Global Warming, is the human race and the planet DOOMED!?

Question

Have we left it to late to save our planet and mankind, Global Warming and melting ice caps deforestation an over populated planet. Have we left it too late to do anything about it, I think so, China India to name just two of the fastest growing economies, it can only get worse, even if we do everything that can be done to help reduce glowbal warming would it be enough ?. We`v had concerts for live aid, and band aid even a free Nelson Mandala concert and yet we have known for 25 years or more that glowbal warming is the biggest threat to face mankind and the planet yet its been almost ignored untill recently. We are like deadly parasites that kill our host. Is there anything that can be done to survive or are we DOOMED! ?.

Answer 1

human race maybe.

Earth can survive.(better without humans)

Answer 2

Has anyone noticed that global warming is only in the news when terrorism can't be found? It's just another scare tactic to make us all feel jolly terrible about having rather a good time in our own life spans. Angry, bored environmental groups consistently pester governments to conduct complex, confusing and expensive studies about a topic that's so massive, and so completely diverse (The Environment) that the results are predictably contradictory and counter-productive. As the man above says; we have only had accurate ways of measuring actual climate forcing events for the last couple of hundred years. Before this point we are on really rather shaky ground. However, Scientists and Governments don't like people knowing this because it makes them look unprofessional and arrogant (Scientists), or All Mouth and No Trousers (Governments).

What everyone should know is that for the past 2 million years (about 5 minutes if you condense the Earths existence onto a clock face), the Earth has been mincing in and out of hot and cold spells, more scientifically known as Stadials (cold periods/ice ages) and inter-stadials (warm periods/massive biodiversity periods). The cold periods last about 100,000 years and the warm periods 10,000 years. The last warm period started, yes, you guessed it, just over 10,000 years ago. This was when Cave Man and Rock Chick took off their unsightly fur coats, realised they were well toned and attractive and started really shagging, popping out sprogs all over- leading to the recent major climate forcing event known as Civilisation. We're overdue for another Ice Age.

Don't believe the hype. The Earth does what it wants. A few stupid, horny humans won't make more than a few hundred years worth of difference to the Earths determined desire to be cold again!

Answer 3

Chill out my friend.

The politians in the UK would have you believe Humans are the main contributor to global warming but we are not. Cars make up 2% of carbon emmission globally, let alone our impact on this little island, so clobbering us with tax with have little impact.

Northern Europe is coming out of a mini ice age which it has been in for centuries, so the warming is part of a bigger picture & a climate that has been changing long before the combustion engine.

Polution is bad & cutting it can only be a good thing, as is recycling, but this is another Government & Media lead headline grabber, to make you part with more tax pounds.

Don't believe the hype, look at your history books & listen to impartial advise on the climate, there is not a fat lot us humans can do about drought & floods, only ego fuelled polititians like Blair think they can alter nature.

It's a wonder he isn't sat in a big white robe & long beard, the guy has a serious god complex.

Answer 4

I would love to say that its not too late but I think it is. I think that despite what world leaders try to do (G8 summits, millenium development goals, kyoto protocol etc.) its not going to be enough, because not enough progress is being made. I mean look at America and Australia, they are the world's largest polluters, and they are doing nothing to reduce their energy consumption or release of greenhouse gases. If the biggest polluters don't do anything, then what difference is it going to make if a few other countries try and make a few little changes?

To conclude, yes we are doomed, but I think we still have a bit of ttime left before this all happens.

Answer 5

I do believe that we are in for some weird weather, but here in UK we are used to that. I honestly believe that it is now 'flavour of the month' with everyone jumping on the bandwagon. It is a vast source of revenue through taxation on such things as heating, driving, flying etc. If carbon emissions from vehicles were so dangerous to the planet, why on earth does the government do something drastic instead of adding further taxes to petrol and oil. Once again it won't be the rich that suffer, merely the not so well off..................

Answer 6

Are you certain that there is indeed global warming? I realize that people have been tugging at the issue for years, but there is no substantial proof that this warming effect is not a cyclical phenomena. We have no proof about the last 50,000 years from the estimated period of the Ice Age. Counting tree rings is hardly an answer and the oldest know trees are less than 3,000 years...perhaps this situation occurs every ten thousand years. Fossils date much further back and we know that some cataclysmic event, a massive volcano or perhaps even a meteorite created so much dust that the earth was blanketed and brought about the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs. That took place about 65,000,000 years ago...just days ago, Norwegian paleontologists announced the discovery of a dinosaur 'graveyard' with the fossils of ichthyosaurs and pleisosaurs (perhaps cousins of the Loch Ness Monster) on an Island about 800 miles from the North Pole. Because both types of dinosaurs were marine (living in salt water), we then can assume they died in the water...but the 'graveyard' is now situated on a hillside some distance from the sea, but also that the water level was much higher at that time...Global Warming? Island can rise and sink because of volcanic activity but the island shows no geological suggestion that that was so. Perhaps too, this is a natural event in that as the temperature increases, so does evaporation and thusly more rain, so could it be that it is a cleansing system to remove pollutants from the atmosphere? There are many far-fetched theories and one is from Australia where scientists claim that cows are a major source of pollution. Herbivores produce methane gas as they digest grasses, fodder and such, and with the vast number of cows and other herbivores, our atmosphere is contaminated. It makes little sense as in America were vast herds of bison, and the plains of Africa still have millions of grazing animals...both past and present. The die-off of marine organisms is often linked to man-made problems...oil spills, dredging, sewage and such...i.e. the Thames River of England was so polluted years ago that no fish could exist...the environmental agency cleaned it up by stopping sewage, etc and now 10 species of fish have returned. We build dams and prevent floods and deprive vital nutrients to the sea. In Asia, DDT was introduced to protect the crops and successfully killed many species of fish and birds (most potent when used with oil as the solvent). Few people understand that a tree does many things besides provide wood, it retains soil but also transpires a substantial amount of moisture into the air...and we cut down the forests. We cover vast areas with tarmac and concrete and deaden the soil. On my last visit to Mt. Kilimanjaro, I noticed the reduction of the ice caps and glaciers but I didn't come away with any firm conviction of a drastic change. In Tibet, I visited the glacial rivers but they seemed much unchanged, and the peak of Mt. Everest seems to have the same amount of snow and ice. The only tangible proof I have found is that some of the tropical marine life in the Sea of Cortez have move further north, but that could be explained by a shifting of currents, rather than an actual change in the climate. Many scientists and indeed researchers need to 'publish or perish' to justify their tenure and make statements couched with the word 'MAY'...rather than definitive statements....that justifies grants and bequests....and now the medical community is falling guilty of the same...Japanese researchers found that drinking green tea may prolong life...etc. Take things with a very large grain of salt and don't depend on the media to be either honest or truthful. Monitoring the weather and atmospheric conditions began in 1958 and since that time there had been an actual increase of 1 degree F, and it is theorized that in the next 100 years, the increase will be about 5 degrees. There will be some coastal flooding and the deserts will be drier but perhaps it all happened before.

Answer 7

with global warming we have made a now permanent effect on the climate, but there is on actual solid proof that it is all our(humans) fault. we know that earth goes through many changes from very warm to very hot eg. ice ages. the earth could be heating naturally but I'm not saying that humans haven't made it worse or sped up this process. we cant change the impact we have already made but if people are willing to become more eco friendly it would help in the future.

Answer 8

Don't forget the first rule of climate change. we are not sure it is a man made thing yet. The jury is out on that one. However, I think it probably is a man made thing. Yes we are doomed. There is NO WAY we can get our act together.
Interesting though, every few years something like this comes along and everyone gets upset. In my lifetime there was the "Bomb" then asteroids now global warming. I wonder whats next.

Answer 9

The earth is a self sustaining, self regulating home for life, and if man kind steps out of line two much, then they will be swept under the carpet, and life will go of in another direction,but the earth itself will-not suffer, its only mankind's arrogance, to think he can hurt the earth, but man kind is hurting mankind's environment, by filling it full of poison, and upsetting the balance, until we all choke on are own stupid lazy,comfort seeking arrogant ways.

PS don,t worry everything will be fine

Answer 10

Within the next century, the planet will go thru some really extreme weather. The planet will heal itself, but the human race has an uncertain future

Answer 11

Oh, the human race and many of the flora and fauna are doomed, 'tis true. But the earth? No, and there will be civilizations long after us, just as there have been long before us. Life succeeds.