What do you think about global warming?

Answer 1

these are some of my thoughts

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

Global warming one of the most politaically abused topics of the world. Well we had an mini ice age in the 14th century and the polar cap have been shrinking since then. So global warming is real but has been going on before man industurized and started to make pollution. Now with that fact out of they way global warming is something we can not stop. It is a natural cycle of the plant. Now I am not saying to go out and start mass pollution. We still would like clean air and we are probally speeding up the process by a hundred years. So we should do what we can be that we are destory the earth and this would not be happing if man wasn't here a flat out lie. I thought it was funny when a friend of mine was telling me that soon florida and new orlens will be under water. I told him well they use to be until man dried them up to make land. Florida was almost all swamp land and new orleans

Answer 3

It's an interesting theory. You're going to get lots of people shrieking on both sides of the issue - One side claiming that there's no debate, the other side that there is - The fact that there ARE two sides tells you all you need to know about whether there is a debate or not.

The Heidelberg Appeal is a very large number of climate scientists (including 72 Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences) who are asking for more investigation.

I think there is a LOT of evidence that the current cycle of global warming is quite natural and more closely related to fluctuations in solar output and other natural causes than to anthropogenic causes - Though I feel in my gut that mankind is contributing. I'm just not sure how much. We're seeing global warming on Mars where there aren't a heck of a lot of people and which is 45,000,000 miles further from our solar furnace.

We don't have the ability yet, to answer that 'how much' question yet. We don't have a working climate model - We can't reliably predict the weather next MONTH much less next century. This should be one of our major focuses on climate research. Until we can reliably understand HOW our climate functions, we cannot say what effect mankind's activities have upon it.

The current global warming hype is just like the global cooling hype in the 70's - it's money based. People stand to make a LOT of money by formenting a panic. Back then they wanted us to melt the polar caps to stave off certain doom by ice age. Good thing we didn't do that, hunh?

Until we have a REAL understanding of our climate, I don't really want to start changing it one way OR the other.

Orion

EDIT: Global Warming isn't causing Katrina or other storms or changing their severity. The Global Warming people predicted an insanely severe storm season this year - It was nearly non-existant. Then they decided THAT was proof of global warming. It's a bad sign for your theory when you claim EVERYTHING as evidence of it's accuracy.

Answer 4

I think we should do things to prevent it from getting worse. I mean Global warming isn't just making the earth warmer, it's causing natural disasters. Katrina might not have been so strong or might not have even happened if it wasn't for the drastic unequal heating and pressure differences on the earth. I just want to live to make something of myself, and i can't do that if people don't stop hurting the earth. That's just my opinion.

Answer 5

If you can find me an actual scientist who is a climatologist who is not funded by a front group for oil companies, energy companies, or conservative think tanks who is truly credentialed and whose paper(s) on the subject of the theory of non-anthropogenic global warming has been accepted by a recognized, reknowned, peer-reviewed scientic journal of repute among true scientists, I would be happy to consider their statements.

Until then, I'm pretty sure that since it is a basic tenent that is proven in earth science that without CO2 (at least the naturally occuring levels,) our planet would be too cold for life. So, since it is clear that CO2 holds heat in our atmosphere, how can we deny that pumping millions of tons of CO2 into the environment every YEAR is not going to cause significant planetary damage?

Answer 6

i think it is absurd to think that we people have the ability or power to change climates its all about expanding government and controlling people What about NASA don't they punch big holes through the ozone layer probably doing more damage than automobiles could do in one hundred years or volcanic erruptions dont they pollute the atmosphere thats been going on for millions of years anyway if you believe our scientists. do you really believe mere humans can controll the wheather or influence our atmosphere what are we GOD i dont think so

Answer 7

It's a natural process.