There is a lot of doom and gloom with Global Warming its it REALLY too late to do something about it?

Answer 1

In the late 70's, I worked outside in eastern Kansas and we had a couple of very cold winters. We had blizzards, several heavy snow storms and many days of temperatures below zero. According to the newspapers it was the coldest years in Kansas history. The national newspapers had headlines such as "No End In Sight For Global Cooling" and predictions of an impending "Ice Age". Now since the CO2 had been increasing from the industrial age for several decades, shouldn't it have been getting warmer? Oh, we also had used up all of our natural resources and we were in an "oil crisis" as well.
The media thrives on global crisis and scientists receive a lot of federal funding when people are afraid of natural events that they study and report on. Wait a few years, things will cool back down and we will have a new crisis.

Watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle" on Google video and see for yourself what those top tier scientists have to say. The scientists credentials are shown in the documentary.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170&q=global+warming+swindle

Here is another good documentary, Google Video: CBC - Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3309910462407994295&q=global+warming+swindle

Answer 2

Global warming and cooling is NOT something we can change. The temperature of the planet is dependant on too many MUCH larger variables to be affected by humans burning stuff. We couldn't raise the temperature of the planet if we needed to. We can create localized hot-spots but not on a large enough scale to cause severe climate change.

The earth goes through periods of warming and cooling much like the seasons. We as a planet have been warming since we came out of the last ice age. It takes something of a natural origin to cause a sudden change in climate. Like a volcano or meteor. For instance the year without a summer in 1816.

http://islandnet.com/~see//weather/history/1816.htm

The thing that affects our atmosphere the most is the magnetosphere not CFC's. Without the magnetism of the earth our atmosphere would be torn away from the planet by the solar wind and we would be left lifeless just like Mars. The earth's core generates the magnetic field and that field fluctuates as the core spins. The field also fluctuates and shifts from time to time. Personally I'd be more worried about when the next shift is going to happen than about how much carbon is in the air. But there is still nothing we can do about it but be prepared to adapt or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_shift

We still need to find other fuels for transportation and energy because we will use up our fossil fuels eventually. Much like we will run out of fresh water drinking sources at our current growth. We can still LIVE without oil but not without water.

One last note... the largest regulator of the amount of carbon and oxygen in the air is not the rain forest and a bunch of trees. It is the ocean. The ocean is the largest Carbon sink we have and Phytoplankton produce the largest portion of the worlds supply of oxygen. So plant a tree if you like, I'll be conserving water.

Answer 3

We can certainly make a difference, no doubt about that. There's probably still time to undo all the damage that's been caused.

The key is something called the 'tipping point', once we reach that the damage becomes irreparable no matter what we do. Most scientists believe we still have some way to go before reaching the tipping point - typically 20 to 30 years (some think more, some thimk less, some think we've already reached it). We've never been in this position before so much is educated guesswork.

Because of the way the greenhouse effect works every little bit we do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will help.

Answer 4

I certainly hope not. I am not going to try to out guess it. I do what I can every day to assist in the hopes that we CAN do something about it. I find it very sad that there is so much focus on what we can do to get more oil, while damaging the land and seas. If we put that much money into a solution for global warming we would be so much better off. If the government would pull their heads out of their as*es and stop pretending like they didn't know this long ago it would provide us a greater opportunity for everyone to help~

Answer 5

One thing good about our Ozone layer is that it can repair, but not by itself. Since we are technically parasites living here on Earth (which is our host) we have to take care of it.

Stopping CFCs won't be enough, since the Ozone is composed of 3 oxygen molecules the earth has to produce lots of it, thus clean waters and lots of trees are needed, remember the oceans are the biggest producers and pumpers of oxygen to the air, if they are dirty then basically, the air that they pump will also be filthy.

As always there is pollution, with the great number of cars and other machinery that use oils that result in different kinds of carbon we really can't stop it, although we can decrease it by using organic energy such as methane or environment friendly fuels.

it's not too late yet, but if we don't do anything it will be in the future.

Answer 6

I think its not too late yet to start moving and do something about it like planting trees for example. Carbons pollute the air and its one factor that can destroy the ozone. Since trees consume carbon, people must plant trees, lots of it so by the next 15 years we can see the positive results. Otherwise, time will come we will be forced to settle on the top of the mountain.

Answer 7

No, we still have time to change some of these things but it will take a lot from all of us. So start doig thing that can help, even if is something small like putting trash were it belongs not on the street, try not to drive your car when you don't need to and you know stuff like that.....


Besitos!!!

JP
California!!!

Answer 8

No, the scientists have been working on that too.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html

We can't totally stop it. But, if we start now, we can reduce its' effects enough so that it's not a catastrophe.

The proper balance of prevention and coping is actually a worthy topic for debate, and it's going on in the scientific community right now.

Answer 9

I think we can't fix what we've done now but can try to prevent the damage from getting worse Like it will get hotter and hotter and no snow let's fix the future

Answer 10

i think it is not really to late to do something about it because the world is coming to an end in about 1,000,000 years from now