil fuels. So, when humans burn fossil fuels, they are not making 'new' CO2, they are just releasing old CO2. If that's the case, then it is impossible to go above the original CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

On a side note, if CO2 levels were very high to begin with, it would have made rain too acidic for plants to grow, and life would never have started (assuming you believe in evolution).So, as I see it, if you believe in the big bang and global warming, you can't believe in evolution. If you believe in evolution, you can't believe in either global warming from CO2 or the big bang.
That only leaves devine creation.

2007-09-20 03:59:57 · 15 answers · asked by MadScientist 4

I understand there is a protest planned to say, "eating meat adds to global warming".

Do you believe this makes any sense? Surely we are not talking about voiding and flatulence, aren't beans worse for that?!?

Please explain it to me, and all the other yahoos who don't understand this 'mind bender' of a theory.

2007-09-20 03:23:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

ever since i read this, how can we "deny" any longer....

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Q)How many inches has the sea level risen so far?

A)Sea level in the last 100 years has risen about 7 inches and is projected to increase another 6 to 36 inches or so by 2100. The insidious thing is not so much the sea level rise, but the possibility of storm surges coupled with sea level rise. [6] The Netherlands spent $10 billion on raising the levels of their dikes after a 1959 storm caused ocean waves to overflow the dikes causing major floods. The money was spent to raise the height of the dikes from 20 to 30 feet. Being a little above sea level is not enough.

http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_faq.htm#inches

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2007-09-20 03:01:23 · 11 answers · asked by afratta437 5

2007-09-20 02:04:03 · 9 answers · asked by danielle_davis_cd_uk 1

In his book, Collapse, Jared Diamond lists reasons why society's fail to detect, and/or solve problems that render them unsustainable, and may lead to their demise. One of his points is that societies often, historically and presently, fail to even attempt to solve a problem once it has been perceived.

"Many of the reasons for such a failure fall under the heading of what economists and other social scientists term "rational behavior,"arising from clashes of interest between people. That is, some people may reason correctly that they can advance their own interests by behavior harmful to other people. Scientists term such behavior "rational" precisely because it employs correct reasoning, even though it may be morally reprehensible. The perpetrators know that they will often get away with their bad behavior, especially if there is no law against it or if the law isn't effectively enforced. They feel safe because the perpetrators are typically concentrated (few in number)"

2007-09-20 01:54:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anders 4

some scientists claim that the rise in global temp may cause a rise in 50 to 100 centimetres. however, that doesnt seem like a great increase to me. ia m curious to know why this is important and its efffects

2007-09-20 01:53:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

how will not driving my car reduce global warming?i am just one out of billions of drivers in the world!

2007-09-20 01:49:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 00:55:03 · 12 answers · asked by xyrichviem 1

Because one of my teachers has walls for both sides of the political spectrum and one has scientist who dont belive in it and i want to get like a list of 10,000 scientist in size 6 font to put next to it.

2007-09-19 17:18:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean something besides, "I read it on the internet so it must be true."

2007-09-19 16:23:52 · 13 answers · asked by jack_scar_action_hero 3

I've seen this claim made as an attempt to refute global warming. There are good reasons to question global warming and this isn't one of them. The thinking behind it appears to be that is sea levels fall in Tasmania then they fall across the globe. Why would people think that? It's like saying "it's raining here today therefore it's raining everywhere".

The levels of the seas and oceans are not uniform, hence the locks in the Panama Canal even though it links two oceans together.

Can anybody find any evidence anywhere, anything at all, that even hints at the fact that sea levels are falling?

2007-09-19 12:04:23 · 9 answers · asked by Trevor 7

After years as a skeptic, John Howard changed his mind and started pouring money into batteleing climate change. When did he first admit climate change was real?

2007-09-19 11:47:36 · 4 answers · asked by jaydelovell 2

Ocean levels are more than one inch lower today than they were 165 years ago. If "global warming" was real and causing ice caps to melt, you would expect the oceans to be higher today.

Maybe global warming causes oceans to recede and to rise much like global warming causes the temperatures to increase and decrease.

What's your thoughts?

http://homepage.eircom.net/~gulufuture/future/weather02.htm

2007-09-19 11:35:15 · 13 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7

I was watching a show today that said if all the ice on Greenland alone melted, the entire ocean would rise 20 feet. And then they said if all the ice on both poles melted, the entire ocean would rise over 200 feet. Now I am good at math and science so I know that this is a boldface lie. Why do they do this when Global WArming is real?

2007-09-19 11:11:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

How you would test global warming
How the effects that global warming is rising the sea level

2007-09-19 10:14:43 · 3 answers · asked by Justina L 1

Want to know the REAL cause of Global Warming...The Beach Boys...you know it to be true...remember their song Endless Summer and now with rising water leavels the can surf all the bloody time

I have to go now The Beach Boys are watching my computer...SPEAD THE TRUTH!!!

2007-09-19 09:36:09 · 8 answers · asked by Political Sigmund Freud 2

2007-09-19 07:17:45 · 4 answers · asked by Nghia 2

2007-09-19 07:13:25 · 20 answers · asked by Dragonette 2