What are your views of global warming? Stupid answers not welcome.?

Question

I saw "An incovenient truth yesterday" and it blew me away, I was shocked to hear some things that were said in the movie.

Answer 1

In a nutshell, I think some people are over reacting to highly publicized, overhyped media stories, particularly when it attracts viewers and sells more commercials. Each faction wants to play on the others emotions to resolve a problem that may or may not even exist.

But I also think too much of the population similarly dismisses the reports as solely hype or that they can't do anything since its someone else's fault. I for one have to question some of the data, but also feel that we can't wait for an answer, especially when the future just might be within our control.

I like to learn more and be respectful of the planet on which we all live and die. I have children and want their futures to be as good as I can make them. I will listen to both extremes and do what I can do. But when all is said and done, only time will tell and nature will set all things right again. "Again" just might happen without the human race present or with fewer of us.

And for the record, history is full of doomsayers and mindless masses. The general populace is not likely to want to be emotionally burdened with end of the world statements. Their just too depressing. But awareness and the whole world taking immediate, attainable, POSITIVE steps to preserve our planet would be a good thing.

Think of it this way, if I told you that you should live in a cave eating raw foods and that would save the planet, would you? After all, if you don't you or your children will die. It will be a horrible cancer ridden death too. After a few minutes, you're likely to hope for the best, all the while looking up at the sky thinking how things don't seem too bad after all.

Now, if I tell you that taking steps to reduce pollutants will save you money and decrease the likelyhood of worsening global problems, then you will likely do something. If I encourage that and work to make pollutants less desirable by presenting a better alternative, now I have a chance for change. Especially if I admit that we can't be sure if it will make a difference or not, but it sure won't hurt to try. That's honest and keeping a focus on the positive.

If Gore weren't such a 'downer' he would get elected. But the elect me or you all die mentality just won't cut it. Mankind is attracted to the feel good; that's just the reality of it all. I don't like it, but you can't fight it.

Answer 2

Global warming sucks and I don't mean to sound like some grown-up saying, well, when I was your age...but it's true. When I was younger, I honestly don't remember the weather being this hot and unpredictable. I've been on the coast during a number of hurricanes and even when they were bad, they weren't Katrina-bad. To me, global warming sounds like a verifiable scientific explanation to a problem that I noticed anecdotally.

I answered Al Gore's question a couple of days ago and the low-quality answer before mine said, well, what is the explanation for the last round of "global warming"? Did the ice sheet covering the continents melt because of emissions and fossil fuel burning? Huh? Whatever. That climate change happened over a looooong time, kinda like the earth's magnetic poles gradually switching places. But it's illogical to say that this global warming phenomenon is just like the last one. The circumstances aren't the same, because humans have put different variables in the homeostatic equation. Humans have started burning things and spraying stuff out of cans that has a huge impact, and it's making the climate shift happen in decades, not eons. So if somebody says it's just natural for the climate to change, just remember that it's supposed to happen over hundreds or thousands of years and ask why this one is happening so unnaturally fast.

I hate global warming. I hate hot weather, I hate sunshine, I don't like humidity and I hate all the moles I get when I go outside. But if this global warming keeps up, I won't have any cool places to hide, and air conditioning buildings will only make the problem worse because of the extra electricity it takes to run it. We need green power, ethanol, energy-efficient cars and buildings, reduce-reuse-recycle. But we need to change now, because we can't just sit around and wait for people's consciousness to shift. I plan on seeing the movie, but for me, it's preaching to the choir. We need to make the fight against global warming cool--saying it's important unfortunately isn't enough to make people care. Sigh. I wish it weren't so shocking for you to hear the truth about global warming--I wish it were common knowledge and people had moved past the shock and were actually doing more to fight it. It should be a shocking thing of the past.

Answer 3

Global warming is just one of many Eco problems we will face in the years to come .Since the 80`s we`ve know that it was coming for years ,The union of concerned scientist and all leaders were aware of the disaster that we all will endure,and i could`nt understand why the people on this planet cant see the writing on the wall . You see that the problems makes more money, then the solutions do, so the hell with air /water./land. / animals.Not until we wake up and put the solutions to work, then we will survive .The Question is why have our so called leaders aloud this to go on so far, and are we so stupid,to allow it ? Good Luck

Answer 4

This is one subject that scares me. I don't think the leaders of the countries around the world are doing enough to try to reverse the effects of global warming.

It is effecting sea levels, temperatures, and weather. And man is the only one that can stop it. I think alot of people are in denial of it's existence because they have not educated themselves on the subject. Until people take it serious nothing is going to change.

Humans have been artificially raising greenhouse gases for over 200 hundred years now. It's time to put a stop to it. Between the cars, the factories, and power plants we are destroying ourselves. I might not see it in my lifetime but generations down the road are going to suffer, if not die from this. It is scary, and I could go on forever but will stop now.

Have A Good Day!!

Answer 5

I believe that global warming is the most concerned issue of hamanity!! I try my best everyday to help stop it, like carpooling, saving electricity things like that!! And Al Gore is exactly right when he talks about places flooding on the coast, I have done my research and I even started an Environment Club at my school to help spread the word! Don't believe me, visit www.stopglobalwarming.org
www.climatecrisis.net

Answer 6

everything is in hands of God. He can make Earth a burning asteroid in a second and make into Heaven in a second and we won't even know or feel anything. We are all puppets and our fates are already written by God. It won't even take a second for God to stop all this Global Warming but at a point in near future when all environmental eco system messes up, and we don't know where to go, from whom to get help? God will want us to learn from our mistakes that we are making even knowing the consequences.

Answer 7

maximum of Canada is supported by very deep permafrost. because the permafrost melts, no longer in straight forward words will they launch a options extra methane and CO2 than guy's contributions notwithstanding the land would fall down. this is extremely accessible for much of Canada to go back to the shallow in land sea it once became. sure, Canada might want to be worried because it gained't purely be hotter climate. Canada opted out of Kyoto because with the pine beetles surviving various warmth winters and not using a die off, 80% of the BC pine forests were killed, the rotting timber at the instantaneous are freeing 5 cases the CO2 produced by all Canadian automobiles. What became once a credit to Canada below Kyoto became a wide penalty which may might want to be made up by mark downs in market, this made the Kyoto contract no longer accessible for Canada to satisfy.

Answer 8

My views are taken from doing research, reading what the experts have to say. See my source to understand.
People like Al Gore and others who worry about global warming may be sincere in their thinking but not in their talking. By that I mean, they say things that are not facts, they misquote data, and look at only data that supports their thinking.

Answer 9

I believe that there is some global warming , but most of what we are experiencing now I think are just trends that happen naturally in nature.

Answer 10

I agree that we need to do something now. In a free society, it will have to be the people. Mobs are dumb. I don't always agree with Gore but he's right that we need to do something. Getting the word out in a film and speaking is one way to do it.