If the most people are so worried about Global Warming, then why isnt the government doing anything?

Question

GLOBAL WARMING... the biggest worry on our minds right now, and for most people. But one thing that all political figures lack is care for the environment. We need their help. But why dont they listen?

Answer 1

The President says that he is not sure that global warming is a real threat!!!

He says that he is not ready to do anything meaningful to prepare us for a threat that he's not certain is real. He tells us that he believes the science of global warming is in dispute. This is the same president who said last year about Katrina, "Nobody could have predicted that the levees would break." It's important to establish accountability in order to make our democracy work.

President George W Bush said in March 2001 that the US would not ratify Kyoto because he thought it would damage the US economy and because it did not yet require developing countries to cut their emissions.

And the uncertainty and lack of resolution, the willful misunderstanding of what the scientific community is saying, the preference for what a few supporters in the coal and oil industry - far from all, but a few - want him to do: ignore the science. That is a serious problem. The President talked about the analogies to World War II - let me give another analogy to World War II.

Winston Churchill, when the storm was gathering on continental Europe, provided warnings of what was at stake. And he said this about the government then in power in England - which wasn't sure that the threat was real, he said, "They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent." He continued, "The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."

We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. Churchill also said this, and he directed it at the people of his country who were looking for any way to avoid having to really confront the threat that he was warning of and asking them to prepare for. He said that he understood why there was a natural desire to deny the reality of the situation and to search for vain hope that it wasn't really as serious as some claimed it was. He said they should know the truth.

Answer 2

The Earth has had ice ages, they were cooling periods, between them were warming periods. This has been going on for all of Earths 4 billion years.

The Earth is going through a pole shift right now. A pole shift is when the magnetic poles swap polarities. During pole shifts the magnetosphere is weaker and more of the Sun’s rays strike the Earth, this causes extra heating of the Earths surface, and makes global warming more pronounced.

These are natural cycles of the Earth. We puny stupid humans can no more stop or even reduce a natural cycle of the Earth, than the man in the moon. This 9th grade science, and one would think that scientists and politicians would be better educated, but it seems that this not so, and could remember 9th grade science class.

Answer 3

Because MOST people are NOT worried about global warming, or more probably they are just not worried enough to inconvenience themselves to do something about it. And they vote for candidates who share their views, so the government has pretty much the same attitude. Personally I think we can get more public support for the kind of changes that are needed by saying we need to reduce our burning of oil so we don't have to pay unfriendly foreign countries for it. That would get more support than preventing global warming, which is just not as real to most people as high gas prices and wars in oil rich regions.

Answer 4

Because the evidence that human activities are a cause is not convincing, and the costs of doing anything about it are large, real, and now, while the costs of not doing anything about it are (in present value) small, indeterminate, and future. How much of your personal lifestyle would you surrender to make a contribution to the avoidance of possible inundation of New York (or other coastal cities) many years from now? Give up electricity? Central heat? Drive a car?

Entirely too little attention has been paid to the oceans as a sink for CO2. The amount of carbon dioxide in the oceans (essentially all of it as carbonate) is equivalent to 144,700 billion metric tons of CO2. Deep ocean waters are unsaturated with respect to calcium carbonate, so the oceans could hold considerably more CO2 than they now do. By comparison, the atmosphere contains only 2,875 billion metric tons.

Answer 5

Global warming is hardly the biggest worry on my mind. Face it -- the Earth has been warming since the Ice Age melted.

Answer 6

well it is simply that most people are idiots. we don't cause global warming, and we sure as hell couldn't stop it. any warming that might be occuring is due to cyclical warming of the sun. the earth will only get so hot before the ice caps begin to melt, but NOT melt enough to raise ocean levels. this will increas liquid in the ocean, allowing for more evaporation, and therefore more cloud cover, cooling the earth

Answer 7

Because our (U.S.) government has more "important" things on its mind, such as:

1. Illegally and unconstitutionally invaded other sovereign nations just so we can get all their OIL;
2. Listening to the needs of big business, lobbyists, wealthy elitists, and special interest groups who don't want to deal with environmental and ecological issues because it cuts into their profits;
3. Killing thousands of Iraqi citizens and more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers, all for a senseless "war";
4. Turning America into a police state wherein citizens are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

I could go on, but I've got an appointment in 3 minutes! -RKO-

Answer 8

It's OUR government that isn't doing anything.

The financial stakes are high, and the industries who would be most affected by needed changes are transportation, manufacturing and chemical industries. They have a lot of clout with this administration.

Answer 9

Because they would rather Ignore it than take care of it.

Sign this petiton to help stop Gloabl warming by going to

www.UNDOIT.org and sign the petition and remember to tell your friends about the website!!

Answer 10

Because the homosexuals want to marry and that is the real threat to our way of life. :P