Why are people more concerned to global warming now? It was so much as now, an important issue 10 years ago?

Answer 1

While I do believe humans have contributed somewhat to global warming, I think it's also part of a natural cycle of the earth cooling and warming. Apparently the amount of carbon particulate matter increase is something like 0.03% in the last century, which is minimal. If we're talking about awareness then I think it is driven by politics and a shift in human thinking. It's trendy at the moment, to think about the environment and work to protect it, promote recycling etc, which is probably why people are much more aware of anything environmentally related now. If you go back to the 60's environmental protection wasn't high on the priority list of governments. It was all about economic growth and such (*ahem* some countries are still striving for that goal). I think the fact that people are more eco-conscious now is mainly because it's fashionable in a sense. Sure resources are in short supply and the human population is expanding at a phenomenal rate, but we have known that for a long time now. I think it's great though that people are much more aware of the effects their actions have. I just hope it's a permenant stream of human thought.

Answer 2

There are several logical reasons why people could be more concerned now then ten years ago, but I think the reason is somewhat illogical. People don't like paying $3/gallon for gasoline and they think that being concerned with global warming will lower the cost of gasoline.

Yes, I know that fixing global warming will increase the cost of energy.
Yes, I know that there have been events in the last few years that are unprecidented like the thawing of the artic and other glaciers.
Yes, I know that there is research to suggest that global warming is causing causing an increased frequency of major weather disruptions like Cat 4 and 5 hurricanes.
Yes, I know that the average daily temperature keeps going up.

But those logical reasons don't make people concerned about anything that is tied to there pocket book like $3/gallon gasoline.

Answer 3

Sorry people you are being lied to...

Millions of people have died in years when the Earth has gone into it's cooling cycles.
The Earth's core is a giant electron conductor charged by it's relationship between the Earth and the Sun. During proper conditions the Earth charges causing ocean temperature to rise and increased volcanic activity ect. This Relationship is starting to come to the end of it's high charge cycle and over the next 5-10 years we will start hearing of oceanic cooling. (keep an eye on the Noaa page)

This warming trend is one of the lightest recorded in Earth's history.

The Global warming FEAR tactics have been invented in order to create new taxes and create wealth to a few people.
Before long we may find our self needing to create carbon emissions to help contain solar heat on the Earth.

Just look at every Issue and how a dollar amount is attached to solve the problem?
There is not money to be made by claiming that everything is O.K.

Fear pays there bills

Answer 4

10 years ago, there was still some scientific controversy over whether global warming was real, and whether it could become serious.

Now, that debate is settled in the scientific community. There is a consensus that global warming is real, and that it is a major threat to our well being, due to the likelihood of coastal flooding and disruption of agriculture.

Of course, as you can see, some people (and a very few fringe scientists) still don'r accept it is fact.

The scientific community as a whole does. See:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"Many details about climate interactions are not well understood, and there are ample grounds for continued research to provide a better basis for understanding climate dynamics. The question of what to do about climate change is also still open. But there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. Climate scientists have repeatedly tried to make this clear. It is time for the rest of us to listen."

Answer 5

Ten years ago people didn't realise it was important, and there weren't as many indicators showing what was happening.
It has only been over the past ten to twenty years that scientists have gathered strong longitudinal evidence that things are changing. It takes time to notice these things, like birds changing their migratory patterns, sea levels rising, sea surface temperatures changing, coral bleaching, animals hibernating at different times, changing wave patterns etc.
More scientific inspection occurs nowadays, this is the Age of Science. Global warming has become more noticable (and of more concern) because more people have been asking questions, doing studies and observing changes.
Changes have also been occuring more rapidly over the past 20 to 30 years, than the 100 years before that. You can look at long-term records, and notice large peaks after industrialisation began.
Basically, there are more changes to notice, and more people to notice them and ask "why?".

Answer 6

I think that people in position where they are able to make a change, (that is the ones in large corporations etc.) are not so bothered about the climate changing as they are about the rising cost of fossel-fuels and petrochemicals, now that global crude oil production has peaked. They are looking for cheaper alternatives, but are doing it under the noble guise of fighting global climate change (which should more accurately be called global climate destruction, and is the greatest catastrophy of humanity).

Answer 7

They deny this by saying that maximum scientific papers on climate have been approximately warming. yet maximum activists DID are watching for the arriving ice age, which in no way got here. The scientists don't be attentive to - they have a WAG. The physique of know-how isn't adequate to be attentive to what is going to happen next 12 months, the 12 months after that, and so on.... Hansen's predictions on that front have consistently been incorrect. The activists fake all of us be attentive to, insist all of us be attentive to, as quickly as we don't. They exaggerate, they re-write the climate historic past to eliminate contemporary earlier heat sessions the reasons of that are no longer completely understood so as that they could declare that the present heat temperature is "unparalleled," and that they lie relating to the data and the fact of human causation. additionally they lie relating to the present temps - that the warmest 12 months of the final a hundred and ten replaced into 10 years in the past. and that they consistently replace their tale approximately what international warming will in turn produce - and the present version apparently has a tendency to be despite the climate is on the time...... and that they are shocked that the serious thinkers between us are skeptical????

Answer 8

Some possibilities:

1) Awareness can breed awareness. People tell each other about new stuff all the time.

2) There are extreme weather phenomena appearing (like Katrina, or like the 1st ever recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean) which are difficult to ignore.

3) There is more research, more people are studying it.

4)There is a lot of strange stuff happening no one has ever seen before, all linked to the planet getting warmer.

;-)

Answer 9

People are actually starting to be concerned about global warming, since there is the most convincing evidince of it now, and many people are listening. BTW...I saw Al Gore's movie "An Inconveinient Truth" and walked out of the theater shocked and a bit sad. Al doesn't just list the facts, but he explains them in interesting and amusing ways. I don't think it's still in the theaters, but pick up his book. And maybe it's people like Al Gore that we need to let people know about this problem. Al Gore is a recognizable name.

Answer 10

People get concerned everytime something comes up that might wipe them out. Heaven forbid us humans can't go around wreaking things in our own good time.