Who believes that global warming is actually a threat to mankind's existence?

Question

What evidence have you seen that backs up your concern for this "impending doom"?

How do you suggest we change the rate of global warming if it exists?

I can only hope that some of you return to see this message.

SHIRAZ is correct. Any of you suckers out there who believe Al Gore and his lies are being blinded to the real problem that exists. There is an attempt by the rest of the world to create a one world government that would enslave every American citizen if it gets the chance. These lies of impending doom are just a distraction from their real plan of destroying mankind!!

The fact that 16 year old girls are responding to this question cracks me up and scares me all at one time. The fact that adults buy into the crap just scares me. At least the 16 year old girls can plea naivety. The adults have no excuse but plain laziness in searching for the truth. It's like believing that communism can work. All you have to do is look at history. It's like believing that democracy can work, again check history. Monarchies are the longest lasting governments and with the correct system is the best choice for government. Second choice is a Republic, which is what we have in America. Thanks to the lazy school systems and the infiltration of them by leftists we now have children who call this a democracy. Soon enough it turn into one and fall to communism if we don't change something soon. I wish people would just study civics and history instead of buying into leftist causes that are based on bunk science.

Answer 1

This is a myth. man only began measuring the earths temp in the late 70's at a time when the environmentalist were predicting another ice age. there are several fallacy's in the notion that man is causing global warming and the earth is head for a disaster.

1. The earths temp is cyclical going through periods of many years that are hotter or colder then normal.
2. The majority of greenhouse gasses are made by TREES
3. a single volcanic eruption produces more CFCs then man can in 100 yrs.
4. If mans pollution is causing the depletion of the ozone why is the hole above the Arctic instead of major urban areas.
5. the ozone is created by sunlight there fore the holes are in areas of the least sunlight.
6. man still can not control the weather in a single geographical area so the notion that man is to be blamed for doing something that makes the entire planets temperature increase is absurd.
7. a under reported news event stated that measurements of the earths temp have declined since 1998. so GLOBAL WARMING HAS ENDED and we are still here yay!

Answer 2

Your preaching to the choir with this believer.

The solution: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Start moving towards renewable clean alternative energy such as, solar, wind, water (river and wave power). Create stricter industry standards. Give take credits for fuel efficient vehicles. Stop subsidizing big oil and start funding research for alternative energy. Set aside more land for wildlife, plant for trees (especially along side walks, traffic calming islands and around the edges of farm land).

Go vegetarian. I have heard that per 10 acres you can feed about 20 people on cattle, or 240 on wheat. Plus meat take refrigeration, transport, and produces methane that is 20 times more effective at as a heat trapping gas than CO2.

I've got a bunch more ideas but this is a good place to start. The reality is if the people lead the leaders will follow. Vote with you dollars. The choices are out there. The collective conscience will follow if their is a critical mass reached by enough individuals leading the way.

Answer 3

Anyone who believes Shiraz or you is willfully or accidentally ignorant. Every single point Shiraz made is either factually incorrect or misdirecting.

The only ones who want you to doubt global warming are those who stand to make money off the way things are, and even those groups are coming around.

So why don't you go back and look at how hard the cigarette companies tried to obscure or question the links between cancer and cigarettes.

If you don't think global warming is real, you are worse than ignorant - you're a tool.

Answer 4

Yes, it's a plot! A plot by the one-worlders and Castro and the ghost of Chairman Mao!

You crack me up, especially when you start using the phrase "looney left". :-)

The real facts are as follows:

There is a trend toward a climate shift or change indicating warmer average ocean temperatures and less stable weather patterns in the temperate regions of the earth. This is, according to almost every single scientist who is not in the employ of one or another vested interest, absolutely undeniable.

It is also undeniable that we do not know the causes for this in the long-term climactic picture, although it is logical to conclude that the increased burning of carbon-based fuels over the centuries of the industrial and even pre-industrial ages of man would contribute significantly to this.

It is further undeniable that those who make "precise" predictions whether of imminent doom and gloom or of "no worries" are talking through their hats. Precision is inherently low or impossible in equations as complex and with as many variables as global climate models.

So what to do? It would seem obvioius to all those but the terminally stupid (like maybe those whose names rhyme with "push"?) that lowering emissions globally will push back against whatever contributions mankind has made toward global warming. It would seem equally obvious that it will be difficult to impossible to get governments of newly industrializing countries like China and India to reduce their contributions to the mess (hence the obvious stupidity of claiming that one-worlders and commies are behind efforts like Kyoto - universally adopted treaties would kill their economies and doom their leaders).

So what should we do? Seems pretty obvious to me.

1) Cut down on emissions as much as possible without destroying our automobile and petroleum based economy. This means adopting things like CAFE standards, which will also help our energy independence, although it will cause heartburn for Auto Industry executives.

2) Get serious about making nuclear power safe - it will become affordable as petroleum prices rise and will contribute virtually zero emissions.

3) Continue to push the fast-growing contributors to emissions - China and East Asia , India and South Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa - to adopt environmental standards, negotiating a quid-pro-quo for any changes we make under Item 1.

4) De-politicize the rhetoric and let the scientists explore the issues - including some adaptations to the already-inevitable changes we'll see over the next fifty years.

Al Gore may be an alarmist, spreading a more extreme version of a scenario whose likelihood nobody knows, but Bush is an ignoramus (literally) - ignoring mounds of scientific data and pushing an agenda that will worsen whatever trend is happening while making us more and more dependent on foreign oil - all the while singing "la la la la - not listening....."

Answer 5

Oh my god... You could write books about global warming having to do with our existence. If we continue destroying Earth, mortality will grow every year even more. There will be many diseases, not enough food... And there we go...
You said "if it exists"! Like, come on! You didn't notice how the summer is warmer than ever, that the Antarctic is melting...
Global warming=bigger ozone hole=cancer, no trees, no anything.
What is global warming? I think we all know that.
How to stop it? STOP DESTROYING NATURE!!!! ECOLOGY PEOPLE!!! peace...
PS: o yeah, I am 16, and already making this world a better place!

Answer 6

Global warming is a fact and it is a threat to our existence. We need to stop using fossil fuel as soon as possible. Reduce speed by 20% on ground, water, and in the air and save 15.6% of fuel. Use water as fuel for vehicles and electric power. The US Army displayed their new vehicle in 1965 that used a battery and water as the power source to drive electric motors at the wheels. I saw this in the halls of the US Army Transportation School at Ft. Eustis, VA. The link below is about the use of water as a fuel. It is about selling something tho and is not like the vehicle displayed by the US Army. Water is not lost in the process and most is recovered and placed back in the tank. This can happen if we get big oil and politics out of the game and get media to talk it up. It can happen.

Answer 7

Mankind wouldn't be able to survive without all the other species...no trees no oxygen...I don't know if global warming will be the end but I do know that there are consequences for the pollution and our lifestyle. I believe those countries who don't "believe" in global warming are making too much profit doing what they do to care about the long term affects...That is scary!

Answer 8

i believe thats cuz i am interested in nature since a long time though i am just 14 but still.
global warming as u may kno decreases the ratio f Oxygen and co2 wich leads to serious problems
if this continous in around max of 75 to 100 years the impending doom would come str8

Answer 9

I believe our earth is in danger. Unfortunately, I don't think mankind has the ability to really fix the problem.

I found a very interesting article about Natural Disasters and the Human Factor. I think you might enjoy reading it as well.

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/7/22/article_02.htm

Answer 10

I think mankind could survive but at what cost the rest of the world....other animals, plants, fish, oceans and forest. I think we need to take back the government from corporate america. Some how we need to get all of the "big money" out of the picture.