what is your opinion about global warming?

Question

any ideas on how to stop or reduce it somehow

Answer 1

my opinion about global warming is that if we don't act fast, then we will be in for a rude awakening. Even if it isn't my generation, it will be my children's and I don't want that to happen. I totally support global warming efforts and I tell everyone about it and what we can do to help. It is soo incredibly easy to recycle, plant more trees and save energy. People will normally look past it because they think it's so hard, too much effort and they don't have time for it. They like to give excuses as a reassurance to themselves but they really don't evaluate what is really going on. Polar bears are drowning, different species are dying in central and south America. Everywhere there is from the rising temperatures. Mosquito populations are rising because the temperature is getting warmer and warmer. In a few years or so, if we keep going the way we are, the polar ice caps are going to melt faster and rise the oceans and flood over countries, killing thousands possibly millions of people. Florida and New York City, gone. Central America, wiped out. I feel we need to act now and if the people don't listen, the we will have a major issue to act on later in life. Let's prevent it.

Answer 2

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Global Warming is not true, All it is, is an advertisement that stupid people who think they are helping a good cause give money to that people stuff into there pockets and do no research at all. Hears a couple of examples why global warming is not true - - first off the so called scientist state the fact that the ice caps are melting and show you sad pictures of polar bears dieing. Truth be told that the Not so long ago, the Ice caps were recorded 3 inches thicker than ever recorded on history. - Evidence show that the 1000 years ago the earth was hotter than it is today - Nasa has stated that the hottest years of the Century were not the 90's or 00's but the 1930's - Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was 500,000 sq km greater than this time last year. - Ten years ago Different Scientists were telling people that it was global freezing, it just did not get as much media coverage. Truth be told its a big scam for you to fork over your money for them telling you a lie. The Earth goes through out cycles that make it get hot and cold. We Just have to live with it a realize we cant change it.

Answer 3

You ask for any ideas on how to stop or reduce global warming.Well if you can find a way of controlling the sun's activities then you may have some success. If you have noticed the summers are getting hotter and winters are milder then it must be from the sun. Earth cannot generate it's own heat. Block out the sun and we get cold as has been predicted of a nuclear winter if enough bombs were exploded. As the sun heats our planet , seas warm up and absorb less CO2 hence CO2 levels rise. When the sun's cycle changes and not so much heat gets to earth then the CO2 levels will drop again. There's nothing we can do about that. Nature produces more CO2 than humans could ever do. One volcano can produce more pollutants in one year than every human, every vehicle. and every animal on the planet today does in a decade. CO2 levels have nothing to do with temperature change. It's the temperature change affecting CO2 levels and that comes from the sun, nothing we can do about it. Be very wary of what government funded climate scientists have to say. They use computer models and tweak them to give the answer the government wants to hear. Governments are always looking for ways to bring in more money by the way of taxes and to use a scientist is a very convenient way of doing just that. I could go on and on but do some research yourself by going to the sites below and make up your own mind.

Answer 4

Everything listed under Trevor's "geoengineering" scares the bejeezus out of me. This tinkering, even something benign sounding as "artificial trees" is no less dangerous than the harm we are doing to this planet through pollution. Kinda reminds me of the "let's see what happens this time" approach of the 60's, when the US and Russia exploded nuke's in space. Everyone knows that not all of the Van Allen radiation belts are natural, right?

Getting back to the artificial trees...How can you guarantee that the artificial trees won't steal CO2 that would otherwise go to natural plants? And the same goes for phytoplankton, which doesn't simply drop to ocean floor - part of the food chain that is VERY fragile due to our gross-overfishing of the worlds oceans. If the artificially increased plankton is not closely regulated, then a "bloom" can occur, which usually ends up "choking", depleting the oxygen in that area and killing a good portion, if not all sea life in that body of water. This happens naturally all the time, as well as unknowingly by man's pollution of rivers, lakes, and seas.

There's no reason why we can't approach a near-zero carbon emission future (other than our physiologic contribution) with judicious use of nuke, wind, and solar, as well as efficiency technologies like LED lighting (FAR more eco-friendly than CFL.) and promotion of electric private, public, and commercial transportation. And I would promote this even if they told us tomorrow that we were due for a 2 degree drop in global temperature in the next 30 years, because it's the right thing to do.

Answer 5

I personally believe that global warming is a big issue, that is caused in most part by us people. To fight global warming you can recycle, plant trees, help conserve forests (that big forest a ways down the street from you is going to suck a lot more CO2 out of the air than a little flower that you plant in your yard). You can use CFL's and unplug electronics when you are not using them. Use materials that are made out of post consumer waste, and unplug your electronics when you aren't using them. For more ideas read books such as "The Solution is you! An activist's guide".

Answer 6

I believe in climate change. I believe that global warming and global cooling belong to the category of climate change. I believe that climate change is caused mainly by human intervention and activity. It is not natural. And most every scientist that is not getting grants from politicians or companies, and are not being blackmailed to speak against it, approve it. The Union of Concerned Scientists released a memo pleading for control by 2020. It was one page long. The list of scholars, professors, scientists, educators, politicians, colleges, and universities in the US alone numbered over 2500. I also believe that nearly all the atmospheric and ecological actions happening worldwide (Pine Beetle return, oceanic acidification, Siberian methane release/permafrost thaw, Greenland's retreat, increased snow in the US south, increasing heat waves in Europe, are all linked to climate change. They can be defined by it, as they are all abnormal weather occurrences. I also believe, that because f the skeptics out there who strongly disagree against global warming (which I believe is false too) that are not scientists, or have never taken a course in Environmental Science, don't have a right to speak for themselves. and those who don't believe in it, but don't speak up, should educate themselves.

Answer 7

I say if u believe in it. It up u do something about it . Turn off your light when u not in room save your hot water don't use much it. Go store once a week cut back on your driving
do more at home and walk a lot it good for u we don't need law we use are head write down every thing we need talk people in our place where we live and set down the family get idea how we cut back if u got a yard use push mower

Answer 8

Happening? Yes
Man Caused? Very little.
Sun Caused? Very much.
Man have any control? NO
Will it go away? Yes.
Cyclical global Temp? Yes
Other planets in solar system warming? Yes.

While it is true that we need to conserve, it is not due to global warming.

A couple of simple questions for you who believe that humans are to blame...

1. Why are the other planets warming?
2. Why was the largest increase in temperature in the last century during the first half, and there even a DECREASE in temperature during the 80s?

Answer 9

Trevor, where do you get 10 KG (actually 22 poounds) of CO2 from a gallon of gasoline when the gasoline weighs only 6 pounds to begin with and 25 to 30% of the gasoline is converted into energy?

Even with combining some atmospheric molecules with carbon from the gasoline, I don't see a weight gain lilke that being within the realm of physical possibility. Sounds like voodoo science to me.

Answer 10

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 peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

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

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

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

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

Here's a plan for reducing it so we can cope.

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

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Good websites for more info:

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

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"