Global Warming?
Does it exist?
What should our governments do about it?
Comments on the Kyoto Protocol?
It seems to be a hot topic of late....
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Global Warming?
Does it exist?
What should our governments do about it?
Comments on the Kyoto Protocol?
It seems to be a hot topic of late....
i'm currently of the opinion that it's political BS. i just watched "the great global warming swindle". i feel like such a fucking sucker. as one scientist put it "if i wanted to get money to research the nut gathering habits of squirrels in south sussex, all i'd have to do is add 'as it relates to global warming' to my proposal and they'd give me a million dollars."
That's assuming "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is itself honest and accurate. This would be an error.
http://www.badscience.net/?p=383
Clearly there is a situation where our earth is warming on its own, plus we are polluting it to such shame. We should try to treat it better. Then again, we should try to treat one another better.
Anyone for a hug? EEK EEK!
Whether it's global warming to blame or not,the weather's been very weird...3 days ago it was 80f in DC,and last night it was snowing....
i think it's pretty real.
Much like the ozone..this is cyclical and normal. While I am all for less pollution and taking better care of the Earth...I dont believe that this, by and large, isnt anything that hasnt happened before and will happen again on a normal cycle.
I've lived in DC/MD/VA my whole life and I think it is def real, for one thing in late Dec. and early Jan I was wearin a t shirt and capris in DC... I havenn't seen a white christmas since I was a kid... It's April and I've been seeing snow flurries... This didnt used to happen...and on top of that the glaciers are melting and the water level of the ocean has changed by one degree... and even though that sounds like it's not much think about how much it really it one full degree throughout the entire ocean (as in all of them) . The weather is changing a lot and I think it has to do with global warming. But really, I dont want to get into it, just wanted to throw in my two cents.
Liked one article that theorized human farming and activity helped end the last ice age. The planet obviously goes through and cold and warm cycles, but humans have played their part. The huge amount of carbon burned off in the industrial age has increased atmospheric CO2, which in isolation should increase temperatures. That seems very reasonable to me. I also think people exaggerate the effects. Humans survived and perhaps were formed by the last ice age. We no doubt will survive a warming with all of our modern advancements.
1. I'm not a scientist, and have to go on what scientists say...and 100% of the scientists think global warming is real and 90% of them believe that it is caused by human activity. I'm in no position to argue that.
2. Even if the 10% of scientists that don't agree that global warming is caused by humans are correct, how is it a bad thing for us to clean up our pollution?
3. All the really horrible acts of violence in the middle east is financed from two sources, opium and oil. Maybe, just maybe, switching to a more renewable energy source that also is cleaner might help stop the violence in the middle east?
The United Sates has a real problem because of our foreign energy dependence. We are like the obese person who won't quit over eating, and will eventually die because of it.
The interesting part is how this is represented in the media. Peer-reviewed articles don't debate that global warming is an actuality. Newspapers and television news programs report many more shaky studies that dispute global warming as fact. The American public has been duped.
The oil supply dwindling and our dependence on foreign oil is the real deal. I'm more worried about that and the conflicts over scarce natural resources more than global warming.
You're soooooooo right. My astronomy teacher last semester (who used to work at the Pentagon) said that global warming is most definitely real but isn't as huge a threat as a lot of people make it out to be. When he told the class the actual numbers, everyone laughed. Global warming, if it continues as it has could kill the earth in like 100,000 years.
5 million years ago an asteroid hit the earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, which is probably what caused the Ice Age that killed the dinosaurs. In 2014 an asteroid will pass very closely to the earth. In 2029 an asteroid might actually hit the earth.
So, there are more pressing issues than global warming.
While it may not be a huge immediate threat, would it kill us to try to take a little better care of our home??
^^^ nooooo not at all!! it's good for the planet, good for us... less polution, less nastiness in out lungs!! cough cough
Im going to go with global warming being real - science aside its better to be safe than sorry, I wish our governments thought along these lines. Its obvious that the world has some serious enviromental issues that need to be addressed regardless of whether the world is warming up or not. Its plain stupid to continue with some of our practices. - Its not just global warming thats the problem with most of those practices anyway, there are good other reasons to be concerned. I thing good old plain pollution is just one for instance.
And on a more personal note:
After living away from England for 20 years and going back though it was glaringly obvious to me that there have been some extreme enviromental changes. We never had surf in the seaside town where I lived before, now theres surf - its not good surf life Australian waves but its still surf. The beach was a different shape, parts had erroded quite severely. The locals who I mentioned it too hadnt really noticed as I guess its happened a bit at a time over the last 2 decades but here in Australia if our beach washes away like that we are freaking out! And the currents have changed severely due to polar ice caps melting. I would draw a diagram if I could, lol.
Oh yeah, and for the record I think the media is controlled and censored anyway so I dont really put alot of faith in what they have to say about anything.
I think hyping t is a fabulous scam for more grant money. Who ever heard of a Enviromental science degree ten years ago?
Periodically the Earth heats up and periodically the Earth cools down. How rapidly this occurs is left to conjecture. The Earth is far to complex an operation to point at one thing and declare that it is a fault. Fossil evidence shows crocodiles lived at one time in Greenland. Was it Pangaea or later. The Magnetic Poles move, the Axial tilt changes, the Sun differs in activity, and occasionally a hunk of iron falls from the heaven and causes a disruption of events. Man, the parasite that he is, may need to check his ego at the door. We may be the only creature that can extinct itself however life in one form or another will continue.