Hell yes. Most people think of it as a future problem but if you look you see it's now. It shows up so much in the weather. Huge shifts of climate are happening. During the winter we usually have several feet of snow on the ground from november to April.Last winter we only got one blizzard and it only gave us four feet which melted before March!!! And palces that normally are drought-stricken now are flooded, and wet palces go dry! It scares me silly.
2007-08-19 09:46:00
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answered by Kyttn 2
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It does not scare me because that is part of their tactic.
People who support the global warming theory have acknowledged that scare tactics are part of their plan to support their cause.
Scientist’s need “to get some broader based
support, to capture the public’s imagination...that,
of course, entails getting loads of media coverage.
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make
simplified dramatic statements, and make little
mention of any doubts we may have…each of us
has to decide what the right balance is between
being effective and being honest.
Stephen Schneider, Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of
the Institute for International Studie, and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, Discover Magazine.
Q. There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?
A. I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/... (Interview with Grist Magazine’s David Roberts and Al Gore about An Inconvenient Truth)
2007-08-19 09:50:36
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answered by eric c 5
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What scares me is the alarmist propaganda and the ease with which the general public are fooled by their pseudo-scientific gobbledygook.
We are being hoodwinked by an unholy alliance between the extreme right who want to inhibit development in the third world, the extreme left who use it as anti-globalisation propaganda, and the medieval environmentalists who romanticise the peasant way of life before any powered machinery was invented
2007-08-20 01:39:28
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answered by mick t 5
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It is not supposed to scare you.
It is supposed to make crazy government corruption easier.
The way it does that is by making it sound critical but not so scary that you have to actually get to work on it. Religions had sucess for many years but are outdated. They create an issue and then get a job resolving it when they made up to begin with. When will we ever learn?
If you are scared by this issue, think what you will feel when they start talking about the world having too many people in it for us to all live like we used to.
2007-08-19 08:25:39
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answered by Hastyface 2
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Not at all.
The earth has been going through warming and cooling cycles for many, many years.
About a thousand years ago Vikings were farming Greenland. The snow melted off of mountains in Asia minor. and then it got colder.
What scares me is the kookey things liberals wiil come up with to fix something they can't control anyway.
2007-08-19 07:48:42
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answered by kevin s 6
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Yes, I'm scared liberals will force their religion on the rest of us and use so-called "global warming" as an excuse to eliminate my freedoms.
Remember the words of the late great H. L. Mencken - "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
2007-08-19 14:53:09
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answered by Dr Jello 7
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Don't be scared Try chimpanzee see Chimpanzee do Ride a Bike buy some plants and build a basement just in case.
2007-08-19 08:34:07
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answered by Unoptrid1aq 4
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It scares me how many people actually believe it!
Somebody has done a grade A job in mind washing the general population! Next they will want us to believe that the earth is really round and not flat! ;)
2007-08-20 00:21:45
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answered by Anonymous
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No, but the hysteria being ginned up around it by liberals and socialists to advance their agenda of putting the government in control of every aspect of our lives scares me a lot.
2007-08-19 09:58:23
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answered by Anonymous
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The only problem is i cant figure out a way to profit from it like the rich are but i guess they profit from everything i just don't have the heart . Going green sure is expensive
2007-08-19 09:01:07
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answered by dad 6
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