I freak out about the earth and weather and global warming am i weird?

Question

i cant stand the weather if it rains severely thunder n lightening bad heat or not much snow i freak out,

Answer 1

Nah alot of people freak out. My friend started to cry becuase she though the world was ending when she herd cali was having ice storms.

Global warming is scarry. most people dont think much about it because "Im not gonna see it" but now they are saying we could have problems with it in 80 years.I probly wont see that (Id be 103) but my kids would and there friends will.
More people should worry about it.

Just dont let it controll you. Find something that will help calm you down when bad weather hits and dont think about it all day and night. Its good to think about, something that should be worried about, and something that needs to be fixed, but dont let to go to the point were it is contolling your life.

Thunder storms freak me out too.

Answer 2

You're not weird. You just haven't fully educated yourself on the topics of climate change and global warming.

Once you understand the science, you will realize that the doomsday predictions and based on poor scientific methods and sloppy statistical methods. It will then become clear that the loudest proponents of anti-global warming causes are nothing more than fearmongers, looking to scare you out of a buck. Take a look at Al Gore's propaganda film for proof of that, and you'll see that he's only a "climate expert" because he thinks he is, and just like that, you've wasted $10 and 2 hours of your life.

Furthermore, once you understand the fundamentals of climate change, you will be able to make rational decisions on what you can do to improve your life and your environmental impact, without the hysteria and hype fed to you by the media.

It's easy to jump on the global warming propaganda bandwagon, because the bandwagon's always the coolest place to be. But once you understand the fundamentals of climate change, you'll realize that the bandwagon is little more than a ship of fools, sailing in the provervial sea of ignorance.

Answer 3

isn't in hassle-free terms you sweety, have u no longer examine the papers or pay attention the information? vast apple/NJ had 70 degree climate final week!!! IDK yet im afraid in 50 years from now we are gonna burn alive! it is not correct. The serious concern isn't what the temperature is, or could be, or would be. The serious concern is how briskly that's shifting. speedy climate substitute is the top suspect in maximum mass extinction activities, alongside with the great dying some 250 million years in the past, wherein ninety% of all existence went extinct. What all of us know approximately ecosystems, and what geologic history demonstrates, is that dramatic climate ameliorations -- up or down or sideways -- are an incredible marvel to the biosphere and reason mass extinction activities. That, all in all, will no longer be a sturdy factor.

Answer 4

Very good question. You are like many people who are frightened about this planet we live on. Ultimately I believe Mandi who also answered your concern has what we all need as we attempt to manage the Earth and bring our environment back under control - and that is Faith. There are many things you can do to help the Earth, such as the kind of light bulbs we use in our homes, how we conserve our use of electricity, the kinds of cars we drive, our search for alternative fuels, etc., etc. I believe we can solve the problems we have created with our contributions to greenhouse gases and global warming. We need to educate ourselves and others as to what we need to do.

Answer 5

Personaly you can't do anything about it so try not to get so stressed, an old aunty of mine used to hide under the stairs when it thundered but I don't think it helped her much.

Answer 6

Well...there are reasons good enough to be seriously worried...but you are not helping our planet with it. Do something more meaningful. Quit smoking and/or stop using cars...and try to find a company of people with similar beliefs. Pollution of planet is much more severe problem...

Answer 7

Plus Ça (Climate) Change
The Earth was warming before global warming was cool.

BY PETE DU PONT
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST (Wall Street Journal Online)

When Eric the Red led the Norwegian Vikings to Greenland in the late 900s, it was an ice-free farm country--grass for sheep and cattle, open water for fishing, a livable climate--so good a colony that by 1100 there were 3,000 people living there. Then came the Ice Age. By 1400, average temperatures had declined by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the glaciers had crushed southward across the farmlands and harbors, and the Vikings did not survive.

Such global temperature fluctuations are not surprising, for looking back in history we see a regular pattern of warming and cooling. From 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 saw the Roman Warming period; from 600 to 900, the cold period of the Dark Ages; from 900 to 1300 was the Medieval warming period; and 1300 to 1850, the Little Ice Age.

During the 20th century the earth did indeed warm--by 1 degree Fahrenheit. But a look at the data shows that within the century temperatures varied with time: from 1900 to 1910 the world cooled; from 1910 to 1940 it warmed; from 1940 to the late 1970s it cooled again, and since then it has been warming. Today our climate is 1/20th of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than it was in 2001.

Many things are contributing to such global temperature changes. Solar radiation is one. Sunspot activity has reached a thousand-year high, according to European astronomy institutions. Solar radiation is reducing Mars's southern icecap, which has been shrinking for three summers despite the absence of SUVS and coal-fired electrical plants anywhere on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, a NASA study reports that solar radiation has increased in each of the past two decades, and environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg, citing a 1997 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, observes that "the increase in direct solar irradiation over the past 30 years is responsible for about 40 percent of the observed global warming."
Statistics suggest that while there has indeed been a slight warming in the past century, much of it was neither human-induced nor geographically uniform. Half of the past century's warming occurred before 1940, when the human population and its industrial base were far smaller than now. And while global temperatures are now slightly up, in some areas they are dramatically down. According to "Climate Change and Its Impacts," a study published last spring by the National Center for Policy Analysis, the ice mass in Greenland has grown, and "average summer temperatures at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet have decreased 4 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since the late 1980s." British environmental analyst Lord Christopher Monckton says that from 1993 through 2003 the Greenland ice sheet "grew an average extra thickness of 2 inches a year," and that in the past 30 years the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet has grown as well.

Earlier this month the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary of its fourth five-year report. Although the full report won't be out until May, the summary has reinvigorated the global warming discussion.
While global warming alarmism has become a daily American press feature, the IPCC, in its new report, is backtracking on its warming predictions. While Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" warns of up to 20 feet of sea-level increase, the IPCC has halved its estimate of the rise in sea level by the end of this century, to 17 inches from 36. It has reduced its estimate of the impact of global greenhouse-gas emissions on global climate by more than one-third, because, it says, pollutant particles reflect sunlight back into space and this has a cooling effect.

The IPCC confirms its 2001 conclusion that global warming will have little effect on the number of typhoons or hurricanes the world will experience, but it does not note that there has been a steady decrease in the number of global hurricane days since 1970--from 600 to 400 days, according to Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Peter Webster.

The IPCC does not explain why from 1940 to 1975, while carbon dioxide emissions were rising, global temperatures were falling, nor does it admit that its 2001 "hockey stick" graph showing a dramatic temperature increase beginning in 1970s had omitted the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warming temperature changes, apparently in order to make the new global warming increases appear more dramatic.

Sometimes the consequences of bad science can be serious. In a 2000 issue of Nature Medicine magazine, four international scientists observed that "in less than two decades, spraying of houses with DDT reduced Sri Lanka's malaria burden from 2.8 million cases and 7,000 deaths [in 1948] to 17 cases and no deaths" in 1963. Then came Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring," invigorating environmentalism and leading to outright bans of DDT in some countries. When Sri Lanka ended the use of DDT in 1968, instead of 17 malaria cases it had 480,000.
Yet the Sierra Club in 1971 demanded "a ban, not just a curb," on the use of DDT "even in the tropical countries where DDT has kept malaria under control." International environmental controls were more important than the lives of human beings. For more than three decades this view prevailed, until the restrictions were finally lifted last September.

As we have seen since the beginning of time, and from the Vikings' experience in Greenland, our world experiences cyclical climate changes. America needs to understand clearly what is happening and why before we sign onto U.N. environmental agreements, shut down our industries and power plants, and limit our economic growth.

Mr. du Pont, a former governor of Delaware, is chairman of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. His column appears once a month.

Answer 8

Get a grip. You're a victim of Liberal mind control. Global warming is a myth perpetuated to relieve you of your free will. Looks like they've got you.

Answer 9

agreed its worrying the current weather patterns it does make you wonder whats coming are way in the coming years

Answer 10

How come nobody worries about Labrador retrievers taking over the world?

I guess they too sneaky to be noticed.