Global warming is a misnomer. Why don't we call it what it is: Willful destruction of the environment?

Question

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/earth_warm.html
The average temperature on earth is rising, the coral in the oceans is getting bleached, more and more species are on the brink of extinction due to human expansion and advancement. Yet we still burn carbon based fuels that release CO2 which has been out of circulation in our atmosphere for many 100's of millions of years and think that nothing will change....

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You forgot to mention that ocean temperatures are rising, glaciers are melting, ocean levels are rising, there is more flooding, and more hurricanes and typhoons are forming- and much evidence points toward global warming as being the cause. Have you ever seen the documentary by Al Gore called "An Inconvenient Truth"? If not, you should. It's very disturbing. However, there is a message of hope in it as well. There are things we can do to slow down the global warming process...maybe even stop it, before we destroy the earth and it's inhabitants. The U.S. is far behind many other countries that are less advanced than we are, in the fight to stop global warming and reduce CO2 emissions. Yet we lead the world in these emissions. It's time this country did it's part to help stop the effects of global warming before it's too late. I can't believe some of the answers I'm reading here that say "mankind hasn't had an impact on our environment." How tragically ignorant! What about the 200,000 year old ice core samples that say differently? Yes, temperatures have fluxuated up and down, with more or less a very steady rhythm over hundreds of thousands of years. However, in the last 50 years or so, the temperatures have far exceeded anything that has been reached in all of that thousands of years of time. Coincidence? I don't think so. There is too much scientific evidence that suggests otherwise. And to the answerer that said that we've set off nuclear bombs with no ill effects on the environment: that's crap. For all we know, the effects of those bombs have only added to the global warming problem. Why do you think we don't do it anymore??? And let's just suppose for a minute that the scientists are wrong about the causes of global warming. We still have an issue to deal with: the temperatures are still rising, the effects of temperatures rising are still causing problems (potentially catastrophic)- so shouldn't we still be concerned with finding ways to slow down or stop this process from continuing? People can fight all they want to about the causes, but the issue still remains. And it's clear that it's in our own best interests to do whatever we can to help solve the problem.

Jeez. Some people's kids.

Answer 3

The Second and Third answer is correct.
Mankind doesn't have an impact on the enviroment, we only take up 15% of the the planet and that is just the surface, there is 30% land, 20% ice and growing, 50% ocean (70% if you determine this as ice) and the sea is very, very deep.
Believe it or not, but if you take 7% from the 15%, you will sea that the West of the world is taken up by migrator from the East, apparently by Global Warming. If I was concerned, I would think it was an excuse by the government for foreign workers (land especially), trust me I can't blame them. We need to get rid of Bush, Gordon Brown, etc.
It is cooler than what is was, read second question.
And it's funny people say that climate change is brand new, in fact we couldn't even record that data from such long ago, even soil samples can't detect what was really there. They have even tried living and bacterial (Carbon-14) atoms scanning, lately they found out that those atoms affected were dispersed due to such long ages that passed by since they existed. So that one evidence of global warming that was wrong
The second one is that, we didn't have satellites long ago, nor any evidence.
Mega storms aren't anything new, just we build houses in the bad areas, if we built a city in the middle of the Atlantic, you expect a hurricane to hit it.

And the reason why species are getting extinct is because we are killing them from hunting, cruelty and for meat.


Did you know that those poor animated polar bears are going to die in the melting simulated ocean?

Answer 4

Actually according to the IPCC reports we need to cut the worldwide output of carbon dioxide gas by at leaat 90% if we are to stop Global Warming.

If we managed to get all of the world govennmets to impose that kind of a reduction on their economies, the result would be a collapse of all of the world economies, and massive starvation and death.

The challenge is to achieve that kind of a reduction without causing the destruction of the world economies and deaths in the billions.

This is not a case of willful destruction of the environment. This is a case of how do you achieve those kinds of reductions in carbon dioxide output without causing massive death and destruction.

One of the ways to solve the problem is to replace all of our fossil fuel sources with sources that do not produce carbon dioxide and are comparable in cost to fossil fuels.

The two sources that are commercially available and are cost competitive with fossil fuels are wind and nuclear energy.

The cost of wind power is approximately 4 cents per kilowatt hour to produce. the cost of nuclear power is approximately 3.8 cents per kilowatt hour to produce(1)

Wind power tends to be unreliable. It is only available when the wind blows.

Nuclear power produces radioactive waste, however it actually produces less nuclear waste than electricity generated by coal.

A little known fact is that coal is contaminated by radioactive Uranium and Thorium. Every year coal burning in the United States produces over 2,000 tons of radioactive waste in the form of Uranium and Thorium. In fact coal ash has been considered as a source for Uranium for nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons(2)

If you will work with the rest of us to get legislation passed to ban the use of coal as an energy source you will go a long way to improving the environment and dramatically reducing the production of carbon dioxide gas.

I will leave it to others to decide what mix of wind power and nuclear power you wish to use to replace coal fired power plants.

Answer 5

you need to update your link:

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20060124/

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Jello, you know damn well it wasn't hotter in the 1890's , NASA says this because the 1890's represent the time when enough temperature data was collected to be able to compare the accuracy with todays data.

look at the black line on this graph, it represents 1856 to present, and is the most accurate part of the graph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png

Answer 6

No doubt there is willful or at least indifferent destruction of the environment, but this is only serving to somewhat accelerate the global warming - it is not the cause of it.

Answer 7

The earth is actually 3 degrees cooler now than during the mid-evil warming period, which lasted for 3 centuries and GB had a wine export industry.

Answer 8

From your link:
"Last year was the fourth warmest year on average for our planet since the late 1800s, according to NASA scientists"

Why were the late 1800's warmer? Do you think horses caused global warming?

Man cannot have an impact on the climate. Hell, we've lit off dozens of nuclear bombs without any of the doomsday predictions, this too will pass.

Answer 9

I love this section. I love all of you tree huggers. You want us to change our life styles because you don't like the way that we are living. You can't change people. I love my truck and hotrods but you want to tax me because they use to much gas. This is America and I have a right to buy what I want and you have no right to tell me how to live my life.

Answer 10

Because it is not. At worst, it is simply neglect.