what do you think og glob warming?

Answer 1

It is amazing that people have their heads in the sand about global warming, thinking that we are in a natural period of warming.

Do yourself a favor and read the book "The Little Ice Age". Great factual analysis of temperature trends over the past 1000 years. The earth is clearly in a period of warming, Taking the mean temperature during the period 1961-1990, the temperatures between 1000 AD and ~1950 AD were below this mean. Now, we are well above the mean.

The number of species of flora and fauna that have become extinct or are near extinction in modern times is most alarming.

There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that worldwide temperatures are rising at an alarming rate. Evidence of this includes the unprecedented way in which the snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro, as well as the glaciers in the Alps are receding. In fact, the glaciers in the Alps have never, in recorded history, receded as far as they have in the past several years.

Even though people like to think global warming is some religion or some fanatical conspiracy, there is new evidence emerging everyday from such diverse sources, that it is the deniers who are, in fact, the fanatics. These are the same people who would have had you believe that the sun revolves around the earth.

Here are some recent evidential accounts of climactic changes on our planet. The second article, you will notice, is from a traditionally conservative group here in the USA.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070311/sc_livescience/surprisingnewarcticinhabitantstrees
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/us_nm/climate_hunters_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/sc_nm/africa_disease_dc

Answer 2

I think it's a natural process, which humans are contributing a tiny amount to, which has been blown out of all proportion and is now more of a religion than a scientific study.

To explain the religion point - at the first sign of someone disagreeing with global warming, the 'believers' go straight on the defensive, calling disbelievers 'fanatics' and 'stupid' and 'misguided', for refusing to toe the line on a theory which they take as gospel fact... the same way a religious extremist would react if their religion was called a fantasy.

Answer 3

Read the NY Times tomorow. It will be interesting.

Answer 4

I think it's a bunch of political BS

Answer 5

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.

: i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico ,

i live now by the side of a river in Mexico where,in 30 years 5 species of fish have become exstinct .
and part of the year the river is dry this is for longer every year because of over use of water by agriculture and as a result of deforrestation.

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

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.