Are you concerned about Global warming and what will YOU personally do to?

Question

help prevent our demise. The world is deteriorating at a rapid rate; The Glaziers in Iceland are melting at rates unheard of and we are facing disasters in biblical proportions. We need to get on the ball and take this seriously or bend down, put our heads between our legs and kiss our azzezz goodbye!

Answer 1

If people aren't concerned they aren't paying attention. A recent study said (based on gravity satellite data) Greenland is losing more than a hundred billion tonnes of Ice mass due to melting per year now and the rate is accelerating rapidly.

This is not good.

We have to face it folks, we are going to be in a bad way soon if drastic steps aren't taken.

BTW, it's 40 degrees in Base Arturo, Antarctica right now.

I personally do everything I can. I use as little electricity as possible, I'm planning to support only politicians who take this issue as seriously as it truly is and I work to raise the awareness of everyone.

People-- good folks like those posting here even--have no idea what we are in for if changes aren't made NOW.

Does the movie Soylent Green ring any bells?

Answer 2

If global warming is truly such an imminent threat as some would have us to believe, there isn't much we can do short of a drastic reduction in the global population.

However, I think that a statement like "facing disasters in[sic] biblical proportions" is just more of the same fear-mongering that the lawyers and politicians are using to line their pockets with the funding of the gullible. I haven't seen any swarms of locust, or rivers turning to blood lately, but I bet the eco-politicians could somehow blame that on global warming as well.

Of course we should take care of our planet, and do our best to be as efficient as we can. However, until someone develops an energy source that is cleaner and more economical than petroleum, no amount of fear-mongering or grand-standing is going to stop the human race from burning oil for energy.

What am I going to to about it personally? I am not going to have any more than 2-3 kids that are going to grow up using energy and polluting just like every other human being on the face of the planet.

Answer 3

The questioner is ignorant. She assumes that since one area is losing ice, that that correlates to the rest of the earth. For instance, the ice is growing in several places;

Norway http://www.sepp.org/controv/afp.html

South America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier

Even Antartica:

Ice and snow piling up over a large area of Antarctica
- 19 May 2005 - According to a new study published in the online edition of Science, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained about 45 billion tons of ice between 1992 and 2003. The ice sheets are several kilometers thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.

There are also seveal studies that show sea levels to be falling!

"The Maldives in the central Indian Ocean consist of some 1,200
individual islands grouped in about 20 larger atolls," says Mörner.
In-as-much as the islands rise only three to seven feet above sea
level, they have been condemned by the IPCC to flooding in the
near future.

Mörner disagrees with this scenario. "In our study of the coastal
dynamics and the geomorphology of the shores," writes Mörner,
"we were unable to detect any traces of a recent sea level rise.
On the contrary, we found quite clear morphological indications
of a recent fall in sea level."

Mörner’s group found that sea levels stood about 60 cm higher
around A.D. 1150 than today, and more recently, about 30 cm
higher than today.

"From the shape and freshness," Mörner says, "one would assume
that the sea level fall took place in the last 50 years, or so."

From "New perspectives for the future of the Maldives"
Nils-Axel Mörner, Michael Tooley, and Göran Possnert,
Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 40, Issues 1-2,
Jan 2004, pp 177-182



Using data from the European Space Agency's radar satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2, a research team from the University of Missouri, Columbia, measured changes in altitude over about 70% of Antarctica's interior. East Antarctica thickened at an average rate of about 1.8 centimeters per year over the time period studied, the researchers discovered.

The region comprises about 75% of Antarctica 's total land area and about 85% of the total ice volume. The area in question covers more than 2.75 million square miles - roughly the same size as the United States.

Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year - a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5076322.stm

If you continue to buy into this doomsday nonsense, you've already put your head between your legs!

Answer 4

Why do u want to give those people this power over u? Let us study one of the biggest green house gases . CO2 is as the results of all the fuel we are burning. If it were true the CO2 would of increased enough which would decrease our oxygen to the point that we would be dieing. Now let look way back to where mother nature introduced green plants a few million years. The CO2 is absorbed by the plants and they give us back oxygen . So where is this terrible threat to our lives it is all a lie just like the CO2.

Answer 5

Hi. Global Warming (or more properly Climate Change) is almost certainly a reality, and also almost certainly inevitable. We can plan for it, but those in power must first admit the existence. Not a happy situation for a government that runs on oil money.

Answer 6

Very concerned. I spent the last week NOT driving my car and using my feet for errands and visiting friends. I'm spreading the word whenever possible. Looking for a veg oil biodiesel kit for my car. I only bathe every other day or when I need to. I'm a vegetarian and that puts alot less stress on the environment (less petro based fertilizers and pesticides that go toward raising meat for slaughter).

Answer 7

I am semi-concerned. But its hard to change. I live in a system designed around corporations making money for me to heat my house, drive to work and even just heat my water. I will try to elect poliliticians that reflect an interest on the matter(democrats only).

Answer 8

to all the skeptics out there...what are the benefits in saying that global warming doesn't exist?is being ignorant to the facts what being a republican is. I'm sick of the republicans name calling people by calling us "liberals"...thats so immature...they need to look act the facts and not look at how much the facts will cost them....I'm just responding to all the annoying skeptics on here....its been already proven not to be a theory anymore..its a fact.

Answer 9

Global warming is natural. Big deal. Get over it.

The glaciers have been melting for 10,000 years - ever since the last ice age ended.

Answer 10

You are being overly alarmist. Global warming is NOT life threatening. That is just political hype. It may have economic consequences, but it will not be a disaster of biblical proportions.

Look, I am not saying that it doesn't exist. I am not saying it will have no consequences. But people who say it will kill us all are just crazy!