What are we going to do about Global Warming ? Doesn't anyone care about that it's realy serious.?

Question

Take a look at this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_sc/rising_seas;_ylt=AtQN2jC_NcOZZ.oEK3geQJ6s0NUE

Answer 1

Raulito,

As you can see by many who responded before me, no, unfortunately many do not care. We can beat people over the head with statistics, they can witness glaciers melting, experience first hand the horrific weather events of recent years and STILL deny that there is a problem. I hate to sound cliche but as Al Gore and his colleagues put it. It simply is an inconvenient truth, and in our society of fast food and instant gratification we tend to ignore any truths that are inconvenient.

In one of the "volcano movies", I think perhaps Dante's Peak, a scientist equates the events leading up to the inevitable eruption to a frog in a boiling pot. The analogy is that if you throw a frog into boiling water he will jump out, but if you place that exact same frog in tepid water and gradually heat it, the frog will die. The same comparison applies with what we are doing to our world, the changes have been so gradual that very few people (except for our scientists) seem to care.

I think in the next 5 years or so as our situation continues to worsen people will begin to wake up, until then we can only do our best to curb our fate.

PS: To Hobbes... Shame on you! I hope you don't have children, if you do you are damming them to a terrible future.

Answer 2

OK, you have probably heard a lot of people say that Global Warming is just a natural cycle, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it from occurring. While there is some truth to that (Global Warming is a natural cycle, and it's going to occur no matter what) there's something else out there that's messing up this natural cycle, and is making it like nothing the world has ever seen before. That new factor is human activities. Human activities directly affect the greenhouse effect (which directly affects Global Warming), you see greenhouse gases a natural in the atmosphere to keep us from freezing over, but since the beginning of the industrial age, we (humans) have added excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that aren't suppose to be there (and the more we add the harder it is for the earth to remove them). These excess gases trap more heat and release less causing the whole earth to heat up (a.k.a. Global Warming) this is NOT good because the slightest change in the earth's climate systems can affect the entire thing. Causing new climate patterns to emerge that we may not be able to adapt to (and about 1/3 to 2/3 of the worlds species as well).

But there is still hope. We currently have all of the technology, money, man power, and resources we need to EFFECTIVLEY slow Global Warming back down to its modest warming over thousands of years.

To get more information, evaluate your daily impact, and to find out how you can start reducing your daily impact (cheaply) go to climatecrisis.org and/or think.mtv.com and/or nasa.gov and/ or http://liveearth.msn.com/green/myths

And if this still isn't working for you then I have a question for you. In about 30 years (if humans haven’t decide to change our ways, go green, and slow down the effects of Global Warming to its natural rate) and the effects of Global Warming have set in so far that there's nothing we can do or any one after us can do to reverse what WE have done, and my children/grandchildren and you children/grandchildren have to live with the horrible effects What are you going to say? What are you going to say when they ask you, "What were you thinking? Why didn't you do anything?"

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY?

Answer 3

More serious than global warming is the fact than we are using up the world's limited oil supply at an ever faster rate. The consequences of running out of oil before we can develop alternative energy sources is far more catastrophic to our modern society than global warming will be. But since developing alternatives is the #1 way that we can combat global warming, I suppose the global warming hype will be a good thing after all.

Answer 4

First, I disagree with the assumption that we can do anything about global warming. Humans are not that important. Additionally, if we do manage to burn the planet, we will die. It won't. Humans are insignificant.

Second, I disagree that global warming is bad.

1- Overpopulation is bad. Hopefully, global warming will fix this. It will add survival pressures to an ever devolving species. Don't whine. Survive.

2- Current power structures will fall apart. Shifting lands, food shortages, etc. will erode the modern world. Thats the best time to seize power!

3- High Tech will disappear. This means no more nuclear winter or mindconsuming web portals. Man shall be man once more.

If we were really worried, we should just blast soot into the air. Nuclear winter to fight global warming!

Answer 5

It's a fact that Australia only contributes to 1% of greenhouse gas emisions, so even if the whole damn country opperated off solar panels and windmills we would not make a difference.
why is everyone so worried about global warming? seriously, we will spend our whole lives worrying about how hot it is when we can't do anything about it.
Global warming is also just a thoery. it is not proven because the earth goes through temperature cycles. For all we know polution may not be contributing to global warming, then again it could be but us aussies can't do a thing about it because we are only 1% of the emisions. go ask india, china and america to turn off their factories. go on, i dare you!

Answer 6

ya that is some pretty scary news but when the factors become more noticable people will see the big picture and relize what they need to. At the moment there are probably millions of people working on ways to stop it fom continuing, but till then just try to be more "environmental friendly". All in all the earth is going to change and this all could just be natural, but i dont know. Good question

Answer 7

it is serious but most people only care about their own problems...since this water rise cannot be changed, the only thing that can be done is to start moving all those people out of those places....

the US wont be the only one hit this harshly...overpopulated countries like India and China will lose almost half of their land mass....i cant begin to comprehend where all those people will go

Answer 8

What can man truly do? I'll admit we've done our share of poisoning the planet, but contrary to Albert Gore, the outspoken meteorolgist, it is a cyclical phenomenon!
Care all you want, but if our orbit is carrying the planet closer to the sun, there is nothing we can do.

Answer 9

Many people a very shortsighted, and that may be what kills us because we have to spend so much time and effort dragging these people kicking and screaming to reality rather than actually attacking the problem that it may be to little to late.

Answer 10

Global warming or climate change ,what ever it is. We should be beginning to adapt and change to survive and prosper.