ThE FIGHT FOR OUR PLANET?

Question

The US government isn't trying anything to stop global warming. (hence why r there bush supporters?) We need to fight for our planet or we and our children will have to say "We ruined it all" right b4 EARTH is finished. WHO'S WITH ME? We NEED to do something as individuals instead of sittin back knowing it gonna happen!
-Common sense

http://climatecrisis.com
http://fightglobalwarming.com

It just really iritates me that people would let all our forests and streams, animals and wildlife just be gone. zip.All b/c of our selfeshness and fools like George Bush.

Answer 1

Yawn....go buy an aerosol can and an SUV and quit having wet dreams about Al Gore.

Answer 2

Relax, take a deep breath and read the following.

Is Global Warming real?
Earth's climate is changing. The result so far:

Global temperatures have risen 5° C

Glaciers have melted and retreated dramatically

Ecosystems around the world are being altered



This is not new news. These changes started 18,000 thousand years ago, as the earth emerged from the Pleistocene Ice Age-- a time when ice-covered mammoths and mastodons roamed the earth.

Geologists know great ice sheets once covered large portions of the continents. These glaciers have alternately retreated and advanced as the earth has warmed and cooled, in cycles spanning hundreds, thousands, and millions of years.

Historical data from ocean sediments and ice cores indicate warm interglacial periods of 15,000 - 20,000 years separate each major ice age. We currently are in an interglacial period, and are due ( some say overdue ) for the next 100,000- year Ice Age.



Earth's Icehouse History
Beginning about 18,000 years ago the Earth started warming up, halting at least temporarily a 100,000-year-long Ice Age, during which the upper latitudes of almost all the continents lay buried under thick sheets of glacial ice.

The Earth was a much colder and drier place then. Deserts were more extensive, summers were short, and winters brutal. Approximately 1/5 of the forests on the planet were obliterated by the great ice sheets. Over 1/2 of the continent of North America was a desolate wasteland of ice.

At the peak of glaciation, oceans were 300 feet lower than they are today, allowing animals and men to walk from Siberia to Alaska across the Aleutian Land Bridge, causing changes to the ecosystem of North America. It wasn't until about 15,000 years ago that global warming caused the great glaciers to retreat, allowing establishment of our accustomed environment. Average global temperatures have risen about 5° C since the last Ice Age.



The Role of the Greenhouse Effect
From an historical perspective, global warming has saved us, at least temporarily, from an Icehouse Climate, although humans can hardly take the credit.

Science is clear on what controls cycles of climate change. Global warming (and cooling) cycles are controlled primarily by:

1) Cyclical variations in the sun's energy output
2) Eccentricities in Earth's orbit
3) The influence of plate tectonics on the distribution of continents and oceans
4) The so-called "greenhouse effect," caused by atmospheric gases such as gaseous water vapor (not droplets), carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides, which help to trap radiant heat which might otherwise escape into space.
The "greenhouse effect" actually is a bit player in global climate (although without it's benefits the average temperature of the Earth would be minus 18° C). Human's did not cause the greenhouse effect, but critics maintain human additions to atmospheric greenhouse gases may cause global temperatures to rise too much.

Generally understood, but rarely publicized is the fact that 95% of the greenhouse effect is due solely to natural water vapor. Of the remaining 5%, only 0.2% to 0.3% of the greenhouse effect (depending on whose numbers you use) is due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases from human sources. If we are in fact in a global warming crisis, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions would have an undetectable effect on global climate. However, significant efforts to limit the emission of greenhouse gases in the United States are currently underway.



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Carbon Dioxide from all coal burning worldwide comprises only 0.013% of the greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.
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Answer 3

Global warming is a naturally occurring thing, it's going to happen on it's own and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it but they can cut down on the things that is bringing it on faster. It's going to take a world wide stance on helping it but there are too many countries still burning wood and coal for cooking and heat. t's never going to stop.

Do as you want but it won't help much without the whole word doing the same.

Answer 4

I agree with you. Now what are you personally doing to help out? Voting for environemntally friendly candidates, recycling, getting involved with the Sierra Club, there are tons of things you can do.

Answer 5

i just asked the same question and got mixed responses for me it is a seroius epidemic i'm with you all the way!! but it's hard for peolpe to see what's really happening out of sight out of mind kind of thing i'm just one person what can i do alone? we need to all pull together but i dont know anymore

Answer 6

lets protest in Washington D.C.

Answer 7

Good maybe you should stop talking and do something, do you drive then i guess your in the same category as everyone else............

Answer 8

Thats right brother...Earth first...Make Mars our *****!