PLEASE READ THIS .. please?

Question

I have a question ... why doesnt ANYONE care about global warming now? Ok, maybe some people do, but not even half the world. people think, oh yeh, i know its bad and all, but I'll do it later.




WELL DO IT NOW!!! NOWW!! PLEASE GUYS! i read this thing saying in 3 YEARS we will all be dead. Turn your lights off right now. Thats it, now, like right now. You can still see. Cuz whe you have this light on , think of all those hungry penguins who cannot be fed because you are wasting energy.



Turn every light off that you don't need to use NOW. When you have charged your phone or anything, take it out immediantly. If you want to die , I have a simple solution . SUICIDE, OK?


Now please, PLEASE I am on my knees.

I am only 11, I cry at night because o global warming. Please everyone, save humanity. NOW.

PLEASE, From Jess x

Answer 1

Hello Jess,

I'm sorry about some of the stupid answers you've received, they're not even trying to help you are they?

Let me see if I can explain some things about global warming for you. I've been studying it for 24 years, it's my job and something I know about.

Global warming is a slow process, from one year to the next there's very little that changes. In three years time things will be more or less as they are now.

It will be hundreds of years before global warming becomes a really serious problem for us and by that time scientists will have invented things that will stop global warming from happening. Lots of scientists are working on these things now

It's good to stop wasting energy, this helps the environment and slows down global warming. We need to slow down global warming because if we don't a lot of people will have to move house and crops will fail which means food will cost more.

Sometime there are things that you read or hear that aren't true. Whoever wrote that we will all be dead in three years really doesn't know what they're talking about.

Here's a good website which will tell you a lot more about global warming - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/

Cheer up, it's not nearly as bad as you think it is.

Answer 2

okay, let's wait a few years before getting all excited now. i am the all enviromtentalist, but i don't support ignorance.

do you ride in a car? do you take showers? do you wash clothes? all those things conrtibute a lot more to harm in the enviroment, and lights use energy....it's bad but there is no way our energy source running out could starve penguins. relax, young lady. but seriously, is this fake? is some stupid person going on and pretending to be a little 11 year old kid?

well anyway, every time a volcano erupts it majorly affects global warming. that makes a lot worse of an impact than leaving your lights on : /

by the way, the whole process of global warming could likely take 500 years, not three.

i really just want you to calm down. i know you may consider "reading up" on something looking at a quick internet page, but if you're really concerned, you need to do a lot more reliable research and get your facts straight.
good luck....and remember....RELAX

So go to bed, get a nice night's sleep, and find something else to freak out about.

....you know....things that could actually happen. like murderer and serial killers and all those people that could be lurking outside your window at this very moment plotting ways to torture and harm andyone that comes into thier path.....

don't you have worse things to be concerned about?

Answer 3

Dear Jess,

Please don't be that afraid. You will not die because of global warming and absolutely not within 3 years.

What you've might confuse this with is that scientists predicts we have 5-10 years to turn the trend of our use of fossil fuel to prevent global warming from maybe becoming very serious. That still doesn't mean the whole world or humanity will die within your lifetime, not even within hundreds of years.

Yes, this is a serious issue and we need to do what we can about it. The fact is that all over the world scientists and governments is working hard to find solutions to this issue and mitigate the effects from global warming so a whole lot of work is being done from major parts of the world.

I hope people will listen to you, but please don't be so scared about this. People may be a bit slow in the start, but together we can fix this. Take care!

Answer 4

Politicians come up with a way to scare the bejesus out of potential voters, then claim they have the answers to make it go away. That's how they get elected.

In Al Gore's case, it didn't work any better than his claim that he invented the Internet.

He may not have invented the internet, but more and more credible scientists are coming out in admission that the man may well have successfully invented global warming as a man-caused phenomenon.

Answer 5

Even the worst global warming scenarios will not wipe out the human race.

Nothing really bad will happen for the next 50 or 60 years in any case.

I am optimistic that people will work together to solve this problem.

Answer 6

You're 11 and you cry at night because you think we'll all be dead in 3 years?

Give me a break. You are either the most gullible person on this planet, or this is a mock post, as this cannot be a serious post.

Every generation has it's doomsday, the world is going to end issue. Wait 3 or 4 more years and global warming will be replaced with the next big scare.

Answer 7

Here's a website for you to read, it's all about global warming and things that everyone could do to help.

http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_cse.htm

I very much doubt that the earth will heat up enough for life to not exist any more in 3 years!

If you care so much, turn off your computer, don't use your mobile, or watch TV, don't use the car, only have showers, don't use electricity, don't go in a plane anywhere!

Everyone is to blame in one way or other, but for anything we do to really make a difference, everyone will have to help, people in the USA could get rid of there huge cars with two+ exhausts first!

It's good to see you are concerned, but to really show it, do stuff yourself. Turn that computer off............

Answer 8

global warming is just another way of taxing us yeah sure AL gore seemed convincing at first but there is nothing that collaborates his findings hes flying around the world making alot of money telling people that the world is at an end but the figures dint stack up co2 emissions and records of them being related to the problem are way off before cars and the industrial revolution the temperature fluctuated to points just as high as now and even higher with co2 following 2-4 hundred years later the world as we know it is constantly changing and we do not have accurate records going back far enough to make conclusive findings as some are claiming sure save energy but no green tax for political gain just so they can fly first class and give themselves pay rises and drive around in gas guzzling jaguars and range rovers and limos its a con how do i know this well its simple im a scientist working in Antarctica 6 months of the year and our findings are not what the people are being told to get funding in this sector you mention global warming and they chuck cash at you to back up there theories but we are finding no evidence to prove that is the case some desk theorist at cal tech or some other such place is making money for preaching the world is nigh look back in history how many others have said the same how many other wack jobs preached the end of the world at the year 2000 i rest my case

Answer 9

I try to do my bit as far as I can to be "green" (recycling as much as I can, walk whenever possible etc) and I do get annoyed with people who don't bother AT all. Even if everyone just did a LITTLE (like not using stand by on TVs, switching off lights, conserving water etc) it would go a long way towards helping.

Had to laugh at a recent program on UK TV called "Dumped"....there was one woman on there who considered herself the most environmentally conscious of thw whole group and was gutted when her "carbon footprint" turned out as high as it was......the reason being - she drives a jeep 500 miles a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dumb!! All her recycling efforts and water saving devices count for nothing when she's polluting the air with all that crap!!!

....I'm with you......EVERYONE should worry about it, the climate is changing NOW....we are seeing weather change year after year

(oh you've got me ranting now!! I could moan for ages on this subject!)

Answer 10

I think there should be an age limit on questioners on this site-apart from anything else, some of the questions are far too adult for you. Does your parents know you participate here?? I am 60 -and if my grandaughter did this, I would be furious! Now, stop the hysterics-- this planet will still be here when your GRANDCHILDREN are gone! Don't you think that the older ones amongst us haven't heard all this scaremongering before?? Haven't seen wars and been through bombings, and thought we would never see another day?? Not me - my parents- and yet, wow, here we are!!
Over the years, every generation has heard all the warnings, about different things, don't do this, don't eat that...please don't think you are the first generation to have the frights!!
Now - if we all lived by these rules, there would be no t.v, no phones, no computers, no food, (think of the machinery/transport involved to get it to your table). I really think if you are in this state about this,you must talk to your parents, your teacher, and get this into perspective. You'll see it all different when you are in your teens.