When will people wake up?

Question

... and see what we are doing to our planet? has anyone else realised that the trees are starting to bloom when we are only in early march and this is one of the warmest winters we have ever had! When will people realise that something isn't quite right and something has to be done?!

Answer 1

When indeed! Wake up and see all the hysteria the media and a few bought-and-paid-for scientists have created.
Oh yes, and I admire Al Gore for having the audacity to "buy carbon credits" to fly around and promote his ill informed movie and book. Al Gore's media blitz has already been proven to be less than truthful, but yet, he campaigns for it, relying on the likes of some of you to believe all his garbage and line his pockets.

Answer 2

Pink Mayfly get a grip. The problem with being as young as you are is that you have no perspective. Flyboy is an old guy who has seen about five of six doomsday environmental crises over the past 50 years. I won't bore you with naming them all because you don't know anything about them anyway. But, take my word, they come and they go. The current 20 year warming upswing that everyone believes signals irreversible man-caused global warming will fade away just like all the crises in the past that amounted to nothing in the end. Antarctica is already starting to cool and it would be the place where a cooling trend would start. So, take a deep breath, marvel at the clean world my generation created for you, relax and enjoy life.

My prediction of the crux of the next environmental crises: Asteroid impact. Bet on it.

Answer 3

O well before mankind perishes, while you're still alive you could google and begin learning about geologic processes of glaciation and interglaciation (warming periods). This current interglaciation began at the end of the last little ice age, about 1850 - 1860s.

You'll find reference that the heyday of the vikings ended about AD 1000 because the sea lanes they used with their simple square-masted vessels changed due to temperature change, Chaco Canyon was abandoned in the 1400s because the climate became dryer and cooler. The Greenland colony was lost due to climate change - the sea lanes no longer went there, and the island iced up. You can learn about 1818, The Year With No Summer, and the diaspora that followed of groups of families moving onward to find new fields to grow food. Geologic climate change in historical times.

You can read about the New Madrid MO earthquakes 1811-1812 - caused churchbells to ring in Philly & Boston, was felt in Canada. All across North America folks moaned&groaned about how the world was going to hell if mankind didn't change their ways. (sound familar?)

You can look at paintings and photos of people's clothing and notice that since the US Civil War we began wearing less - we didn't need to wear so much clothing to keep warm as the environment warmed.

Climate change is a geologic variation that has occurred for the planet's entire geologic history, most of which was without humans' existence.

Answer 4

There is no hard science that any shifts that are being detected are caused by man or that we can do anything about it. The earth goes through cycles. You cannot predict the future with computer models. Weathermen have enough trouble predicting next weeks weather. There are scientists who disagree with the global warming hysteria, but they are shunned as I may well be here.

We are sold media hype to enrich the media. A while ago we were all going to freeze to death and before that we were going to run out of food because of population growth. Do you remember the rainforest headlines? They play on our emotions with drowning polar bears, the junk that Al Gore got an acadamy award for while one of his four homes uses the energy in one month that the average family uses in a year (not to mention his private plane useage), etc. Geo-politically other countries would love us to cripple our own industries.

We humans are not powerful enough to have much impact on what Mother Earth has done, is doing, or is going to do.

My February was way below average in temperature—one of the coldest ever..

Answer 5

ok, i agree with the situation at hand and something needs to be done, but also remember that (its been theorized) that right before the ice age, this same kind of temperature change may have occured. They didnt have pollution then, so maybe the change is natural and our polution is just a catalyst!?

Answer 6

This is what happens when the people who have the greatest influence on the environment are those who are least likely to suffer when faced with environmental change.
American and European executives will be just fine after a 1 to 2 degree raise in temperature but farmers in Brazil, India, and Equatorial Africa will be devastated.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

When will you wake up and start thinking for yourself instead of spouting this global warming nonsense? It is called NATURE....and it does whatever it pleases regardless of what we do or how we act. Think about this - does mankind control the oceans? the wind? volcanoes? earthquakes? the answer is obviously no. Therefore any logical person would conclude that we have no effect on a force that we can't possible comprehend.

Answer 9

I don't know where you are living but February has been a record cold month where I live, I don't see any trees blooming

Answer 10

We've been freezing our butts of in the northeast and some parts of nothern NY got 12 feet of snow. . Where do you live ?