Do you think global warming is affecting you?

Question

Do you think global warming is affecting you?

Answer 1

4 out of the last 5 summers we have had over 2 months without rain in the summer, it never used to be more than a few weeks when i started gardening 15 years ago. i have had to install much more rainwater catchment and storage, 1 cubic metre now up from 200l.

and its ruined my spring colour scheme, the daffs come up at the same time as the snowdrops!

20 years ago this village would be snowed in for at least a day each year, it hasnt happened since mis 80s.

on the other hand, i have olive, grape vines, almond and walnut all doing fine outside, i.e. mediterranian plants 200 metres up on the downs in southern england.

Answer 2

oh yeah I mean the snow outside my house just melted and its only april

Answer 3

YES.

i tried to buy rice yesterday.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/17/b...

http://www.e-pao.net/epRelatedNews.asp?h...

you might also keep in mind that Darfur is the result of global warming, causing droughts, and people having to abandon their dead crops.

Answer 4

It affects all of us.

Yes it is a natural procedure but!\

MY FRIENDS IT GOES FASTER BCS OF OUR ACTIVITIES.

I am kind of tiered telling you that!

Repeat and repeat than explain.... HELP ME and HELP OUR PLANET for God sk

Answer 5

Nope, Global Warming is a myth...just like santa claus, or the boogyman!

Answer 6

Global warming is affecting us. It ruins the world as well as our health. Some examples are air pollution, lake pollution ect..

Answer 7

GW has directly affected all of us...

It is a factor in high fuel costs, high food costs, various wars, droughts and floods across the world, not to mention the recent heatwaves and great hurricanes that have killed many and made even more homeless.

It's funny reading stories along the lines of 'outside my window, this year everything was fine' - look beyond your window and look beyond today! We have broken more weather records in the last ten years than ever before and the next ten promise to be worse. Just because you had one 'normal' year (and not everyone did, in fact, most had a seriously bad winter), doesn't make everything alright.

Answer 8

No, global warming in a natural process that the earth has experoenced for millenia. Clearly greenhouse gases increase the effects but not to any level where we decide the whether or natural hazards. We need to do as much as we can but people need to relax a bit.

Answer 9

Global Warming is effecting our everyday lives and we don't know it. It is getting extremely hot in some areas of the world which is making people die from heat stroke. The Polar Ice Caps are melting more and more everyday it is effecting us more and more every time we throw plastic or paper in the garbage it may have taken a long time for the temperature to rise but know we are using so much energy I know that it is effecting us

Answer 10

Yes. I raise polar bears and I'm having to keep them in my living room because there is no place for them to stand outside.

Answer 11

it has affected people about as much as "global cooling". think about that and theres a good chance you don't even know what it is.

Answer 12

Not where i live. there's these things called the four seasons in my state of CA. you see, we have summer, fall, winter, and spring time. during the whole winter season i didn't feel any different from all the other previous winters. it was stormy, cold, rainy, windy, you know winter time. i didnt here much about global warming during that time. pretty 'inconvenient' i would say!

Answer 13

The melting of the glaciers is having the most immediate impact, mostly on the towns near them, but expanding in the scope of effects. I'm speaking of the glaciers on mountaintops, not the ones associated with polar caps like Greenland. This would be ones like the Alps, Urals, Himalayas, Rockies, Sierras, Cascades, and Andes.

Right now there are 3 major effects.

(1) towns near the glaciers are threatened with flooding. As a glacier melts, tunnels called moulins form, penetrating deep into the glacier. These are filled with icewater. As the moulin grows it eventually breaks through the wall of ice surrounding it and empties, dumping millions of gallons of icewater on whatever is below. The hole then freezes closed, and the process repeats. This was only recently appreciated (in Greenland), and has been found to be one reason why glaciers are melting faster than predicted. It has since been observed in all the melting glaciers. (there are a very few "special case" glaciers that are not melting, like Mount St. Helen) This is a different pattern of melting than any ever observed in the past. Glaciers have always melted from the edges, usually a few inches per year. Another new phenomenon is that at the higher melting rates we have now, glaciers can detach from the bedrock, and slide or float down from the mountain at much higher speeds. A town in Chile has seen the "tsunami" effect from the moulins repeat itself several times. Fortunately the direction of water flow was away from the town. Around the world on every continent there are towns potentially in the path of a devastating flood, apprehensively watching the ice melt.

(2) Estimates of when the glaciers will be gone entirely range from 10 to 50 years, depending on size. Because these glaciers have always been there during human times, people have built towns and economies based on the glaciers. These include skiing, climbing, sledding, and many other tourist attractions. From Oregon to Nepal the people in those areas are facing the loss of their economies, and the prospect of having to begin again with something entirely new.

(4) Water. The glaciers of the Himalayas supply the great rivers that provide water for drinking, agriculture and industry in China, India, Nepal, Viet Nam, Tibet, and most of Asia. The glaciers of the Alps provide the water for the rivers that supply Europe. The Andes glaciers supply South America. While the immediate threat of the melting glaciers is flooding, the long term threat is drought and starvation. Immediate means now. Long term means <50 years.

Answer 14

Not to be a b!tc# but, all the answers you've gotten so far on this question made me laugh out loud.

No matter, NO MATTER what anybody tells you, global warming is more effecting than anything in this world right now. I don't know about you, but I live near the country where it's all fields and stuff like that, and during winter it would snow massive amounts daily, finally we get a good day of sunshine in march, followed by a day of snowing, then another good day, followed by a day of snowing once again. Then in April we got mostly sunlight. Except for every other day that it will rain. There has been many tornadoes already this year, and I can't even tell you how much flooding there is going on. How could the weather go from hot and sunny, to cold and snowing in one day?

IT DOESN'T.

...think about it..

e-mail me please.=]

Answer 15

no global warming is not effecting me or you.

Answer 16

Nope - never.

Because of so called "global warming" temperatures have risen 0.5 degrees in the last 100 years.  This cannot effect anything.

Answer 17

yes its affecting every1

Answer 18

it will all of us

however i think God  IS IN CONTROL

all we can do is what he says

Answer 19

yes, the temperature in my area have been increasing

Answer 20

yes we are being effected. you see the oceans are rising constantly at about a half inch every year when the gaiciers started to melt. it is going to flood Florida and definatly Hawaii and parts of California.  TEMPERATURE is really going up lately around here in Kansas and Missouri compared to recent years... If you ask me i say we're going into some kind of nightmare thats irreversable and we could be killing ourself and we don't think about it.  every time i hear a car start or i hear a train i say a prayer that life will last another day.  ppl don't see the signs that mother earth is giving us... Tsunami's and Typhoon's and dry air in places it were moist.  Maybe these things are inevitable maybe they can;t be fixed.  just think next time your on the highway... that your world is being turned upside down. so ttyl.