For all those concerned with Global Warming?

Question

1) So the Earth is getting warmer. Who doens't like vacationing in wamer climates?

2) The glaciers will melt. They have been melting since the last Ice Age so what's the problem?

3) Climates will change causing plants and animals to have to evolve. All those scientists who are concerned with Global warming believe in evolution, so who cars if everything evolves some more?

4) If you have a legit concern with global warming please make it known. I am still failing to see a problem with it.

I believe its a natural occurance as well but either way it doens't frighten me. Evolve or perish.

Answer 1

So true it is a natural process. For all of the arguments that snow won't be there for drinking water and that we'll all drown, read this article. I hope you come to your senses.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

Answer 2

<<I am still failing to see a problem with it. >>

none are so blind, as those who will not see.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/da...

http://oldsite.globalsolutions.org/progr...

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?C...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

300,000 dead in Darfur, because of drought, caused by climate change, and the change in precipitation.

yep, none are so blind ......

Answer 3

Of course you don't worry about it.  You'll be dead in 60 years.  It's the quality of life that our kids and grandkids will enjoy that some of us work for.

Answer 4

Al Gore says the earth has a fever and he invented the Internet so I have to believe in him. And the Easter Bunny also.

Answer 5

1) if the earth is getting warmer: it could get really hot and make it a bad climate to grow some food we need to live and to complete the circle of life. also, some important animals to our eco system won't do well and will have trouble adapting to the heat. the heat could also kill some animals homes and family, like penguins and polar bears. that goes into 2.

2) Glaciers melt: the sea level rises and rises and could flood, and even cover some places like Venice! Venice floods often from the canals, the sea and the rain, if the sea level rises Venice could be forgotten. Also, if the glaciers melt, we are killing homes of animals! Arctic animals need the cold, the glaciers and the snow!

3) i don't quite get this one. so i'll have to let someone else answer that for you.

4) i hope this tells you a little about global warming and how it is an issue. there is so much more to it, i suggest you maybe learn a little more about it. it is really interesting, and really a problem more people should be trying to stop. the more people working against, the bigger our odds are of overcoming it. 5 people can't do it but 500 people, or 5,000 or 50,000 the larger amount of people working to make a difference, the bigger difference we can make!

Answer 6

If the ice melts man will half to evovle with gills so we can bearth under water

Answer 7

Part of it is natural, but part of it is our fault too...The use of cars and gases destroying the enviornment...I see where your coming from but personal i don't want my kids and future generations to suffer from terrible air and natural disasters that appear because humans are careless...I want them to see animals and trees around them, not concrete and smog enveloping them ...Animals and creatures ARE supposed to adapt, but at the rate that we are destroying our earth, they wont adapt quick enough and will die...We take away natural resorces necisary  for our enviorment...If we keep treating mother nature like this she will get angry and turn on us and she already starting to...look at how many natural disasters keep apearing.More and more hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires will and already have started to apear because we are offsetting the natural balance of the earth...It may mean nothing to you because you dont see a point in trying to help future generations and help return the natural balance of the earth but it matters to me...and thats my opinion...

Answer 8

scientists act lik this is the first time anything has been happening with the earth. they fear we will all die because of global warming, but aren't we destined to die anyways? there have been dinosaurs, they all died, there have been ice age animals, where are they? havn't they even found some really small humans? they evolved into us! right? i understand if scientists are concerned about oil because we cant get anywhere and all h**l will break lose, but the earth has not existed for 2008 years, its has been around for billions of years. how did all those organisms survive the past year? they didnt! thats our destiny, and sientists only wan to prolong out life span becuase they know we will all perish for eternity.

Answer 9

"I believe its a natural occurance"

Then you believe wrongly.

The problem is that the change is occurring faster than any previous natural temperature change which is cause for concern.

I suspect that life will go on and enough species will adapt that we'll still be OK in the end, but a lot of damage will be done and we're going to have to spend a lot of money on mitigation (say moving coastal cities away from the coast).

Answer 10

Global warming isn't too much of a problem to me. However, I live in Arizona, where it's totally normal for Decembers to be 90 degrees throughout the day. Last year, summers reached as high as 121 degrees here, but just the year before, it was 120. Okay, 1 degree, who cares? But if one year means one degree, where will we be in ten years? 130 degrees. "Move" you say? Well, that's solve it just fine, but if I move to like, Hawaii, where summers don't reach much higher than 85 degrees, in thirty years, it'll be like my Arizona now.

Don't be ignorant. Whether it's a natural occurance or not, it doesn't not make it a problem. Sure the glaciers will melt, but if the Earth's average temperature increases at least one degree a year? Our doom will be reached in 100 years. About your argument on evolution, you are also ignorant. Evolution takes millions of years, but we don't have millions of years regarding global warming. We only have at the most, hundreds. Adapting to changing temperatures took millions of years, and a difference of even 30 degrees is enough to kill those who aren't perfectly adapted to it. It takes much more than 30 years to get used to an environmental change, and to deny this proves your ignorance. Evolve or perish? We can't evolve with the time we're given. At this rate, the average temperature in Arizona in 2050 will be 160 degrees. We can't evolve in 40 years. So, according to your ignorance, our only option is perish. Have a nice summer, while it's less than 130 degrees.

Answer 11

Because what normally happens in 100,000 years becomes a big problem if it happens in 100 years. Ecosystems can't evolve that fast, so many will just die off.

As for people, you should try to count up the costs of all the things that need to change if the planet warms.  The costs will be in the trillions of dollars and perhaps millions of lives.

Billions of people rely on snowmelt for their drinking water.  What if there is no snow? The answer is not that we just catch the rainwater instead, we don't have the storage facilities for all the water that will be needed to replace what's lost in the snowpack/glaciers.

"Evolve or perish" is just ignorant.  Suppose somebody points a gun at you and says that, are you going to mutate fast enough to grow armor plates on your body?

Answer 12

1) Who doesn't like droughts, heat waves, food and water shortages....wait, I don't like those things.

2) If land ice melts rapidly enough to raise the sea level to a height where cities are located, that's a problem.

3) Evolution happens over thousands of years, not tens of years.  Are you going to suddenly evolve gills if your home goes below sea level?

4) See #1-3.

Answer 13

well you should be concerned because once it fully happens we will all drown!!!

Answer 14

How does evolution move a city at sea-level to higher ground?  

How does evolution help farmers in drought stricken regions grow more food?

How does evolution help stop increased forest fires due to longer hotter summers?

How does evolution keep the water supply from a soon to be gone glacier flowing into human water systems around the world?

While we can certainly adapt to each of these probable consequences of global warming, doing so is an enormous effort and expense.  And then there's the often forgotten problem of human competition for resources (often resulting in war and strife) which may increase if there's a significant change in climate.  You can't evolve from that.

While evolution and global warming may actually be beneficial for some species, it's a slow process that won't help humanity at all in this situation.