The glaciers are melting twice as fast as even the environmentalists predicted. The polar bear and penguin are all but extinct. Are we just going to continue to rip up the last shreds of our planet when there ARE viable energy alternatives to be had? Don't the politicians love their children, too? This is not years and years away...it is happening NOW!!!! The hottest 10 years ON RECORD were in the last 15 years...this is not a coincidence. Is this denial on a global scale?
2006-11-27 05:10:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
You need to get your facts straight, because your sources are off. Many glaciers are actually GROWING in size and the rates are much less than predicted on those that melt. predicting of melting are at best guesses since no model is reliable. As far as polar bears, their number is growing and last I read, there was worry that many would have to be killed off to get the population in check. The Time magazine cover was a sham.
Lastly, if you have any ideas that don't put people in the poorhouse and actually are guaranteed to work, let's hear them. Even the Kyoto supporters agree, the results if everybody did it are probably too small to measure. You should also go back to the seventies/eighties and read about the "global winter" everyone predicted. How did that turn out?
2006-11-27 07:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by Peter Boiter Woods 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hottest 10 years on record. Yet we know that only 1000 years ago it was warmer than it is now. Vikings were farming in Greenland, and its still too cold to do that right now. There is also no doubt that glaciers once covered large portions of North America and Europe. What caused the global warming that melted those glaciers.
The point is if global warming and cooling has happened before and will happen again. Why if its happened before SUV's and the industrial revolution should we accept that this time, and this time only, that it is caused by human activity, and the causes of previous climate changes have nothing to do with it.
I'm not prepared to go charging over that cliff with the rest of lemings. I'm not going to buy into a bunch of hype being spewed out by a bunch of government funded "scientist" jockeying for additional funding.
2006-11-27 05:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People seem to be looking at global warming as a political or economic issue, but I just don't understand why. This is far more important than anyone's representative or their money -- this is our planet! Regardless of whether you feel that the scientific community has proved the existence of global warming or not (and the climate scientists are all in agreement here), it is ridiculous, narrow-minded and selfish to continue living the way that we do. Subsistence farming, letting fields fallow, using every part of an animal you kill, being conservative with natural resources are all things of our ancestors, who understand that they lived in delicate balance with our earth. Now we're too self-absorbed to even admit that we have an effect on our earth, and instead blame it on natural cycles. (As far as history goes, it's not time for the warming cycle to begin again yet.) Millions of years from now the next top species will say "Those poor humans...they knew it was coming but they just didn't do anything about it." Even if you think it's too late -- why not give it a chance?? We're talking about our children and grandchildren and the continuation of our species. We're going against evolution to say that it just isn't our problem.
2006-11-30 02:31:03 · answer #3 · answered by Organic JP 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may already be too late to do anything. There are several types of feedback loops that seem to already be in motion. For instance, as ice melts, dark colored ground is exposed. Rather than reflecting light like ice does, the ground that is now exposed absorbs light... and heat, further accelerating warming. Also, thawing permafrost releases even more carbon dioxide and methane, further still accelerating the warming. If we cut our green house gas emissions now, the effect may not be enough to reverse the current warming trend. It's almost impossble to tell what effect it would have... measure that against the cost of cutting emissions, which is significant, and it's easy to see why people hem and haw about making changes that will cost a very large amount and have a, as yet unkown, amount of benefit.
2006-11-27 05:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Louis G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is quite a lot of agreement on the need to combat global warming worldwide. The problem comes from knowing exactly WHAT we should do about it. Should we invest in more nuclear power, solar energy or hydroelectric power? Will nuclear fission ride to the rescue? Or is the only way out to massively curb power use and transportation?
That is the problem that we have today - who is going to sacrifice and what. Of course, it is also a great opportunity to develop clean energy sources and build a whole new industry that benefits the entire world
2006-11-27 05:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by Andre C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not suicide because even if all the glaciers melted today nobody would die. They might become refugees from flooded coastal cities, but they will not die.
As to the statement that there are viable energy alternatives, there are some but not enough. No combination of known alternatives that can replace ALL our fossil fuel use, and it is simply not enough to replace some. To the extent that some can be replaced, it is being replaced.
2006-11-27 06:17:57 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is absolutely no evidence suggesting that human activity is responsible for global warming. Global warming occurs in a cyclic fashion and this is just the time for it to happen again. There is nothing we are doing to speed it up and nothing we can do to slow it down, especially now as we are pretty much at the start of it. It is coming and we have to just let it come. Worrying about it is just a waste of time.
Personally I have a greater fear of pandemic flu. If anything is going to have as big, or even bigger, a humanitarian and economic effect as global warming, as some individuals believe, then pandemic is it and mark my words it is going to be coming a hell of a lot sooner than the major effects of global warming.
2006-11-27 05:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by carrotfingers 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the answer to this question relies upon on the solutions to to 2 appropriate questions; why does a individual have self belief or no longer have self belief in international warming and are the matters separate? no count number if or no longer a given individual believes that human beings are inflicting international warming relies upon in many situations who the two area of the difficulty became into presented to them. some people who question international warming might have heard from a life like skeptic and from noticeably irrational environmentalists. besides the undeniable fact that, i do no longer agree that our surroundings and international warming could be taken care of as separate matters. each and every watershed and each vulnerable species of plant and animal could be tormented by international warming. Is it available for somebody who cares approximately such issues to no longer be confident that human beings are inflicting international warming? probable. ok, i will say confident.yet do no longer push aside anthropogenic international warming out of hand or you will possibly be able to spend your existence working to maintain watersheds and different species of plant life and animals basically to demonstrate screen all such artwork turn to dirt because of the fact of anthropogenic international warming.
2016-12-10 17:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by gagliano 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you as well but you got to know global warming is happening even if you may not know but hounstly it still is.
2006-11-30 03:44:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear of Lemmings?
2006-11-27 05:28:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋