2007-09-12 04:43:47 · 27 answers · asked by Belindita 5 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Corey D., I said "climate change", not global warming...
2007-09-12 04:48:41 · update #1
My husband and I live on a farm, and run it in a permiculture method. We need more land, to continue to grow our operations. We have been looking at varrious sections of land, here in Idaho.
What frighten me most about climate change is investing our heart, souls, and money into the land and having the climate change so much we are unable to produce on it, nor to sell, and re-coup our money.
We are really very closely tied to the land. It produces everything for us. From our food, to crops we produce our own fuel with. We even want to grow our own wheat or barley, for the straw, and build our own straw bale house with it.
We care deeply about the land we live on, using no chemical fertilizers, or pesticides. We try to alway make habitat for the native wildlife as well.
It would be simply heartbreaking to build the house of our dreams, only to have the land become unable to support us, due to serrious climate changes.
~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
2007-09-12 10:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that it scares me but it worries me that there are so many people who think they know about climate change when in reality they don't have a clue. As a consequence they're unable to make informed decisions and should really be keeping quiet and listening to the experts rather than rewriting science to suit themselves.
I regularly meet climate change skeptics who like to believe they're informed, but ask them a relatively simple question about the climate and I'd say that less than 1 in 100 are able to answer it.
2007-09-12 15:57:18 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The political effort to bury an important environmental issue is by far the biggest in my lifetime, probably everyone's. It surpasses the Tobacco Companies efforts that stonewalled action on cigarettes for almost a century. The final death toll will be much greater in this case.
2007-09-12 13:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think what scares me the most is that this climate change could make even bigger and stronger storms as years come. That could wipe out soooo much life.
2007-09-12 12:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by Light/Dark Thinker 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The extinction of the Polar Bear =( VERY SAD
2007-09-12 12:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by Stephanie 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The destruction in natural diversity in the world's ecosystems. Changing the planetary climate as quickly as we are will cause many, many extinctions. It will probably take the planet hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years to return to the planet's current level of species diversity.
Species diversity is important because it stabilizes ecosystems. If there is a sudden natural change, then there are more species that may adapt. For example, the disappearance of honey bees threatened the U.S. agriculture because our agriculture is primarily dependent on one species to pollinate most of our crops.
2007-09-12 11:53:19 · answer #6 · answered by Benjamin Gladstone 2 · 7⤊ 5⤋
Nature's inability to adapt this quickly - if it happened natually and slowly, mother nature would slowly adapt with it. But since it is happening so fast, the plants and animals can't keep up with the changes...
One of the most heartbreaking things I saw of late was the "Planet Earth" episode about the poles - there was a polar bear that had to swim for miles and miles and miles to find food and then, because the ice was melting more quickly than it used to, it became thin rather than break off in chunks and the bear couldn't get up on the ice shelf that would have normally been there... By the time he got near food, he was weak and in his desperation, tried to take down a walrus and couldn't do it - ended up perishing.
2007-09-12 11:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by Smarty-Marti 5 · 6⤊ 8⤋
Flooding could be a problem in low lying cities. When the snow melted 3-4 years ago, certain areas of Baltimore and Annapolis flooded so much that, people were literally canoeing from store to store in the low lying areas. Of course the stores were closed at that time.
2007-09-12 11:47:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 7⤋
Just wondering about a tornado developing. I have dreamt of a red wave come rushing down the street where I lived at. I also dreamt of a tornado forming. Boy was I scared like crazy. I really wouldn't want this to actually happen in my eyesight. Better to be in a dream than reality.
2007-09-12 11:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 7⤋
Lately the climate changes have been drastic - nothing gradual about it - one day it's 90, next it's 65.
2007-09-12 11:51:39 · answer #10 · answered by Pask 5 · 1⤊ 7⤋