Are aren't a lot are people taking global warming seriously? Our future depense on us to fix this problem!

Question

I've been watching people who been presenting this problem on t.v. and I've been getting freaked out about this, so please give me a good answer to this.

Answer 1

Because it's human nature not to be concerned about things taking place gradually. If it took place suddenly, like if there was a year where like 300 hurricanes destroyed everything, then everyone would be concerned. But because it happens gradually, and only a few dozen hurricanes occur over a few years, no one is as concerned.

But its real.

Answer 2

GEOLOGY - This planet was much warmer and much colder, CO2 levels were much higher, and were much lower. Every single rock formation on this planet required a different depositional environment. Some wet, some dry, some hot, some cold. The environment is constantly changing.

We are in an inter-glacial period of a warm and moist environment. Not so long ago, a large area of this planet was covered in ice. The peri-glacial envirnment created caused cooling of the environment all over the world. Ice retreated, we wramed up, the ice advanced, we cooled down, the ice retreated, we warmed up, the ice advanced, we cooled down, 20,000 years ago the ice retreated and still is, we warmed up........could the ice readvance? Sure, but we will never see it. This is the only time in the earth's long history that we have had ice at both poles.

The earth's environement is a very complex mechanism. Man is having an impact, but to what extent is very debatable. Accurate temperature readings have only been available for about 150 years. Basing doom and gloom predictions on short term temperature variations (that also goes for CO2 and other gases) and wild extrapolations is bad science at best.

The earth's environement changes - that is a proven geologic fact. Can man stop this change? Not likely.

I worry more about man poisoning his environment and exahusting his resources. Not global warming.....

Want the real scoop on global climate change? Ask a geologist. We look at the whole 6 billion year old picture, not just a small slice of it.

Read the Geological Society of America's position paper on climate change through the link below.

Answer 3

I wish people would take it seriously. And it's not just global warming that will affect our planet. Extinction of plants and animals, invasive species, uninhibited consumption of natural resources, landfills, space debris, rainforest disappearance - all of these factors will one day adversely affect our planet, whether the nay-sayers believe it or not.

What the nay-sayers don't understand is that you don't have to be an extremist to help battle the deterioration of our planet. You can do small, manageable and realistic things everyday. Recycle, carpool, compost and garden, walk more, trade in your gas lawn mower for a push or electric mower, donate to different conservation organizations, go green in your home with affordable solar power (it does exist), buy diesel powered or hybrid autos instead of gasoline powered autos, you can even trade in high-priced luxury vacations for more reasonably priced conservation vacations helping out animals and the environment around the world.

Some day, even if it's 20 years from now, when acid rain is a major problem because it literally burns your skin or our children are dying from unbelievably serious breathing problems from the terrible atmosphere or we all have to wear protective clothing or live in giant bubbles, then those people will head our wisdom.

I just can't wait to say, "I told you so."

Answer 4

Here's what you need to do. Get on a rocket and go to the sun, when there adjust the suns thermostat. Come on, the earth has gone through heating and cooling cycles for years. Your falling for the oldest trick in the liberal wacko book. Did you know twenty years ago the same people were predicting a global ice age. We should and have a responsibility to take care of our environment, but lets use a little common sense.

Answer 5

The fact is the world is getting warmer.

We do NOT know if we are causing it or if it is a natural climate change. This is where the debate comes from.

There was an ice age so why not a heat age. There may be nothing we can do to stop it. But we still can try.

If anything does happen it won't happen in our life time, so don't worry to much.

Answer 6

There is no scientific evidence that acttually supports or denies the existance of global warming....the Environmentalists are feeling heat because no body is buying into their global social agenda to get rid of the dependence on fossil fuels...so naturally they start screaming Global Warming! Do I care? NO....I just turned down the AC after my long country drive in my gas guzzling SUV!

Answer 7

The myth created for political reasons, Global Lukewarming,
make the sheep believe something and it becomes a political movement driven by global leftist that have taken over the environmental movements of the 70s..


Media Shows Irrational Hysteria on Global Warming

"The Public Has Been Vastly Misinformed," NCPA's Deming Tells Senate Committee

12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks.

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

"In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent.

"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants.

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Answer 8

Nothing will happen in our lifetime. Contrary to popular belief, one person won't make a difference. It is the people all together that make a difference. So tell me, what have you done to help the earth??? .....................
And you are telling me you believe the TV!!!??? Come on, now. The gaping hole in the ozone layer is getting smaller.

The reason people do not want to help in any way is because it is usually expensive. Take a car for instance, they are expensive, and useful, but to switch to electric would be more expensive.

Answer 9

Because if it warms a little so what? The more shrill the voices of the left, the more I tune them out.

Answer 10

well.....even a blind mouse knows that something is going to change within the next years, can't you just feel it? I can. Don't you worry about it...let the scientists and the gov't worry about it.........just relax and see what happens