what'd you think about Global Warming.?

Question

i think its real.
i did a report on it for my freshman project...and some of the stuff i learned was heartbreaking.


why shouldnt we be preparing for it..what harm could be done by cutting greenhouse gasses???!! thats what i'd like to know! even if, by some chance, its not happening, and this is natural, whats the harm in doing things to protect the enviornment anyways?!!

people who say "we dont need to do anything..its not real...blah blah blah.." are so wrong. theres nothing wrong with protecting our earth while we still can!!!

and then ppl say.."oh, well it wont affect me!! so why should i care!!" well ya kno what i think when i hear adults say that...i feel as if they dont care about my future..that they dont care if the world i live in is storm ridin, or if my children never see an arctic animal. when i hear that, im really hearing that they dont care about my generation and what happens to us, or the world, when they're gone.

which is unsensitive, uncaring, and hurtful.

in my researching for my report, i found that 53 cubic miles (thats ALOT!!) of ice from greenland melted.

very large glaciers are breaking away from antarctica.

polar bears are DROWNING because their habitat is melting away, and distances from one area to another is too great.

ocean levels will rise to great heights. destroying very large, important places like Manhattan (which includes Ground Zero), Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Venice, a lot of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Bangladesh, and many Asian islands. Does this not seem fatal???!!!!
with all of these HUGE cities gone, where will all of these ppl go?!
the numbers of refugees from these places will be astronomic. we're talking millions of ppl here.

The government says that if they take these precautions that the economy will be badly affected..but how much worse will it be when cities are destroyed, and other cities dont have the capacity to hold all of those refugees?

"PPL DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THAT STUFF BC ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS ANNA NICLOE SMITH
BRAT PIT and so on "

sadly, youre right..

hey hey hey no need to get irate!! can you not talk about something without putting down others and their opinions?

did i ever say once that PEOPLE were the cause?
no. i didnt.

i said that we should be doing something anways..if it is real, then we did something about it. if it isnt, we didnt harm the earth in the least bit by cutting down on things that are eating away at our ozone!! we actucally helped it..and i think that should be motivation enough!! just wanting to take care of earth..

ok?

heres a good example of what im saying:
we should exercise and eat right,because not doing so can/will cause things like heart disease, diabetes, being overweight etc.
so by taking care of yourself you are healthier in the long run.
BUT SOMETIMES these things can be genetic and theres not a huge amount we can do to stop it. but what harm does it do to exercise and eat right even if you already have these things cause by genetics?

its the same thing with the earth.

Answer 1

I understand everything you said I'm only in my early teens sometimes i wounder if my children will even see snow and temperatures under 40 degrees, But it looks like nobody cares about it and when I mention it nobody thinks it is going to happen, but when it happens guest who's going to have to suffer yours truly.

Answer 2

Global warming is at the fore front because politicians found how to use a new platform to get re-elected. The world leaders use it because they found ways to make money at it. This is a made up problem just like Global Cooling in the 1970's. Wake up people. I agree we need to be more efficient with our resources, and we should fine and jail companies who are dumping into our rivers maliciously. I want to stop the raiforest destruction, but to say that global warming is a serious man made issue and we need to destroy the American economy and bow down to the rest of the world certainly does not float my boat. Follow the money on this one and you will see that it is all for political gain and grant money for those scientists who profit off of the government if global warming stays at the front of the issues. Look deep into the Keoto (sp?) Treaty, first of all they took jets to a non-central resort location. Not very environmentally concious. THen in the parameters of the treaty they have a clause that makes it so you can buy or sell polution credits. This is all about shifting wealth and breaking down the United States. This is painfully obvious, just look at peoples agenda. The earth's mean temperature has risen .6 degrees C in the past 125 years. Greenland's icecaps have gotten colder in the past 10 years. The Scientists who do not gain anything on their posisition will tell you that the earth has a natural progression and this is what we are seeing. The UN report is made up of POLITICIANS not a good spread of scientists. THere are as many or more scientists who believe that man in NOT the reason and it is over hyped, but their voice is not heard in the LIberal Mainstream Media. This issue is 99% political, and an attempt to make the USA a socialist nation, and eventually communisim. WAKE UP AMERICA, IT IS TIME TO BE AMERICANS. FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE. STOP THE LIES

Answer 3

I take it from your post that you think that GW is because of man. Did you know that the warming in our era can be predicted using the last 400,000 years of data? The mathematical model of tempurature vs. time is sinusoidal. We should be on the upswing, naturally!

You did a report. So, do you even know what constitutes a climate model? You claim to care about your future. You indicate how sensitive you are, and how insensitive others are.

Let us base all our decisions on how sensitive we are, how much we care, and let us not hurt anyone.

You are BRILLIANT!!! Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that??? You say you did a report for a freshman project. I assume you are in high school, since your base your conclusion on 'i think it is real'. You think?

So, are we putting this issue up for a vote on how people feel it should be? So it boils down to an election? I vote 'that people are heating the globe'! Wow. I would wager you would vote to end poverty. Double Wow.

If only the US were a democracy. We could vote to end all affliction know to mankind.

What do I think about global warming? I think anyone who is illiterate in science, like Al Gore and/or Rush Limbaugh and YOU, should shut the hell up or educate yourselves.

The phenomena of climate science has not been delegated to law. Unlike Newton's Laws, there are no climate science Laws, and if someone says there is, like you, they should be dismissed as the lay people they are.

If you query the assumptions, (cloud cover is one assumption, and most of us know that it is cooler under a cloud), many use in their hallowed mathematical models, you will see that several of them are barely within an order of magnitue (factor of 10). Many assumptions can't be verified with actual data. If I was working with the same model, and I could manipulate assumptions within that same order of magnitude, I could produce data indicating that we are heading to an ice age.

Thus when I see what you write, how you "think" man is causing GW, I now know why our students are intentionally kept scientifically illiterate. Al Gore can make a movie and thus make public policy. Brilliant.

Who is John Galt?

Answer 4

Global warming theory is like a false religion. You need to blindly "believe" in it and ignore all facts.

Mr. Al Gore's movie left out these facts:
1) 6,000 years ago, the earth was hotter than it is today. 6,000 years is less than a second when compared with the age of the earth.

2) Temperatures dropped in the 1950's and 1990's when CO2 levels were increasing.

3) 140,000 years ago the earth had record CO2 levels and there were no gasoline powered cars.

4) 20,000 years ago, Canada was one big ice cube and half of the U.S. was covered with Ice. The grand canyon was formed by melting ice ages over 20 million years.

5) The temperature of the Earth has only increased by 0.65 of a degree in the last 110 years. There were faster increases in temperatures around 10,000 years ago and there were no gasoline powered cars during that time

6) It has not been scientifically proved. Scientists who disagreed from with the theory were not invited to contribute to Al Gore's movie nor were they invited to the conference about global warming.

7) NASA has said that great temperature changes are normal. Just 10,000 years ago, the earth warmed up extremely in less than 20 years. There were not many people around at that time.

NASA:
"Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age "
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/Images/gisp2_temperature.gif

Answer 5

What harm can be done by cutting greenhouse gases? That's easy! Governments, business and individuals alike will all have to make a pretty steep increase in spending if we decide to switch to alternative fuels. That's it, it's about cost.

Just a few years ago, there was still some debate about whether global warming was real or not, and whether it was man-made or just a natural "swing" of mother nature. Evidence seems to point more and more that the fault is people's, and that global warming is real. So yeah, everyone needs to brace themselves and get ready to spend more to clean up our act.

Answer 6

Um...... if 53 cubic miles of Ice melted from greenland, New York and Los Angeles would be under water. I wish we could effect the climate. I live in the desert and these winters lately are getting colder. Global warming froze my little tree in my front yard.

Answer 7

It's a farce. It's not man made, that's for sure. The earth is a lot more powerful than man, we don't control the weather. Hell, we can't even predict the weather accurately 2 days from now, let alone 100 years from now. The sun has the most impact on climate change. There is nothing we can do about it. Don't be fooled that global warming is man made though, it's total nonsense.

Answer 8

Yes, it is true that its heartbreaking to consider how far we've gone from treating our Earth well! However, as Americans, we create the largest impact of destruction on this planet and therefore we have the most power to change what is happening! There is hope, we have everything that we need in order to stop the problem and create solutions right now. Simple things you can do...

1. Use high efficiency devices, better light bulbs, better appliances.
2. Walk more, ride a bike, a bus or lastly carpool!
3. Switch to renewable energy for your home. Many companies offer wind power or other sources that are non-polluting to power your home.
4. Purchase carbon offsets from companies that are developing renewable energy.
5. Talk to everyone you know to make changes to live more in tune with nature!
6. Surf the net to find a million ways to make simple changes to save our planet.

In less than a month I was able to change my life for less than $10. per month to reduce my CO2 contribution to the planet from 5.6 tons per year to negative 3 tons. That means I've accounted for someone else's waste that is not making changes by 3 tons. That is so cool and I feel super empowered that we're not going to destroy ourselves. Meanwhile, my daily life routine has hardly changed at all but I pay more attention to things that matter in my life.

Answer 9

Wasn't it big news last week or two weeks ago that a group of major scientists announced that it's already too late to stop global warming? Even if we are to slow it down, it would still take centuries for the planet to recover. I still try to anyway...

You know, when you say that other people always scream that it won't affect them, that sounds like my parents...they always tell me that they'll be dead by then, and that it's MY problem...lol

Answer 10

PPL DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THAT STUFF BC ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS ANNA NICLOE SMITH
BRAT PIT and so on