I do my part in trying to increase my carbon footprint everyday. Im rooting for it as well. ;-)
2007-12-02 09:51:01
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answered by Anonymous
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The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling,
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
OH and DONT FORGET CARBON TAX $12.00 a gallon gas
2007-12-02 09:57:37
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answered by Anonymous
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The actual temp. right now does not indicate global warming it's the overall avg. temp. of the world over a span time. In the last 100 years the earths avg. temp has risen less than 1 degree Fahrenheit. LESS THAN 1 DEGREE hide the kid and get in your shelters the earths getting to hot, it's to late for me save yourselves!!!
2007-12-02 09:52:39
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answered by Tea Party Patriot 6
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I know what you mean snowed here about 5 inches ( thats about 12 or 13 cm to you metric peoples ) yesterday I gotta go get that stuff off the driveway, and its damn cold.
2007-12-02 09:46:27
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answered by sociald 7
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Its not winter yet so you still have time for it to warm up.
It was 85 her in Florida today
2007-12-02 09:47:18
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answered by Nicholas R 3
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'Climate Change' is the preferred term and the warming effect will not be universal across the globe but could actually result in some areas getting drastically cooler. Eitherway, it is climate change and alteration and not necessarily warming in each individual location.
2007-12-02 09:46:18
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answered by C.S. 5
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its a virtual warming, think happy thoughts and warm up, it worked for gore
2007-12-02 09:48:49
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answered by miname 5
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Gore is workin on it....
He's in communication with Sun Ra trying to finalize the deal...
2007-12-02 09:46:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't worry it will happen about June or July.
2007-12-02 09:44:57
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answered by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5
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thank you for proving conservatives know nothing about climatology
2007-12-02 09:44:31
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answered by Anonymous
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