Global Warming?

Question

I watched Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" yesterday. I could not believe how bleak the earth's future looks. If something isn't done immediately it will be too late. How can Bush ignore the real and present danger of global warming?

Answer 1

To answer your question, it is about money and oil. The oil companies do not want those of us in America to be aware of the real dangers of Global Warming. One of the biggest contributors to global warming is indeed our automobiles.

We really don't want to give up our cars, and the oil companies want to keep selling gas to us.

I think the level of ignorance is evident by a number of responses on your question (and in other ones as well.) While indeed earth goes through period of cooling and heating, the heating we have experienced and will experience over the next 50 years is going to be outside this norm.

I think comparing us to the time that dinosaurs lived is certainly no comfort. In fact, that is our concern. If we do not get a handle on this issue, we will make the planet inhabitable by humans.

We the people need to make the change. We need to make the changes ourselves and not wait for the government to save us.

Answer 2

It may be that Al Gore has taken some poetic license with his claims but it is undeniable that the industrial revolution has effected the climate. There is too much science to support it. There are easy, simple and increasingly cheaper ways to replace oil as out main power source for industrial progress.

The largest consumer of energy in the USA is heating and cooling our buildings. Geo thermal heat pumps use the consistent temperature or the earth several feet into the crust to supply heat and coolant to buildings. The only power needed to run a heat pump is electricity, which can be supplied by photovoltaic panels. No Oil involved.

The second largest consumer of oil is automotive. When electric vehicles are finally used for commuting and running errands, and charged up using PV panels the oil used will become even less.

We can do this. We can turn the damages of the last fifty years around and let the earth heal itself.

Answer 3

We need to get the media to tell the truth to the American public. The truth has never been told ! Once the public realize that they've been lied to about the state of the planet,Bush loses ALL power ! The lies he's told will be undeniable ! I think that the woldwide concert to raise awareness of global warming will have a huge effect on the way people act to solve the problem. We're on a wet rock spinning through space,and we better take better care of our home !

Answer 4

Bush has gone through two phases. First he supported his buddies in the oil industry by saying it wasn't real and suppressing government scientists who said it was.

When the mountain of scientific proof became too much to do that with a straight face, he changed his tune, saying it was real but needed more study before we took action. In other words, "let's put this off until I leave office".

All this will change January 2009. The longer we wait, the more expensive it will be to take action, but it's not too late - yet.

Don't be too discouraged. 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

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... 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.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 5

1. GOres 'truth' is based mostly on lies..and provable lies in that most of the gw evidence is based on invalid data models.... There is no real danger of global warming and in fact the 'real' science proves that we will be coming out of the latest warming trend in 10-25 years or sooner.

These trends last anywhere from 50-300 years each time.
Thats been proven also, for 1800 years including hard proof (actual factual evidence for 200+ years).

Besides its a political tool, so neither political party is being factual about gw. Shame they both need to concentrate on real issues..not global warming.

Answer 6

If you desire to acquire supply cash for local weather study, do you believe that you can get a cheque should you say," I want the supply, as I believe that I can end up that the figures that the present paradigm is centered upon are fallacious" ? The fine environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. There continues to be no tested causative hyperlink among the volume of Co2 within the surroundings, and an broaden in worldwide temperatures. The WWWF pics of the polar bears swimming had been taken within the Arctic summer season; whilst the ice cap partly melts, as they could not stand up to photo within the wintry weather. The ice used to be too thick! The East-Anglian uni study figures. "Oh! The figures do not fit our expectancies. Oh good. Keep quiet. Because we all know that we're correct." When the notion, and the religion is extra principal than squarely dealing with the legit doubts of plenty of non supply-supported scientists, technological know-how has been superceded by way of devout zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully stated." I pray thee, within the bowels of Christ, take into account that thou mayest be fallacious."

Answer 7

Its not just Bush .Take a good look outside are people still doing what they where doing .Is the lady next door still jumping into her SUV to go to the market 2 blocks away to get a loaf of bread ? Can you see all the cars going by with just one person in it? Do you see any solar panels going up or do you see the guy next door getting his son a new car for his 16th birthday ?.What about you what are you doing ? I'm just saying you can point the finger at one person if you wish but its going to take more then one person to change things . Poor old Bush is a bit busy at the moment trying to keep the terrorist from killing us like on the day of 911.

All the things that we do our grand and great grand parents where doing years ago . We need to totally change our ways we are going to have to tear down all the old building that our grand parents built out of sticks and mud and go high tech and catch up with the times if we plan to survive . Most of all we have to get rid of the greed in the world .The supper rich are going to have to give up there ways .I fear some day there not going to have a choice man will take it from them things get bad enough . All in all its up to us we are all in this together

Answer 8

Read the book Chicken Little, it's a child's story and it's along the same theme-and like Global Warming, it's a work of fiction. Bush can ignore Global Warming because he believes in a God, Global Warming is a form of religion, not an enviromentalcase movement.

Answer 9

Naysayers all are in denial because they don't want to give up their gas-guzzling SUVs that churn out excess vehicle emissions; they don't want to stop building smoke-belching factories; they don't want to stop the rape of the rainforests; they don't care if melting polar ice caps render a few remote Eskimo tribes and a few hundred polar bears extinct; they don't believe that global warming will flood both coasts of both major oceans and displace tens of millions of people; they don't want to have to REuse, REduce, or REcycle; they don't understand how the deterioration of mangrove forests will eventually keep us from surviving on this planet; they don't want to admit that there is a delicate, fragile ecological balance between all plants, men and animals which is absolutely necessary for our very existence. -RKO- 07/08/07

Answer 10

I saw that same movie with Al Gore in my science class and I was shocked! People don't really know what is going on until they watch that movie. How Bush can ignore that I have no clue. Its a good thing that this is his last term because he is horrible and if we keep him any longer our whole nation is going to be fu cked up!!

Very glad you brought up this point...people need to be aware of this happening.