Global Warming idea?

Question

They say that if we don't do something about global warming, we will all be underwater... Tell me if my idea to help prevent that from happening is good or not.

I first thought of something simple. Say your 7 years old and you want to make a little snowman inside your home. So you take a hand full of snow and put it in a metal pot, overtime, the snow will melt and turn to water, then you put the pot outside and the water will evaporate.
If we did this by taking parts of the glaciers and doing that, would it help?

Answer 1

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this post... but I for one appreciate that you are at least trying to come up with and idea.

Problem is, Current Glacier Melt is irreversible, cutting it up somehow (keeping in mind, some glaciers are hundreds of feet high and miles wide, hundreds of miles long) won't slow down the melt (which includes evaporation).

What we clearly need right now is agreement to stop contributing to what's causing this to begin with.

Anyone not believing Global Warming... Consider this...

2005 Hottest year on record (Sound familiar?), record devestation forest and brush fires, Worst year in recorded history for Hurricanes (#1 being a category 1 Hurricane which evolved into a category 5 by having moved over the now warmer Gulf waters and destroying New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina), Warmest Surface Ocean temperature in recorded history, Highest C02 levels in history, more record heat waves hit Europe and other continents... Dec: Weather Channel/ Weather.com issues a position statement on Global Warming - It's real, we're doing it, and we can help to slow it down.

2006 is still one of the the worst years on record for Hurricanes: 2006 saw a record number of typhoons and cyclones (so called for hurricanes in other oceans) and saw hurricanes in places previously unknown to them, Broke numerous records and for temperatures all around the globe all in the ocean, land surface and in the atmosphere. Oil and Energy companies beginning to confess and acknowledge their contibutions to human induced climate change known as Global Warming and vow to research and change how they do business. Al Gore releases award winning documentary based on his 30 year pursuit in large part via slide show seminars all around the world to get the warning out there - still being held up by most of the scientific community, now on DVD 'An Inconvenient Truth' - includes 30 min. update, Weather channel now has a show dedicated called 'One Degree' every Sun night at 5PM' (See previous show Sat. nights), Discovery Channel too releases an eye popping documentary with Tom Brokaw about Global Warming, as does, PBS and most recently, the History Channel. 2006 has seen the most videos and news stories to date, from the discovery of a Manhatten sized glacier ice sheet breaking off Canadian coast to the disappearance of snow pack on Mt. Kilamanjero to a snowless Alps in December in Europe...

2007, yet to come, but YOU CAN BET it will knock off the list, one of the 10 warmest years in recorded history, glaciers and ice sheets will continue to melt, lakes and rivers will continue to evaporate, droughts will continue to plague lands, ocean levels and flood occurances/severity will continue to rise...

For those in denial or/and have your head in the sand....
Debate, be in denial all you want, but the obvious truths that will occur all around you are not going to just go away...

You wont change the fact that our global mean temperature has increased 1 full degree and sea level has risen 1/2 foot in just the last 30 years (compare that amount of change which normally occurs naturally due to different climate forcings and other factors, over centuries or many thousands of years - how many signs do you really need?).

Change is occuring so quickly, it is disrupting life for people as well as animals... as is the case among bird species, insects like bumble bees, indigeneous animals (like polar bears and penguins), , etc. at a rate which they cannot adapt or evolve... and other species of animals, such as mosquitoes, are appearing sooner and dying later over a broader area then previously ever known. i.e. city of Nairobi, Africa (host of recent UN Climate Change Summit), built above mosquito line, now recently becoming inhabited by the pesky creatures.

Global Warming is indeed real, but it's not just temperatures and storms which are effected, it's our entire ecosystem! From the depths of the Oceans to the ceiling of our atmosphere, from the caps to the equator.

True, Natural factors have increased CO2 and temperatures in the past, but those factors which can only be explained singurlarly responsible for the current dramatic increase is man's activities over the past 100+ years and the bulk of that being the burning of fossil fuels (ancient sunlight which for example, we've already exhausted over a trillion 50 gal. barrels of oil, the eaisest accessible to escavate, analysts believe we have already drilled half of all projected or known oil in existence).

Understanding the truth about Global Warming, how and why it exists is the first step and one we shoud be taking fully seriously at this point, the next step is understanding the consequences and what can be done.

Global Warming is very serious and is not natural... It's like a spring that goes back and forth over millions of years, then at some point, the spring just gets pulled too far and doesn't go back and causing irreversible, expanential global climate and ecological shift... What can ultimately happen to the planet if this is truly irriversible, some reports suggest looking to Venus for the answers.

Now a message from what people compare to be the Albert Einstein of our time...

“We have to reverse global warming urgently
if we still can.
The earth is in much more danger from human action
than from natural disasters.
This is not a prediction of doom
but a wake up call.
We have to recognize the dangers
and control them.
I’m an optimist and I believe we can.
World Renowned Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking - ABC News interview, August 16, 2006 (re-aired on History Channel's 'Last Days')

Answer 2

No that won't help, because the ice is already outside so the sun is always melting it, and the ice is going in the ocean. Salt won't let the water evaporate. If you want to freeze the ice more, send it to space, it's freezing cold there and anything will turn to ice out there if not protected.

And plus we all won't be underwater, just some parts of the world. Maybe in about thousands of years if humans keep this up then yes, everything is underwater. Everything humans have fought for in years all wasted underwater... sad.

I suggest make everything electric, from cars, to simple stuff. Too bad these rich oil companies won't let it happen...

Answer 3

"2005 Hottest year on record (Sound familiar?), record devestation forest and brush fires, Worst year in recorded history for Hurricanes (#1 being a category 1 Hurricane which evolved into a category 5 by having moved over the now warmer Gulf waters and destroying New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina), Warmest Surface Ocean temperature in recorded history,"

Since we had no US landfall hurricanes in 2006, only 5 named storms and only 2 which reached Cat 3, it looks like we must have turned the corner of Global warming.

Either than or using Hurricane activity to show global warming is B---S---.

Answer 4

Godzilla or Global Warming: make that the title. Godzilla blowing fire onto the earth because he's as real as Global Warming.

Answer 5

No, evaporated water turns into clouds, which turns into rain.

Answer 6

i'm sorry, it wouldn't help...there needs to be more dramatic changes in the way we do things. . .

Answer 7

ahhhhhh, NO