For how long have people actually started to worry about it?
It's a fairly recent concern is it not?
2007-09-17 04:56:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
GLOBAL even
Sorry!
2007-09-17 04:56:52 · update #1
Lol I just needed to know so I could put it in some speech I have to do
2007-09-17 05:23:47 · update #2
The widespread worry began in 1988, when the media began reporting on the issue and scientists gave testimony in front of Congress about the problem. The IPCC, the UN-convened body to address the issue, gave its first report soon thereafter in 1990. But the issue has been known for a while before that; the possibility of a carbon dioxide-induced greenhouse effect was posited in the late 19th century, and scientists have been speculating about whether it would lead to warming since at least the 1970s; evidence has been accumulating steadily since then, and the scientific understanding of the process has grown pretty much commensurate with the level of noise in the public press.
2007-09-17 05:07:37 · answer #1 · answered by astazangasta 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It hasn't become a problem. Some people figured that the coming Ice age that was actually taught in schools in the '70's was so lucrative they decided they could make more money by crying about global warming..since it is a natural occurrence, the data falls nicely into their hypothesis. The concern has been around since about the mid 1990's when it looked like the Republicans would gain control of the Whitehouse and it was used to paint them as being bad for the environment.
2007-09-17 05:09:12 · answer #2 · answered by kerfitz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Global warming has been a problem for millions of years. The same as Ice ages have been a problem for millions of years. Just think of the warm up as the earths summer and an Ice age as the earths winter. Each country has different versions of that on a small scale which varies depending on where that country is on the globe.
2007-09-17 05:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by oldfart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current round of worries goes back about 10 years or so.
Before that there was concern that the ice age was returning.
Global Warming is just another chicken little program whereby polititions can control your life by being able to tell you what you can and cannot do.
A lot of it is determined by what industries their family fortunes are invested in (current admin.>>oil companys)
2007-09-17 05:10:06 · answer #4 · answered by Sophie B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. our government are the problem! and everything is our fault... if it rains for 5 months they blame global warming! If its super hot for 5 days they blame global warming! heck if I fall down the stairs in a minute and break my neck they'll blame Global warming grrrrrrr :-)
2007-09-17 05:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
in the 1980s, everyone feared a nuclear war, followed by a nuclear winter.
I make that 20 years
2007-09-17 07:08:40 · answer #6 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not worried...
Its happened MANY times before quite naturally, and it's probably just doing that again now.
2007-09-17 05:01:17 · answer #7 · answered by BrilliantPomegranate 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its complete nonsence.. The government just use it to tax us more.
2007-09-17 05:11:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know, but it's so annoying everybody talking about it all the time, not you though.
2007-09-17 05:06:16 · answer #9 · answered by Wolf 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋