Are Americans weary of their green house emissions and how much water they're using?

Question

Do you turn off the tap when you're brushing your teeth?

How many tv's do you have on at one given time?

Just wanted to see what an Americans view is on Climate change.

Answer 1

As I have been saying since AlGorge started with this scam,

it's a joke folks!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sto...

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 2

I would say, that as a whole, Americans do care about what is happening to the planet, but we've lived in this consumption based culture for too long to expect for drastic cultural changes to happen overnight. There are people here who think that global warming is real, but there is also people here who don't give a c**p. In the last few years I've noticed an attitude shift, but the fundamental shift is yet to occur. For example, instead of purchasing a reusable water bottle and filling it at home or at work, we buy bottled water, and recycle some of the bottles.

I know that I personally have only one TV, so its the only one thats ever on. I do turn off the water when I'm brushing my teeth. I try to recycle everything I can, I joined a freecycle group to give away some stuff that I'd otherwise throw away. I turn off lights when I'm not using them, and I try not to drive excessively when I don't need to. (I drive a full size pickup and my fiance drives a small sedan, we take her car almost everywhere we go, only using the truck for my job and my own transportation when she is away)

I know that I can only do so much, and it irritates me knowing that there are some jerk-offs out there that seem to go out of there way to hurt the planet. If everyone did just a little, we could all accomplish alot!

Answer 3

I can sum up the attitude of many Americans with a little story.

Right after America invaded Iraq (the first time) the cartoonist Garry Trudeau ran a strip where he had a TV Reporter asking a citizen "How many Arabs would you consider it reasonable to kill so you could run around in a T-shirt during the winter?"  The citizen responded "All of them."

Not every American is like this, but it is an attitude our leaders have cultivated.

Answer 4

I didn't buy a hybrid car...dealers are still price gouging due to demand and it being a new technology, but my compact car gets about 30 miles to the gallon; I do turn off the water when brushing my teeth; I run around the house harping to my family to turn off lights, etc. when they are not in the room; I use energy efficient light bulbs; recycle my bottles and cans and newspaper and junk mail and corrugated cardboard at the town "transfer station" (part-dump, part-recycling center); I keep my thermostat comfortably low and use biodiesel to heat my home.  

Some people care, though I admit that not all climate change is due to CO2 emissions, and not all climate change is bad.  However, if I can save money in the process of reducing environmental pollution, I'm all for it.

Answer 5

Most of my countrymen don't care.

- Consider that fact that the ****** Home Owner's Associations ban drying laundry outside (they can foreclose on your house if you violate this too many times)

- Consider how much food Americans eat (bunch of fat @sses)

- Consider the anti-public transportation attitude in redneck places like Texas

Answer 6

Americans are very aware, it's forced fed to them by the media every waking hour of every day.

However, there are 1,000 more pressing issues to worry about than Global Warming. Also, what does tap water have to do with global warming anyway.

Answer 7

You're new to these questions aren't you?  :-)

As Jo has shown you, they are totally divided, for starters idiots like him think Al Gore started the movement.

I think you'll find that the educated side are concerned and the rest are so backwards they probably produce v little emissions other than the rubbish out of their mouths.

Answer 8

most of them are very worried about the planet. Then they get into their great big gas guzzling cars and pick-ups and go for a drive to think about it all and congratulate themselves for saving the planet by turning a light bulb off and recycling a beer bottle.

Answer 9

No - and I run the water while I'm shaving too

As many as there are people watching different programs

Water goes around and around and around, it is never lost.

Answer 10

the highest amount of all like gas, water, electricity etc are being used by  americans because she is reach with resources of all means and have abundant to use it . Why to crave for extra and shout ? Of course be practical to avoid wastages which is useless.

Answer 11

Yes and I do care alot.

Global warming -- a gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures -- is now well documented and accepted by scientists as fact. A panel convened by the U.S National Research Council, the nation's premier science policy body, in June 2006 voiced a "high level of confidence" that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, and possibly even the last 2,000 years. Studies indicate that the average global surface temperature has increased by approximately 0.5-1.0°F (0.3-0.6°C) over the last century. This is the largest increase in surface temperature in the last 1,000 years and scientists are predicting an even greater increase over this century. This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's upper atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities.

Average global temperatures may increase by 1.4-5.8ºC (that's 2.5 - 10.4º F) by the end of the 21st century. Although the numbers sound small, they can trigger significant changes in climate. (The difference between global temperatures during an Ice Age and an ice-free period is only about 5ºC.) Besides resulting in more hot days, many scientists believe an increase in temperatures may lead to changes in precipitation and weather patterns. Warmer ocean water may result in more intense and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.09 - 0.88 m. in the next century, mainly from melting glaciers and expanding seawater . Global warming may also affect wildlife and species that cannot survive in warmer environments may become extinct. Finally, human health is also at stake, as global warming may result in the spreading of certain diseases such as malaria, the flooding of major cities, a greater risk of heat stroke for individuals, and poor air quality.

Climate change is very likely having an impact now on our planet and its life, according to the latest installment of a report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And the future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts, and more frequent droughts all look set to affect the developing world more than rich countries, they add. The report is the second chapter of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment -- the most comprehensive summary yet of research into the causes and effects of climate change. To read more, visit Effects of climate change tallied up.

Factors

Greenhouse Gases

The increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is often cited as one of the major causes of global warming. These greenhouse gases reabsorb heat reflected from the Earth's surface, thus trapping the heat in our atmosphere. This natural process is essential for life on Earth because it plays an important role in regulating the Earth's temperature. However, over the last several hundred years, humans have been artificially increasing the concentration of these gases, mainly carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases build up and prevent additional thermal radiation from leaving the Earth, thereby trapping excess heat.

Solar Variability & Global Warming

Some uncertainty remains about the role of natural variations in causing climate change. Solar variability certainly plays a minor role, but it looks like only a quarter of the recent variations can be attributed to the Sun. At most. During the initial discovery period of global warming, the magnitude of the influence of increased activity on the Sun was not well determined.

Solar irradiance changes have been measured reliably by satellites for only 30 years. These precise observations show changes of a few tenths of a percent that depend on the level of activity in the 11-year solar cycle. Changes over longer periods must be inferred from other sources. Estimates of earlier variations are important for calibrating the climate models. While a component of recent global warming may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that component was very small compared to the effects of additional greenhouse gases. According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues.

GLOBAL WARMING HAS TO STOP BEFORE WE ALL DIE.