question for you about global warming.?

Question

what are you doing to try and help with this global warming situation? are you worried at all?

Answer 1

i am not worried about global warming because it is a liberal conspiracy theory to try and scare us into doing what they want. The earth is just going through a NATURAL CYCLE. Sure their are scientists that say it is happening but they cant really predict what the weather will be like tomorrow.

Answer 2

I'm trying to educate as many as possible to the fact man isn't responsible for natural cycles. It should be no surprize to anyone awake that the Earth has been warming, and continues to warm, since the last Ice Age. We will continue to warm until the beginning of the next Ice Age.

And yes, I AM extremely worried how many have bought this lunacy...hook, line, and sinker. I was aware there's a fool born every minute...I just didn't realize so many survived childhood!

Answer 3

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

Time Magazine
July 24, 1974

Answer 4

We do our bit each day by reducing energy consumption, recycling, reusing etc. In the last 10 years or so we've reduced our domestic carbon footprint by about 50% and it's not been at all hard to do. It's also been cost effective and is saving perhaps $800 a year.

We're trying to get planning permission to erect a wind turbine, one big enough to provide energy for our house and the five neighbouring houses.

Last year a friend and I went to Africa and organised the planting of three small forests, in time they'll remove about the same amount of carbon dioxide that would be produced by 200 people.

Am I worried about GW? Yes and no. We already have the technology to do something about it and if we act soon then it's probably not too late and we can undo the damage that's been done and start to bring the climate back in line with natural trends. If we fail to act soon then the consequences in the decades to come could be disasterous.

Answer 5

Not much i can do . First I'm not sure what the cause is. If its cycles then there is nothing i can do. If its from humans and all the energy we use then I'm innocent there i run my home on solar have been for years. Then i would have to tell the rich that use most of the energy to stop using it so much but out of there greed they would not listen to me . Then i would have to resort to violence and nothing good would come out of that because the police would be on there side because they have money and you know the old saying money talks and bull crap walks .

Am I worried ? Not for me I'm getting old but i am for our kids and grand kids . I just hope they don't follow the rich and become there modern day slaves as the rest of you are with all your credit card payment car payments home payments you have no choice but to keep feeding the rich man his gold or he will punish you and take your things unlike the old days they would whip there slaves.

All this global warming for a stupid pair of $200 dollar sneakers . People are so ignorant

Answer 6

Not much. I drive a small car and use compact fluorescent lights, but that is more to save money than prevent global warming.
And I am not worried at all about global warming. The effects will not be bad, despite what the fear mongers say.

Answer 7

Yes, I am concerned as we all should be. My family uses compact fluorescent light bulbs. We set our thermostats up or down when we are not at home. We try and not have so much waste. We re-use plastic and paper bags and buy recycled paper products whenever possible. If everyone did just a little, it would make a huge difference for our earth.

Answer 8

After dinner one recent night, family an friends were discussing their views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going to do to fix it?"


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California's legislators rolled up their sleeves last week and got started on an answer, passing the most important legislation of the year, possibly of the decade: the California Global Warming Solutions Act. With any luck, its cooling effects will be felt for the rest of the century--and beyond.

Though confronted with a growing climate crisis, the nation has struggled to find scalable, society-wide solutions--and the political will to enact them. When seven Northeastern states capped emissions of greenhouse gases by utilities last month, we took a giant step forward. But until last week, no American state had been bold enough to approve legislation that caps emissions across all the meaningful economic sectors. California--where 1 of 8 Americans lives--will now require major industrial producers of such gases to reduce emissions 25% by 2020. That means cutting the annual release of carbon dioxide in the state by 174 million metric tons. It takes a forest twice the size of New Jersey to process that much of the heat-trapping gas.

How will we achieve that? By letting free markets discover the best solutions and invest in them. Create a market for carbon removal, and set limits on companies' allowance for carbon emissions. Companies that pollute less get credits and can then sell those credits to other companies, who buy them to offset their excess carbon. A similar market system for sulfur dioxide is already in place to cut sulfur pollution in half by 2010, dramatically reducing acid rain.

That "cap-and-trade" approach works because it provides certainty--companies have a specific greenhouse-gas-emission target--and because free markets are the most efficient way to reward innovation. A market-based system has two added benefits: it creates new revenue sources for companies clean enough to sell credits, and it enables free markets to determine the best solutions instead of having governments bet on what they think are going to be the winning innovations. That vision is one reason a Republican Governor and a Democratic legislature were able to agree on the global-warming act and many business leaders--including Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned environmental activist Bob Epstein--got behind it.

The economic benefits are large and calculable. In California, the world's sixth largest economy, the Climate Action Team determined that global-warming reduction would increase income by more than $4 billion while providing 83,000 new jobs. Growth will come from several sources: innovative green technologies will create high-quality jobs and new revenue streams. In addition, companies will have increased purchasing power once they decrease energy costs and reduce imports of fossil fuels. The notion that businesses will leave the state is flawed because all suppliers that sell to California are affected, not only California-based suppliers. The doomsayers just don't get it: we can harmonize economic growth and environmental benefits.

Answer 9

Well I try not to waist anything if I can see a reasonable way to do that. I am however as guilty as you for waiting hydro power and probably most other resourses available.

Answer 10

Live as close to work as possible so you dont have to drive far or bike.
Buy renewable energy credits for your home electricity.
Insulate and weatherize your house very well so you dont have to heat cool it much.
Plant shade trees around your house.
Drive a hybrid car.
Tell gas guzzler drivers to go to hell.

Best of all: Live in an apartment or condo in the inner city close to work.