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When you have over 100 degree weather for two months in unlikely areas, Greenland ice sheets receding, and polar bears drowning; that's your sign folks. Why are people still denying the problem?

2006-08-31 06:58:17 · 29 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

"Imminate"; ...okay now all is right with the world...back to the question at hand.

2006-08-31 07:11:38 · update #1

29 answers

I’d take a guess at half past too late.
It’s an issue of the psychological term “Classic Conditioning”. I’m sure people know about the issue, but since there is little to no immediate aversive stimuli caused by global warming, few people think it’s important. Once global warming starts hurting people, then they will feel it is important, but by then it will probably be too late to do anything about it.

2006-08-31 07:09:42 · answer #1 · answered by icarus_imbued 3 · 0 0

Yes, we are getting unusual weather all around the world. There is no doubt about that.
I still have to ask if there is really a problem that we can do anything about!
I do not think that there is any denial that a problem exists - but I do think that there is a question as to why the problem exists.
I strongly believe that what is occurring is occurring naturally. Do we, as humans, have the audacity to believe that we can really make so much of a change to our earth?
Polar bears do not drown because of global warming.
People aren't denying that there is a problem - but are probably more confused by people insisting that it is all caused by 'greenhouse gasses.'
Let us accept what we cannot change that which naturally occurs.
Let us know what you would like us to do - and let us know how much you think that it will change things.
Cars are supposed to be pretty awful - would you give up yours?

2006-08-31 07:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Earth's formerly thin ozone layer is recovering

Wed Aug 30, 6:31 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth's protective ozone layer, which was notably thinning in 1980, may be fully recovered by mid-century, climate scientists said on Wednesday. Ozone in the stratosphere, outside the polar regions, stopped thinning in 1997, the scientists found after analyzing 25 years worth of observations.

The ozone layer shields the planet from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, but human-made chemicals -- notably the chlorofluorocarbons found in some refrigerants and aerosol propellants -- depleted this stratospheric ozone, causing the protective layer to get thinner.

The scientists said the ozone layer's comeback is due in large part to compliance with an 1987 international agreement called the Montreal Protocol, which aimed to limit emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals.

"These results confirm the Montreal Protocol and its amendments have succeeded in stopping the loss of ozone in the stratosphere," said Eun-Su Yang of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who led a team that analyzed the data.

"At the current recovery rate ... the global ozone layer could be restored to 1980 levels -- the time that scientists first noticed the harmful effects human activities were having on atmospheric ozone -- sometime in the middle of this century," Yang said in a statement.

While ozone is a beneficial shield in the stratosphere, some six to 31 miles above Earth's surface, the ozone encountered at ground level can be damaging to lung tissue and plants and is a major component of smog.

The analysis was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.

Researchers from NASA and other agencies reported in June that the so-called ozone hole over Antarctica would recover by around 2068, which is some 20 years later than previously expected.

The Antarctic ozone hole is a massive loss of ozone that occurs each spring in the Southern Hemisphere.

A similar, though smaller and less severe, ozone hole has been reported in the Arctic.

2006-08-31 07:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by BookLovr5 5 · 0 0

Okay so you were writing fast and missed a letter or two, don't listing to those people. But there was a special on 20/20 last night that revealed that Global Warming is one of the top 3 threats to our world. So you are correct, we should pay a little more attention.

2006-08-31 07:05:38 · answer #4 · answered by muziqluvergurl 1 · 0 0

People are still denying the problem because there is no problem!!
Just using this site use the 'search for questions'
facility, its amazing the variety of answers to very similar questions, even apart from the usual "Duh" and "Wat"!!
I seem to recall one point which impressed me was some one asked "What about 1911 the hottest temperature ever recorded, no carbon emissions then, and no jet aircraft, was that down to ozone layer"??
I'm not sure about the rest of the world but in the UK the government are increasing the tax on all fuel in an attempt to reduce emissions!! They increased tax on cigarettes in an attempt to stop smoking!!
People of course will continue to travel by jet, they will continue to drive, they will continue to smoke!!
Nice little earner for the government isn't it??
I have seen or heard nothing to convince me that this so called ozone problem is in fact a reality!!
People are very easily lead, it just needs a few newspaper headlines and that will do the trick!! It's all tosh!!

2006-09-04 08:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by budding author 7 · 0 0

Here's a thought just a couple decades ago scientists were saying we were entering a global ice age. So I would stop worrying about a so called global warming at least for a couple more years, by then they'll revert back to the ice age philosophy. It's all about the money.

2006-08-31 07:08:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I just wanted to say it's really cool that some one on here knows where Palestine Texas is! Grew up there YUK! Anyways I agree completely with you. I feel hopeless about the whole situation because of how many millions of people really don't care. I remember being taught 18 years ago to help save the Ozone so we wouldn't have this problem. I have a horrible feeling that it is going to get worse before it gets better.

2006-08-31 07:04:26 · answer #7 · answered by mememe 4 · 0 0

People never fully realize the extent of danger until it's too late. It's a universal trait... it's human nature. People don't like to face down imminent threats of any kind. Hopefully, I'll be dead and long gone before anything too catastrophic happens. When I'm on my deathbed, my dying words will probably be "See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!"

LMFAO!!

2006-08-31 07:09:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Because they are scared. These people need to see something with their own eyes which will immediatley prove that global warming is happening. People are only just realising that the Iraq war was a mistake, when we can see what the losses to our countries are. When we see how global warming really affects us, then people will suddenly realise that it's actually happening.

2006-08-31 07:46:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

how do we know this?

hum?

this could be a natural process. we are overdue for an ice age. and according to 'theory' a warm up happens before an ice age.

how about the magnetic fields? ever wonder about that? we're over due for a reversal of that also.

hum?

and how do we know all this? really, come on.

2006-08-31 07:04:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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