It might be the ABC News coverage on the demise of the Greenland ice cap last wek, and their ongoing coverage of GW. If you saw it, it was pretty impressive. I suspect a few teenagers still watch the news
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3461713
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/GlobalWarming/story?id=2847562&page=1
2007-09-08 17:16:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Neil R, There have been a few posts on here purporting to be from frightened teens. I know it's farfetched, and it's probably just more baiting, but some peopl became concerned. I did.
2007-09-09 02:51:53 · update #1
Ratchet, well I guess that only leaves the ones you don't know to worry about.
2007-09-09 02:52:51 · update #2
Affrata, oh I'm so sure that's the problem. And if your fake history about being taught cooling were true, it would be almost convincing.
2007-09-09 02:53:57 · update #3
Vladoviking, would that it were that simple!
2007-09-09 02:54:58 · update #4
Jerry z, sounds more like he's under your bed
2007-09-09 02:55:43 · update #5
Thanks Bob. You know as things progress there will be more and more of these type documentaries. It's probably good to be thinking about how to discuss news like this with the young.
2007-09-09 08:57:58 · update #6
I agree autopilot, but there are good and bad ways to do thngs with children. There are also huge differences in their ability to handle trauma, Their emotional and intellectual developent is strung out over a pretty wide range, Initially, They catch up with one another later. I won't argue about whether or not they should know, they WILL know, and soon. The question is whether the adults will help them when they get the news, or act as bystanders.
Jello, you poor misbegotten soul! Yes they reported that because it happened. It actually happens every year, when it snows. The aggressively uninformed such as yourself immediately began pointing to it as evidence that Global Warming is a hoax, as their conspiracy theory says. Scientists of course immediately issued clarifications of course, as they did with the Global Warming on Mars nonsense, but conspiracy theorists like their interpretations obetter than those of the people who provide the facts.
http://www.nov55.com/ocea
2007-09-09 12:56:12 · update #7
Thank you Qweemawva Anzorla Qwartoon. I'll look at them carefully. I wanted to share this story. It's quite possuble that people's minds can't be changed on the political aspects of this by argument, facts, et cetera. I 've often suspected this, but apparently there's some new research that also points in that direction.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070909/hl_afp/scienceneuroscience_070909173324
2007-09-10 01:34:22 · update #8
John - Nova had a science show about global warming. It focused on how global dimming might have masked the true threat of global warming, and so global warming might occur faster and be more severe than commonly thought. They put an announcement before it that some material might be disturbing to children.
2007-09-09 03:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Amazing - And to think less than two years ago ABC news was telling us that the Greenland icecaps were getting thicker.
"Greenland icecap thickens despite warming"
I guess the market place for news has change. Now people want to hear about melting.
It makes you wonder what they'll be printing next year?
2007-09-09 16:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2007-09-09 21:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by Qweemawva Anzorla Qwartoon (Male) 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I haven`t seen evidence that children are scared, however we all need to deal with this reality. The teenagers that I know will be accepting the challenge of providing solutions to many,many,problems in our rapidly changing world.
2007-09-09 04:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by Neil R 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well they say they sea level rise will cause loss of human habitat. Makes sense that sinceThe ice is gonna melt off greenland and it's actually gonna rise or rebound as they put it.
Then every body can move there.
Some of them teenagers ought think about real estate investment.Buy real low sell real high.
2007-09-09 02:07:54 · answer #5 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Children should know this! I say it again. Children should know this! What are we doing to stop this madness? What are we grown people doing? And it will not kill us, but it will kill our grandchildren! Our children should know and even they may be scared. That's good. Maybe then they will act! Maybe then they get parents to act! We need to act now!
2007-09-09 19:14:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Been asked and answered. Time to move on.
2007-09-09 22:30:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, these are true facts and should be concerning everyone...Grownups and children alike....
Something needs to be done beginning right now or it will be too late !!!!!!!!!
2007-09-09 00:38:46 · answer #8 · answered by Giddyup 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sorry, but no children I know of are scared of that...
2007-09-09 00:24:40 · answer #9 · answered by Ratchet 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
try the education they get from liberal science teachers.
they scared me when the catastrophe of choice was global cooling and mass pollution.
2007-09-09 00:30:16 · answer #10 · answered by afratta437 5 · 3⤊ 5⤋