do you see global warming as an everyday threat?

Answer 1

depends where you are ,North Americans are fortunate because so far little has happened to them ,but is is just beginning ,and they will be affected because a lot of their food comes from countries which are in trouble right now

everyday and yesterdays and tomorrows threat


is not a theory to all the people that are dead already
in Mexico right now thousands of people lost their homes and many are dead because of floods caused by Global warming

Is global warming a man-made menace?

not all there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

some home truths

politicians and scientists who work for politicians have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many people income,and most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.


in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

Answer 2

The technology is there that exhibits the international is warming. the foremost undertaking in accordance to the media is who or what's responsible for the upward push. it is the incorrect question, in fact that the international temperature has been increasing steadily over the final 30 years and the info is there to be chanced on. Can or no longer this is risky, sure it could. in the subsequent 2 many years there is an expected 3 foot upward push on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This quantity of sea point enhance could desire to inundate hundreds of acres of belongings and it may desire to portentially inundate the completed river delta as much as Sacramento and Stockton because of the fact there are islands that are as much as twenty ft under sea point and that's 550,000 acres of top farmland. it may desire to be plenty worse if the Greenland, Russian and Antarctic ice sheets melted. right here is the place it gets thrilling: worldwide warming could desire to reason: Droughts and floods Coastal inundations that could desire to attain 20 ft if the foremost icesheets soften or The onset of a clean ice age brought about by utilising the blockage of the sea currents that deliver heat tropical water as much as the north so the clean water could freeze. there is various technology left to do on what can take place yet there is not any doubt that the undertaking is real

Answer 3

Not yet.

That's the problem. The truth of global warming is in the scientific data and the methodological analysis of it. As sen here:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

But, acknowledging it is very scary. We'd have to work at reducing it. So some lay people would rather make excuses (solar radiation, volcanoes, natural cycle, etc.) rather than face reality. Even though those explanations are clearly refuted by the data. Scientists, of course, can't do that without being unscientific. So 99+% of them agree it's real.

The tragedy is, that if we wait until the major impacts hit, it will be too late to save us from the worst disaster in human history. We need to start work on it now.

Answer 4

It is really, really difficult to envision a 0.22% per century increase in average temperature as an everyday threat!
What is of real concern is the daily threats concocted by those who refuse to understand that the "greenhouse" gas, H20, is 26 to 104 TIMES as abundant in our atmosphere as CO2, or the impossibility of a CO2 "shield" in the upper stratosphere.

Answer 5

Maybe not now but it will be the most catastrophic thing to ever happen to humanity. Just think of the whole state of Florida underwater. Does that qualify as an "everyday" threat?

Answer 6

when hurricanes get worse, flooding happens, and and droughts appear everywhere else... everyone will see it as an everyday threat.

Answer 7

No. I'm old. By the time any severe damage is done, I won't be around to see it.