ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
2006-08-19 07:41:07 · 20 answers · asked by Little miss naughty 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The US must ratify the Kyoto protocal, being the first step toward doing something about this global problem which we are cheifly to blame.
CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.
Look at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest, and 2006 is shaping up to maybe break that record.
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How's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.
There has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.
Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.
Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.
2006-08-19 17:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO.
It's a crock based on half-truths and political agendas. I suggest you research the facts whenever you hear one presented.
For example, if someone says the weather in USA and EUROPE this summer is evidence of global warming, ask yourself what this is based on. If you look at the USA, for example, you will see that the hottest July on record was actually about 1936. So if that's the case, what does it mean: are we heating or cooling? Does a 70 year change in temperature mean anything?
Look at how the temperatures are/were measured. Over 100 years ago, they used visual reading of thermometers with an accuracy of about 0.5 degree F. (And not nearly as many reporting stations as they use now.) The temperatures reported today are generally electronic readings accurate to 0.01-0.02 degrees F. The thermometers back then were located in areas of very little concrete unlike today are located at municipal airports (which are heat islands).
So if they say the temperature has changed 0.2 degrees F, does that really have an SIGNIFICANCE? Question everything.
2006-08-19 17:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, very much, its a beautiful world, and we are really messing things up here. BUT its never too late, if we all play a part in SAVING THE WORLD, simply by being environmentally aware, simply recycling, not using different things that we know to be harmful, Walking when we can rather then driving, switching off everything that is not in use, that includes PCs on standby!
No snowflake can be held responsible for an avalanche, but....
IT ALL HELPS, do your bit and stop worrying.
2006-08-19 15:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not really...except for when winter doesnt last long..i mean we rarely got any snow here...but i will be long gone b4 the full efect of global warming takes place
2006-08-19 20:03:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...
Highly exaggerated and distorted information.
Earth's climate has been changing for 4 1/2 Billion years...
2006-08-19 20:11:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll be dead before then.
Rest of you youngins can whine to God all you want when your about to die, just remember that garbage you forgot to put in its container.
Although that hardly compares to some of the other shiat that is being done.
2006-08-19 19:50:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only place we can inhabit is being threatened by its effects. There are still many sane people around who are worried.
2006-08-19 14:59:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Except conservatives everyone else is worried
2006-08-19 21:00:23 · answer #8 · answered by Dr M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes indeed...it's a real concern...yesterday I read it would take until 2065 to remedy the situation...and that's if we completely turned around our fuel sources...we are killing ourselves...all these gas guzzeling SUVS....we need to take this seriously....buy fuel effecient cars...or electric cars....if we all did this...it would make a difference.
2006-08-19 14:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and worried that many other people are not worried.
2006-08-19 15:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋