and about 300 hundreds years worth of "pollution" is going to destroy it? Am I the only one who thinks this is bogus? Okay you say the earth is getting hotter, but surely it shouldn't be such a scare due to the fact that at one point this planet was supposedly a big block of ice that melted--without any of our help nonetheless.
Scientists are playing with your minds people.
2007-03-12 06:28:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
EnragedP...you dont believe in the Ice Age?
2007-03-12 06:38:15 · update #1
You haven't got any idea what you're talking about.
1) Earth was never, ever a 'big block of ice'. I have no idea what on Earth gave you this idea.
2) No one has ever said AGW would destroy the planet, just the environment and the world economy.
3) Scientists are doing nothing of the kind.
You obviously don't understand basic science, and your opinion is therefore irrelevant. Sorry.
Edit: Yes, I believe in the ice age Gabbi. It's important to understand however, that the last glacial (the younger Dryas) didn't in any way freeze the whole planet. Check out this site for a whirlwind tour of Earth's climate history:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/temperature/
2007-03-12 06:34:24 · answer #1 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it won't destroy the planet, but it will injure it and upset the fabric of nature. We will be poorer too as we will have higher insurance premiums because of added storms, as well as having a huge tax drain to fix the damage. There's tons of impact that this will have.
Mass migrations of people because their water supplies that came from mountaintop icecaps disappears. Food shortage all over the planet because of not enough rain for irrigation.
Flooding, rising oceans, hurricanes, all a big pain in the ***.
As for the scientists, they merely report the facts, they cannot make it up. The US government actually has been accused of changing documents by scientists and "injecting doubt into the science". So maybe the scientists aren't the ones to fear.
It's not that hard to make some changes, buy better light bulbs, better appliances, more efficient cars. All of these save tons of money in the long run, which I'm far more worried about than Climate Change.
And one reason especially to change in the car field, the gas giants, they hike up prices for stupid reasons, and say they're going to experience losses because of this or that, yet they pull in billions of dollars in profits per year, every year. Gas is essential now for us to get around, why the **** do they get to screw over the little guy? I'm tired of their gluttony.
Climate change is not that scary, we must merely change some of our decisions in life, and politicians need to step up to the plate and make those decisions easier and cheaper. It's time to stop ignoring the elephant in the room, or downplaying that we brought it in.
2007-03-12 13:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by Luis 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
At least we have minds.
It's 30 years of pollution which is destroying our ecosystem, not 300 years worth destroying our planet.
If you are going to propose a theory to people who are smarter than you, at least state your theory in a way that doesn't support the fact that you have no clue what you are talking about.
2007-03-12 16:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kill the earth? No. Kill us? Yes.
Whether or not you think global warming is a myth, it's naive to think that billions of extra tons of CO2 in the atmosphere won't have any affect.
On a side note, I just finished your "Why is evolution based on so many assumptions" question...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070312111743AAuzJEt
Completely different topics, but both hot topics (forgive the pun). Do you post these questions just to get a response out of people?
2007-03-12 16:08:00 · answer #4 · answered by S1LK 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that this particular change is unusually rapid, and our advanced society with intensive agriculture and a lot of stuff on the coasts will be severely damaged by us. It will make rich countries poor. In poor countries some (not all) people will die of starvation.
2007-03-12 13:59:14 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists don't "play with people's minds." That 's why they're scientists -- they seek the physical truth. You're perfectly free to believe any damn fool thing you wish. That doesn't mean the people you disagree with are charlatans or frauds. I suggest you do a lot more reading on the subject and try to keep an open mind.....................
2007-03-12 13:53:22 · answer #6 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No you are not the only one. You are doing the right thing by refuting them with facts. They can't refute facts.
2007-03-12 22:07:44 · answer #7 · answered by Specialist McKay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idiot... now look into the statistics of world population...
2007-03-12 13:35:26 · answer #8 · answered by Pedro Sanchez 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋