I have read and watched many reports on global warming and wonder if the experts calculations are wrong. I have heard that; in 30 years there will be no skiing, 10+ years winters will be scarce, 40+ years there will be serious oceanic changes. Is it me or are these things really happening now. It seems that when a time is given to certain events, they occur much sooner. I think that what the experts are predicting will happen 10 years from now, will really happen in 4 to 5 years or less.
2006-12-01 04:48:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
for anyone that states that the climate was warmer in the past, please watch "An Inconvient Truth",
2006-12-01 05:10:57 · update #1
The science of global warming is far less precise that many politicians realize. About a quarter of a century ago scientists were worrying about global COOLING if carbon in the atmosphere shielded the planet from the sun. There have been periods in recorded history when the planet was far warmer than now - apparently the snow fields on the Andes were all melted during the early Middle Ages. Over recent millenia the driver for global warming and cooling has been fluctuations in the temperature of the surface of the sun - which right now is warming up. I would not worry too much yet -we are still well within the limits of previous ages. But all the current furore does make a lot of scientists, journalist, and assorted doom-mongers rich - while providing politicians with a new thing to talk about.
2006-12-01 04:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by Tony B 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People are worried about global warming but actually global warming will result in a net benefit to humanity. Climate models that forecasters have right now are very inaccurate. Not to mention that the earth is probably coming out of an ice age. Plus the fact that the sun is more active now than it was 3000 yrs ago. But it is very hard to predict global warming, the shear mathematics of it are crazy. Weather staions are a relatively new thing. They have been taking measurements for only about a hundred years now and the earth it about 4 billion years old. So what I am saying is that climate prediction is hard when so many variables are out there.
You should check out Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It is a fiction book but it is loaded with references of actual data. I know he published Jurassic park, and I read that too, but this book is different. It has a lot of knowledge and good material.
2006-12-01 10:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sam's jam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - No and No. Somebody said it right earlier. Experts and Global Warming = Oxymoron. It is all about money and social engineering. It is not about global warming. "Global Warming" is the latest of many tools of socialists to line thier own pockets and grab for power. In 20 years - it will be Nuclear Power again ... probably just as the USA revives its already late nuclear power plant production program. In 40 years it will be a Food Shortage. Currently the energy for food production is being diverted to biomass "renewable" fuel like ethanol. Eventually the social engineers will re-prioritize that land and resource use to food production. Global Warming is happening as part of a cycle of the earth that has gone on since the beginning of time. The astronomical and geological factors that create these cycles are hugley (by powers of 10) more imposing on earth's changes than human activity will ever be. But- do you see the ecobabble talk about making any effort to cool the sun down by a few thousand degrees to help out? NO! Becasue you can't do that! But you can create an ecobabble economy out of human use of hydrocarbons for energy. Meanwhile, lest you think this is an anti-environment statement - it is still "A GOOD IDEA" to be careful and conservative in the way fuels and other resources are used. It makes no sense to pollute air and water that sustain life.
2006-12-01 05:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by Me3TV 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear tool,
Global Warming is not a problem. The earth actaully used to be hotter than it is today. We don't have to worry about water rising because of the properties of water. Water expands when its frozen so any amount that would rise is negated by the fact that it is now more dense (when in liquid state). In fact if the earth did get warmer there would be more land to inhabit and this would solve the problems with population.
2006-12-01 04:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that it really seems like its now. me and some friends were just talking the other night about global warming and joking how we r loving the global warming. ha. yeah its now december and here in delaware we haven't seen temperatures below 50 yet and for most of novenber it was in the upper 60s to mid 70s! its crazy! but yeah, i do believe that its happening faster than people think and if we keep sending rokets and other equipment into space all we are doing is making it happen even quicker my slicing the ozone layer open again and again and again.
2006-12-01 04:55:04 · answer #5 · answered by squadman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, where I am at now, it is having a near historic low. All I've read about in the local and national news is some storm causing terrible conditions. Honestly, it still feels like winter to me.
2006-12-01 04:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by Cadair360 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EXPERT+ GLOBAL WARMING = OXYMORON
2006-12-01 04:54:31 · answer #7 · answered by shel_bug66 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋