Global warming?

Question

why is global warming important?

please give 5 examples and details

Answer 1

Good Question my friend,

I am concerned about it enough to write this proposal for helping solve the Climate Change problem...

You can read and vote for it here if you like


http://www.changethis.com/proposals/918


the answer to the question can be found in the flash movie in this web page

http://www.outerheavens.blogspot.com

Thanks Guys. ;)

Answer 2

Global warming is a natural occurrence, but through our use of fossil fuels we have raised greatly the CO2 levels, thus a increase warming above what is normal,
(1) melting ice caps
(2) rising sea levels
(3) dying of species
(4) invasion of plants from their normal habitat
(5) threat to human health
(1a) melting ice caps increases the amount of fresh water into the oceans reducing salinity, and lower water temperatures.
(2a) The loss of the ice caps alone is endangering the survival of the polar bears, walrus, an other cold water species.
(3a)right now world wide frogs are dying by the thousands due to pollutants and warming temperatures.
(4a) Plants that normally live in warm climates will move further north staying with the warm climate that is developing where once only cool temperatures existed. Right now because of warmer temperatures in the Arctic tundra, tress a starting to appear where once it was to cold for trees to grow.
(5a)If temperatures continue to rise, many food plants will not be able to grow, thus creating food shortages worldwide, also increases in CO2 form a blanket around the earth holding the heat in thus raising temperatures

Answer 3

well... here are the examples
1. Hurricanes ( dangerous, obviously )
2. the heat ( I doubt you enjoy it )
3. heavy rain ( destroying crops or making rivers rise )
4. the melting of the polar caps. ( the world might go underwater, if you know what I mean )
...
I don't have many examples, but global warming can cause disasters around the world

Answer 4

The Vikings got into their longboats and went sailing, sailing...until they came to a green and pleasant land, where they built a farming community, and called it Greenland....

Then other Vikings got into their longboats and went sailing, sailing....until they came to a green and pleasant land, where they found wild grapes good for making wine growing in abundance, and named it Vinland...

The Earth was a lot warmer then...

Now Greenland is ice and cannot be farmed...

And Vinland is Newfoundland, and is too cold for grapes, wild or tame...

As for Global Warming, maybe we're just warming back up to where we should be. In any case, I say,

"Been there...done that...it was good...let's do it again!"

How did we get out of the last ice age?

Why are the icecaps shrinking...on Mars?

Could it be the Sun?

Answer 5

I reccomend An Inconvient Truth, by Al gore, its a movie. It is really important, because it could lead to the extinction of the polar bears, and flood new york and california, or any region by water, since ice is melting and causing sea levels to rise...so to end it all...it could end up killing a lot of people if we don't do anything within this decade.

Answer 6

1) Because Al Gore says it is, and we all know he is never wrong.
2) Because almost every celebrity says so as well and as we all know these are the greatest minds of our time.
3) Because it the liberals best chance of convincing the voting public that the only thing that will save us is complete government regulation of your lives.
4) Because we all need some unsolvable problem to worry about, otherwise, we might become too happy (well I don't, but what do I know).
5) Because it's Europe's last hope of harming the U.S. economy (actually of convincing us to self destruct), which is primary long term business plan.

Answer 7

Watch An Inconvenient Truth. It has over five examples and lots of details.

Answer 8

It's not important now.
It won't be important in the future.
It wasn't important in the past.
It's nothing anybody needs to worry about.
It's just a paranoid delusion.
It's not real now, never was real, and will not be real in the future.

Answer 9

The term Global Warming refers, without any implications for the cause or magnitude, to the observation that the atmosphere near the Earth's surface is warming. This warming is one of many kinds of climate change that the Earth has gone through in the past and will continue to go through in the future.

Why is Global Warming important?
Temperature increases will have significant impacts on human activities, including: where we can live, what food we can grow, how and where we can grow food, and where organisms we consider pests can thrive. To be prepared for the effects of these potential impacts we need to know how much the Earth is warming, how long the Earth has been warming, and what has caused the warming. Answers to these questions provide us with a better basis for making decisions related to issues such as water resources and agricultural planning.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Greenhouse effect image Our planet absorbs radiant energy from the sun and emits some of that energy back to space. The term greenhouse effect describes how water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere alter the return of energy to space, and in turn, change the temperature at the Earth's surface. These greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy that is emitted from the Earth's surface, preventing this energy from being lost to space. As a result, the lower atmosphere warms and sends some of this energy back to the Earth's surface. When the energy is "recycled" in this way, the Earth's surface warms.

Life on Earth would be very different without the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect keeps the long term annual average temperature of the Earth's surface approximately 32°C (or about 58°F) higher than it would be otherwise.
How is the Greenhouse Effect related to Global Warming?
Greenhouse gases occur naturally in the Earth's atmosphere, but are also being added by human activities. This happens primarily through the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, which releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Over the past century, atmospheric carbon dioxide (as measured from ice cores) has increased due to human activities from 300 to 380 parts per million (ppm), and the average Earth temperature has increased approximately 0.7°C (or about 1.3°F).
Co2 image
Given what we know about the ability of greenhouse gases to warm the Earth's surface, it is reasonable to expect that as concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise above natural levels, the Earth's surface will become increasingly warm. Many scientists have now concluded that global warming can be explained by a human-caused enhancement of the greenhouse effect.

It is important to remember both that the greenhouse effect occurs naturally, and that it has been intensified by humankind's input of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Are Ozone Holes related to Global Warming or the Greenhouse Effect?
ozone.gif, photo courtesy of NASA The formation of ozone holes is related to these scientific issues, yet is still distinct.
Ozone plays a very important, natural role in the upper atmosphere (called the stratosphere), where 90% of it exists. Stratospheric ozone acts as a shield against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. This ozone can be destroyed by human-produced chemical compounds called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. When these CFCs are combined with extremely cold stratospheric temperatures over the poles, solar radiation, and particular patterns of atmospheric circulation, chemical reactions occur that cause "Ozone Holes" over Antarctica (pictured above) and the Arctic.

The formation of ozone holes is related to global warming and the greenhouse effect in two ways. First, CFCs are greenhouse gases. Thus, the release of these compounds into the atmosphere will have two separate effects: to destroy ozone and to add to the greenhouse effect. Second, if stratospheric temperatures or patterns of atmospheric circulation change as part of global warming, this will affect the chemical reactions that destroy ozone and cause the ozone holes to either grow or shrink.
daily ozone image
For daily updated images of the ozone, please visit NOAA's Stratosphere: SBUV-2 Total Ozone Page with images of the ozone from the NOAA-14 Satellite by clicking here or on image at left.

Answer 10

1) So my pot farm will grow bigger

2) So the solor cells that activate my pot farm's watering system will have enough power

3) So my pot plants will have enough carbon to turn into TCH

4) So my pot plants do not freeze.

5) So people can smoke my pot indoors or out.