Global Warming?

Question

How bad do you think global warming is?

Answer 1

Really bad

Answer 2

Its the damage caused by global warming that is bad...and the time it takes to reverse (20 years) and THAT is if we STOPPED polluting it right this second...no more cars, coal, burning of any fuels at all.

So we know that will never happen.

If we continue polluting at this rate (it's the pollution that stays trapped in the upper atmosphere like a dirty blanket) that lets the sun's rays in but doesn't let the "heat" of those rays escape fast enough (because the pollution holds it in our atmosphere)--that is heating the planet and causing the earth's temperatures to go up.

This has had catastophic effects already. Al Gore's movie just points them out and I don't know why people don't believe what is right there for them to see with their own eyes.

At the rate the temperature is rising (and it's unprecendented, it's risen more in 30 years than all of eternity) we may lose our fresh water lake etc. and they predict in 50 years there will be no more water to sustain the people on this planet. Can you imagine?

Just that thought alone should cause concern...and yet people don't buy it...but our glaciers are fresh water and they are disappearing. Our lakes and rivers WILL dry up. There are droughts everywhere already.

Answer 3

I don't know. A decade or so ago it was global cooling. I can't get my pool to heat up enough to get in it yet and it's the end of May in South Carolina, so go figure.

Another guy then told me that global warming can sometimes mean cooling.......riiiight.

So am I skeptical and think that all of this is being cooked up by scientists with their own political ideas to advance and then further advanced by spine-less politicians who can't muster up the guts to say "you guys are nuts, it's friggin weather dude!"? Well, yeah. I guess that is what I'm saying.

People, we came out of an ice age centuries ago. The planet got warmer and the ice melted. We were not around. It just happened. It is called the weather!!! It changes. Think of the wasted effort being poured into this the next time you a piece on Darfur. Africans dying now......people dying in some nebulous "100's of years from now" future. Which side am I on? I'll help those in need now thank you.

Or forget the hip-for-now situation in Darfur. Chinese forced labor camps, Indian overcrowding and disease, hellish situations all over the freaking world......and we are worried about the weather.

Answer 4

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.

Global average air temperature near the Earth's surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations,"[1] which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes have probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950, but a small cooling effect since 1950.[2][3] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is the only scientific society that rejects these conclusions,[4][5] and a few individual scientists also disagree with parts of them. [6]

Climate models referenced by the IPCC project that global surface temperatures are likely to increase by 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100.[1] The range of values reflects the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions and results of models with differences in climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a millennium even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. [1] This reflects the large heat capacity of the oceans.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including sea level rise, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, though it is difficult to connect specific events to global warming. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the exact degree of climate change expected in the future, and how changes will vary from region to region around the globe. There is ongoing political and public debate regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at combating greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 5

Very bad, the older generation, the working one such as the current parents, won't get hit. But the new, now, generation will! The ice is melting raising the oceans. When this is all over, if it ever is, the world will never be the same again. Its a scary, and somewhat, preventable thing.

Answer 6

I'm one that people on this site would refer to as a "skeptic". YES there has been a slight change in the world's temperature over the last hundred years..... BUT this is NORMAL for the Earth. Just like Hurricanes are normal and Earthquakes and Tornado's. These things happen for a reason - now that the whole world is connected with the media (be it Internet or television) we just know about all the disasters all over the world.

Do some actual research on your own. People will tell you different things and that's what causes it to be a big hooplah - look for facts and statistics, not observations and thoughts.

Answer 7

ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO HAS A CONCERN ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING...

Dear Friends;

I suspect that many of you have heard about Global Warming in the news and gotten your ears stuffed full of information by former Vice President Al Gore. In that information it is suggested that green house gases such as Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane are the cause of GLOBAL WARMING.

I offer to each and every inquiring mind out there in the global community the opportunity to perform a simple experiment and test these wild stories for yourself and even as a school experiment or lab project. You will be totally amazed by the results.

Obtain three kitchen oven type thermometers such as your mother might use in preparation of meats in the oven.

Next, obtain a good sized glass mason jar with a lid that screws on tightly, several black colored roofing shingles, and several white colored roofing shingles. Drop a lit wooden match into the glass mason jar and screw on the lid very tight.
The wooden match will go out after it burns up all of the oxygen in the jar, which leaves nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and some misc. smoke. So the glass jar now contains exactly what Al Gore is talking about.

Now, on a large sheet of plywood placed out in the morning sunshine, arrange the Glass Jar, The White Roofing Shingles (stacked tightly together), and The Black Roofing Shingles (stacked tightly together), in such a way that all three will receive an equal amount of heating sunlight during the day.

Place a kitchen thermometer under the edge of the jar, and under the edge of each stack of shingles.

During the day, make a chart of the three temperatures and the time of day.

You will discover, amazingly, that the black shingles heat up much faster than the other two, get hotter than the other two, and retain their heat far longer than the other two.

So, what does that mean...??? It means that the problem has nothing to do with carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane. It has to do with paving the Earth's surface with Black Asphalt streets, parking lots, driveways, highways, and roofs for residences, offices, warehouses, and governmental buildings. If you make things BLACK and expose them to the sun, they will get hotter quicker, get hotter than other things, and retain the heat longer than things of other colors. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out and nobody has yet to call Mr. Gore's hand on this outrageous claim of his. The largest scam the world has ever seen is being pushed onto the innocent public by oil companies world wide who wish to see the price of oil move up to ten dollars per gallon.

If roof shingles were changed from black to white (via replacement, or paint) summertime air conditioning costs
would be reduced by from 10 percent to 20 percent. What a simple cure for each family to take advantage of... No meetings in Zurich are required to achieve this. No Energy Credits sold by an International Consortium are required to make this happen. No presidential veto or approval is necessary. The savings are right there at your finger tips.

Want to save more money on your electric and gas bills...and reduce the amount of power company fuels used even more? Then convert your storage type water heaters (electric or gas powered) to Heat On Demand type water heaters. Huge savings are available to you if you do this simple thing. Plus, if you don't use the power, they don't have to burn as much fuel to supply it to you.

Tell all of your friends about this simple experiment and get everyone talking about BLACK ASPHALT if they give one teeny little bit of interest to Global Warming. Isn't it time that someone came out with the real honest facts about all of this? Try it yourself and see.

Answer 8

Not bad at all. In fact it is probably just part of a cycle. I would imagine if we had realistic meteorological data from more than just a hundred years we would see a pattern (or frequency), not unlike sound and light waves form.

Most of it is just the liberal's media stirring things up. For example, if the polar ice caps are melting the why after only forty years in the Arctic did they find a squadron of air plane 250 feet below ice?

http://www.straight-talk.net/evolution/glacier-girl.htm

Answer 9

1.2 degrees F over 120 years.

I don't think that, I know it.

As to whether that's "bad" - that's a subjective matter.

As to whether it's caused primarily by mankind, that's a factual matter and that fact remains unknown.

There are some groups who want it to be true and keep repeating that it is, but saying something over and over again does not prove it to be so.

Just like voting thumbs down on something doesn't prove it to not be so.

Answer 10

I think its bad enough, that we should have started to pay attention a long time ago. Am i worried about it? Hell ya!