Global Warming!?

Question

OK, people have told me to do something about global warming, but I have a few questions about it! Please don't leave any details out! All the web sites are way too confusing! Thanks!

What is global warming?

What causes it?

What are the results of global warming?

How can I prevent it?

Answer 1

Global warming is the temperature increase in our atmoshpere.
One of the main causes is the increase in CO2 and other greenhouse gasses that are trapping the sun's heat within our atmoshpere instead of allowing it to bounce off our planet back into space.
The result of global warming is just that, global warming. Polar ice caps are melting at record rates, which raises the water level, endangering coastal regions. Water gets displaced, making wet areas wetter and dry areas drier. This alters where and when we can grow our crops, which feed the entire earth.
The warmer ocean temperatures and longer warm seasons make natural disasters, esp. wildfires and hurricanes, much worse in more places.
Global warming has been happening since rougly the 1970's, so there really isn't a hope for preventing it, but you can help slow it down, stop it, and eventually reverse some of it. There are thousands of things you can do. Change from incandescent to flourescent light bulbs, drive less and either ride a bike or carpool more. Support legislation pushing for pollution preventing reforms, higher EPA standards, etc. by writing to your local representatives. Recycle. Talk to your biology teachers, or science teachers in general. Mine know alot. See if there's an Ecology club or Biology club in your school and talk to the members, maybe even sit in on a few meetings.

Answer 2

The confusion is comes from politicking an issue. The truth is that we are still in the data collecting phase. We have some ideas about global warming, but the truth is that we still don't know it all. I can tell you this for a fact...there is more than one cause. Example...the greenhouse effect only holds true if the sun was the only source of planetary heat. We have another, which is the earth's core. The fact that the North American Continent is moving towards the Asian Plate. This is causing seismic activities in the Pacific Rim...they call it the "ring of fire." This causes water in the Pacific to be warmed by under water volcanoes. This effect also causes elevated emmissions in CO2 as well as el nino effects that alter the jet stream. There's plenty more reasons to debate, but we do need more research to have complete discussion.

See, even when people are confronted with theory not in Al Gore's midset...environmentalists still thumb down out of ignorance.

Answer 3

The enormity of global warming can be daunting and dispiriting. What can one person, or even one nation, do on their own to slow and reverse climate change? But just as ecologist Stephen Pacala and physicist Robert Socolow, both at Princeton University, came up with 15 so-called "wedges" for nations to utilize toward this goal—each of which is challenging but feasible and, in some combination, could reduce greenhouse gas emissions to safer levels—there are personal lifestyle changes that you can make too that, in some combination, can help reduce your carbon impact. Not all are right for everybody. Some you may already be doing or absolutely abhor. But implementing just a few of them could make a difference.
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Answer 4

Its debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.

Answer 5

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation into the future.

The Earth's average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 °Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4 °Fahrenheit) in the 20th century. The prevailing scientific opinion on climate change is that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" [1].

The increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the primary causes of the human-induced component of warming. They are released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing and agriculture, etc. and lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

The measure of the response to increased GHGs, and other anthropogenic and natural climate forcings is climate sensitivity. It is found by observational [2] and model studies. This sensitivity is usually expressed in terms of the temperature response expected from a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. The current literature estimates sensitivity in the range 1.5-4.5 °C (2.7-8.1 °F). Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures may increase by between 1.4 and 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. The uncertainty in this range results from both the difficulty of predicting the volume of future greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty about climate sensitivity.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming (and sea level rise due to thermal expansion) is expected to continue past then, since CO2 has a long average atmospheric lifetime.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the exact degree of climate change expected in the future, and especially how changes will vary from region to region across the globe. A hotly contested political and public debate has yet to be resolved, regarding whether anything should be done, and what could be cost-effectively done to reduce or reverse future warming, or to deal with the expected consequences.

Answer 6

If you desire to obtain supply cash for local weather study, do you suppose that you'll be able to get a cheque should you say," I want the supply, as I suppose that I can end up that the figures that the present paradigm is founded upon are mistaken" ? The best environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There continues to be no tested causative hyperlink among the volume of Co2 within the surroundings, and an broaden in worldwide temperatures. The WWWF pics of the polar bears swimming had been taken within the Arctic summer season; while the ice cap partly melts, as they could not rise up to snapshot within the iciness. The ice used to be too thick! The East-Anglian uni study figures. "Oh! The figures do not fit our expectancies. Oh good. Keep quiet. Because we all know that we're correct." When the notion, and the religion is extra principal than squarely going through the professional doubts of plenty of non supply-supported scientists, technological know-how has been superceded through devout zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully stated." I pray thee, within the bowels of Christ, recall that thou mayest be mistaken."

Answer 7

Warming of our Earth's climate.

Polution, mainly CO2's from cars and burning of fossil fuels such as coal plants.

Results? CATASTROPHIC!

Drive a fuel efficient car and save energy any way you can.

Watch Al Gore's movie: "Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth" That will show you all you need to know.

It has been in the 60's-70's in the eastern US in January .....hmmmm.......GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!

Answer 8

Seriously, this website is awesome and will tell you everything you need to know about global warming and what it's doing to our earth right now.
www.climatecrisis.net

Answer 9

Global warming is caused primarily by kids using their computers to get other people to do their homework for them.

Answer 10

the peope telling you to do something about g-warming live in mansions and drive their suv's in the most pollution contributing cities in the nation!


not saying it's totally fake, but be careful who you are listening to...