Are we really serious about dealing with climate change?

Question

Australian Government direct investment in developing fossil fuels is 50 times what it's investing in alternative energy - apart from tax and other subsidies to fossil fuel industries. Gas-guzzling 4-wheel drive vehicles (mostly "urban tractors") attract low sales tax. Investment in freeway is many multiples of investment in public transport. Urban planning revolves around motor vehicles and costly commuting - and exponential population growth (including subsidies for new births) in defiance of increasing water shortage, and desertification of former "food bowls". Globally enormous Government and other investment is pouring into increasing international air travel. Economics revolves around "growth" of unsustainable consumerism. And so it goes. What do you see where you are?

Answer 1

if man made global warming was in fact a reality, and it could be proven as such, then everything that could be done to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions should be done. but since the evidence strongly supports global climate change as a natural occurrence, then there is little if anything that man can do to make any real change, and those changes wont happen for at least 50 years, and they will be minimal at best.

Answer 2

I doubt any one has taken it seriously except perhaps Green peace and other NGOs which make a living out of it.

Personally I doubt whether man made emissions do have any impact on the earth's atmosphere at all. You see, the biosystem of man is puny when compared with the geosystem of the earth and in the cosmos we are submicroscopical. The earth has  a large capacity for withstanding  changes, be it CO2 or warming and homogeneity is maintained. If at all any change does occur, by way of earth quakes, volcanic eruptions or even a large asteriod heading towards earth, we are absolutely powerless to do any thing about it. We are still controlled by the elements as it were. Climate change too falls in this category.

Drastic climate change can occur in case of a nuclear war or some similar catastrophe. Fossil fuel consumption, inspite of the ozone depletion, has not changed the climate I think. If I am wrong, sure, I will accept correction.

Answer 3

I know, both the Australian and New Zealandian governments are miles ahead of the U.S. in environmental conservation, they are far more progressive, politically. I see the U.S. as far behind, and it will stay that way until a dramatic change wakes people up and inspires the government to do something.

Answer 4

I don't think so, but other countries are taking the steps before something goes wrong. Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines have been urging their government to act the renewable energy bill for about ten years now, but still the government is ignoring it. And just rencently when the oil prices hit the 100$/BARREL (actually it's now 110$/barrel), it conducted an energy summit. However, the summit still favors the old technolgy of energy. They still don't get the point.

Answer 5

This sounds like a question for the expert.  The inventor of global warming, Al Gore.

Answer 6

The true science says that it is the Sun that is causing most of the recent warming that we have been hearing about.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is only accountable for less than 5% of greenhouse gases and we only make about 5% of that. (About 90-95% of Greenhouse Gases is Water Vapor)

The reason for increased CO2 is because as the oceans become heated, they cannot hold as much as they could if they were cooler, so the oceans release the excess into the atmosphere. From what I hear, the oceans can hold many times more energy and heat then the air. This meaning that the atmosphere should have very little effect on the oceans and that the sun or perhaps the Earth itself is heating up the surface since those are two of the only things that could heat our vast oceans.

Also, the Earth hasn’t warmed in nearly a decade but has actually fallen and it has fallen greatly within the past 2 years. Many scientists believe we are about to go through another little ice age.

http://www.dailytech.com/Solar+Activity+...

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060825/531436...

Many scientists are skeptical about Anthropogenic Global Warming.

These are some resources:

http://sepp.org/policy%20declarations/he...

http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/Ar...



Al Gore had a chart in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" that showed the similarities of Carbon Dioxide and temperature. The thing that he doesn't tell you is that there is a gap in which the temperature rises before the CO2 which should be the exact opposite if his theory is correct. Watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Polar bears are NOT being endangered but actually the exact opposite.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/200...

That is my point of view on the issue and I strongly encourage you to watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=... all the way through even if you don't want to. It is a great source of information and if you want to know the truth, you need to see both sides of the story.

Another great resource is http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Techn...

Answer 7

Let's hope not. It is natural ,and we can not change that.

Answer 8

Gas at $ 4 or 5 maybe 6 per gallon, this gets change. If no big investment in renewable energy in 30 years $30 per gallon-this is change.

Answer 9

Basically more foreign dependency's,with a higher tax base, and rising prices. Over 30yrs of gov inaction and maybe 10yrs of public reaction. Toss in some more useless mandates and regulations, that make the rich better off. Move more jobs over sea's, or outsource just about everything. Promote credit lines with interest rates so high  the people will never actually be free, or own anything. Create some more special gov organizations,and increase the war chests. That's not what I see, but what people are experiencing.

Answer 10

we need to get permission from the Environmentalist groups too cut some fire wood so we won`t freeze to death

Answer 11

We see freezing cold, record snows.  The gvmt declaired so-called "Global Warming" over.

Answer 12

The reason why is cold is because the planet is trying to balance itself. Remember the ice age? The planet is purging from all the toxins we emit on a daily basis. So if some have a problem calling it global warming, then call it climate re-structuring. Whatever we may call it the USA govt. is not not taking it seriously at all. We need to try harder to not only help the planet, but if we don't care about that at least help ourselves and get off oil! Its sad to see "the strongest nation on Earth" be so far behind in environmental laws and do close to nothing to help this situation.

Answer 13

yes i concider the earth as the reason i m here so i have to love her maker love plant seeds n see them grow  with i could do more but i live in a small town far from every place but i teach peaplo that sorrounds me  to love   a kiss from your yahoo friend

Answer 14

Notice they call it "climate change" now. Now, if it gets colder or hotter, they're always right.

Answer 15

I see a  lot of the same things you see; but votes change governments, so there is hope.

Answer 16

It's been so cold how can anybody even think anymore about global warming.