Global Warming A Lost Cause Folks?

Question

I don't know too much about the topic except for what I've hear from TV and celebrity's. I'm not really that invested as probably should be. But is it a lost cause? Can we REALLY change over DECADES! of planet corruptions within the next few years?

Just goes to show you, huh? Whether it be by the hand of GOD or by MOTHER NATURES pay back. . . humanity won't always be here forever.

THOUGHTS?

Answer 1

Since you say you don't know too much about the topic, but at least you don't pretend to know it all like so many other people here. I like that.

Answer 2

Everybody have a different ideas but I think everything in the world have a special Balance. When you eat something more, your body balance will be change and you will get some problems, our earth is the same as our body. We have an ecology cycle that is stable all the time until you impose something to it more. Such as cutting the trees, destroy the forests, pollute the waters and air and..., we should accept that we change our world and now the earth is going to be warmer because we change its balance.
when the atmosphere temperature change to one degree more, the water vapor would be more than the normal range and this intensify the green house effect, so the temperature increase more and after some years we will have very strong storms and hurricanes and heavy raining in some areas and also very hot and dry weather in other areas.

You will ask "why it happens now?''

After the Second World War the population and industries grew very fast and this development needed more energy and to producing this energy they need to use more fuel.
in the recent decade the growth of industries was very fast such as the Chinese industry and now the India started. This matter happens in all of countries and now we are going to get the problem.
for an example, if you think how many mobile phones and computers is working around the world, you can know how much more energy we need to use them everyday and also other devices that we use in our life such as cars TVs and others. The population increase and the cities develop very fast. More and More
This happens by business and industries fast growth.

So we need the clean energy sources to produce the electrical power to keep the earth clean. This is the complex problem.

If it will be late, we gradually will destroy the nature and our life.

Answer 3

The answers you've gotten so far are interesting, I was really surprised to see that so many people think that global warming is some false prediction.

The science is there, we have done tons of damage to our planets, air, earth and water. Its really almost common sense, if you were to stick your mouth around an exhaust pipe you would die. Now on a much larger scale the effects are much more prolong but they are the same. I know my example is on two very different scales but my main point is that the **** that fossil fuels emit is deadly and we are filling the planets atmoshpere with it at an alarming rate. This is not even to mention the amount of trash that goes into our oceans, and the wide scale deforestation. Both the sea and the forest are one of our biggest resources for naturally elementating our emittence, and yet we show them no respect.

I am happy to say that people around the country are starting to make these changes, although many of them are small the fact remains that people are taking action. I have traveled around america and a little bit in Italy, both countries and something to behold. Places like Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Alps in Italy are beautiful and mother natures finest. To go about and destroy something that has taken so long to create is devastating. I hate to think that people 500 years from now wouldnt be able to see what my eyes have seen. I know its corny to say but, even if the change is a small one its still a change, and at least we tried.

Answer 4

CO2 is able to cause some warming, so man is causing some warming, but the amount is no more than 1 degree for the next 100 years, caused by CO2 alone. The crap science that thinks computer models are more accurate than real data and that an unstable model that shoots off to infinity can accurately represent a stable system that gets hit by texas sized meteors and manages to come back to equilibrium is where your errors lie. You predict very large changes, instead of small changes that would be masked by fluctuations seen in the climate, and then whine and cry when people point out how freakin cold it is. Your models have CO2 coming from the oceans as a positive feedback, but get angry when people point out the man is not the only source of CO2 (something your models assume), nor even the greatest source. You make silly predictions about the ice all being gone in the Artic, yet get angry when people point out that this is untrue. You support silly prediction of New York streets being under water, yet get angry when we point out that the streets are still dry. Your lower models are overestimating then you just come up with more outrageous models, then the environmental activists get ahold of those prediction and talk doom and gloom until they actually have fools running around thinking it is a good idea to try to stop third world countries from having power. Your scare-mongering is going to be the cause of millions of deaths, yet you want to pretend that those who disagree with you are evil. And as for the constant insults that you level at people who disagree with you and what type of stupid ignorant hateful people we are, one need only look at one of your supporter's "circle for humanity" garbage to know that you have no room whatsoever to talk. Moe, Love that last one. Dana, Finally I agree with you. IF you ask a dozen different skeptics why they're skeptical, you may get a dozen different answers. In fact I can easily come up with a dozen reasons why I am skeptical and I am just one person. There are too many assumptions and too many guesses to pretend runaway global warming is a fact, as you unscientific types like to do. Linlyons, I am the source of one thumbs down. Nice list a strawmen arguments.

Answer 5

It's never too late to do something. The sooner we start and the more we do the brighter the chances for our selves and our future generations will look.

Here's my point: We can address global warming and make future life decent for most people on earth. But even if we screw it up completely and IF 90-95 percent of humanity would die due to global warming, the remaining 5-10 percent would still have a chance and fight for their survival. It's NOT a lost cause.

Answer 6

Most of the scientific community believes we still have time to correct what man has wrought over these past 150 years of our 'industrial revolution'.
And that's the rub: so many people think 'global warming' causes today's warmer temperatures that last for a day or a week. Global warming is a cyclical event that covers tens of thousands of years to go from one extreme to the other. This current cycle has been impacted by the introduction of man's smoke-belching factories, vehicle emissions, strip mining and other raping of our lands, oil exploration, and invasion of the oceans and their natural bounty.
We have influenced the natural cycle of things negatively, and the world's inhabitants (man, plant and animals) can't change quickly enough to adapt to what's going on.
If we don't do something to modify our squandering and wasteful ways, this world will not be the same in fifty years. Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will suffer as a result of our negligence, ignorance, avarice, arrogance, hubris and denial.
You're right: humanity won't be here forever; in fact, the human race might not be by the turn of the next century if we don't do something now to prevent it!
When polar bears become extinct, remote Eskimo villages vanish, coastal cities are underwater, polar ice caps melt, temperatures rise even as little as seven degrees, whales and other ocean inhabitants die, drought dries up our lands, hurricanes demolish our communities, and rainforests or mangrove forests cease to supply the Earth with oxygen, we are doomed!
And how will we explain that to our beautiful little grand-daughter when she has to wear a gas mask to breathe fresh air, can't find sufficient drinking water, or has no protection from the sun's rays? Will we tell her the truth and admit that we were selfish, greedy and stupid enough to squander all of the Earth's precious resources for ourselves without regard for future generations?
Or will we be able to look her in the eye and confess that we tried - we actually tried - to change things in time to allow her to live similarly to the way we lived, enjoying Earth's bounty and reveling in Earth's beauty?? -RKO- 08/27/07

Answer 7

Decades? Clearly you need to study the issue more. Global climate change on this planet has been going on for HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of years. It is obviously not caused by humanity, as it was taking place before we even existed. There is nothing we can do to stop it, we simply don't have the ability regulate the sun's energy output.

But you know what? Humanity has gone through far more extreme climate shifts ( remember we used to have glaciers covering much of the northern hemisphere ), and we came through just fine..

Answer 8

You say you don't know too much about the topic, it has been going on now for over a decade, and one of these years it is going to get real bad. But I bet that you cannot give an example of how global warming has negatively impacted your life. Even though gloom and doom has been predicted for over a decade now.

Answer 9

You never know if you don't try. During my lifetime I've seen several major environmental problems resolved by direct action that had been declared unsolvable and irreversable.

The lesson of that has been that if you stop doing whatever is causing the problem, every time the earth has been better at dealing with the damage than we predicted.

Answer 10

Dont fall for the Global Dooming malarky! I am not that old, but when I was in school, the crisis du jour was global COOLING! It changes every few years. The panic mongers are always drumming up some kind of crisis to exploit for power or money. Dont listen to celebrities for any of your serious information, they are brainless shallow people who are easily fooled and are looking for some kind of meaning in their lives. That is why they end up harnessed to whatever bandwagon is the trendiest of the moment. The only thing we know for sure about the earth's climate is that we dont really know anything about it. The supposed scientifical people who claim proof for global (fill in the blank) which is going to kill us all are usually bullied into towing the line by threats of funding cutoff or whatever.
The main thing about the Global (remember, fill in the fashionable Doom of the Week here ) is that we dont know anything for sure about it, and there is precious little we can do about it. If everybody gave up their barbeques and used only a quarter sheet of toilet paper per day, the only thing all this will accomplish is to give AlGore, John "My carbon footprint is the size of a Yeti's" Edwards and other hacks more stuff for themselves. DOnt sweat it!