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Question

How many people think that global warming is a serious issue?? And how many of you are willing to do something about it?? And how many already do??

Answer 1

Of course I think Global Warming is a very serious issue. Anybody who don't care must be a very selfish individual who don't give a Rat's *** about the effects our behavior towards the earth will have on our children, grand children, etc.. I understand it can be overwhelming especially when you pay attention to the Scientific Evidence that has been provided  for every-ones education to say "What good can I do"? Well, you can at least try to be part of the solution instead of the end of evolution. To deny the effects of Global Warming is only an excuse to be a selfish individual who is only interested in instant gratification.

Answer 2

I think Its a serious issue at least i recycle and dont litter. I dont want the world to go to an end especially while im in it

Answer 3

I don't think that global warming is a serious issue. I freakin' know it's a serious issue. It doesn't matter that anyone else is willing to do something about, it matters if you're willing to do something about it. Ask yourself that, seriously. "Am I willing to give up a few minutes a day wondering how I'm gonna help save myself as well as some other idiots that don't care." I actually am doing something to help prevent global warming. And it doesn't take the Terminator or Hulk to do something. Just watch your actions and think to yourself, will I be helping or hurting the environment? If you peeps out there don't care about the environment, then either you're crazy, you need serious help, or you just plain have a death wish. Global Warming isn't the future, it's NOW!!! And we need to do something about it...

Answer 4

I'd say 68% isn't not happening, 50 / 50 that if it does it'll have a net benefit and 95% sure that man has nothing to do with it.

I think it's closer to a religion to which some scientists adhere, but not one which I believe holds up to open minded inspection. Consider pre-industrial world = Eden, science dominating nature = eating from the Tree of Knowledge, living in an industrial world = guilt, carbon footprint = personal sin, green living = forgiveness or salvation, apocalypse = apocalypse. It's a social construct not a scientific one.

Lord Monckton has been the person to most recently prove that the models they're using are extremely flawed and would be a poor resource for prediction. Of course he and others like him can't get anyone to debate them. Further, one doesn't even have to go to hard-core science to say that since CO2 emissions have only continue to grow but yet we've cooled since 1998 and the hottest year in history is still 1932 ... common sense raises some red flags.

Further, the constant statement that "the debate is over" sends chills down my free-speach-loving spine. I've never HEARD a real debate on the subject and that statement only makes me think that side is weaker and wants to avoid the argument.

Not to mention this week we just had former NASA senior Climate researcher Dr. Roy Spencer testify before congress that he thought temps are cooling.

But I didn't put anything at 100% because the problem is our ability to take measurements or understand the climate system as a whole is still extremely fallible and we tend to measure such an miserably insignificant time period  when taking into account the age of the planet that we really can't speak to statistical significance.

Answer 5

nowwwww

whats with you and globle warning

Answer 6

global warming? HAHAHAHA a few decades ago it was global cooling.

Thats the biggest crock ever

Answer 7

If you unplug all of your electricals ( save your phone and your alarm clock ), you guys would save a ton of moolah after a while. Saving the environments important, but the moolah--thats moolah you can have to buy whatever. Just move all your stuff to one strip per room. If it doesnt have room, have two power strips away from each other ( preferably across the room from each other ) and just flick it off each night you go to bed.

Save some money, buddies. You got somewhere to start, start by saving us some energy. It saves YOU--when you need that extra couple hundred a year.

Answer 8

I sooo think it is serous. I am very willing to do something about it. And i already do. Please help me with my question thanks.

Answer 9

I think it's serious... but no matter how many people wanna help... there's ALWAYS gonna be those people that don't care... so it doesn't really matter.

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Answer 10

Global warming is indeed a serious issue and many countries are taking steps to do it. I'm trying my best to do something about it and hope many others will join me .

Answer 11

You've gotta be joking. Global warming isn't an issue, it's a natural warming of the planet that occurs every few hundred years, it will cool again. Nothing you do will reduce the effects of global warming. Look at the facts. The temperatures raise naturally, and raised temperatures cause the oceans to release more CO2. 95% of the CO2 in our atmosphere is from the oceans releasing it due to natural warming of the earth. About 3% of the CO2 is from us. And the ice caps aren't melting! They're simply moving, as they will freeze in a new location in a few hundred years.

STOP THE PROPAGANDA ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING THAT THE MEDIA TELLS US. ITS GIVING GOVERNMENTS REASON TO INVENT NEW TAXES!!!!!

Answer 12

hmmmmmmmmm i would like to do something but dont know what to do....

Answer 13

global warming is a serious issue.....

it change the climate, and cause for more heavy disasters

actually i am doing something about it...

my family now dont uses the dryer, because dryer produces some kind of gas that can help to global warming, i forgot the name of that gas...

does airconditioner contributes also to global warming???

Answer 14

I shall continue to drive my H3 around LA.

Answer 15

i do more things to combat global warming than you do so don't preach to me.

Answer 16

i dont think its a serious issue i KNOW its a serious issue and im trying to do what i can but one person isnt enough , but its something . i think we need more people who actually care about the future of the earth and the poor little animals who are dying because of this :(

Answer 17

First Global Warming can only be changed if we have shut every single machine off.  I have noticed that this summer My state had some really nasty storms, worse than last summer.  Snow is a rare sight in my city... I like the snow :P

I won't do anything about it, no money oh?! money breeds result nowadays.

Answer 18

I know that global warming is a serious issue, and I've seen its effects all over.

I am willing to do something about it, and I already do.

I work all over the world as an environmental engineer specializing in water and emissions.

I also like to think that by coming on here and confronting the disinformationalists I can help sway public opinion away from blind acceptance of what politicians have to say and towards the camp of understanding that we live in a relationship with the earth.

People, such as chilly w and lozza below, that are against global warming, actually don't really study global warming. Instead, they believe that it's a ploy to take their money or to take away their freedoms, and then they accuse us scientists of not doing any research. Not only is that assinine in every manner of thought (as well as hypocritical), but it is selfish, egocentric and genuinely the major problem with our society and world. Everyone wants theirs, and they don't care what getting theirs does to the rest of life on this planet.

Don't worry, just as at every other junction in human existence, scientists and innovative thinkers will save you and your family from your ignorance. And guess what - we don't do it for money, chicks, cars, or even your backhanded gratitude. It would just be nice if you could get on board once in a while instead of being the lame horse that the rest of us have to drag along the journey.

A rebuttal for Nate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instr...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/mann...

Not 1932, champ, but keep swingin'!

As for Roy Spencer, I would strip him of his PhD on the spot for how his oversimplification of climate change here:

http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spen...

Not only have we increased CO2 emissions by almost 40%, but methane emissions have increased by 150%, Nitrous Oxide by 16%, and CFCs from 0ppt to 533ppt! And that's not even counting other GHGs like sulphur hexafluoride, ozone, HFCs, PFCs...

Keep reading and listen to how he uses a study by a University of Guelph economics professor saying that global warming measurements are actually being influenced by the replacement of natural vegetation with urban development. Did they actually visit the sites where the contamination was occurring?

http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2007/12/glob...

NOPE! Instead they just assumed that temperature stations should be the same everywhere...

Also, where did you get the notion that he claims the climate is cooling? His debate is in regards to warming feedback and the cause of warming, not whether warming is actually occurring.

You're bringing Lord Moncton forward saying that he has proven something? He has proven nothing of the sort! Your link has proven nothing and I have found no research indicating that ANYONE has proven the climate models to be incorrect. There have been criticisms of the climate models, and resulting permutations picked up by various trusts, but nothing to show that they are incorrect, and a whole pile of scientific consensus to indicate that they are correct.

Just a tip, Nate, read your sources before you cite them. It will help you to make a point stick instead of building your point out of sticks.

Answer 19

Heck, Of course Global Warming is serious, I'm already doing a couple of things, walking instead of using the car, taking the bus, Ect. But they're still people, no matter what happens, that don't care.

P.S. Who the heck pressed the thumbs down button on the positive answers and pressed up on the negatives?

Answer 20

Keep on earning money

Answer 21

I think people should really care about global warming and yes I am willing to do something about it!

Answer 22

I think its real, I look at what the polar ice sheets used to look like in the 70's and what they look like now and I kinda notice.

I personally never saw myself as a "green" person, but I realized that I do my part without really trying. First off, I drive a really fuel efficent car that gets around 32mpg city. Second I dont by paper towels or plastic bags, third I try to reuse what I can and only throw something out when I really have to.

Its not much but I know im doing more than most.

Answer 23

I think that global warming is a serious issue because first-world governments are using it as an excuse to tax citizens and citizens are willing to put up with that when no other excuse would ever convince citizens to willingly be taxed more.  You see, in the third world (re: MOST of the world), the main form of transportation in massive urban centers where most of the population resides, are vehicles called 'Tuk Tuks', which operate as taxicabs and are powered with 2-stroke combustion engines.  2-stroke combustion engines are the same ones used in gas-powered lawn mowers, and they produce 98 times more emissions than 4-stroke engines with catalytic converters which automobiles use (most, anyway, there are still some automobiles with 2-stroke engines being manufactured in the 2nd and 3rd world).  Venture out of the confines of the first world, and you'll find jillions of these things, and they're not going away.  

So no matter what our governments do to penalize us for using relatively clean technologies, most of the rest of the world actually gets subsidized to use dirty technologies (in case you didn't know, in parts of the world where the local currency is relatively worthless, the gas is relatively cheap, because it would be impossible to exploit resources from those countries if their economies were required to pay as much for fuel as ours do).  

Even if global warming is anthropogenic, and the science suggests it probably isn't, there's nothing any of us can do about it and our governments are lying and cheating us when they claim otherwise.  

The real question is why the majority of the population of the first world believes that global warming is anthropogenic and believes that they need to do something about it personally.  

There's a very good reason for urging the reduction of the burning of fossil fuels in automobiles, and it's called smog.  It kills people every day, far more than any 'second-hand cigarette smoke' ever did, and yet people are more concerned with 'global warming' and 'second-hand cigarette smoke' than smog.  That is rather pathetic but I think the reason is because until recently, with the advent of fairly reliable online sources, people had to rely on the media for information, and most of the media is a parrot of itself, and the few media outlets that do generate the buzz or spin are staffed with journalists, not scientists.  Nowadays we are just starting to be able to research topics ourselves and come to fairly accurate conclusions if we're somewhat intelligent, and I suspect that's why there is a far larger proportion of people in the Yahoo Answers section who seem to have figured out that anthropogenic global warming is a weak theory than there are in the general population, most of whom are in the habit of recieving their information passively, rather than actively investigating for themselves...

Now, some of you might say, "But Chilly, what about the scientists, most of them say global warming is antropogenic just like the media does." Well, you're right, and I think the reason for that is because most people who are called scientists either don't do, or can't do, anything resembling actual science. They end up getting their information from the media just like the rest of us. Partly this is due to the compartmentalization of scientific fields, whereby expertise gets confined to more and more narrow and exotic specialties, combined with the lack of communication between different fields of science. But I think the biggest reason scientists parrot the media in a kind of feedback loop is because of the laziness that becomes inherent in the system of tenured academic positions. That is, once an academic such as a scientist gets tenure, he stops working very hard, if at all. This leaves the only working scientists left in the private sector, where scientific investigation is conducted for the purpose of profiting, rather than discovery in and of itself.

...but that's just a guess.

By the way, I'm also somewhat surprised that so many people here seem to make a connection between recycling, littering, and global warming.  There is no connection.  Choosing not to litter is a great idea, but not because it could have any effect on global warming.  Litter has no effect on global warming.  Recycling probably isn't much help, either.  Ironically, I think most of the people who are most worried about global warming seem to be more interested in acting in a manner to allievate their own conscience rather than acting in a manner that could allieviate any possible global warming..

And by the way, Marih, the human species originated in Africa, not China.  This is well documented in the genetic record, and is not controversial in the mainstream.  Also, you are nuts!

Answer 24

GLOBAL WARMING IS A REALLY SERIOUS ISSUE.If we dont do anything about it now the world is going to be in great danger.All must try hard to reduce it.It must be a global effort.As from my part i try my best .

Answer 25

It's very serious.  Why, what would we do without all the earnestness you see in these answers?  

I, personally, am going to adopt a polar bear and penguin.  They need our support more than ever now, what with them becoming homeless and all.  Sad, so sad.

Answer 26

i think its a serious issue...im willing to do something about it.