global warming - what nobody wants to know?

Question

yes, global warming is real, and happening. but the real problem, and most likely the true catalyst, is what nobody will recognize - there are too many people!! there are more cars on the road, more power used, more fuels burned, more pollutants, more carbon dioxide, everything that the human race has become accustomed to in the past 100 years of technological advancement, we now require - can't live without. but look at the way the population continues to expand - people are having more children, people are living longer. even an individual adds heat to the environment (via b.t.u.s). if you want to solve the world's global warming problem - STOP HAVING KIDS!!! this is no world to bring them into. i have a 7 year old daughter, and i hope that mankind gets it's mess together soon, for her sake. reproduction is not a right, not a necessity. having kids is not something to do because "that's what people do - get a job, get married, have kids." it's a responsibility.

Answer 1

Population is a small part of the problem.

The real problems with energy use are:

The US is incredibly wasteful of energy. Big cars, big houses, disposable everything, lighting on at night when no one is there, etc.

The rest of the world seeks to develop an industrial society and follow us in ways reasonable and unreasonable. Wanting cars and houses is reasonable, over consumption is not.

Both of these are far more important than raw population. And, as pointed out above, population is stabilizing, particularly in developed countries.

There's no easy solution to global warming. It will take hard work and intelligence.

Answer 2

Well said. if only those in power had your logic.

Personally I don't believe in man made global warming, but it doesn't take rocket science to see that the planet is overcrowded and we are fast running out of space and resources - the rush hour now lasts all day and often into the night. Millions if not billions are starving. Many more living on the poverty line in sub-standard accommodation.

In the meantime, the government here in the UK actually REWARDS people for breeding - Family tax credits, Child benefit for UNLIMITED numbers of children (even for millionaires, not just those who need it), and more recently a taxpayer funded trust fund for all newborns! If it weren't so serious it would be laughable!

If I were cynical, I might think that this is because most people end up having children and these bribes are a canny ploy to buy votes....

Answer 3

You are absolutely right! If the world population was 1 billion instead of 6 billion everything would be a lot better and we could all live well.

However, we have "family values" and no one dares publically suggest people stop having children.

When China recognized the problem and did something to hold down their birth rate they were very strongly criticized. But, in my view, China was right to try to stop it's population growth.

I have no children and am now too old so I've done my best for the earth. I heard many many years ago that the best thing people can do for the environment is to have no children.

Answer 4

the us govt thought the same thing and they created the global report 2000 b/c of it. GR2000 states that the global population must have been worked down to a reasonable level by 2000 or the earth could face a crisis. well the pop hasn't leveled off and is climbing despite what someone else said. a number of iniaitives were put forth by the govt, most popular being the aids virus which was created by splicing a fatal disease found in sheep known as sils w/ a non-lethal immuno disease found in humans. it was first injected into prisoners who volunteered for the experiment in exchange for reduced sentences, b/c of the long gestation period-sometimes in excess of 6 months-the prisoners were allowed to leave and the disease spread in the states. vaccinations given to the african ppl were the cause for it spreading in africa. the govt did make it but it was a mistake for it to get out the way that it has and that is the reason for the cover-up and why there is now a cure for it, it happens to be very expensive so only the rich can afford. Brazil was threatening to break the patent for the drug Kaletra, which is used for AIDS and is made by Abbott Laboratories, b/c the wanted a price break on the drug.

Answer 5

Did you know the computer you are at uses ENERGY? I'm sure you global warming crazies find some way to tie consumption of energy to Global Warming. If you people truly want to make a difference get off of your soapbox, and the computer... Instead of preaching to me, I would be much more likely to listen if you did something other than sit around using ENERGY to tell me I'm doing something wrong.

Answer 6

Man made Global warming is more hype than Science.

Here is why:

Earth's 4.5 billion year history is one long story of climate change. This fact is pretty much accepted by those who think global warming is a natural process, and those who think it's caused by man.

In more recent history there has been: a mini ice age in the seventeenth century when the Thames froze so solidly that fairs could regularly be held on the ice; a Medieval Warm Period, even balmier than today; and sunnier still was the so-called Holocene Maximum, which was the warmest period in the last 10,000 years.

Those who think global warming is a natural process point to the fact that in the last 10,000 years, the warmest periods have happened well before humans started to produce large amounts of carbon dioxide.

A detailed look at recent climate change reveals that the temperature rose prior to 1940 but unexpectedly dropped in the post-war economic boom, when carbon dioxide emissions rose dramatically.

There is some evidence to suggest that the rise in carbon dioxide lags behind the temperature rise by 800 years and therefore can't be the cause of it.

In the greenhouse model of global warming, heat from the sun's rays is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If it weren't for these gases, Earth would be too cold for life.

Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun within the earth's atmosphere. This is the greenhouse effect. Traditional models predict that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases lead to runaway heating.

If greenhouse warming were happening, then scientists predict that the troposphere (the layer of the earth's atmosphere roughly 10-15km above us) should heat up faster than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons doesn't seem to support this.

Those who think global warming is a natural process say that the troposphere is not heating up because man-made greenhouse gases are not causing the planet to heat up.

For some people, the final nail in the coffin of human-produced greenhouse gas theories is the fact that carbon dioxide is produced in far larger quantities by many natural means: human emissions are miniscule in comparison. Volcanic emissions and carbon dioxide from animals, bacteria, decaying vegetation and the ocean outweigh our own production several times over.

Others would argue that carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas and that human emissions could tip up a finely balanced system.

New evidence shows that that as the radiation coming from the sun varies (and sun-spot activity is one way of monitoring this) the earth seems to heat up or cool down. Solar activity very precisely matches the plot of temperature change over the last 100 years. It correlates well with the anomalous post-war temperature dip, when global carbon dioxide levels were rising.

In fact, what is known of solar activity over the last several hundred years correlates very well with temperature. This is what some scientists are beginning to believe causes climate change. Others feel that solar activity only explains the fine details of temperature change.

So how does the sun affect the earth's temperature? The process scientists suggest is that as earth moves through space, the atmosphere is constantly bombarded by ever-present cosmic rays. As these particles hit water vapour evaporating from the oceans, clouds form in the atmosphere. Clouds shield Earth from some of the sun's radiation and have a cooling effect

When solar activity is high, there is an increase in solar wind and this has the effect of reducing the amount of cosmic radiation which reaches Earth.

Answer 7

what you say is no secret people have been saying that overpopultaion is the root of all evil for years
in 1998 Kissinger said at a closed bilderberg meeting tha t their Agenda demanded a decrease in the world population by 60%

the mind boggles at how this can be achieved
and many strange things are happening
many babies are born infertile .or gay,because of a raise in the acidic levels of drinking water
many new diseases,possibly toxic consumer goods
many ¨natural ¨disasters,an posible impending nuclear war


over popúlation and some related effects

in Mexico ,South America,Asia etc. the expanding
populations are consuming forrests for agriculture and habitat.
In the last 50 years world population has doubled a faster growth ever since we became homo sapian.
the effects on the environment are
,erosian,over pumping of carbon aquifiers(deep wells)
desertification,rising seas,land loss,deforrestation,watershort...
excess carbon emissions,mass extinction of species and global warming.

farmers are forced to cultivate highly erodable lands, to keep up with the growing demand for food.an extra 70 million people each year and this is increasing

each year 70 million more people are consuming water but this is ,but a small part of what agriculture uses.

so our consumption of water is ever increasing and our drinkable water supply is shrinking because of polution ,and the production of potable water is less all the time because of deforestation.

Answer 8

That is not a question.

And overpopulation is a well known problem, ever since the 1968 book "The Population Bomb", and even before that. That is why China has a one child law.

Answer 9

You might want to get some facts to go with your opinion. Current population trends show the population will stabilize in a few decades. Population isn't the problem. How we choose to implement our science and technology is. Keep burining fossil fuels and we won't have to worry about population--because the extent of damage to the environment will kill off most of humanity.

Answer 10

there is Nothing do with kids. what is wrong with u ? I wonder u are going to hate ur kids ? we all Love kids in our heart ,,,, so what Nobody dont care about u say about kids ????? what? anyway Earth will change over 100 every years u get to deal with it so we are running out of gas over 20 years and we will ride the Horse with wagon like 1800s so what u are Rude! thanks give me 2 points !