global warming...?

Question

What does every one know\think about global warming?
it is one of thoes issues that gets sweped under the carpet... doesn't any one relise its GANNA kill us!

Answer 1

Unfortunately Fox News and other conservative media thinks it's all a big hoax.

Answer 2

I am not sure what I think about Global warming. After the last Ice Age, and I say last because there were others, the Wisconsin ice flow stretched to about the middle of America. Over thousands of years it has melted and receded to the current polar cap. So, if this has been melting over thousands of years, does it not go to show that the world has been warming over the same period of time. If this is true then Global Warming was happening centruies before indutrialization. So, although I think man may be causing the warming of the Earth to excel, I also believe that it would happen regardless if we were here or not. It seems to be a cycle and if that cycle follows it's course then the world is due for another ice age, no?

Answer 3

Watch out for people who try to mislead you by suggesting that there is any link between ice ages & global warming - i.e. that you get global warming after/between ice ages.

Ice ages are primarily caused by a more upright axis of rotation, causing the Earths surface to be in the warming process less & the cooling process more.

Global Warming is caused by an increase in CO2 & other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Mans part in this is not only linked to our use of internal combustion engines, but also to felling & then burning forests. The CO2 that is abosrobed by a tree is released when it is burnt, so that not only is the tree no longer able to absorb more CO2, but it's resevoir of CO2 built up during a lifetime of maybe several hundred years, is immediately released into the atmosphere.

Answer 4

"Anthropomorphic Global Warming" (man-made) is far from proven, and even the UN says that the contribution made by man to the rise in temperature is probably not over 50% of the rise in the last century.

CO2 is played out as a greenhouse gase - it has reached about 80% of all the warming it can induce as its effect is logarithmic.

If "greenhouse gases" were going to fry us, we'd be fried by now, because WATER VAPOR is the most abundant, AND the most effective, of all greenhouse gases.

Look at a chart of CO2 versus temperature, and you will be unable to find a long-term correlation. Try the same thing of SOLAR OUTPUT versus temperature, and you'll find a 90%+ correlation. Gee - the sun drives increased earth temperatures.

Before you spout the kool-aid of the Warming Alarmists, please check out JUNK SCIENCE.

Remember, we've gone in 4 alarmist press cycles in the last century - "Ice Age is Coming" (1920s ) "Global Warming" (1940s) "Ice Age Returneth" (1970s) and now "Global Warming With a Vengeance."

As for the ice at the poles, you have to remember that we have less than 200 years of data on which to base ANY long term predictions, and that ALL dire predictions of next century are based on models that can't accurately tell you what happened LASTcentury!!!

Answer 5

There is a group of people in this country who truly want you to believe that global warming is for real. They create entirely new industries and profit from this "scare tactic" agenda - and they actually believe it themselves because they have been taught by people with the same agenda. Unfortunately, it's all based entirely on junk science and not on the facts of true earth science. The truth is that Mother Nature has been dealing with constant climatic changes since the birth of the planet. Just as the stock market has its cycles (ups and downs), so does the planet. One case is point is the ozone layer - it has been opening and closing for millions upon millions of years. But junk science wants you to believe that humanity is responsible for the size of the layer. Hence, the junk science proponents forced us to stop using fluorocarbon-based refrigerants and aerosols. Just one tiny volcano can cause the ozone layer to (temporarily) change size ... and remember, we have thousands of volcanic eruptions on the planet every year! The effects that humanity might have on the ozone layer don't even APPROACH a "spit in the ocean". So let Mother Nature "do her thing" as she has been doing so well since earth was born. The best part about nature is that it takes care of itself !!!

Answer 6

I always wonder about it when it is 20 degrees in the middle of May. We get one pleasant winter and the torture we endured the previous Winters seems to be erased from peoples memories.

I do however think global warming is a plot thought up by the Republicans to get rid of the blue states.

Answer 7

Believe me its not far off either. I pity my Grandchildren and there children. Because that is when the worst will be happening.
It has started, and our generation started this whole global warming not realsiing the consequences until too late.
We may not be able to stop it but we could ceratinly slow the process.

Answer 8

The symptoms of this problem are so enormous (have you seen the latest satellite images of the ice caps?) it's hard to believe there are still people who claim they don't believe it.

People don't want to stop driving cars at the rate they do so they don't want to talk about it. Fixing this enormous problem will involve sacrifice, and as our VP, Big Dick said, “The American way of life is non-negotiable."

Answer 9

It is a problem, I have asthma, my great-grandmother's generation had never heard of such a thing until my father and mother were born. It began appearing more due to pollution and ozone depletion. Think about it. Our granparents and great-grandpartents caused this problem and now we have to fix it.

Answer 10

Lots of things may kill you, whats one more to worry about.