Global Warming?

Question

What do you feel about global warming? and do you think our president not caring about it will help our society?

Answer 1

It's for real. I watched Al Gore speak today. One point that he made was that scientists are in 100% agreement that global warming is occuring. He then said that certain companies have literally put out rumors that scientists can't come to a conclusion, which is a lie. Then he mentioned that if people don't believe that, then look at what tobacco companies did in the recent past with cigarettes and cancer, and it is naive to think they aren't doing it now. He showed us tons of pictures glaciers and snowcaps that have literally almost disappeared in the last few decades that have been around for tens of thousands of years. Our carbon dioxide levels are two times as high as the highest points in Earth's history and how temperature and CO2 are so directly related that you can fit the graphs together like a puzzle. These levels are expected to quadruple in 45 years, which is almost insane if you look at the graphs of CO2 levels in the atmosphere over the last 600,000 years. Species are going extinct at a rate 1000 times the normal rate, this has also only occurred in the last few decades. Hurricane Rita was the strongest hurricane ever recorded while in the Gulf. The same year we had to resort to the Greek alphabet, another first in history, to name hurricanes.

I think our President is catering to his personal interest groups and doesn't really care what happens to our futures. Seems he is only worried about his precious Iraq.

There is no lie about global warming. If you haven't noticed the weather in the last few years, you need to get out more.

Answer 2

Global warming is real, it's caused by us, and it's very dangerous.

Al Gore has nothing at all to do with the science behind global warming. He is in no way responsible for any of the solid data about global warming. He is not singlehandedly causing global warming. He's just an actor.

And his message is backed by 99+% of all scientists. They may disagree on some of the details, but not on the basic message. Global warming is real, it's not natural, it's caused by us. And it is a serious threat to our country.

Here's some solid information about the basic scientific agreement on global warming and just a little of the data underlying it.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html

http://aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm

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

Not from some environmental extremists, but from the most respected scientific organizations in the world. Practically every scientific organization publicly supports the reality of global warming.

Talking about Al Gore's personal life in the face of the threat is silly. The people quoted below are hardly fans of Al Gore, but they don't make that mistake. They don't get their information from "An Inconvenient Truth", they get it from the best scientists in the world. None of these people are fools, or environmental crazies. You may not respect them all, but surely you respect some.

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Governor, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

John McCain, Republican, Senator, Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush

Answer 3

Global warming is warming of the atmosphere of the earth.If the president will not care about it,it will not be of help to our society

Answer 4

Repeat after me--Global warming is BULL-Sheet, global warming is BULL-shiet, global warming is bull SHEET!, the wackos had their day! ALGORE is a dumb@ss, algore is a dumb@ss, algore is a DUMB@SS, the wacko had his say.
(Sang to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "Take me a ride in your car car".)
Sure hasn't felt very warm here, lately. Funny how mass hysteria can affect otherwise intelligent people, isn't it?

Answer 5

It's a Democratic Party/Media hypped-up-phobia based on mere speculative calculations. We have enough O2 to last the world 200 years, if another atom wasn't produced!!

Answer 6

It's just a big hoax to get grant money.

Only ignorant people believe such nonsense. Once they learn some science they understand the truth.

Answer 7

Stupid question...If Bush doesn't care about a confirmed fact, how can that help our society.

Answer 8

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

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

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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.