Which well known person has best helped you understand global warming and other environmental problems?

Question

What was it that they did to help you understand?

Answer 1

George W. Bush

His anti-example has done more to motivate me a millions like me to become better environmentalist than anything Al Gore, as great and inspiring a man as he is, could have hoped to do. Bush's hostility toward the environment has allowed it to fester to the point that only rabid anti-greens have not come to realize what a mistake it is to neglect our life-boat Earth.

Bush has wonderfully set the stage for Al Gore's triumphant return.

Answer 2

Al Gore....He basically helped me understand that you have to be an idiot to think there is really that much global warming going on from humans. This is a natural cycle in Earth's life. Give it up!! I'm glad Gore is getting the publicity he so badly needs. Kind of like a child. Listen if you believe you can help stop global warming your dead wrong. It's going to happen whether you like it or not. Whether you drive a little electric car or a gas hungry Hummer. Just relax and live your life. The Earth is just doing it's thing. No biggy!

Answer 3

It was not any well known person that helped me the most. It was a combination of many math, physics and chemistry courses, and the studying raw data coupled with keeping up with the current scientific research that helps my understanding of the nature of climate change.

Since many people have pointed out Al Gore, either in positive or negative light, I will add my take on his 'Inconvenient Truth.' 'An Inconvenient Truth' was an entertaining movie built on solid science. I give it an A+.

Answer 4

Laurie David. She helped me understand how "little things" we do or don't do can have a huge impact, positive or negative. A lot of people don't concern themselves with global warming because they think there is nothing individuals can do to make a different while governments continue to contribute to the problem. But lots of drops in the buket can really add up.

Answer 5

No person did it for me, it was TV.
The Discovery Channel.

They kept my attention, made it facinate me, entertianed me, made me care because they made me understand it affects me...

It was mostly the indepth information that was provided through the shows but in a way that even an undereducated person could understand it.
And ALL the pritty moving pictures YEAH!
:)
It just looked cool, and they made the topic sound cool, c0z it was SO interesting... I just wanted to know more, more, more...
:)

By the way this was based on the Discovery Channel back in the 1990's ... as of a few years ago they're goin' downhill I think (my opinoin).


(um if I had to pick a person, I'd say my 4th grade teacher, she really encuraged me on my personal quest of learning more about animals and the environment, and encuraged my art work too...creativity... which portrade my feelings about the environmental state our earth was/still is in)

;-)

Answer 6

Hello dear!
We owe to ourselves and the owners of what we use now, the future generations, to find better ways to utilize the generosity of Mother Earth! Many are trying to work in this direction, some have knowledge and power, others have only power but not the will, ….. The person who had a great influence on me and hundreds of PhDs and graduates is Professor Jose Ginoris Martin, President of the relative dept at University of Lowell and now at University of Texas at B. He was the one who greatly assisted me and hundreds of others to think about the benefits of logic and preserve secure and prompt ways for improvement of living standards!
Teaching was one of the tools, another was the organization of Energy seminars, another was the assistance and pushing for papers, presentations, visits, writing and presentations, dialogs and discussions, common logic and philosophical stands! Thus, I and plenty of pupils, professors, scientists people, etc., have got a deep understanding of the way we are proceeding and how we should re-direct our efforts, by Dr. Jose Martin! At his lessons I met many more interesting people and I started envisioning the establishment of Universities to promote environmental friendly methods, energy management, high tech!

Answer 7

My father did when i was much younger he talked about how when he was a boy the air was so much cleaner, and how the environment was much better when he was growing up, and that he had noticed the climate changing thru the years he said the more polution the worse the climate seem to get, and that more people in larger cities would get more breathing problems from the factories, and that he had lived in larger cities for better jobs but moved back to the country because he could breathe better.
He said he noticed that more people were having breathing problems, and more cancers seem to be around, and that the sun rays seem to be hurting more people than when he was younger. He said he felt bad for us (his children) and said that things would be even worse on his grandchildren and future greatgrandchildren because of the sun heating things up more and warned unless people started caring more about the planet and taking better care of it that it would get to where no one will be able to survive because of sickness because of the polution in the air and if it gets to much of a climate change plants will not be able to grow right and that animals would also die because their environment changing then our food supply will start to vanish.

Answer 8

Ayn Rand! My education before her was random, with out a foundation in reason and logic. Through her work, I 1st learned that all understanding must be based on answering the 3 primary fields of philosophy in order. 1, What is so? (Metaphisics) 2, How do you know? (Epistomology) 3, What should you do? (Ethics or morality)
1, The world is getting warmer right now, as it has done many times starting long before man had his 1st cave fire. It also gets cooler between hot times as shown by things like glaciers forming. The only known relationship between the warming and cooling seems to be the volume of sun spots, other than large chunks of mass from space smashing into the earth and volcanic action.
2, At school in the 60's we "learned" from socialist power lusters that mans smog was the cause of global cooling, as it was creating an insulating blanket between us and the sun. The smog was getting thicker when the world started to go cooler! The same mentality today is "teaching" us that we are making the world warmer. The root of all these claims is social/political, as the advocates never point to hard science or scientific causal relationships to back their claims.
3, We should look at the motive of anyone who is advocating forms of control in the name of the enviroment. When and if they ever suggest that mans actions are a primary cause, demand they site their hard evidence to back this up!!!! If what they site looks credible to you, you may ask them if they know how much smog and hydrocarbons were spewed by Mt. St. Helens in 3 weeks, compared to what man had done from the beginning of recorded history?

Thousands are dead every year because of diseases that were held in check by DDT, in the name of the enviroment this life saver is gone.
The alleged ozone problem was credited to freon (CFC's) with out 1 shred of evidence that ground level CFC's ever reached the ozone layer. Billions have been spent replacing R12 type freon with toxics in the name of the enviroment. All of us have payed for the conversion at food stores and warehouses through the added cost of our food.
Lower compression engines with restrictive exaust systems turned good cars into gas guzzlers in the 70's, following EPA laws. Net result, we use more gas to get the same job done, and our exaust has a higher acid content!
Nuclear power is the safest form of mass energy transfer known to man, in a usefull volume. Randomly spread causes of cancer are collected up, refined and most of the energy is used to benifit man. Even the so called waist could be recycled if the enviromentalists did not stop it. So, in the name of the enviroment, we have used but usefull fuel bundles stock pileing. We haven't had a nuke plant built in over 25 years, soon we will have brownouts just like California had. Gas and coal plants will have to pick up the slack, and they have smoke stacks.
To me, the biggest enviromental problem is the enviromentalist, and their political agenda. Our only defence is education, and it is my hope that I have caused you to question the evidence when some enviromentalist wants your help with their cause.

Answer 9

I would have to say The Discovery Channel. They have some excelent programs on global warming and all other subjects as well.

Answer 10

No one understands global warming.