2007-09-18 15:50:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Not until China stops building a power station every 15 days.
2007-09-18 16:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by Superdude 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only to the extent that we will have to learn to cope with it and adapt to it, since we cannot stop it. We may slow it by an iota [that's an extremely tiny amount], but we can't stop it. Climate change has occurred before and animals and people changed with it. About 3,500 years ago the climate was much warmer, then it cooled and the bears adapted, becoming Polar Bears. Animals and plants adapt, people can adapt too.
If the climate warms to what was normal for most of the last 10,500 years, Northern Canada and Siberia will be verdant farmlands, the Sahara will no longer be a desert, there may be orange groves in Cornwall. Certainly there may be 15-25 feet of flooding along the seacoasts, so people will move inland, they won't sit there and drown. Change is neither good or bad, it is just change and while some may suffer, others will gain.
Be concerned about what it is possible to control, such as the asteroid that may strike in 2026 and make all life extinct. We can develop ways to divert it. Don't be concerned over the sun exploding, since we can't stop that. Nor can we stop climate change or the tides. Do not be so gullible as to believe the panic being spread by the Left .
2007-09-19 18:24:21 · answer #2 · answered by Taganan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global climate is a dynamic process, and as such, is always in a state of change, with or without man. We should be concerned about adapting to it rather than a futile attempt to stop a process that is a fundamental part of how this planet works.
As an environmental scientist, I believe we should use our resources carefully and clean up after ourselves. It would make our planet a better place to live for us and the two million or so species with which we share this planet, but it won't make any difference to climate change.
2007-09-19 12:00:09 · answer #3 · answered by mick t 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people would say yes and others would say no.
there is no evidence to suggest that we are to blame for climate change (global warming)
we are a contributing factor of global warming, but we are not directly to blame for it.
there was a study of the rising temperatures when the industrial revolution started and they found that all the factory pumping out pollution would have made the atmosphere polluted and would make global warming worse.
that was not the case in fact the temperature at the time was going down.
if you think about it, the sea sends out more Co2 emissions then any other.
rotting leave, cows breaking wind so if you put all these into account we only send out a small part of Co2.
because we are the only ones that can do anything about it we have the greatest pressure and it is magnified on us to do sometihng.
2007-09-19 05:48:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-09-19 13:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by afratta437 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That depends what you mean by we. we all have different capacities, some go into denial, some worry themselves too much and become ineffective, while some just don't think it's that important to them (I have an octogenerian friend with whom I happily largely forget about the whole issue.
If you think society should be more concerned then become more of an activist. Try to find a way of doing it which is effective for you, that may take some figuring out..
What took me a while to figure out is that everybody has a different view and need to be respected for it; Stay out of the pulpit.
2007-09-19 15:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by John Sol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends totally on how concerned the proverbial "we" are about it now. I'll bet you I'm more concerned about it than you *lol* ;-)
30 years ago it wasn't projected to be this bad for at least another 50 years. Call me short sighted, but until a few years ago when I began chanting "Thank you Global Warming!" ad nausium, I did not think this would be an issue "we" would have to face in my lifetime.
2007-09-18 23:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's more in life to be concerned about then your effect on the climate. You can't make any difference.
2007-09-19 07:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think we should be more concerned if the climate dose not change.
2007-09-18 22:59:55 · answer #9 · answered by goatslunch 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NOPE! I think we should be a little friendlier to the environment, but we are naive to think we have any influence on the climate
2007-09-22 21:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋