Are You Disappointed That Global Warming Is Not Happening Faster?

Question

Given the catastrophic scenarios of ice caps melting, sea level rising, giant apocalyptic storms, monster hurricanes and monster tornadoes and extreme floods.

I don't see any big changes in the climate. Given all the fuss about global warming, it's not happening soon enough.

I can't wait to see this happen. DO YOU ?

Answer 1

Perhaps you can explain your attitude to the millions watching their children die yearly from the unprecedented drought in Africa, or the northern peoples watching the polar bear and seal die off from the melting of the arctic, or the billion people who'll be displaced by the rising seas in the next century, or the ones who watch entire ecosystems destroyed by shifting climates, or the thousands of species that will go extinct because they can't migrate to follow the moving climatic zones anymore.
Maybe you can explain to the people of the nations that will be turned to deserts or frozen wastelands from the changing climate that you weren't worried about changing anything because you thought global warming would be really nifty.
I'm sure they'll understand that your need for entertainment was more important than saving them and the planet they lived on.

Answer 2

I agree dude, yeah global warming is occurring. It isn't the apocalyptic scenario that the media is feeding us. Everybody is talking about how warm it is. BS, they don't live in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It's 02:29h and the temp is 33F or 1C. The temp is right were it should be. Global warming is a natural event that can't be stopped. We panic now because we have the technology to track its progress. Oh, and the only reasons storms seem worse is cause we keep building more and more houses in the storm's path. The storms are the same but we put 1,000 homes on the shoreline in the storm's path, of course they're gonna be destroyed! The global warming the media speaks of is a scare tactic to fund government and scientist.

Answer 3

I think the melting of ice caps is an isolated incident due to that HUGE hole over all that ice.

I remember seeing in a documentary somewhere that indicates that global warming would actually lead to an ice age and not a heating up of a the world.

Can't recall though, am not deadly bothered since we'll probably never live to see it all.

Answer 4

Happening faster? Is it actually happening at all?!

It seems to be an excuse used by liberal tree huggers to be all lovie-dovie towards Gaia (mother earth).

Frankly the other day I heard that the coldest temperature on record was in 1997(see link). About 10 years ago. If global warming is going to happen then it had better get to work as I havn't seen anything to prove it. Keep in mind that a number of the big scientists who are promoting global warming were screaming about us entering an ice age just a few years prior.

Answer 5

You have been watching too much "Day after tomorrow" The change they are talking about will take generations to occur. The big fuss, is trying to stop it from starting. If we don't stop it before it gets to a point then it is inevitable, but it can be stopped before that. The good thing is we still have like 100 years before the runaway effect would occur. So unfortunately you won't be seeing it. Sorry.

Answer 6

heh we are very similiar, im somewhat bored with my life right now and would love to see an event like this occur and change the world as we know it. Although there aren't any big changes happening there are a lot of small ones, and its going to be exponential so hopefully its not that far away. when the climate changes come im going to be a hero and stand on the mountain with a flag and lead my villagers to safety

Answer 7

You must be a born-again Christian hoping and praying for the Apocalypse to sweep you up to heaven. You guys are just a bad as Muslims who believe in the 72 virgins.

Answer 8

What? there are many changes in this world, first, here where i live th heat in summer goes to 52 celcius, is hell, we cannot live without air conditioning. We are on october 25, and the winter is not comming, the lowest temperature is 22 celcius!!
And are you telling me that there's no big changes!

Answer 9

i think U R a crazy fellow..
why do you want all these things to happen?
it does not affect you coz u are lucky.
But other pple in other parts of the world are suffering...
put yourself into other pple shoes.. boy..

Answer 10

you dont see it because you are not in the mainstream of the effects .millions of people are and millions are battling for their lives ,desserts are burning up their world

in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

this was man made global warming because of over grazing and fertilizers, and they are not the only ones
collectively this planet is drying up ,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

so as far as the food production is concerned Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.