If we are aware that global warning is truely happening, is enough being done to control it?

Question

I mean, we pay the taxes that our governments put on fuels to try and limit consumption, we pay the charges for congestion in our cities and now they are talking about LEZ (Low Emission Zone).

Answer 1

Global warming is something thought up by scientists working for world governments in order to tax us more.

Of course we are contributing a bit, but a single volcano eruption releases 10 years worth of human greenhouse gases, and these have been happening for millions of years. The world temperature has increased 0.6 degrees in the last 60 years, hardly anything to be panicing about. There is no reason to believe it is going to increase much more dramatically in the near future. The human population churned out alot more pollution in the industrial ages.

Its all just scaremongering, the world heats and cools in cycles of its own accord, always has done. If you read the actual report that was written recently by these so called "experts", there is no evidence given at all.

A much more important thing to consider is renewable fuel sources, cos when all the coal, oil and gas has run out, then it really is curtains for us.

Answer 2

Why wait for the government?.. At best, we know that fuel in emissions cause cancer, lung disease and serious health issues..

Our tree's along the highway know this truth, this summer, look and see where they began to die.. It will be the side facing the road.. Well what happens to fuel since it is a broken form of Oil?.. but still oil?..

It heats up everything in it's path.. And fries it at a quicker rate..

Now take a bowl, fill it with dirt.. Now wet one with water and the other with oil and see which one will crack and split faster..

When you remove oil from the earth, and don't replace it with anything, what is going to happen?.. Well lets take your car for a crack at a simple analogy..
What would happen if you just put water in the engine and then took off on a long trip?.. The core in the engine would heat up and melt the working components.. Or, what happens to your engine when you run low on oil?.
This is why President Bush has been pushing us to begin the process to find alternative fuels..

So, what is the answer?.. Well sell your car and start walking..
Pay less insurance and have a little more money in the bank to cover your healthcare issues when they crop up.. It is all tied into the same system that protects it.. If you can understand one point I made, then you can make a difference in the world and don't need the government to do anything to help us.. We can do it ourself, but I doubt there is enough people in this country who have the common sense to do it.. Or the will power to back up their educations..
Which that in itself, would open a wholeeee new can of worms..

The Ice caps are melting, where does the heat cross when China opens all their heat pumping plants?.. Where is all the stuff going that they are making?..

Boy, are we fools..

Answer 3

It's all a load of rubbish, taxing on consumption isn't going to limit consumption. Fuel is a necessity for the biggest users (industry etc) and it will have little effect on individuals, certainly too small to cause significant upheaval to their lifestyle.

The question which I feel you should be putting out there is 'where is the revenue from the specific green taxes being spent'? Is it being spent on combatting global warming effects? I.E. measures to limit damage from increased sea levels, re-location of affected housing etc.

The planet may be warming up, but nothing we can do will stop it, it's natural and evolutionary. So naturally the government(s) are cashing in.... it's what they do...

Answer 4

There has been global warming since the little ice age that ended about 1400AD. And the earth is much warmer than it was at the end of the last major ice age.

Think about it for a moment. 10,000 years ago the last big ice age was ending. Would the scientists be saying stop the warming then?

Mother Nature takes care of things. Our time reference is way too short for what we are looking at. Cycles come and go. That's normal.

Answer 5

1. China and India won't quit poluting.

2. Global warming is not a fact!! Look it up.

Assertions by opponents of the global warming theory

Some of the assertions made in opposition to the global warming theory include:

* IPCC draws firm conclusions unjustified by the science, especially given the acknowledged weakness of cloud physics in the climate models.[3][4]
* Correlation does not imply causation, so just because temperatures have risen overall since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution doesn't necessarily mean that Industrialisation has caused the change in temperature.[5]
* The period since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has produced "urban heat islands" (see below) that could be skewing temperature measurements that indicate the recent warming.[6]
* Some global warming studies have been shown to have errors, used shoddy methods and manipulated data sets and have not been reproduced. [7] [8]
* Using "consensus" as evidence is an appeal to the majority argument rather than scientific discussion. Some have proposed that, because the issue has become so politicized, climatologists who disagree with the consensus may be afraid to speak out for fear of losing their positions or funding. [citation needed]
* Climate models will not be able to predict the future climate until they can predict solar and volcanic activity, [9] changes in sea temperature [10] and changes to cosmic ray levels that make the low level clouds that cool the earth. [11]
* Estimates at CO2's effectiveness as a greenhouse gas vary, but are generally around 10-100 times lower than water weight for weight, leaving a "net" greenhouse effect of man-made CO2 emissions at less than 1%. [12]
* Climate science cannot make definitive predictions yet, since the computer models used to make these predictions are still evolving and do not yet take into account recently discovered feedback mechanisms.[citation needed]
* Global temperatures are directly related to such factors as sunspot activity (an 11-year cycle).[13][14]
* Global warming is largely a result of reduced low-altitude cloud cover from reduced Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). It is similar in concept to the Wilson cloud chamber, however, on a global scale, where earth's atmosphere acts as the cloud chamber. [citation needed]
* The concern about global warming is analogous to the concern about global cooling in the 1970s. The concern about global cooling was unnecessarily alarmist. The concern about global warming is equally alarmist.
* Many opponents also point to the Medieval warm period, which lasted from the 10th to the 14th century, and which indicated an above-average temperature for at least Western Europe, and possibly the whole Earth. This period was followed by the Little Ice Age, which lasted until the 19th century, when the Earth began to heat up again.[citation needed]
* Satellite temperature records show less warming than surface land and sea records.
* The relationship between historic temperatures and CO2 levels, based on ice-core samples, shows that carbon dioxide increases have always followed a rise in temperature rather than the other way around. [15]

Opponents tend to define themselves in terms of opposition to the IPCC position. They generally believe that climate science is not yet able to provide us with solid answers to all of the major questions about global climate. Opponents often characterize supporters' arguments as alarmist and premature, emphasizing what they perceive as the lack of scientific evidence supporting global-warming scenarios.

Many opponents also say that, if global warming is real and man-made, no action need be taken now, because:

* Future scientific advances or engineering projects will remedy the problem before it becomes serious, and do it for less money.
* A small amount of global warming would be benign or even beneficial, as increased carbon dioxide would benefit plant life, thus potentially becoming profitable for agriculture world-wide.
* There is a distinct correlation between GDP growth and greenhouse-gas emissions. If this correlation is assumed to be a causation, a cutback in emissions might lead to a decrease in the rate of GDP growth [16]

Answer 6

Shell made £9.1 billion profit last year.
Ex on made £20.5 billion profit last year.

These are the companies whose products are causing this so called "greenhouse effect"

Why can"t the Government take some of these billions in extra tax to spend on "green issues" instead of robbing the normal working man.

It"s always the man, or woman at the bottom that has to pay up.

Big business are Gordon's friends so stay immune

Answer 7

Were does your tax dollars go, into arms and death at present, it's a case of live now and stuff the future. Do you think the Petrol companies want to stop the sale of oil and the mining companies stop the sale of coal.
There are plenty of other fuels that can be used, look at the Hemp history in the USA, it was the big big oil companies that made the push to outlaw hemp in the USA just after it was found that HEMP can be used to replace petrol.

IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY NOT CLEAN AIR

Answer 8

Global warming is a cycle.
It's a natural cycle.
The same people who said the world would be flooded in 30 years 30 years ago are still yelling about it now.
They point to a decrease or an increase in temperature as proof.
So fluxuating weather qualifies as global warming.

Answer 9

There are cyclical changes in both the earth and the atmosphere
which are effecting climatic changes worldwide, the LEZ thing
is only a part of this, there needs to be more accountability
worldwide and a look at previous climatic changes, as well as
how space effects where this planet is now, there must be a
larger look taken at what we do with regard to the greenhouse
effect...........There are already massive changes which have
happened that we were not aware of in the oceans, volcanoes
etc.................................................................................................

Attention needs to be paid to rising sea levels, and the slip
of the continents...........................................................................

Answer 10

EVERYTHING RUNS ON OIL. It's not just cars. There is nothing we can do about global warming and nobody cares.