Is Global Warming a Problem?

Answer 1

Yes, rising co2 levels will make our ozone thicker. This will cause Greenland and the Antarctic to melt, the melting wil cause sea levels to rise by 1-6m. People have found polar bears drowned, cannibalism and starved to death. temperatures will rise and cause bigger droughts by evaporation all the moist out of the ground, the water evaporated will cause floods somewhere else. Another effect from temperatures rising means sea temperatures will rise too, causing bigger cyclones and more hurricanes. The golden toad was the first species to go extinct in the late 1980's. The great barrier reef will die from rising sea temperatures, lots of areas will disappear due to climate change. there is this current in the ocean that keeps sea temperatures average(which will change due to global warming), if Greenland melts the cold water will go into this current and turn the northern hemisphere into an ice age. The way we are able to live is in danger.

Answer 2

Well that is a good question and a very difficult one to answer since we still do not know what will be the efect of present cycle of global warming since we humans have not only hurt our natural resources like forests which used to be our protecters against heat but have also polluted the atmoshphere a lot and induced the rate of rise in temperature by almost ten fold.

Certainly change in climatic conditions, loss of land to sea / oceans, extinction of species, insects in particular and population explotion are something to worry about. We humans have induced the rise in temperature and this has caused a lot of changes in the natural cycle and this global warming is going to be very severe. Global warming and cooling are cycles our earth goes through and these are major and minor once. We still do not know weather present cycle is major or minor and if it is a major one we are in real big problem and all to be blamed on us humans.

The biggest problem is our EGO, yes right I said EGO because we either do not want to believe in what is happening or we think we are above everything else and can control nature. So, since we the humans are the most intellegent of all we can control everything and we are not taking anything any warnings seriously.

Effect of global warming will also be on earths structure and this can induce platonic shifts rate and this can result in earthquake. Climatic changes will make good rain fed areas dry and vice versa. Low land like Bangladesh, Ethopia and other such areas will go under water.

SO WE NEED TO WORRY AND IT IS A BIG PROBLEM I BELIEVE.

Answer 3

No it's not a problem! IT'S A VERY BIG PROBLEM.

Global warming is a problem; we all know it but we are not realizing it. Problem is not a problem until you realize it.

People just read newspaper or watch news and just take global warming news as a normal daily happening news. We require VISION to understand that GLOBAL WARMING is a big problem. We need to THINK and ANALYZE what ever happening on earth bcoz of Global Warming. As someone above has written bears are DYING, Ice is melting bcoz of heat.
It's your/Our responsibility to help our Earth(Our Mother). Unfortunately this Mother doesn't speak that she is going to dye. Being a son we need to understand which situation our Mom is going through and do something to help her. Plz note this "A CHILD CANN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT MOTHER!

I've already started working in order to save Earth. Please come forward save your Mom.
1. Use bicycle if u r traveling withing 5-6 KM
2. Use CFL. And be aware of electricity u r consuming.
3. Plant at least a Tree on your birthday.
4. Most important: Make other realize the impact of Global Warming.


Please help my Mom! Donate your little and precious time!
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Answer 4

No. It is a political agenda. Driven by pseudoscience. given 2% fact the rest is hyperbola.

It amazes me the number of sheep that post "oooo it's weeal because Al Gore said this.."

DO your OWN research, 17000 climate scientists dispute the findings of the IPCC report that blame man for the 7/10 of 1 degree rise in global temperature. The Earth's climate has fluctuated for 4.6 billions years and will continue to do so long after man has gone the way of the dinosaurs.

Here are two very informative websites with links to actual scientific data and not the pseudoscience purport by Al Gore and his ecomarxist Global Warming religion.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

http://www.junkscience.com

12/6/2006 5:57:00 PM

To: National Desk

Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks.

"In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me.

"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of."

"In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent.

"There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed."

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The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

Answer 5

There are two different school of thoughts in the scientist community. One claims that the present day environmental woes are as a direct result of global warming, others say, that global warming is a natural phenomena.

Global warming has become a big money making business and hence is a problem. No one is looking into the long term environmental effects of industrialisation/population growth/life style. All are looking into short term and for economic gains.

In short, I believe global warming is not that a serious problem (as what is now projected). To me the real real issues are contaminated rivers, unhealthy urban air, congested roads leading to pollution, unscrupulous solid waste disposal, over population leading to resource constraints etc..

Answer 6

I'm always a little chilly anyway. The climate has never been stable, never will be. Most of the land mass is in areas that are to cold to live in. Has anyone ever thought to look at the sun as the cause of global warming? And what are we going to do about the sun when it goes supernova? The earth will be incinerated, birdies first!.... Poor little birdies :-(

Answer 7

Don't you think it is a great problem?
Global warming results in the melting of polar ice caps and the glaciers on the icy mountains. The melting of ice caps results in increase of the sea level inturn resulting in submersion of many cities and islands. It results in cyclones, hurricanes, floods etc... which causes severe damage to the crops and all living beings won't get sufficient food. As the icy glaciers are responsible for the flow of many rivers, if they melt due to global warming, we won't get even one drop of fresh water to drink. Moreover the temperature of earth increases results in occurance of very hot breezes which are even very dangerous. It also results in extinction of many species, may be humans too in the near future.
Now tell me, don't you think it is a great problem and it is everyone's responsibility to handle the situation?
So dear friends act now, don't neglect.
If you have any further doubts you can mail me at .
Any how I'm planning to make campaingns against Global Warming in the near future. It would be effective only if we work together. Lets join hands. Mail me!

Answer 8

No problem!
Hell, we're still living like there's no tomorrow, so who cares about global warming or any of those other stupid environmental and ecological issues?
Live for today, that's what I say!
So what if my grandchildren or great-grandchildren will have to use gas masks in order to breathe fresh air?
Who cares if they won't have enough fresh drinking water?
What does it matter that they'll have to live in the stench of toxic poisons that we buried in landfills fifty years before them - and now the groundwater's leaching?
Why should we worry if all the rain forests and the mangrove forests of the world are cleared away and there are no species of rare frogs left on the planet?
How can it possibly hurt if I reFUSE to reUSE, reDUCE, and reCYCLE today?
Who in their right mind believes that the polar ice caps are melting and that will affect polar bears, Eskimo tribes, and most of the communities along both coasts of both major oceans? What a joke that is, huh? What possible evidence is there that 'global warming' threatens the very lives of our descendants?
Why should we worry about how the ocean's life is dying right before our very eyes?
No worries, Mate! Everything's cool! Everything's great! In fact, I personally think it's gonna get better, so I plan to waste even MORE of the Earth's natural resources, allow even MORE vehicle emissions to spew from my old car, and applaud what the oil companies are doing to destroy the planet! I can hardly wait 'til they build another smoke-belching factory in my backyard! It's gonna be great!!
And, oh - when my grandchildren and great-grandchildren KNOW that we KNEW all this destruction was happening - and we went ahead and continued our squander anyway so they could live in abject squalor - they'll probably ask me, "WHY, Grandpa? WHY did you do it to us? WHY didn't you conserve and protect the fragile ecological balance between man, plants and animals so that we could save all the resources that allow us all to coexist and survive on this planet? WHY, Grandpa? WHY were you so self-centered and arrogantly wasteful?"
Well, hopefully, I'll die you so I won't be around to have to face them and try to answer that questions. BUT, if I am still around, I'm sure I'll find a way to blame it on those damn liberal tree-huggers! -RKO- 05/12/07

Answer 9

depends where you live,some people are in trouble already

and in the future we can expect Rising food prices,shortage of water,both hotter and colder weather,

Ultimately,Famine,Wars and death

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result of heat waves ,as in France 2 years ago

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing

collectively this planet is drying up ,

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation) and the overpumping of carbon and surface aquifers ,and more and more agriculture requires irrigation

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe.because of desertification and if the sea levels rise thousands of hectares on coastal lands will b flooded

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

The farmers have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

potable water is getting at critical levels and people are already fighting over water this will only get worse

Answer 10

yes-the arctic storm's that created the four season's cannot function as a stable mass to make the northern hemisphere a "cool" place to live, like season's, and monsoon's comeing each year at a certain time, (that will change as the heat get's it's overwhelming surge very soon). So I would surmise that the whole planet is going to see massive change's on a world wide timetable of greater intensity, ((monsoon's especially will become either bigger or smaller or not at all