Research on Global Warming?

Question

Hi friends,
I'm Adleen from University Technology Mara, Malaysia. I was given a task and i'm doing a research on Global Warming.
Question: How do we get people to be aware of Global Warming because as you can see, there's alot people who doesn't care about this at all and the consequences. If you any suggestions or experiences you can share, i will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

If you accept Trevor's claim that 92% of the world's population believes that global warming is a "serious problem" then you would be WAY beyond the point of diminishing returns. Any efforts or resources expended to try and reach the remaining minority would be better utilized towards solving the problem.

On a much darker note, if 92% believe that it is a "serious problem" ( and only up 2% last year, suggesting that a significant majority of people have considered it a problem for a while now) and yet NOTHING has been done to even slow down the ACCELERATION in the rate of greenhouse emissions, then all is lost. It doesn't matter how powerful anyone thinks that the remaining 8% is - greenhouse gases are produced through the act of energy consumption, including food and manufactured goods production - they are not producing the "excess" CO2 and they can't prevent the 92% from making the VERY modest changes necessary to reduce CO2 emissions to a point that is totally balanced within the natural carbon cycle.

Or could it be, like most of the presentation of the man-made climate change argument, that these numbers are an exaggeration meant to mislead?

Answer 2

Survey's accuracies can be bent the direction the asker wants them to be. I used to do tele-poling, and some of the questions i asked people were so incredibly bias and worded so strangley, i felt bad for even asking the question. I do not support the idea of global warming destroying the planet.

The reason is because science may have come leaps and bonds in thirty years, but who is to say that in another thirty years, the same thing wont happen again. We still do not understand this planet, and it would be scientific blasphemy to make such a rash assumption.

Answer 3

There's surprisingly few people that don't care about global warming. As you can see from this worldwide survey, 90% of the population consider climate change to be a serious problem - http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btenvironmentra/187.php?nid=&id=&pnt=187&lb=bte This was last years survey, this years survey puts the figure at 92%.

Those who don't care are almost always individuals with little or no real experience of global warming. Consequently, every government in the world, every major organisation and every scientific organisation bar one accepts that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a reality.

So it's not that many people don't care or believe in AGW it's just that those that don't tend to be quite vocal and appear to be more numerous than they are. Many of these that don't accept AGW do care about the environment, they just question whether humans are affecting it.

There are some people who will not be converted just as there are some people who still maintain the theory of a flat earth. The numbers are dimishing at based on changes in perception over the last decade we should find that in 10 years time more than 99% of people accept the theory of AGW.

I came to beleive in AGW back in the 1980's when I studied it. We were given all relevant info and left to make up our own minds, there was no question that we should 'take sides' and no apportining of 'blame'. We were educated by top experts, given the facts and that was it. If you want to 'convert' people my suggestion would be that you give them genuine facts, ones that have been substantiated.

Most people only change their minds when it suits them and to get someone to change their minds it usually necessary for them to see some perceived benefit. In this respect you could let people know the advantages and disadvanteges to global warming, how it affects them and how it affects the planet as a whole.

Answer 4

Yea do a poster having a momma polar bear with her babies on the ice. In 20 years is something isn't done about this they all will be dead! Were running out of time. no matter what you do maybe one person will see it and tell another then another!

Answer 5

hi Adleen. I got some website which it content relevant information with your research. I hope it will help you.

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagid=1519
http://www.earthshare.org/news_resources/news.html
http://www.sierraclub.org/foundation/redirect/issues/globalwarming.asp
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/

Answer 6

because man has no role in it. nor did have a role in the global cooling scare 30 years ago

Answer 7

set "green" examples and just help the environment & encourage others