Soft peddling the disaster with a mild name is not in anyones' best interest.
2007-03-18 18:20:16 · 7 answers · asked by warning 2 in Environment
It's not really at a Planet Burning stage.
If you look up any global temperature chart on the net, you'll find the earth's temperature has only increased by about 6/10 of one degree (C) - that's 1.1 degree (F), in the last 125 years. So yes, the globe is warming up, but it's not overheating like some would have you to believe. http://data.giss.nasa.gov:80/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif
The latest research shows that the methane from cows and pigs is a major factor in the increase of "heat trapping gas". It's actually 23 times more potent as a heat trapping gas than is carbon dioxide. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/science/other_gases
According to the newest UN report on Global Warming, "Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together." http://news.independent.co.uk:80/environment/article2062484.ece
So if Al Gore and all the alarmists really want to do something about climate change, they MUST become vegetarians and shut down cow and pig farms. I mean seriously, if they truly believe that global warming is as disastrous as they are preaching then they need to stop eating meat, period! I seriously doubt that will happen. If not, then they are the hypocrites that some of us already suspect they are.
Also Al Gore preaches to you to conserve, but he does not practice it himself. He uses 20 times more energy in his Nashville mansion than the national average. http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
One thing he has not learned is that you MUST practice what you preach... at some point you will get caught as he has.
2007-03-18 23:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by capnemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it warms, it won't be from mankinds actions. Other than the JET engine burning thousands of tons of kerosene above 30,000 ft, the oceans can and will absorb all the extra CO2 produced on the surface. They cover 85% of the planet and have an unlimited buffer sink for absorbing every bit of the CO2 presented to it. Since CO2 is heavier than air and the gradient is down because of the oceans water, logically it can not be overloaded in our air.
Beware of the hysterical enviros, they fervently hope and pray that it is a fact. Much like the Salem witchhunters in the 1600's. A lot of people suffered and died because of that idiocy. Another good example of modern day hysteria were the heavens gate people. They were so convinced that their Mother Space ship was in the passing comet, that they actually killed themselves because of their delusions. We are seeing the same effect in relation to that in this mass hysteria of the enviros regarding 'GW'. The human mind is prepared to believe almost anything.
2007-03-19 01:46:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually global warming is incredibly exaggerated and misrepresented by the media and junk journalism like Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".
2007-03-19 06:05:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think an accurate description of the problem is more important than giving it a flashy title. And Global Warming IS- representative- of what's underway... We're NOT trying to sell a disaster here...-We're try to warn people of what's coming, & what we need to DO about it...
2007-03-19 01:34:59 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not yet that comes after we have become a dessert planet like Arakis in Dune
maybe we should be called Dune in the end as most of the place will be a beach on the water
2007-03-19 01:32:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I vote for a name change. Planet Earth to be renamed Planet Fear.
2007-03-19 02:07:04 · answer #6 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about "liberal flatulance"
2007-03-19 01:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by siaosi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋