it is a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM... why are some people just laughing at it? do they think it's funny that if we don't do something soon we will all DIE?
2007-12-11 01:10:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
We can't let the ice melt!! :(
2007-12-11 01:51:01 · update #1
They doesn't know serious it is.Just ignore them or try to tell them how serious it is.
2007-12-11 01:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by anna 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lets assume that the minor warming that the earth has experienced in the past three decades is a long term trend (on a geologic time scale we are talking thousands of years.) How do you know that it is man made? There have been at least 15 recorded ice ages, each one of them preceded and followed by a period of "global warming." Humans were not even around for many of them. We have only been recording whether trends for 100 years tops, only globally and accurately for some fifty. We can still only predict the whether with 90% accuracy seven days out, after seven days the accuracy plummets exponentially. How can you say that you know we will all die, when you don't even know if it will rain three weeks from now?
I am not saying we shouldn't take care of the environment, but we shouldn't throw everyone into a panic over something that we have no real evidence for.
2007-12-11 12:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Layne M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do you know it is a serious problem? Where is your proof? I'm not laughing at it, i'm disturbed by how easily people can be swayed to think that global warming will kill us. We are not going to be killed by this. The first humans lived though the last glacial maxima with much less than we have now, so do you not think that we'll cope with a few meter rise in sea level? Historically the earth is warm, it is a hot house, what is unusual is ice. It is not common for the earth to have ice at it's poles, infact it's only happened about 5 times in earth's history. What i'm trying to say is that it is too soon to know if this is a major problem. Thirty years ago Global cooling was a "problem". What would have happened if everyone back then pitched in to help warm the planet?
2007-12-11 12:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by mike h 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some people (including myself) do not think it is a very serious problem. It is certainly NOT going to make us all die, even if the situation is worse than the worst predictions (which it isn't).
Just take a step back and regain some perspective. There is no mortal peril. Global warming leading to melting of all the ice and flooding of coastal lowlands is not the same as the end of humanity.
2007-12-11 09:46:24 · answer #4 · answered by busterwasmycat 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The study -- conducted by climate scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia -- finds that atmospheric warming patterns, or "fingerprints," over the last 30 years are not caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The report is published in the December issue of the International Journal of Climatology. Results from the study greatly contradict the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Dr. S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia -- and president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project -- says he is "fairly" sure that the current warming trend is due to changes in the activities of the sun. "The sun is constantly active, emitting particle streams that carry magnetic fields; and they in turn have an influence on the climate of the earth," he says.
Singer says he and other global warming skeptics have grown accustomed to claims that they are beholden to the oil and gas industry. "Of course that's not only untrue, but it's completely immaterial," says Singer. "In other words, we are using the data that is furnished by the IPCC. They are published, we use only published work. What we are basically doing is to make a comparison of model results and observations."
The report concludes that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and therefore "attempts to control CO2 emissions are ineffective and pointless -- but very costly."
2007-12-11 18:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Global warming isn't a problem that man can correct or cause. It is natural. Even the Pope said this. "You think you know better than the Pope?" - Godfather
2007-12-12 13:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by JosefStalinsTroll 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the links at your leisure.
Merry Christmas.
Don't worry, be happy!
2007-12-11 11:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i hear Al Gore and USA evil politicians invent this to gain power over USa
2007-12-11 09:44:01 · answer #8 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋