Global Warming is a serious threat, what are your views to this issue?

Answer 1

With so many precautions, actions, conferences etc also I do not think we will be able to stop global warming. Some day sooner or later ice at both the poles are going to melt. And the see level would go up.

I am planning to buy a home in some not so famous hill station.

Answer 2

The climate is changing, as it has been for millions of years. The earth's climate is always changing. In the past 1,000 years, it has been warmer and colder than in the last 100, including today's "record temperatures." Obviously we can't blame industrial pollution for the warmer period between 1100 and 1300. Nor can we blame it for the little ice age which followed shortly thereafter.

We also know that the alarm has been sounded no less than 4 times in the last 100 years. First it was global cooling, then warming, then cooling again, and now warming again. Again, all due to the ever changing climate.

Quite frankly, I feel that we are calling the issue proven way before it has been. Nor have we even discussed what the real consequences of global warming might actually be. It can't all be flooding and disaster, can it? Won't areas like Canada, northern europe and Siberia become more habitable if the earth warms? Won't crops and all plant life grow better with higher atmospheric concentrations of CO2?

There was a fellow mentioning the severe droughts in Australia. Droughts have stricken many ancient cultures and forced them migrate and abandon cities before. Again, all before industrialization. Fortunately for the Aussies, they have the technology and wealth to make sure they have water, if the droughts there don't end.

Answer 3

As a matter of fact, the concensus among scientsists is that yes, Global Warming does exist. I personally think it does. We've been pumping greenhouse gases into the air. If we continue to do so, we will end up like Venus. Even a first grader can look up Venus in a book and see that it's surface temperature is extremely high. That's because its atmosphere is made up of gases that trap the heat from the sun and raise the temperature without letting hardly any heat radiate from the planet, as Earth's currently does. Also, deforestation, particularly of sun-soaking rainforests in a big issue. The asbetos effect is a phenomenon when solar radiation (sometimes in the form of heat) is reflected off of the bare surface of the earth into the atmosphere. That combined with the greenhouse gases is a disaster waiting to happen. Also, we've already jumped half a degree in only 50 years. It's supposed to take 500 years for that to happen.

Answer 4

global warming is a serious threat. Global warming is NOT due to mankind's actions. If you look back in history. Like back in the Ming Dynasty (I believe) there was a rise in earths temperature that cause catastrophic effects. There was no industrial means of production or cars back then. People lived off the land..and still earths temperature went up. If you go back throughout the entire history of earth. You'll see the same thing. Like what about the Ice age? What does ice need to melt? Heat. Where there cars, factories, hair spray, gas pumps, electric, etc back then... NO...so what made it warm up enough to melt the ice???? Natural increase in earths temperature. It happens. It's happening now. But people are to stupid to realize it. If you pay attention to science. The earth gravitational pull flips sides every several thousands of years.....which weakens the natural defense of earths shields and lets more ultra-violet rays and harmful light to reach the earth raising the temperature. which is also another contributing factor to hearing about an increase in skin disease.
but with man's ability to adapt to changes. I don't see it being to much of a HORRIBLE threat to human civilization. although. Agricultural means will be effected and needs to be handled accordingly. That would really be about the only SERIOUS threat that could doom mankind.

Answer 5

If I look at it from a spiritual point, I can see where prophecy is becoming reality in that it says that "the seasons will change" and the old things will become new and it refers to the warm climates becoming the cold climates, etc... so i figure it is all just in Gods big plan.

Then I look at things from a human mind and find that we as a people have taken the earth that was made perfect and made to be able to maintain the human race and we have destroyed it and its inhabitants that rely on its natural state for survival. Through the emissions of gases and other chemicals, we have begun to destroy the protection of the ozone layer. Fog is so thick in some places u can almost cut it w a knife, how can that be good for the environment? The factories, airlines, cruise ships, etc. and their customers are all to blame for the decline of natural resources and contribute to the global warming conditions that will not be corrected in our lifetime, it will take literally hundreds of years if we were to stop the contaminants now.

Answer 6

Is it? While evidence is mounting that man has influenced the upward trend, it’s going to get warmer regardless until the sun stops getting warmer. It's not worth destroying the world economic system and causing another world war over a degree or two warmer on the average (above the warmer sun induced part). Besides, past global warming incidences has been beneficial to man and this one will likely be so too. What is so bad about huge areas in Canada and Russia, much larger then any areas lost, that will become wheat-growing regions to feed the world's hungry?

Answer 7

This is an issue that is no longer academic. We are feeling the effects of effects of Global Warming in our everyday lives. These weekend I had the opportunity to visit the same ski resort that I visited last year at the same time and the weather was noticeably warmer. The world needs to wake up on this issue and start taking serious steps to curtail this phenomenon NOW.

Answer 8

globalwarming is a fact,the question is what contribution is man making to it.
a more important issue to me is the enormous amount of pollution that is slowly killing everytrhing.
even when dinosaurs roamed the earth there was global warming and cooling.
the sun's activity has more to do with it than we do as does the natural gas given up from the oceans etc.
too much vested interest is skewing the truth and scientists are paid for their research,which leads to false conclusions or half truths so funding can continue.everything we in the west do to limit pollution or global warming will be undone by china alone .

Answer 9

Serious issues it is. As we all aware that nowadays there're climate changes everywhere. Like in europe, suppose to hit -15 celcius for the winter, now it only -2. They even find new islands in greenland since the ice had melted. Water level increases, so on and so forth. But, i dont think we can help that much, haha..anyway...

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades, and its projected continuation. Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. [1] The uncertainty in this range results from both the difficulty of predicting the volume of future greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty about climate sensitivity.

Global 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 observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations." [1] The main cause of the human-induced component of warming is the increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases are released by activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, and agriculture.

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, even if no further greenhouse gases were released after this date, warming (and sea level) would be expected to continue to rise for more than a millenium, 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. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at combatting global warming. (See List of Kyoto Protocol signatories.)

Let's all hope that some experts might come out with great solutions to help the earth. Otherwise, our greatgrandchildren wont be able to enjoy living in this blue-green planet ;)

Answer 10

We should study the geological evidence of all the past oscillations in global temperature to determine how to prepare for the next inevitable climate change.

Studying weather patterns and historical records and human migration patterns of 600 to 1800AD would be the most helpful when determining how it will effect modern society.