This is in my continuing effort to get a feel of what some of you who visit yahoo answers believe about the planet on which you live and depend upon.
It is a small planet roughly 8000 miles in diameter or 200 million square miles TOTAL surface area or 60 M sq.mi. land area.
Do you or don't you believe that 6.5 billion + people can have a possible adverse effect on the planet.
Why do you feel tha way.
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and finally because this (Earth) is such a spiritual place and emotional issue for me personally
society &culture > religion & spirituality
Go ahead be as enraged as you want to be. I am.
2006-09-01 09:13:51 · 6 answers · asked by concerned_earthling 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Of course it is. I thought it was obvious.
2006-09-01 09:20:01 · answer #1 · answered by lil bit 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think global warming(climate change) is real and man made. Thanks for bringing this up.
You don't have to be a scientist to see it.
A return to places from your childhood is proof enough.
I remember playing in a pond and drinking from it and now it is no more, not even a mud hole.
Some Caribbean islands have lost a visible amount of landmass - ex, the lighthouse on the island of Trinidad is completely submerged. In Jamaica an entire city that was once inhabited by pirates is also completely underwater.
Ocean life is dying, the ice at both poles is melting. The rain forests are dying, many species of flora and fauna are becoming extinct each year. The size of the sahara desert is increasing and there is smog in some US cities where there were none before.
There is more, if anyone wish to learn they will have to do your own reading.
2006-09-01 09:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by childrenofthecorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we are contributing, but that it would happen anyway. Volcanos put out more co2 than our cars do every year, which isn't helping the ozone any. We're speeding it up, but it's an inevitable thing. The Earth was once a tropical place, as it shall be again, for everything goes in circles. We may only just now be recuperating from that catastrophic meteor millions of years ago, and the world is finally getting back to the temp it was supposed to be. Who knows? One cosmic force or another would have intiated it, this time we just happen to be around helping out. It's obvious when you sit down and think about all the factors, and what sorts of drastic temperature changes have happened over time. To survive, we must evolve. To evolve, we have to be subjected to new environments. This time, it's intense heat. Let's see how we do.
2006-09-01 09:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you know anything about how the planet was formed and how the history of climate evolved you will understand that there is little or no impact of significance caused by humans. Put it the other way...if we as a human raced WANTED the polar icecaps gone...like, if that was our goal...we would never reach it...
Even Greenpeace models suggest that projected estimates of climate change, agricultural use and pollution to be "unchangable" by a human population of over 36 million.
You have no reason to be enraged. Keep in mind that the climate of planet earth will probably be very similar to that of Mars inthe end. Yes, humankind will end one day.
Interesting fact - did you know the Florida keys were formed 30 millionyears ago and have submerged and remered every 30,000 since then due to polar ice melting and then refreezing? look it up!
2006-09-01 09:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by Billy! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, we affect our planet by our presence, but if you believe in global warming, may I suggest that you read the book "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. It clearly illustrates the lengths to which environmentalists will go to cause widespread panic, and it is also chock-full of verified scientific data that disproves global warming. Crichton says, in his afterword, that we will never really know what's going on until the scientists sit down and start objectively reviewing all the data instead of calling anyone who doesn't believe in global warming an idiot, and I agree.
2006-09-01 09:20:53 · answer #5 · answered by sarge927 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its just a theory so far-what are the dimension of mars?
2006-09-01 09:19:08 · answer #6 · answered by Quickfix008(∞Cicci∞) 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋