global warming?

Question

is global warming a problem? use what you know/think about it to support your answer.


haha i sound like a teacher..but really im just looking for some ideas for an essay

Answer 1

Picture the day after tomorrow but span it over a thousand-ten thousand years. There you go.

Answer 2

Warming and cooling does occur naturally and it always has done, this has caused the coming and going of ice ages in the past but these changes occur very slowly. The current warming is far faster than anything that nature could possibly produce.

As for The Day After Tomorrow - a good film if you like that sort of thing but that's all it is - a film, a work of fiction which takes some scientific basis and turns it into a movie by distorting the reality.

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Turning to your question. Yes global warming is a problem. I won't go into detail here about what I know about global warming as that's been summarised on a website which you can read - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/effects.html much better to read it on the websote as it includes diagrams, charts, photos etc which can't be included here.

Answer 3

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

It's (mostly) not the sun:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_actionitems.asp

And the first graph aboves shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.

Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html

There's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many:

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/329.php?nid=&id=&pnt=329&lb=hmpg1

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 and:

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 4

So here is a thought on the matter:

The mass extinction of the dinosaurs occured approx. 2 million years ago. we readily attribute this to a meteor which caused massive damage and brought about an ice age. Prior to this event the entire planet was much warmer than it is today.

I postulate that the ozone layer was created by this event (easily explained by a ferro magnetic meteor exploding with in our atmosphere.) and its "destruction" and warming of the globe is the planet returning to the state that it existed in for billions of years.

All the scientific research into global warming has been tracking changes in the earth's temperatures based on averages from recent history. What if global warming is the planet trying to return to its original state.

Answer 5

As a geologist, one of the things you realize first is that there is change in the earth's habitats. The oceans rise and fall and the climate changes constantly. The earth was cooling slightly in the 1940s to 1970s. There was a general warming trend for thousands of years with some minor ups and downs as we left the period of glaciation about 6000 years ago. Since 1970s, the temperature has been warming and some with a political agenda and some who are gullible but probably well meaning have jump on the global warming band wagon. They exaggerate the evidence, ignore the contradictory evidence, try to shout down and demean the skeptics, and use guilt to try to push an agenda that is more political than science. They whine that they are moral, that it is not a political agenda, but if you are careful, you can almost alway get them to reveal that politics is really behind their antics.

Answer 6

jamie here is an idea....Do some good research. Global Warming is a problem but it has nothing to do with CO2 or emissions. The earth has changed all through time...it is just changing again. Carbon levels have gone up and down for millions of years....Remember the ice age?...was that because of pollution?...no. The world is changing and if you own any beach front property you better sell....

Answer 7

No environmental groups seem to be addressing this issue. Even conservationists don't want to talk about it. I guess they all want to do conservation at work but not change their habits enough at home to make a difference. The raising of cattle causes more global warming than all of the car emmissions on the planet.
Over 80% of the dry tropical forests from northern Costa Rica to Mexico have been cut down. Areas of this size and larger have been cut down throughout the world including the Amazon, Indonesia, the Congo and other rain forests. The temperature after removing the rain forest has risen dramatically in these large tracts of land. The weather pattern also changes from this deforestation in each locality and they become drier. When these huge areas have their trees removed, erosion dumps millions of tons of sediment into the rivers that flow into the oceans. This sediment slowly suffocates the polyps of the precious coral reefs in the tropics.
What is the main reason for cutting these rain forests down? The main reason is to make room to raise cattle, not logging as many people think. With logging they generally cut down large hardwoods. To raise cow meat they cut down everything. In Central America much of the beef is exported to the United States. What can the average person do? eat soy, legumes and nuts as a protein source. This is a better way to practice sustainability. If the beef is grown in the United States sorry that isn't sustainable either. A person who eats cow meat (beef) as their main protein source requires about 20 acres of land each year and over 2000 gallons of precious water to raise that steer for protein. That is not sustainability. A person eating soy for their main source of protein only requires one acre of land and about 40 gallons of water each year to grow it. Also, soy doesn't add millions of tons of methane gas each year to our atmosphere. it actually absorbs co2. cows do produce over 100 million tons of global warming methane gas in the U.S. alone. Cattle excrement also is adding to major pollution problems in our water systems today. Stop eating beef! Or if you absolutely can't stop eating beef, cut back to once a week or once a month. if you must eat a meat chicken is much less destructive to the environment than beef, here in the tropics. Besides, refraining from eating beef is healthier in the long run.
If you want to take responsibility in helping save our planet from global warming, deforestation of the rain forests, dying coral reefs there are many other eating alternatives. please, eat to live, don't live to eat.
For our children's sake and the sake of the rain forests, coral reefs and the entire planet we need to step up and do something other than practice over indulgence. Cavemen had to hunt to get their protein and that was ok. Then we started raising animals to get our protein and that was needed. Now we know how to get all of the protein we need from plants. So it is time to evolve another step and stop the senseless cruelty to raising animals for food and also help control global warming and its effects at the same time.
henry
rainforest guide in costa rica, co-founder of the birding club of costa rica and past curator of zoo ave, largest breeding and release center of endangered birds and animals in central and south america

Answer 8

Yeah it probably will become a problem, I don't know, but there's nothing we could do about it except finding ways of coping with it

Answer 9

like chris said, the earth goes through cycles, warms up-cools down. nothing we can do but live with it and adjust.

Answer 10

it is. its causing major hurricanes,heating earth up, and many more things