Is Global Warning Our Biggest Issue?

Question

After reading this http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0423 is our focus in the wrong place? Have we got a much bigger problem on our horizon? Who is looking at renuewable energy?
It is a long article, but well worth reading and does open up alot more questions!

Answer 1

What is annoying is that the UK is beginning to do our part and we have to suffer greater taxes and red tape, but what are other countries doing. Look at the size of China to us and what restraints are they following. It's only a problem that everyone has to work together to resolve because the UK is probably one of the smallest countries on the planet. I don't think chopping rain forests down is helping matters.

Answer 2

There are three big problems facing rich democracies like the US and Canada and Europe.

Global warming.

The increasing price of oil and economies that are based on cheap oil.

Economic competition from the rest of the world due to better communications and transportation.

But a lot of things would address the first two together. Conserving energy and the use of non fossil fuel sources of energy. So we don't have to choose which problem is more important.

The latest thing (of many) against the global warming sceptics:

"Following is a calendar for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up in 1988 by the United Nations to guide governments. It draws on work by about 2,500 specialists from more than 130 nations and last issued reports in 2001.

PARIS, Feb. 2 - The first report will give evidence linking human activities, led by use of fossil fuels, to a warming in the past 50 years. It will also project likely climate changes to 2100."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30183206.htm

This is not a natural thing.

Answer 3

No. Global Warming is now in progress and cannot be reversed, merely slowed a very little bit. What the majority of think-tank types consider to be our biggest problem is biological terrorism. The lion's share of the threat does not come from Al Qeada types. It comes from some 40,000 different organizations and other sources of wannabe gods in the U.S. itself. Anyone with an electron microscope and a psychosis could threaten all of life on this planet with just one little homemade bug. That's our biggest issue ahead.

Answer 4

a million. Fundamentalism: treating the Bible as though it have been inerrant. That finally ends up in a habit of disordered questioning and turns the Bible into an idol, making fundamentalists obsess approximately areas of the Bible that have little or no longer something to do with the Gospel, subsequently making them lose touch with Christ's coaching. 2. Dispensationalism. This trivializes the Gospel and demeans Christ's sacrifice. How can God single out one ethnic team whilst he sacrificed himself to maintain all of humanity? 3. That Christians who have not lost touch with Christ's coaching do no longer brazenly denounce fundamentalism and dispensational premillennialism as heretical and idolatrous. This has very much broken Christianity's popularity, and is the main substantial the clarification why rational people who have not made an attempt to benefit Christianity think of maximum Christians are nuts. the answer is for all actual Christians to connect together to combat fundamentalism, and for non-Christians to benefit the version between actual Christianity and fundamentalism. additionally, human beings might desire to end believing that fundamentalists have a appropriate to their ideals, on the grounds that fundamentalism relies on the rejection of reason, and no person has a appropriate to reject reason, that's a present day from God.

Answer 5

The oil sands in Canada are 4 times the Saudi reserves. They can be produced by less than $20 a barrel.

Oil Shale in the US rockies are several times larger than Saudi reserves. A little more expensive, but available at a price. USA has about a quarter of the known coal on earth... It can be refined into liquid fuel for less than the price we pay for crude now. a couple of centuries of fossil fuel supply there.

Answer 6

the wrong is that we are short-sighted.few people research renewable energy and if sufficient funds where available then carbon based fuels would be replaced very soon.but there is a worldwide mechanism of companies,countries etc that dont want the change.to renewable energy.the countries that are researching other forms of energy are the countries that dont have access to oil.so they dont research in order to save the enviroment but find cheap energy.all about the money.there are of course some exceptions but...

as for oil sands they dont solve the problem of pollution and addittionally the cost to use them is very very high and its difficult to yield even the half of that quantity

Answer 7

Climate change, and the effects that it will have on human population movement. It's already started......look at the barricades they've had to erect around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

P.S. The temperature predicted for this January day in Aberdeen, Scotland is 59F.

Answer 8

Global warming is a non-issue, we are just going through the normal warming and cooling cyles of weather on the planet. Our real Big issue is what are we going to do with each other. Everyone seems to hate everyone else - no matter who you talk to there is some group they want dead.
War, Famine and pestilence is far more dangerous than 2 degrees of warmth in 100 tears.

Answer 9

It is the least pressing issue we have in environmental terms.

If we concentrated effort on reducing the throw-away mentality and consumption, we would automatically reduce greenhouse emissions.

Everyone is rushing around picking things up and then throwing them away again.......what sort of life is that?

Answer 10

well if the destruction of the planet and death on a wide scale isnt dont know what is. sea levels will rise, ozone holes will let infer red light though (the suns light before it goes though the ozone layer) and super stroms.