Global warming?

Question

What are your thoughts on global warming? Obviously it is a real threat to us, but some scientists think that we're in the end of the Ice Age and we're getting back to the temperature that the Earth really should be. Just curious for other people's input.

Answer 1

The problem is the rate at which we are seeing warming occur. It is unprecedented that the temperature should rise so quickly.
Though a lot of people say, "warmer...so what?" you need to consider that disease vectors will shift, migration paths and tracks will be thrown awry, more severe storms will occur more often (Katrina, January tornadoes), large exctinctions will be seen among animals (Right whales, corals), sea level will rise and submerge coastal areas (New Orleans, parts of California), and all of these changes are linked to temperature rises that even the BUSH administration admits are caused by human activities.
The correlation is scientifically too valid to be ignored, though a lot of people try to explain it away. And though the earth will be fine, if we kill off our food sources (crop failures by drought and extreme weather systems), we're going to have a hard time making it through.
And when it was this hot before...we saw massive extinctions, like the Permian-Triassic (99% of all species) and the K-T (dinosaurs).
Exxon-Mobil, unfortunately, paid "scientists" to create the illusion of a debate as to whether global warming is occuring or not. They succeeded, but if you look at the facts, it is here and we caused it and it is going to get UGLY.

Answer 2

Global warming is a natural process that has occured many times before. Most notable is the global warming that produced the coal and oil that we burn today. A global warming was also the cycle when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, hence bigggg plants and bigggg animals.
The only threat to us is from failure to adapt! Some scientists (check out the Human Origins Project from the Smithsonian) feel that the human race evolved communities, altruism and language among other things as a means to survive the last ice age (which we are leaving even now) and that as a species we have no collective conscience of how to adapt to a warming. Consequently we are afraid and our main fear is that the human race won't survive. That is unfortunate thinking because it cripples and distracts us from generating solutions that would ensure our survival.
The upside to a global warming could be lower energy costs, bigger plants, and more available water.
But the big news is; we live on a dynamic, ever -changing planet, that is the reason we are alive in the first place!
Climate is the culmination of a lot of factors and it has changed dramatically throughout the 4.6 bil years of Earth history and with or without us, will continue to change.

Answer 3

If you desire to acquire supply cash for local weather study, do you believe that you'll be able to get a cheque should you say," I want the supply, as I believe that I can turn out that the figures that the present paradigm is founded upon are improper" ? The first-class environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There continues to be no demonstrated causative hyperlink among the volume of Co2 within the surroundings, and an expand in international temperatures. The WWWF pix of the polar bears swimming had been taken within the Arctic summer time; while the ice cap in part melts, as they could not stand up to snapshot within the iciness. The ice was once 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 primary than squarely going through the reliable doubts of plenty of non supply-supported scientists, technological know-how has been superceded by means of devout zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully stated." I pray thee, within the bowels of Christ, recollect that thou mayest be improper."

Answer 4

Two thoughts.

It won't be so bad. Some sea level rise, but not much. And some weather changes, but not so bad.

It is really hard to stop. Just conserving a little will not help. We would have to TOTALLY stop burning coal, oil and natural gas to stop the increase. That would mean that, starting today, no cars, buses, trucks, tractors, trains, ships, airplanes, rockets, or fossil fuel power plants could operate, unless they were powered by alcohol or bio diesel or other renewable fuel. We would be limited to wood, alcohol, hydroelectric, wind, solar and nuclear power. It would completely ruin the world economy. The massive poverty, unemployment, lack of food, health care and housing would kill way more people than a few extra storms.