2006-06-27 15:21:29 · 8 answers · asked by j_sankey@sbcglobal.net 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Al Gore, the famed inventor of the internet, says ten years.
2006-06-27 15:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Global warming isn't caused by humans. Birth defects and cancer and diseases and heart attacks are caused by humans, but NOT global warming. What we as humans have done is really ripped up a lot of the Earth at a time when it needed to be as healthy as ever. As a consequence, when this global warming stuff really takes off (that has a lot to do with the Earth warming up from the inside out) then we'll notice the full effects of what we've done to the planet.
Here's a good paper you can read that should be talked about more but isn't because it isn't friendly to the Kyoto treaty. While I feel that it is important to ease off the ecosystems already, it is also important to adress the real causes of global warming.
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/PDF/PAPERS/grlheat05.pdf
What's happening is the oceans are getting hotter, heating the ice sheets from underneath. It is not the warming atmosphere to blame, although I'm sure you've noticed the Sun seems extra powerful this summer. Don't even think about reversing global warming. That one's out of our hands.
2006-06-27 22:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by Tony, ya feel me? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we have the technology to alter the state of the Sun. It has been warming for years and it is affecting our weather. It will cycle and cool eventually-- then people will complain about all the global cooling that "us humans" are causing due to the smog blocking the sun or something. Maybe they'll blame it on cigarette smoke?
Algore will have an opportunity to make another slide show.
Ignorance is bliss.
2006-06-28 00:05:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't know the answer but watch The Day After Tommorrow and An Inconvienient Truth.
2006-06-27 22:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by lizzie6419 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be too late. The problem lies with emerging third world countries who aren't part international pollution treaties.
I doesn't matter how lean EPA makes our cars run if nations are still burning leaded gasoline and using outdated coal-fired electric plants.
2006-06-27 23:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by tex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't reverse a planets natural cycle. it's gonna keep getting Hotter, and then colder and so on always.
2006-06-28 00:19:13 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be too late already.
2006-06-27 22:25:26 · answer #7 · answered by Entwined 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its almost to late now...if not already.
God Bless!
2006-06-27 22:25:35 · answer #8 · answered by BEENSAVEDTODAY? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋