well sientist's were saying on the news that we will not have no more snow for a couple of years and the polar bears are going to be instinkt....sorry about my spelling but my mind is else were...but how dose every one feel about this tragic sistuation?
2007-01-09 23:41:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
This goes back to the question of global warming or not, and where, because It is impossible to say something which applies to every location in the world. Certainly some areas are not getting as much snow but others are getting more than usual. As far as polar bears, Bush has finally agreed to list the polar bear as "threatened with extinction" which is meant to ensure that no government actions which jeopardize the bears continued existence or adversely affect the habitat of those bears although it seems to me that to not ratify the Kyoto Protocol as Bush has done - many city mayors and state governors have ratified that now and not waited for Bush to do so -does affect the polar bear.
a great site for information relative to all of this is the union of Concerned Scientists and I have listed the url for that
2007-01-10 00:40:00 · answer #1 · answered by Al B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cause for this is el Nino. Actually the temperature of the earth has increased less than 7/10 of 1 degree (C) from 1880 to 2005. That is an increase of about 1 degree (F) in 125 years. You may choose to believe that is global warming or you may not. Here is a link taking you to a NASA chart showing that temperature chart. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif There are numerous charts all over the internet showing the same. Some say that 1 degree is enough to impact the global climate, others say it's not. Most proponents of global warming think the earth's temerature has risen much higher than that and don't even know that it has only risen by 1 degree. But the charts do not lie as do the proponents on both sides of this issue.
Back in the '70s all the hype was about global COOLING and another ice age was coming. I remember that they blamed pollution for that too. They said that all the pollution was darkening the skies and not as much sun was coming through so the earth was cooling off. It took several years but they discovered that they were mistaken. So when someone says, "the sky is falling" don't believe everything you hear on either side of the issue. There are Spin Doctors galore out there. I wouldn't worry just yet about the polar bears either.
Most of the time people will form an opinion and not really be informed about the subject with which they become so opinionated about. So it's best that you not form your opinions from other's opinions, (as in this forum) but on the facts presented.
Learn more about the '70s global cooling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
I hope that helps...
2007-01-09 23:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by capnemo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True Capnemo, but one degree Celsius in global temperature is the difference between iceage and interglaciar periods (interglaciar is the opposite to ice ages).
It means that we are 0.2 in a scale of 1.0 above the peak, and going up.
2006 has been record in USA as highest tempearture (and almost record in global temperature), 2007 is expected to be global record.
Anyway,we better call it climate change rather than global warming. Both are true. But what is happening is a global climate change, not only a global warming.
We will have winters in certain places, even harder that what we haven known, and short decreases in global temperatures (periods of two, three, four years) and then more increases to new history records.
I feel that we must work for a human change versus climate change
2007-01-10 00:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by carmenl_87 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that people should sit up and take better care of the planet, I do not really know if we are responsible for global warming or not..I have read books by scientists on both sides of the fence and they are all convincing. I do not have a degree myself, so I cannot know for sure. I do however know that we as humans are responsible for a lot of other extinctions, poisoning of the water, asthma cases in children, leaching of the soil, deforestation, noise pollution, and thousands of other tragedys. If we do not get our "crud" together we are in trouble.
2007-01-09 23:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by MELONIE T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists estimate that up to half of presently living species will be extinct in less than 100 years. So there's a lot more cute fuzzy things that you'll be saying bye-bye to. And learn how to spell or at least to press the "check spelling" button.
2007-01-09 23:51:57 · answer #5 · answered by Matt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's sad but people have to have everything right now. because of their huge appetite for resources they are eliminating many other species of plant and animal just for their own pleasure. When WW3 really kicks in and we kill 2/3 of the people on this planet maybe then we can see some recovery but not until we remove many of the people from this planet.
2007-01-10 00:23:51 · answer #6 · answered by oldsoftee2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Western NY state had about 18 inches of snow last night and more to come.. The scientists are definitely wrong.
2007-01-09 23:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it is colder and the polar bear will die,We will lost tự học cute animal.And the earth will lost a great gilf from the nature. SO POOR
2007-01-10 01:01:57 · answer #8 · answered by Christina Nguyen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can not have faith some all and sundry is silly sufficient to purchase into the the main suitable option-wing "international warming is a hoax" propaganda. this is incredible how they don't understand common technology. i'm taken aback the anti-existence rednecks can use a working laptop or computing gadget.
2016-10-30 12:42:03 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's horrible and I hate the fact that we might have something to do with it
2007-01-09 23:49:31 · answer #10 · answered by sweetie4ever555 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋