Global Warming: we see the signs, we actually feel them, but why don't we act?

Question

I mean, haven't you seen the 11th Hour or An Inconvenient truth? Just don't see why some people won't do simple things for the environment..

Answer 1

people don't change their lifestyle easily, and by thinking about all the things needed to change, we just avoid it.

25 degrees? no way.

on only the fan? no way.

be a vegetarian? NOWAY!

tht's why, we don't act. if we act, we will just feel lazy and not committed.

Answer 2

What SIGNS? Not one single person or animal has yet died from GW??? The temperature is now cooling--- Antarctic ice is INCREASING--- and all the Arctic sea ice refroze again as usual.

There are no "signs". Only politicians trying to create a new monetary system called "carbon credits".

Answer 3

“Whoa, it surprises me that most people don't believe global warming exists...”

People who answer Yahoo! Answer do not speak for all of America.  According to the latest Gallop poll[1], 61% of Americans believe that the effects of global warming are already apparent. Only 11% say that global warming will never happen. Outside of America, the percents are probably 85% and 5% respectively.

But to answer your question, most of the global warming deniers (delayers?) oppose action on climate change because they don’t like to political implications, not because of science.

Political implications include the costs incurred with reinvesting in America’s infrastructure (transportation, energy production); eliminating our addiction to oil will also eliminate the necessity of military bases around the world and the occasional show of force in the Middle East and elsewhere; they are scared of regulations (which they see as “an attack on freedom”) for such things as CAFÉ standards (fuel efficiency), dirty coal (which for the short term would increase electricity costs); moral questions such as if Americans are the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, then are we also mostly responsible for impacts such as decreased fresh water availability in countries that rely on glacial and snow melt, decreased crop yields in Africa, spread of tropical diseases?, etc…

Answer 4

IT DOES NOT EXIST... IT IS ALL NATURAL.  WE ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF IT.

I wrote a speech on it...

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glasses that have foggy lenses of deception regarding global warming.  In the next couple of minutes I intend to show you a more accurate eye chart and update your prescription.

A. My point for this response is to try and persuade you to see the light at the end of the dirty tunnel of humanities’ lies.

II.  Global Warming is the most debatable topic that was probably ever around.  You need to know this information.  If you don’t educate yourself properly on this topic you will live the rest of your life in fear of something that doesn’t exist.

A.  Global Warming is a natural cycle.  Everything about it is natural.  Carbon dioxide levels vary throughout time.  Humans can make little or no impact on the environment.

1.  In reality….  There is about one person who doesn’t believe in Global Warming to two people who do.  This means that only 60% of the world believes in global warming.  My goal by the end of this response is to have the 60% be persuaded that they do not believe in the accurate thing.  With the following facts, I am 100% sure that this goal is possible and will be achieved.

2.  Al Gore stated this quote in his movie “…The 10 hottest years ever recorded were within 15 years of today.”  Now this point is valid and true, but we have not been measuring the temperature or anything since the early nineteen hundreds.  Can we go down and see how the polar ice caps were doing in the early 1800’s?  We can not do that because temperature was not recorded.  You may say that they guessed using carbon dioxide levels, but whose to say that they are right?  I heard that scientific measures were not always accurate because they took a hundred year old log and did some carbon 14 testing on it.  Scientists thought that it was thousands of years old.  It was later proved to be younger after more tests were ran.  Who’s to say that our method of discovering weather is right?   We have been measuring temperature for only a short period of time.  Earth right now is in a heating process.  Thousands of years ago we were cooling which is when we had an Ice Age.  Now we are doing the opposite and are starting to warm up before cooling again. Look at this political cartoon.  What is one thing that you notice?  I notice it being freezing then gradually getting warmer. As my next point is about to prove, we have no effect on the environment no matter what we do.

3.  In 1990 a volcano in the Philippines erupted violently.  It was by far one of the biggest explosions of the century.  We all have read about how volcanoes let off carbon dioxide, but did you know this… When the volcano erupted, it put more carbon dioxide in the air than all of humanity has ever produced…. More than humans have made since the creation of time.  All in just a matter of hours. Look at this picture (not included).  See all of this carbon dioxide being put into the air?  While, with all of this there was no temperature increase or decrease at all… just some carbon dioxide level changes, but nothing major.  If volcanoes put off this much carbon dioxide with no effect, then how could we be doing this?  When all this happened, then how could you be persuaded that humans who produce fractions of that amount could impact the environment in fractions of the time?  Humans if we tried could not severely impact the environment.  It is just too big.  Even if we are letting some off, plants and other natural recyclers of Carbon Dioxide are just transforming them to oxygen.

4.  During World War II, we dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan.  We spilled tons of harmful green house gasses into Mother Nature.  This includes radiation, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide.  After all of that happened, again there was no effect to the environment that was found.  Hiroshima has been having radiation problems still, but there is no significant temperature problem.  Nothing humans do can severely change our environment.  We only occupy about 50% of the globe.  The other 50% is the ocean, ice caps, and land that are not suitable for humans.  How could two nuclear bombs not have an impact on the environment, but changing a light bulb in your house to fluorescent can save the environment?  It is just impossible that we could have an impact.    

5.  Another point is that if you look in your text book, I promise you that you will find these words… “When Washington was marching his troops, it was bitterly cold outside” Bitterly cold means freezing.  I know that they didn’t have supplies but Virginia in the summer (which is when they fought) is warm.  As you can see by these charts, it was 106 degrees outside in the summer.  This is without humidity too.  Now when we look at this chart it shows us that the battle was fought in Yorktown.  There isn‘t much of a distance between Yorktown and Richmond, were this was recorded.  How was it bitterly cold a few hundred years ago when now it is normal?  The conclusion is that it is a natural cycle.  The cycle changes every several hundred years.  It was cold then, and now it is slowly warming up.  We have nothing to do with it.  This is perfectly natural for our environment to do.  We would like to believe that humans are the dominate species.  Have we ever thought to wonder if what we believe in is caused by nature?

6.  One of the most important factual information is still on our planet.  Greenland is one of the most misunderstood places around.  People like to believe that the reason that it got it’s name is because the settlers didn’t want people to move there so they called an icy land Greenland so that settlers would move their instead of Iceland were it really was green..  After I saw a show on the discovery channel,  I concluded that it was actually green.  When the first settlers went there,  they dined on grapes and cows.  I don’t think that I am mistaken, but how could a cow live on an icy land with nobody to feed it.  Grapes grow in warm environments which is not ice.  Greenland fits that exact description.  Also as you can see on this picture, there is still some green left in it.  All of it was green once, which proves that it once was green and now it is ice because of the natural cycle, it is starting to freeze.  Now Greenland is melting to start the process all over again.  In a few hundred years, Greenland will begin to freeze.

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7.  Ok…  Phoenix is known as a hot dry desert place.  You think that it keeps getting hotter and hotter here each summer.  Take a look at this display on the screens.  As you can see, during the day the sun is radiating energy to a large city… lets call it Phoenix.  It does this all day until the sun starts to go down.  As you can see now,  the buildings are built up with radiation while the desert area barely got any radiation build up.  Now it is night and as you can see the buildings are radiating heat forming a heat bubble.  Now in Phoenix at night it is around 95 degrees.  That is because of the buildings radiating.  We are made of concrete and steel so we absorb heat.  Take a look over at the desert.  See how the temperature there is lower?  This is because it is not trapped in the heat bubble of radiation.

8.Many people relate global warming with long citywide droughts.  Like in Phoenix, we are in a drought.  There are many reasons why this is not caused by us. Have you ever watched the news and heard the following phrase “… and people of Chandler are getting pelted by rain, many individuals are putting up sand bags to protect their homes…?”  What this is saying is that small little cities are getting poured on.  Look at the power point and see why,  The big glob in the center is called Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria.  Ok now imagine that we are in the middle of a storm.  The red indicates heavy rain and the yellow indicates moderate rain.  As you can see from this animation that I made,  the storm is going around Phoenix.  We are a giant blob and the storm is just simply avoiding us.  Smaller cities like Chandler and Mesa are being pelted by this continuous down pour.  So in smaller cities they may say, “We got rained on the most we ever have” and the airport were they measure the amount of rain says there were only a few drops of rain.  This proves that we did not cause the drought by carbon dioxide, but we did it by industrializing.  

9.  Global Warming is also just a political trap.  Who are the only ones who want to try and do something about global warming besides tree huggers?  Politicians do.  When somebody is running for office this makes a better point, I am going to save the world!  Who would you rather vote for… Mr. Free Dental Insurance or Mr. I am Going To Save The Planet From Destruction!  The choice is pretty clear.  Which, that was Al Gore’s main election motto.  They want you to vote for them do they are scamming you.  Al Gore doesn’t believe in global warming himself!  When he was running for elections, he rented private jets which emit 800 pounds of CO2 per passenger instead of commercial for 88 pounds of CO2 per passenger.  He didn’t even own a private jet either; he flew this way for 20 trips.  If he would have flown on a commercial plane he would have saved 14240 pounds from the environment.

III.  Global Warming is all natural.  We do not have an effect on it.  If we tried there is nothing that we could do that would impact our society.

1.  We have nothing to do with what is going on in the world.  There is no reason that just because our planet is warming, we are to blame.  This has happened before and will be continuing to happen for the rest of the history of out planet.

3.  In theor

Answer 5

because they dont care about  any real F*ckin bad things happenin cuz their too wrapped up in their own little lives!!!

Answer 6

Global warming has been blown way out of proportion.

Its just a part of the natural cycles of the earth and even then its only warming up a few degrees every decade. As for an inconvenient truth Al Gore ripped a lot of his footage from the movie "The Day after tomorrow." The Graphs he used didnt show any numbers.  There was an 800 year difference between the rise of carbon and a temperature rise. The temperature rose 800 years after the carbon rose.

Answer 7

because some people dont believe in global warming....like me...GLOBAL WARMING DOES NOT EXIST

:D

Answer 8

they arent panicking yet, due to the not so profound effect currently.

Answer 9

What's going on for us now? The obvious thing about humanity today is that we're in huge crisis, that we've created enormous crises in economics, in politics, in spirituality, in just about every area of human life. Besides destroying our eco-systems in the process of developing our technologies. So we're asking ourselves now where do we go from here? How do we solve this? We've got global warming. We've got pollution, we're sharing it all over the globe. Our political boundaries don't keep it away from each other. We have to develop global family. We have to engage in this process of globalization. That is our evolutionary trajectory now.

Answer 10

Just because it's raining doesn't mean we should find ways to blame each other for it or spend our time trying to stop it.  Grab an umbrella and go about your day as normal.  The sun drives climate change, not man.

Answer 11

Sheep

Answer 12

Because it is a big world

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And what one country not one person does is what matters

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And when a country is concerned with profits and not tomorrow well you see what happens

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Its kind of like when we cut our grass when one person does it someone else will get the erge to when they see the clean cut grass in the front yard

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So how many front yards of cut grass will it take for the world to wise up as you would say

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About 60% of them

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And to get all 50 of the United States states to agree on a way to do it will be a chalange in its self

That is the fate of the human race self destruction

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Answer 13

I believe global warming is natural and man has very little influence on global temperatures. However, I have done many things to reduce my energy consumption simply because I want to lower my bills. I also believe recycling makes perfect sense and I have been doing it for a very long time. No one wants to pollute the Earth. We all want clean air and water. If Tesla Motors or GM makes a safe affordable electric car that doesn't look like a geek-mobile, I'll buy one. Till then I'm driving a gasoline powered powered car.

Answer 14

the truth is a little more complex than this

Answer 15

i do care about it.

Answer 16

The powers that be would love for you to think the environmental end is near.  They

came up with this in the sixty's, it's called the "Iron Mountain Report" which states that nations can no longer be frightened into action by war and they (the government and others) need a better way to make populations frightened into doing what they want.  So global catastrophe became the new favorite.  Get it!!!????  They can't use war anymore, so it's on to global warming, bird flu, terrorism, drugs....and on and on and on.

Answer 17

yes, we see every bit of sign that global warming is a darkness who will soon lay upon us. and when we decode the sign???

it spells sheer terror!!! and we should react!! we should do something!! but in fact, some of us are already are. not throwing garbage a lot, conserving water and electricity. but most of the people who do that are humanists like me. or YOU.

the reason some people aren't helping is because they're lazy. they are inconsiderate of other people. they think that "well, global warming.. it's OK the other people are saving the world already.. there are many of those people.. so why does one tiny little person like me, have to save or conserve when i'm just one?? i'm gonna be no problem..."

well wake up to all of those people!!!!! one third o the world think that way!!!! so it does matter!!!!!!!

PLEASE CONSERVE!!!!!

SAVE THE WORLD!!!!!!

STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Answer 18

The people around the world expect the world to get fixed by itself even though they started it. Their is not that many people helping because they do not care about the future, they only care about what is happening with politics and buisness. If the world apparently changes a lot, we are going to have to blame it on the people who didn't care about that right now.

Answer 19

i have i own a 4 cylinder car

i have put light saving light bulbs in every room

i got rid of my freezer and upgraded my fridge to reduce my energy intake

and i  planted trees all around my perimeters

and i donate to men of the trees which is an environmentalist lobby that plants large amounts of trees each year

Answer 20

We don't act because we're lazy.

Answer 21

Because we don't see or feel the signs.

AIT is a dramatization.

Answer 22

A lot of people don't see how valuable Earth is. But if we don't take care of Earth...we all might die!

Answer 23

Because the people around the world are too lazy! :(

Answer 24

Unfortunately the YA global warming community is pretty ridiculously biased, as you have noticed.  It seems pretty crazy doesn't it?

In my opinion, more intelligent and objective answerers are needed to help balance out all the people who seem to believe global warming is just some sort of conspiracy.

Since you do care about environmental issues, I hope you don't get too discouraged by some of the answerers.

Answer 25

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I would get behind a bottled water ban . Think of all the energy wasted transporting refrigerating producing packaging , the waste created. all for something that comes from the tap.

Ban single serve sodas and energy drinks.

Ban yard signs .

Shun fashion , and any industry that tries to get you to throw out your old things , and buy new.

i do appreciate the cooling effect that global warming is having now . i thought since global temps were on the decline global warming was a hoax , but they said that global warming causes global cooling too !! Scary.

Answer 26

Because most of us are smart enough to know that the whole Global Warming thing is a complete SCAM from AlGore.

Trust me, this Earth will perform just exactly as God had planned for it to.

I was in Milwaukee this week and it was 54 degrees @ 2pm .. is this Global Warming?

Answer 27

because people think well it's not gonna happen in our time so why do we care but if they don't act it will happen sooner than they thought. i'm sick of all them. what about their kids and grandkids that will die because of it. it's all gotta stop

Answer 28

We are. Some aren't, but I'm referring to the group I belong to, The "We Are's". Join us!!

Answer 29

Poor poor soul a victim of environmentalist propaganda. This might be the only thing to ensure the healing of this disease. The great global warming swindel, watch it and be enlightened. Walk in the light.

Answer 30

because we are actually in the middle of an ice age where the temperature is gradually rising from a cold part of th ice age.

(Ice ages have warmer and colder periods, and it is extremes when everything is icy.)

We can't stop global warming or pause it, whatever we do.

Answer 31

Because it's nothing that will happen over night.