Every one claims that fossil fuel burning has caused the planet to warm up.
Oil dropped 9% in value in the last 2 weeks. The planet is too warm and people are not burning up all that fuel to heat their homes this year.
Do you think that Mother Nature is fighting BUSH? I mean BACK?
Are oilers feeling it where it hurts. In their pocket book???
2007-01-12 06:04:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
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. Source: 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 temperature has risen much more 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. The average temperature in the Antarctica is 109 degrees below zero. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Climate It seems to me 108 below (one degree warmer) is still pretty cold and not enough to melt anything. But there are those that say it will.
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 many years to discover that they were mistaken and it was all just hype. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling 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.
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. (Many do not provide any proof or links to prove their point, just their opinion.) With that said we do have a responsibility to do our part by doing whatever is within your power to keep our planet alive and well.
I hope that helps...
2007-01-12 07:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by capnemo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haha, your metaphor is great. Well, it's just natural for mother nature to "fight back." By that I mean, it fixes it's self.
Every 150,000 years, Earth goes through a cycle. Extreme cold (Ice Age) and extreme heat (Global Warming). We are almost at the natural peak of Global Warming. In our life time, we will never see the actual peak or the descent. This process is ultimate in that by the end of the ice age, the land is cleansed and re-born.
We are pasted that and almost at the peak of capacity of life. Similar to this long process, we have seasons which is also perfect in that it keeps everything balanced.
I'm sure, in a natural way, Earth is trying to balance things out but things like that take time to happen. Sadly, the damage that is continueing to be delt is too much for anything thing natural. That means we have to help and stop the fossil fuel burnings and pollution.
2007-01-12 15:42:16 · answer #2 · answered by tenacious_d2008 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think mother nature will win this fight...I wouldnt bet on bush
2007-01-12 16:00:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In a way I guess. But I think we are just doing it to ourselves.
2007-01-12 14:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by Megan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother nature is not an entity. It cannot fight back.
2007-01-12 14:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋