Global Warming - what do you thinK?

Question

Is it hype or are we under real threat??? - I'm British and live abroad - the country I live in is going crazy with all the current global warming threats - Britain's daily press seem extremely mild in comparison???? What do you think of how worried we should be?

Answer 1

It is both over-hyped and a real threat.
But its good people are taking notice, the scientists have been warning us for decades now, but no one cares, its only when you see pictures of American cities under 3 feet of water that you start to worry about it.

Answer 2

I think that it is a serious problem that shouldn't be treated like it doesn't exist for the purposes of politics or profit.

Have you seen the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth'? It is very good and agrees with the things I have been taught as a science student with the Open University.

The fact I have now seen some very disturbing data from two very different sources leads me to believe there is a great risk from global warming. You have probably seen the effects to some degree wherever you live.

Worring about global warming won't solve the problem or help in any way. Make the changes you as an individual feel you should make and hope the rest of the world follows suit before we really find out how big the problem can become.

Answer 3

Everything that you ever wanted to know but were too affraid to ask:
(1)&(2) - the official story - the science and now,...the economics!
(3) - Up for a Nobel Prise
(4) - Sh!t + Fan = OMG!! What next?

Oh BTW anyone who is a naysayer on this hasn't read any of the above and is therefore talking via their bum hole.

LT

PS Don't panic - act. I've gone and bought a bike to cycle to work. We've put energy reduction as a firm priority (this is saving us money big time) and made steps towards implementing the moderate and rather simple methods to make a difference spelled out in (3). We can sort this out, but we all must make changes.

Answer 4

This is a very hot topic right now, but let's put some sense into it.
The earth is not a static environment, it is constantly changing, drought, severe weather, & natural disasters are part of our ecology.
10,000 years ago there was a sheet of ice across most of North America, how exactly did that melt?
The earth is billions of years old, accurate recording of temperature has only been around for a few centuries at the most.
In the 1960's it was a consensus that the ice caps were expanding, in the 1990's the hole in the ozone was going to give us all skin cancer. What happened there?
Scientists like everyone else need a job, governments fund their research. Wasn't there undeniable proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Finally, who is going to pay for the infrastructure & bureaucracy to combat "climate change" I doubt it will be Exxon Mobil or Wal-Mart. Consumers (like you & me) will shoulder that financial burden.

Answer 5

It's a hot button topic. I think that we are going through a phase in the Earth's cycle. Was it accelerated by the existence of man? Maybe. But think about this: The Little Ice Age (I think was during the 13 or 14 hundreds) occured long before gasoline powered vehicles and other greenhouse gases. During the age of Dinosaurs, just about the entire planet was one giant tropic climate and man didn't even exist then! So who really knows? There are so many conflicting reports out there. I just do my part, recycle, not drive a gas guzzling SUV, and try not to be as wasteful.

Answer 6

How high above sea level is the country you are in? Island countries are most worried. People rebuilding near New Orleans but outside the levees should be worried, if they want to leave the new house to their descendants. Britain seems to have high rocky coasts and doesn't need to worry so much for themselves. I think it will happen that the ice caps will melt and low areas will be flooded, I think it will do more damage than terrorists ever could in their wildest dreams, but it won't be a sudden disaster.

Answer 7

6000 ears ago we had the ice age, its been getting warmer ever since. Who is to say that it won't reverse and we end up with global cooling? Minus 39C in Winnipeg last night, they could certainly use a little warming. Global warming is not a good thing but to over react to it is not good either.

Answer 8

I saw a Yorkshire Terrier the other day that was over 3 feet tall. Now that's a worry!

Answer 9

Global Warming is part of the natural cycle, and this is where most people are confused.

The real problem here is not whether it is going to occur, but rather the SPEED at which we will reach it. Like I said, it is part of the natural cycle, but because of us humans, we have made the cycle go A LOT (HUGE EMPHASIS) faster.

Answer 10

Most of it is hype, Greenland used to be green hundreds of years ago. It is another way of sqeezing blood out of us. They say that January was the warmest since 1914, what happened in 1914, everyone stop driving 4x4's and give up flying.