Global warming...ewwwww?

Question

remember when there was a scare about the ice age

anyways...im gonna go dump some toxic wastes into the ocean if u dont mind

Answer 1

Referring to the SAVE THE PLANET comments above me...

Save the Planet? More like save ourselves..... the planet will be just fine... it will be here long after we are! It will rebound from whatever trashing the Human beings do to it. Then the survivors, as in other species, that made it thru our debacle will rise up to the highest on the food chain.

The PLANET will survive no matter what WE do to it.

Answer 2

I think I'll go start a trash fire!!

Answer 3

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

if your interested feel free to contact me personally at www agua-luna com

We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

If you interested I offer several DIY alternative guides to walk you step by step threw Greener living, how to run your car on alternative fuels and being self-sufficient, at agua-luna com or

www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

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Answer 4

Yes - We were taught in school that the majority of scientist saw the signs we were entering into a new ice age.

That was years before the Newsweek article.

In 20 years people will be saying that we're entering into another ice age and will be denying that anyone actually believed in 'global warming"

I'm going to trash the environment by buying those CF light bulbs and then throw them in the trash.

Answer 5

"remember when there was a scare about the ice age"

You mean that one op-ed in Newsweek?

Answer 6

Wow, can you be anymore of a jerk.  If you don't believe in global warming that's fine but don't make fun of it because most people are taking it seriously.

Answer 7

If you don't save the planet, we are all going to die. We need to take action because we have evidence of bad things that are going to happen now!

Answer 8

your name suggest what part of the body you think with

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/glo...

Global warming is but a component, in a group of destructive forces at work such as ;deforestation,desertification,soil and water contamination ,irresponsible or wasteful utilization of bio resources , air pollution,Non sustainable Agriculture,over pumping carbon aquifers

all concepts which are definitely not part of the Natural Processes of the Natural world

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR,

The most prolific growth on this planet is part of the day in the mist and most of the time under clouds ,and the least growth is always directly in the sun .

To exchange the one for the other means changing local climates

We are exchanging Nature with Tar , concrete and open spaced mono cultures.

In 300 years half of the planets forests have gone ,and in the last 50 years half of the wet lands ,and rain forests

These Areas absorb heat during the day and release heat at night ,

Cause cloud formation(shade).humidifying the air on the surface as well as releasing excess water at the roots that keep rivers flowing ,which in turn brings more water into the Environment .

As well as contributing to absorbing carbon emissions as do the leaves of the trees together with the oceans .

All in all many factors which directly affect the local Environment .

The loss of the above resulting in rivers drying up ,less rain ,desertification,loss of habitat for many species and so on.

dryer and hotter surface environments which can manifest in different weather patterns such as tornadoes or bush fires

I may be stupid or Naive but somehow i believe that lots of these local environmental changes, can add up to affect global weather, If there are enough of them (and there are)

And then on top of that comes the story of the effects of pollutants released into Nature and especially the Air ,by MAN http://earthissues.multiply.com/photos/a...

A cocktail of events and a lot of the ingredients have MAN written all over them

So it is safe to assume that we should look at ourselves ,just a teeny bit ,for possible improvements ,and rectifying Eco errors that are with in our powers.

What is a safer bet

to be or not to be

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Answer 9

Yeah, I remember it very well. When I was in grade school, this was the coming Apocalypse. They told us that by the year 2000, most of the population of the world would be gone because it would be too cold and harsh to grow food.

Then in about 7th or 8th grade, we were taught the exact opposite. Of course then, it was Carbon Monoxide that was the most deadly greenhouse gas and had to be gotten rid of. Then all the cars got catalytic converters and the Carbon monoxide problems went away, and where the cars were previously spewing out Carbon monoxide, they were now belching "harmless" CO2. Of course, they needed another villain to keep the fairy tale active, so now CO2 is the devil incarnate...go figure.

I'll just go outside and let my big, honkin, V-8 powered SUV idle in my driveway for a few hours for no apparent reason now.

Answer 10

I don't understand what dumping toxic waste into the ocean has to do with global warming. Dumping toxic waste is polluting which has nothing to do with global warming.  Global warming theory is increased CO2 in the atmosphere will raise global temperature. CO2 is not a pollutant, and the results of global warming are not proven. Where as the results of toxins on the environment and people is provable and documented.I think you are lashing out at a different type of hippie, if you want to p**s of the global warming folks go out and buy a brand new SUV. If you want to p**s off Greenpeace then go dump toxic waste.

Oh, yeah, I'm old enough to remember the Ice age scare, but I don't remember it. I honestly believe that people on here make it sound like a more notable issue than it was. This global warming frenzy has many more followers than the ice age issue.

Thanks JS, sometimes I try to be somewhat edumacated.

Answer 11

Most toxic materials have a counter agent like.

HCL    very strong acid.

the counter agent is caustic soda a very bad base. When u mix to a ph7 . What do u have now??? If u did it correct U have table salt and water. Mother nature does that all the time. That is why the oceans are salty.

Answer 12

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) ocean current influence appears to account for the slight pause in warming in the 1960s and 1970s:

http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/

However, you can see that there was no letup in the overall rise in temperatures starting 100+ years ago:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2...

As for your global cooling myth, first there was no consensus on global cooling, so the situation is nothing like today's scientific consensus on global warming:

Study: Global cooling a 1970s myth

http://www.physorg.com/news122834330.htm...

"Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday. "

Second, the factors that caused the cooling are all completely consistent with climate change theory, which predicts a lot more warming to come:

Myth #10: Global cooling between 1940 and 1970 happened even though anthropogenic CO2 was rising at

http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2...

Stinky Badger -

Well said.  Who are you, and what did you do with the original Stinky Badger?  (LOL)  My bad, I underestimated you.  I'll pay more attention to your answers in the future, even if I don't always agree with them.

Answer 13

At this point in time, scientists say that it's too late to "save the planet". But, if we turn "gas powered cars" to a different source of energy (water), or even if we all just ride bicycles until we find a solution to these problems, we might be able to turn it around. Help!!! Send my message to many people you know, and we might be able to save the planet.