Why are people getting so worked up over global warming?

Question

al gore is just there and everyone is believing him cause hes in the meadia. and dont give that bs that theres facts.

Answer 1

I'll take the word of the IPCC and pretty much every top climatologist in the world with their "facts" that you hate so much.

Science is scary, isn't it?

Do you also believe that the devil planted dinosaur bones to make Christians question the bible?

Answer 2

It's just sad that people are this gullible!

1 Global Cooling was the problem now warming
2 Volcano's contribute to more than man
3 YOU CAN'T judge what the life time of the Earth is doing in just the one hundred yrs or so that we have been keeping record, much less what has happened since you were younger!
4 This has just come back to the headlines since the Liberals have gotten the medias love back.
5 Ted Danson said that we would be dead in ten yrs if we didn't do something then! That was Ten yrs ago .

Global warming is bull the cycles are just changing on Earth again. Old growth trees show that earth has experienced this type of before and will again after man has died off!

Answer 3

I don't get it. The problem I'm more concerned with is what's happening beneath our oceans. The NOA was down on their budget this year and did not get all the funding their need. It costs a heck of a lot more to build submersible vessels that can withstand the depths they need to go to, but the money is a real issue.

With all the oil spills and pollutants that have gone into the oceans, plus the rise in temperatures of the water should be of more concern right now. It's pretty impossible to keep heating the ocean waters in mid winter, especially this year, but because of the volcanic activity and earthquakes beneath the oceans, it's opening up heat sources that are unconscionable. The affects are from the east cost to the west coast.

Answer 4

i remember going to college in Southern Minnesota in 1981...the temp hovered around 20 below zero (not freezing, zero) for about 30 days straight...that was about the maximum for my lifetime...I also ice fish a lot and 24" of ice at the end of January was normal...now i see 14" and in just a few years past Canadian geese have been able to keep the ice open most of the winter (weird)...don't look at the temperature outside...look at ice levels, glaciers positions and the Canadian perma frost, they are all retreating....

I am a country boy, 50 yrs old, and live outdoors...I realize that nature will ALWAYS seek a balance...but that balance could mean the destruction of the balance of the Earth, rising oceans, and the elimination of millions of people, resulting in a condition that will allow the Earth to rid itself of the problem....so, are we part of the problem or part of the solution? Remember how hot the summers have been?

I like the cold, it tells me that we are not past the tipping point yet

Even if I and millions of others are wrong, I would rather be wrong in any effort to make this planet a better place for my grandchildren.

If I get even one vote, that means that one person understand my intent and that one person means there are many more like him/her

those whiney Californians and southerners who are complaining about a few days below 40, don't know crap...it's supposed to be ver, very cold here and it barely has managed a "good", "scary" winter here for years

What really caught my attention is the days allowed for vehicular transport across frozen Canadian lakes...it is nearly haly of that 20 years ago

Answer 5

Scientists compartmentalize their knowledge, then make pronouncements based on stuff they heard, just like the rest of us. What does a biologist know about geology? Yet because the biologist finds corals 20 ft above sea level, they assume the rock strata has remained unchanged, so it 'must be' the water that rose that high. Sorry, no. Global temperature depends on SOLAR input. That's why MARS is experiencing Global Warming, and we haven't so much as seit FOOT there yet. So how'd we do THAT? Huh?

Answer 6

Beyond the hype there is a reason for the panic some globle warming is natural the rest man made . Due to the damage we humans have done it has sped up the warming of the planet which has many negative effects on life and pretty much everything else . If we keep putting off doing anything to slow it down the planet will be to uninhabitable for us to live on even though it wouldn't reach that point for atleast 2 or more generations.

Answer 7

It is the great new ruling class concept in taxing essentials to shift the burden of taxation on to the poor while remaining pious and politically correct at the same time.
Even if it was true, move to sunny Antarctica! Got to be plenty of oil there!

Answer 8

Honestly, it's got a good 50 to 50 percent chance of being true. think about it - with all of the government's propaganda on either side of this equation, the truth and the lies just blur into one big corporate scheme, almost. It's a shame if it is true, because I've lost my belief in it over the years.

Just like that "Global Cooling" scare in the 1970's. That was complete crap, too. So who knows?

Answer 9

It's not just Al Gore--it's top scientists from 113 countries. But as for WHY we're "getting worked up?" I think part of it is that, unlike with the clusterfrak in Iraq, Global Warming is something we feel like we can somehow make a difference in, even if it's just by driving a fuel efficient car and using different lightbulbs.

Answer 10

Yeah because only 90% of scientists think that humans are causing global warming.
That means a full 10% think human activity has nothing to do with it!!
Think about that 10 percent, thats like one out of every ten man!!!

Answer 11

Its not just Al Gore..don't you read the news?
February 2, 2007. On that day, “the question mark was removed behind the debate about whether climate change had anything to do with human activity on this planet.” So stated Achim Steiner, the Executive Director of the U.N.’s Environmental Programs, during the Paris press conference announcing the forth report from the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).

The more than 600 scientists who contributed to the report concur. “There is no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activity…The warming of the climate system is now unequivocal,” said Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

Global warming occurs when gases in the atmosphere trap solar radiation above natural levels. Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has increased the amount of greenhouse gases, namely carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and both nitrous oxide and methane from agricultural practices. The effect of increased atmospheric temperature has already been observed in rising sea levels, increased air and ocean temperatures, melting polar ice, and changes in rainfall amounts and intensity.

The enormity of the potential consequences of just one of these factors is hard to fathom: everything and everyone will be affected. But some will be affected more than others.

In a separate panel discussion about climate change and human health held at New York University earlier this week, Dale Jamieson, a professor of environment and ethics at NYU, emphasized that it is now critical to switch from seeing global warming as a scientific issue to accepting it as an ethical one, moving on to affect change. “It is difficult to act on climate change unless you see it as a moral issue and lift it out of a policy agenda,” he said.

To Jamieson, global warming is a moral issue because the problem is disproportionately created by the wealthy, saying that some people “act in such a way that it unjustifiably affects others.” Furthermore, the costs of climate change will not be as hard on those same wealthy nations or individuals. While the poor not only emit fewer greenhouse gases, they will bear the brunt of the consequences of global warming. This point is driven home by a map detailing the estimated numbers of world-wide deaths that could be attributed to global warming. Africans, the lowest emitters, will be affected most, according to Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

So, what will happen? The IPCC report detailed many possible scenarios for the future but could not predict the most likely trajectory. “Warming will depend on choices that human beings will make to emit more or less greenhouse gases in the coming century,” said Solomon. We could choose a path that leads to an extreme, such as melting the Greenland ice sheet and raising sea level about 20 feet. Or we could choose a path that changes the world less drastically, requiring less adaptation and fewer environmental refugees.

At the end of the press conference, Steiner passionately concluded that “every individual can today walk out of their front door and cut their emissions by more than what Kyoto had envisioned… without having to lose the quality of their lives.” So, let’s do it. Unplug your sleeping computer, walk to the corner store, purchase veggies from a nearby farmer – whatever you do locally, the effect will be global. And the effect will be important.