Do you think that global warming is just a natural phenomenon, and that the Earth will somehow adapt itself to the warming up of the oceans, and the melting of the icecaps?
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2007-05-30 19:00:27 · 22 answers · asked by afflatus 3 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
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2007-06-05 10:16:45 · update #1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
2007-06-05 09:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I go outside every day and everything seems the same as it has always been. My sisters who still live in New England say that the winters are getting longer and colder. I can't figure it out and don't know what to do. If it gets worse and it is proven to be real then they will create industries to combat it. Then we can train for it and get a job to help out. When I was in high school (late 50's) they told us it would get warmer. It never did and 25 years later they said it would be an ice age....and it never came. Now it is back to getting warm again. I will believe it when I see it. Weather forecasting can never be a science. There is no way to model it in the lab and control all the variables. It will always be guesswork. If the earth's atmosphere were divided up, we would all have close to a million tons each. The solar energy reaching the earth is 15,000 times the energy used by all of us.
2016-04-01 06:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you ever get the idea that Greenpeace "leftists" ever said "global warming is not a big deal?" Every thing they stand for is for the betterment of the environment. And Greenpeace is not just some fringe movement. They are in most countries around the world. They are the not so silent conscience of world leaders and common folk. You know, we throw around terms like right winger or leftist to apply to most things we disagree with politically. In reality all the left wants is for people to stop polluting this beutiful blue ball of ours that is suspended in space and may be unique to the universe. So stop and think before throwing verbal darts at people or organizations you probably are not real familiar with anyway. I do not mean to be unkind. I would just like for you to be a bit open-minded.
2007-06-07 12:06:23 · answer #3 · answered by Tom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural phenom...
In the Cayman Islands there is a place called Hell. It's a fossilized coral reef, that sits about 15' above sea level. Now coral is usually under water? So how long has it been since that fossilize coral was under water? The planet is righting itself after a flood and an Ice age. The only thing that global warming is doing for me is confirming the arrogance of our scientists and politicians, they think they have an answer for everything. Hey what do i know I'm just a human and I have 6" of Grey matter that knows everything...right :>)
2007-06-06 08:16:44 · answer #4 · answered by patriot_corps 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a natural phenomenon, that's not in dispute. It's possible greenhouse gasses are accelerating it. The evidence so far is anecdotal. It makes sense to me that the polar ice caps act as a thermostat for the rest of the planet. I'm concerned what the earth would be like if they disappeared. Could be real unpleasant. But I really don't think we can control the weather.
2007-06-02 21:26:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do believe that global warming is a natural phenomenon. However, I also believe that mankind is accelerating the rate of this natural phenomenon to the point where it is becoming too much for the environment to handle.
I think that it will affect animals and humans more than it will affect the earth itself. The earth will probably continue to go on living, but as for mankind's fate...I'm not so sure we will do so well...
We will either adapt or go extinct.
2007-05-30 20:26:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
global warming is a slow, long-term rise in average world temperature. if this happened, the weather would become hot and polar ice caps would melt and automatically sea levels could rise and destroy coastal cities. don't you think it's a big deal?? and in what way would the earth somehow adapt itself? is it possible for the earth to stop the heat and send it to another place like mars? of course, it can't never adapt itself coz earth is created with a structural relation to other things, such as air, sea, land, human and so forth. once it gets a disturbance, the other things tend to follow.
2007-05-30 19:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by ervanie_16 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes i think that it is a natural phenomena but I also think that we are accelerating a natural process. I also don't think that the worlds ecosystems can adapt fast enough. Previously when there was a global warming event. it took thousands of years for the earth to heat up.this would have given all the ecosystems adequate time to adapt to the changing climate. It has taken the modern world 100 years to do what previously took thousands of years.
2007-05-30 19:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Leftists believe that global warming IS a big deal. Look at Al Gore and all that he is doing. He is a democrat...a left winger.
Right wingers believe that global warming is a political hoax.
Honestly...I think it has more to do with mother nature...a lot more. The sun is going through a very very violent cycle right now. I think things will even out.
However...I do believe we need to get away from using gas in cars and to fuel other things in our daily life. And we will develop other energy sources on a mass scale...just takes time.
2007-05-30 19:03:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Either way makes little difference to me. I will be long dead before real bad effects happen. It will be many decades before drastic things happen. We all want clean air so lets start there. Some of us have common sense, so, lets start using it to insure we have a clean and safe environment. Even if we stopped all Greenhouse gases right now, nothing would change. Peace
2007-06-06 16:26:06 · answer #10 · answered by PARVFAN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is both a natural phenomenon that is being accelerated and pushed to a higher extreme by pollution.
whether it actually is real or not, I don't really care, because it is a "catch-all" for real problems that are real threats to all life.
why do i say this?
because there is no way to prove whether the experiments that predict certain global warming hypothesis are correct without continuing to pollute and allow it to reach its irreversible climax. by then, it is entirely too late.
-too late to restore delicate ecosystems that are already being destroyed.
- too late to bring back an extinct specie(especially if that specie is human)
-too late to replant anything when the plants won't benefit from a hastened H2O cycle.
-too late to do anything once CO2 levels reach 800ppmv which we are half way there already.
after all, if we could repair an ecosystem once it is unbalanced and destroyed, at least one of the biosphere experiments would have succeeded. none of them did.
2007-05-30 20:34:42 · answer #11 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋