can an environmentalist please answer some questions for me?

Question

I'm doing a project for my advance grade 12 english class and part of the project is to interview a speaicalist on your topic. My topic is global warming.

Answer 1

The term environmentalist is someone who has an agenda. An environmentalist is probably not a very good specialist because they are biased and and have an agenda. They will provide you with everything you might want to know from the leftist view.

Answer 2

natural cycles are causing global warming.

man made global warming is caused by greed and poweron the part of environmental groups.

we can't change nature. the warming cycle IS natural, just like the big scare for global cooling was the biggest problem in the 70's.

it was a natural fluctuation too.

here are some of the predictions i grew up with over the past 40 years:

famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
global cooling
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel
pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)

all this was supposed to happen by the year 2000, and if man didn't stop using fossil fuels. we had 30+ years of "irrefutable data" showing that man caused it too.

but we didn't stop, we used more!

STRANGELY, NOT ONE PREDICTION HAS CAME TRUE YET!

now i'm supposed to "believe" global warming

Answer 3

Here is an answer from two famous biologists which was in the WSJ blog yesterday:

The danger of global warming has distracted environmentalists from the graver fate of species extinction, say two biologists in the New Republic.

The focus on global warming is understandable, in part because the ramifications of a loss of biodiversity are harder to document, say the University of Chicago's Jerry Coyne and Harvard University's Hopi Hoekstra. But the authors say that even at the slowest estimated rate, species extinction is the primary environmental problem humans face, with global warming a related but secondary worry.

They say as many as 30,000 species disappear a year due to human activity.'

The dwindling variety of life threatens humans in numerous ways.

Healthy ecosystems depend on a wide variety of species to perform hidden services like waste disposal, nutrient cycling, water purification and oxygen production.

As species disappear, those activities go with them. Loss of life in oceans is particularly troubling, say the authors. Overfishing is eliminating major predators, putting a crucial human food source at risk. Meanwhile, potentially life-saving pharmaceutical advances will be lost if key plant and animal species disappear before scientists can study them.
Unless the rate at which species are dying is slowed, the authors say, the planet will evolve into a place where “exotic diseases flourish but natural medicinal cures are lost; a world in which carbon waste accumulates while food sources dwindle; a world of sweltering heat, failing crops and impure water.”

Answer 4

If you want to do your part in sequestering Carbon (CO2), build a house out of wood. The lumber is solid Carbon that would recycle into CO2 if left uncut in the forests. As a tree ages, dies, and falls and decomposes it released all that Carbon as CO2 back into the air. But if you remove it and build your house from the lumber, the carbon is now held for many, many years out of circulation. It gives the forests a chance for new trees to grow and sequester more CO2 again thus decreasing the CO2 greenhouse gas effect. You could even be eligible for carbon credits( money from the government) for being such a good citizen!!

Answer 5

I can't be emailed. I only discuss this issue publicly, not privately.

But if you post your questions here, I'll answer them.

If you want to interview someone, the best idea would be to go to a local university. The best person would be a climatologist, but if there isn't one, a physicist or a chemist would work.

Answer 6

speak to Trevor or Bob or Dana or Observer MD

you find them in the global warming leader board ,and they will answer all you questions
tell them i send you..and they can all be emailed

oops they already saw you

Answer 7

No problem. You may want to add the details to this question or post another question. Alternatively you can e-mail me (use the link on my profile page) or use Yahoo Messenger - again, see link on pofile page.

Answer 8

This might give you a running start, but you need to be a bit more specific in your questions