Global warming?

Question

England is under a considerable amount of water

China has had more than it's share of flooding as of late

Heat waves in Europe and Pakistan reached record highs killing people in both places

Another heat wave is expected in Southern Ontario Canada

Massive floods in Texas

A 16,000 km square piece of Arctic ice broke off and floated into the sea scientists said it was close to 6,000 yrs old

Ponds in the Arctic also 6,000 yrs old have completely evaporated due to increased summer temps - never to come back

Australia has been hit by drought -


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All of this has been this summer alone -

Are all you guys sure that UN scientists who released a study saying it was only going to get worse and humans are likely to blame isn't right on the money ?

The ponds in the arctic that have disapeared Yahoo news

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/02072007/3/canada-disappearing-ponds-bad-news-high-arctic.html

Answer 1

WOW, the depth of some people's denial is amazing.

I truly find it hard to believe that with man abusing the earth as we have that it hasn't had ANY effect at all on the environment...it sounds like someones excuse for not being accountable to the Earth and justification for being irresponsible.

Maybe if Fox News and the so called "liberal" media put it on their agenda to correct the damage that has been done, and Rush Windbag claimed it would be the "in" thing to do, to clean up the environment, then the sheep would probably go along with it. Don't look for it to happen any time soon.

I heard some astronauts discarded a tub of ammonia into space the other day. We haven't polluted this earth enough, now we have to pollute space as well?

Answer 2

Well not really Australia's drought began years ago and its starting to clear up now - been getting reasonable amounts of rain on average. Admittably we haven't had any for a couple of weeks again but I think its starting to break.

Australia's drought is due to the Almino (forgive me for wrong spelling) effect, which is an atmosphere condition which transfers rain back and forth in between East Australia and South America; when Australia's in drought, South Africa is getting heaps of rain, and vice versa.

However, everything else is most likely the effects of global warming. We all have to stop using power we don't need immediately. We also have to switch completely to nuclear power including using nuclear power stations to charge electric cars.

And to the person who said there's nothing we can do at this point but adapt - of course not. It has been easily proven that if everyone put their all into reducing their emissions, carbon dioxide levels would fall naturally and global warming will be reversed.

Also an extra bit of information for people who don't understand global warming. Global warming is a natural process which happens with or without humans until the next ice age. What we have here is enhanced global warming. Before each ice age, carbon dioxide levels in the air reach a certain level and then suddenly drop rapidly as the ice age comes. Our current carbon dioxide levels are several TIMES HUGER than any other previous CO2 level in natural times. Imagine the consequences of what may happen. For one, there will be many natural disasters. Heat isn't all that's gonna happen, you're gonna see floods everywhere, hurricanes, and so forth. So don't pretend its not important.

Answer 3

At issue isn't weather or not there is global warming, it is the CAUSE that is not clear.
Those that support the man made theory are pushing to limit carbon output by man.

Those that do not support the man made theory support changing human behavior to modify the IMPACT of global warming.

Please remember that 10,000 years ago almost all of North America was under ice. The fact is that the Earth has been trending warmer ever since the last ice age. Why do you consider the 2300 mile retreat of the ice cap as normal but the 5 feet per year melt now as "man made".

Answer 4

Despite all the claims by scientists and the media there is exists very little real evidence concerning Global warming. We know certain scientific facts are true. For example it is well established fact that smoking is bad for a persons health. The scientific evidence is unquestionable. Where is the real evidence on global warming?

For millions of years the earth has evolved. The ice melted to create a planet which is now 70% water. This created the life on earth from its earliest formations. This fact alone shows that the earths temperature has never been static - it can’t be. Variations in temperature happen all the time. How can we be certain that this is due to man’s tampering with the planet and not due to natural factors - we can’t.

Many scientists in order to add credibility to their argument tell us that Global warming is the result of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere caused by cars and industry. What they don’t tell people is that carbon dioxide gas exists naturally in nature! It is the very stuff that plant life is reliant on to exist. Without carbon dioxide plants would perish and die and they are fundamental to the survival of other life forms directly or indirectly.

When a volcano erupts it emits into the atmosphere more carbon dioxide gas that since the beginning of the industrial revolution! Therefore, the argument could be said that volcanoes and NOT man is equally to blame. Carbon dioxide comes from numerous sources which are natural such as vegetation, and animals. How much carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere by cows alone - it must be staggering on a world wide scale!

We are often shown images of icecaps melting on the media. I find this incredibly strange to accept when temperatures in the areas they claim it is happening are sometimes as low as -40 degrees centigrade! If I were to increase the temperature of my freezer by 1 degree would the ice melt. I don’t think so! For the ice to melt in those regions of the world it have to be above freezing. We simply know that is not the case with ice everywhere!

Global warming is simply a media bandwagon that politicians are using to frighten the rest of us into submission using out of context scenarios. It’s the case of Chicken Little. They have all come and gone. The disasters of doom and gloom always have a new one around the corner. Do you remember the movie Soylant Green in the 1970’s starring Charlton Heston? It foretold of a world in which food was so scarce with a world’s burgeoning population that they were having to recycle the dead to live. The truth is today that there is so much food (particularly in Western Europe) that they are literally throwing it away because to stockpile it onto the market would cause prices to be depressed!

In the 1980’s it was a new threat - “AIDS”. A rampant virus that was going to destroy humanity because no cure would be found and we would all we walking around resembling something from a George Romero movie! It was just media scare mongering.

Then in the year 2000 we had a new threat that was going to destroy us all - the dreaded “Millennium Bug”. We were told by the media that it would activate nuclear weapons and unleash undreamt of horrors. Many people around the world literally sat in terror as the midnight hour struck. I heard that people in some US states evacuated convinced of an imminent disaster. Well, that one didn’t work either!

See the pattern? The media play games with people’s minds. They deliberate distort the truth to control the populace and it has been that way for years. Their control over us is only possible if we allow them to do so. Without acquiescing to lies, half-truths and misleading information they would be powerless. It is a sad fact that the vast majority of the population are sheep led silently to the slaughter!

Answer 5

And the sky is falling. I live in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This is at least the fourth summer in the row that the weather has been mild and slightly rainy. I want some of the global warming to come here, soon.

Answer 6

in case you go with to obtain grant funds for climate study, do you think of which you will get a cheque in case you're saying," i want the availability, as i think of that i'm able to coach that the figures that the present paradigm relies upon are incorrect" ? the great environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. there continues to be no shown causative link between the quantity of Co2 interior the ambience, and a upward push in worldwide temperatures. The WWWF photos of the polar bears swimming have been taken interior the Arctic summer season; whilst the ice cap partly melts, as they could no longer upward push as much as image interior the wintry climate. The ice became too thick! The East-Anglian uni study figures. "Oh! The figures do no longer tournament our expectancies. Oh properly. shop quiet. because of fact all of us understand that we are precise." whilst the theory, and the religion is extra significant than squarely dealing with the valid doubts of a great style of non grant-supported scientists, technological know-how has been superceded by making use of non secular zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully reported." I pray thee, interior the bowels of Christ, evaluate that thou mayest be incorrect."

Answer 7

Much as I do believe that climate change can be effected by human industrial activity, I don't think one particular year can be used as irrefutable evidence. The pattern shows over decades, at the very least.

Answer 8

I'm pretty sure that if it is indeed a global warming issue, it is nothing more than a cyclical climate shift as has happened many times before. Humans have NOTHING to do with it.

Answer 9

Since when have there ever been ponds in the arctic?

Check your facts.

Why does it matter if humans are to blame or not, either way, we lose.

Answer 10

Exactly, and we stick our heads in the sand hoping it will go away.

Its just like with anything, it isn't going to fix itself and we shouldn't give up. Its almost like people move around in this crazed fog and never engage themselves.