2006-11-22 04:15:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
I don't fear climate change at all. As yet, I'm not convinced that it's anything other than a result of the sun getting hotter. The Earth has been hotter than it is now in the relatively recent past (within the last 1000 years) and humanity seemed to survive that without a problem, so I doubt there will be too many problems this time.
There seems to be an awful lot of scaremongering about it though. Just look at this question...
JAY - "THE FACT THAT ENGLAND WONT EXIST" Err, I think England will still be around. LOL
Corvinus - "Maybe with Florida under 50 feet of Atlantic..." Err, 50 feet?!! I think not.
bobounumpty - "That it will never stop raining"
Personally, I'm with Clive. The thing about climate change that worries me the most are the taxes that we'll be expected to pay because of it. It's already begun, just ask the owner of a 4x4 in London!
Oh and I was particularly amused by Nutsters Space Cadet and his link saying that Exxon was suggesting that the IPCC's report had "gaps" in it. I was amused because Exxon are *correct*! The UN has been fiddling the figures to try to make us all believe that we're causing global warming. If you're interested in how they did it, have a look here... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
2006-11-22 07:31:42 · answer #1 · answered by amancalledchuda 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The thing I fear most about climate change is the relentless increase in fuel bills which has arisen as a result of this paranoia with climate change. All utility bills now have a climate change levy, as if these companies were able to do something about it. In the world we live in today, there are 7 billion people, my country has 60 million of them, which is a tiny fraction of the total. But just because I live in a modern western financially wealthy part of the world, we are considered to be liable for the cost of climate change. China on the other hand, who has the fastest growing economy on earth, and is opening a new coal fired power station every week is saved from the climate change levy that I am forced to pay into. That added to the fact that China has over 1/7th of the worlds population is a mighty hard pill to swallow.
2016-05-22 15:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Climate change is fine. I don't fear it at all.
If people feel like nature punishes us for being bad to it: it's our fault we were and still are the primary cause of it.
The thing I fear isn't climate change, it's our reaction to it. I fear that we will do nothing about it until it is too late and then what we will do will be much too little, much too late, especially for all the poorer innocent people who already have too much hardship in their lives and don't deserve to die because wealthier industries and consumers did nothing when they could to save them.
I also feel pretty sad that many species of plant and animal life won't have enough time to evolve and therefore survive the coming changes.
2006-11-22 04:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I fear for the generation who will have to cope with the worst case predictions of the rise in sea levels. I used to live in London and standing on the quayside at a normal high tide and looking back the water level was at least halfway up the windows of the bedrooms of the house I was living in. In other words without the building up of the river walls that area would be tidal salt marsh anyhow. Any rise in sea levels and many areas around the world will be submerged although as always the poorest nations will be worst affected - Bangladesh will cease to exist.
2006-11-22 04:30:34 · answer #4 · answered by william john l 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Flooding. I live by the Thames past the barrier on flat area of south London. So if it flooded my house would fall down (its made out of paper I'm sure!) and my computer isn't water proof. :o)
2006-11-22 04:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by Supersammy :o) 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.
Anything which will destroy large areas of America is fine by me. Plus London'll probably go too. Double whammy!
And before any colonials start bleating: you are the prime cause but you still don't get it. Maybe with Florida under 50 feet of Atlantic you will!
2006-11-22 04:26:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
There being extremes of weather...like it being completely hot with no rain, or there being an ice age again.
2006-11-22 04:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by laydeeheartless 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the adverse weather conditions.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?storyid=2006-11-24T100128Z_01_L24486989_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-STORM.xml&type=topNews&WTmodLoc=Top+News-C3-More-7
OR how much more money Exxon can afford 2 throw around, intent on disproving it.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/20092006/325/exxon-misleads-climate-change-royal-society.html
2006-11-22 04:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The extra taxes that will be levied on the pretext of limiting global warming.
2006-11-22 04:28:06 · answer #9 · answered by Clive 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nothing,
I'm old so when will happen, I'll be already history.
Actual changes have no relevant meaning.
2006-11-22 04:22:23 · answer #10 · answered by guido_961 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋