Global warming experts please help? im doing a survey for my project PLEASE HELP?

Question

Hi my name is Tae and I'm doing a project involving global warming. I would like to ask a few questions, and feel free to only answer a few, it will greatly benefit me. Thank you for your time.

1.) Do you believe global warming is at its early or late stage?

2.) Do you believe it is to late to prevent global warming?

3.) What are some of the greatest cause of global warming?

4.) What are we as people doing wrong to benefit global warming?

5.) Do oyu believe it is possible for us to prevent global warming?

6.) What are some signs of global warming?

7.) Why do some people still seem to not be able to accept the existence of global warming?

8.) What are some ways that I as an individual can do to help fight global warming?

Answer 1

1) Early, very early. A century isn't even a tick of the geologic clock. That doesn't mean we have a lot of time. We've messed things up more in the time we've been polluting than natural causes could in a thousand times that time period.

2) Probably not. We don't know enough to say for sure. It is certain we won't stop it by doing nothing.

3) All forms of burning fossil fuels. People will guess cars, airplanes, and other transportation. Actually our computer technology, its use, production and maintainance is one of the worst offenders. This includes Ipods, gaming (Xbox, PS2, etc), cell phones and so forth.

4) Not implementing technologies we have that would reduce our output of greenhouse gases. This would include electric cars, hybrids, light rail, among others. The trouble is the industries hang onto the older technologies because there is profit in it (a rising profit as things get worse), and we the citizens let them get away with that.

5) By prevent, I assumne you mean "reverse" as it has been going on for a century. Yes, I'll believe that until Mother Nature proves me wrong. Another way to state this question is "Do you believe it is possible for the human race to survive?" God I hope so!

6) The melting polar caps and glaciers. The sudden migration of entire species to new habitat. Sudden rediscovery of species thought extinct, or mythical. Sudden disappearance of whole species. The explosion of discovery of new species, as they leave the places where they have been hiding.

7) It's due to some very short-sighted politics by the extreme Right Wing in the USA, with support of one kind or another from industries and interests making financial profits from the conditions causing Global Warming.

8) More than anything, limit your own use of fossil fuel wherever you can. Walk instead of drive where possible. Turn off lights. Do your gardening by hand rather than using power implements.

If you think this wouldn't have an impact, let me tell you something. I heard yesterday that the average miles per gallon in Japan is 42, whereas the average in the USA is 26. Now there's no technology gap, there's just a lot of profit taking in America, with no value added. People will say, "That's easy, lets just drill for oil in the Alaskan Wildlife preserve". Those reserves are well mapped. What you would get would run the USA about a year and a half. On the other hand, raising our MPG in the USA to what the Japanese already have done would save that amount EVERY YEAR.

When you walk instead of driving you can just add those miles to the miles in your car's MPG figure, and see what happens. I think you'll be surprised. Don't let people convince you you can't make a difference. Sure walking can be a pain in the rear, such as when it rains. So the real problem we need to work on is getting rid of Leaders who allow these terrible things to go on. Peace.

Answer 2

1. Late. I think the global warming dogma will end soon.

2. Yes. It started when Jim Hanson testified on that hot summer day.

3. Al Gore, Jim Hanson, the media, $5 billion dollars....

4. Believing everything we hear on TV and repeating it.

5. No

6. Al Gore's movie, the weather channel, ABC....

7. Their ability to do their own research and not watch TV.

8. Use that magnificent tool at your fingertips to actually research the subject and search out the truth.

Answer 3

1.No,its only a natural process

2.You cant prevent anything you have no power over

3.Sun,Gamma Rays/radiation,watervapor,particulate matter

4.Nothing that is very cause and effect on a global scale(unless its a volcano or nuclear war)

5.You cant have power over something of that magnitude as we are not GOD,and we cannot account for the many variables that occur in the weather/atmospheres natural processes

6.An empty wallet,regulations on how to act and behave,and a stripping of personal rights

7.Because its a religion,its a political movement,and its a hoax

8.Nothing,but learn to adapt or die in a natural process of earth/atmosphere tempurature changes

My question for you to think about,during the stone age,The Black sea was once a fresh water lake and not connected to the Mediteranian,Ocean,water levels rose from the melting of polarcaps,yet the humans alive then survived,why?

Or,In the History of the Vikings exploration expiditions,they farmed Greenland,colonized it,then the ice and snow reclaimed Greenland,why dont people(other than historians)remember that it used to have very little snow or ice?

If your looking for a fair and balanced project,look up Dr Roy Spencer,ex Nasa climatoligist,now working at University of Alabama and see why we cant predict climate as they the consensus have told you(or should I say sold you?)

Answer 4

1)  somewhere in the middle.   but there is far more warming still to come than has already happened.

2)  as it's warming, obviously it cannot be completely prevented.  the only question now is how much warming will there be?  one might note that if we stopped adding CO2, which is largely responsible, to the atmosphere today -- that is, if we added none at all, the temp would still increase for decades to come.

3)  CO2.  methane.  deforestation.  possibly changes to the ocean environment.  POPULATION.  as earth's population increases, we change the environment that cause global warming.  eg, clear land to grow food.  raise ruminants to eat, and they produce methane.

4)  some people are just plane greedy and don't care about the rest of society.  today, that seems more true than it has been in the past.  there's an attitude of, "I'll cut back on energy use after you do" all over.

5)  no.  it's thought that the crisis in Darfur is a result of drought, brought on by global warming.  you should expect to see situations like that on a much larger scale, as population increases, and fresh water becomes more scarce.  

6)  here's one.

"Melting permafrost has already forced the government of Alaska to cut from 200 to 100 days the annual period during which oil and gas equipment is permitted to travel on the tundra."

http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/index.php...

7)  there are likely several reasons,  like

--  a "nobody's going to tell me what to do" attitude,

--  "the government's going to take my SUV away",

--  "they're going to charge $10 a gallon for gas",

--  "if we cut our use of coal and oil, then all the jobs will go to china", etc.

you might note that the energy lobby promotes all these ideas in an effort to insure that there is no change in our energy policy.  which means that their profits will continue to be quite high.

8)  for most Americans, the single largest energy use is driving.

less driving is better.

if you have 2 cars, drive the smaller.

when you need to replace a car, make efficiency a top priority.

(and you save money at the same time.)

i've installed several CF light bulbs.

in the summer, i try to cool the house off at night, and close it during the day.  i only use the AC when i know that i won't be able to cool it enough.

if you have a computer, a flat panel uses far less energy than a tube.

most of all, elect politicians that recognize, and want to act on the problem.

Answer 5

1.) it's in it's early stage but is increasing exponentially

2.) prevent? yes. halt? no.

3.) wasteful use of resources. we're putting too much out.

4.) don't think you worded this question right you can't wrongly benefit something

5.) it's already happened, there is no prevention now... just correction.

6.) polar ice caps, greenland, polar bears.

7.) theories on conspiracies our government is forming

8.) don't be wasteful. reuse your water bottles, walk to places you that are in reasonable distances, don't smoke, don't use air fresheners, open doors and windows and turn off your AC, use fuel efficient cars and energy efficient appliances

Answer 6

1.  That remains to be seen.

2.  Global warming can't be prevented.

3.  The sun.

4.  We are not affecting global warming one way or the other.

5.  No

6.  It's getting warmer.

7.  If not for global warming the planet would be covered in ice.

8.  Nothing.  Stop wasting your time worrying about it.

Answer 7

1: It's in a late stage.

2: Too late to prevent some of the effects

3: The political climate. With China rapidly increasing as a global power America does not want to risk taking environmental action that will make them vulnerable to competition. If America don't act it creates a sense of pointlessness in other countries. None of the root causes can be dealt with until this is dealt with.

4: Putting economic our own economic concerns before global concerns

5: Not prevent but delay and prepare.

6: Melting glaciers, increase in tropical storms, tornadoes in previously tornado free regions, extremes of temperature (both high and low)

7: The climate has always been changing. There have been hundreds of ice ages. However people ignore the fact that the changes taking place now are at an extremely accelerated pace. To accept that is to accept responsibility which goes against human nature.

8: Simply do what little bits you can and try to learn about topic. The more you know about it the more you can explain it. one person won't make a difference on their own but if they understand it and can explain it then they can make the difference.

Answer 8

1 Late....we're due an Ice Age in the next few thousand years

2 Man can not affect global cycles

3 The sun, and the Earth's orientation to it, cause global warming

4 Man can not affect global cycles

5 No, we can only adapt to it

6 The Great Lakes were carved and filled by glaciers

7 They don't bother sorting the facts from the fiction

8 You can't, but you can spread the truth.

Answer 9

Top 10 'Global-Warming' Myths

Posted: 02/20/2007



Compiled by Christopher Horner, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism" (Regnery -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company).

10. The U.S. is going it alone on Kyoto and global warming.

Nonsense. The U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol’s energy-rationing scheme, along with 155 other countries, representing most of the world’s population, economic activity and projected future growth. Kyoto is a European treaty with one dozen others, none of whom is in fact presently reducing its emissions. Similarly, claims that Bush refused to sign Kyoto, and/or he withdrew, not only are mutually exclusive but also false. We signed it, Nov. 11, 1998. The Senate won’t vote on it. Ergo, the (Democratic) Senate is blocking Kyoto. Gosh.

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Don’t demand they behave otherwise, however. Since Kyoto was agreed, Europe’s CO2 emissions are rising twice as fast as those of the climate-criminal United States, a gap that is widening in more recent years. So we should jump on a sinking ship?

Given Al Gore’s proclivity for invoking Winston Churchill in this drama, it is only appropriate to summarize his claims as such: Never in the field of political conflict has so much been asked by so few of so many ... for so little.

9. Global-warming proposals are about the environment.

Only if this means that they would make things worse, given that “wealthier is healthier and cleaner.” Even accepting every underlying economic and alarmist environmentalist assumption, no one dares say that the expensive Kyoto Protocol would detectably affect climate. Imagine how expensive a pact must be -- in both financial and human costs -- to so severely ration energy use as the greens demand. Instead, proponents candidly admit desires to control others’ lifestyles, and supportive industries all hope to make millions off the deal. Europe’s former environment commissioner admitted that Kyoto is “about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide” (in other words, bailing them out).

8. Climate change is the greatest threat to the world's poor.

Climate -- or more accurately, weather -- remains one of the greatest challenges facing the poor. Climate change adds nothing to that calculus, however. Climate and weather patterns have always changed, as they always will. Man has always best dealt with this through wealth creation and technological advance -- a.k.a. adaptation -- and most poorly through superstitious casting of blame, such as burning “witches.” The wealthiest societies have always adapted best. One would prefer to face a similar storm in Florida than Bangladesh. Institutions, infrastructure and affordable energy are key to dealing with an ever-changing climate, not rationing energy.

7. Global warming means more frequent, more severe storms.

Here again the alarmists cannot even turn to the wildly distorted and politicized “Summary for Policy Makers” of the UN’s IPCC to support this favorite chestnut of the press.

6. Global warming has doomed the polar bears!

For some reason, Al Gore’s computerized polar bear can’t swim, unlike the real kind, as one might expect of an animal named Ursa Maritimus. On the whole, these bears are thriving, if a little less well in those areas of the Arctic that are cooling (yes, cooling). Their biggest threat seems to be computer models that air-brush them from the future, the same models that tell us it is much warmer now than it is. As usual in this context, you must answer the question: Who are you going to believe -- me or your lying eyes?

5. Climate change is raising the sea levels.

Sea levels rise during interglacial periods such as that in which we (happily) find ourselves. Even the distorted United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports refute the hysteria, finding no statistically significant change in the rate of increase over the past century of man’s greatest influence, despite green claims of massive melting already occurring. Small island nations seeking welfare and asylum for their citizens such as in socially generous New Zealand and Australia have no sea-level rise at all and in some cases see instead a drop. These societies’ real problem is typically that they have made a mess of their own situation. One archipelago nation is even spending lavishly to lobby the European Union for development money to build beachfront hotel resorts, at the same time it shrieks about a watery and imminent grave. So, which time are they lying?

4. The glaciers are melting!

As good fortune has it, frozen things do in fact melt or at least recede after cooling periods mercifully end. The glacial retreat we read about is selective, however. Glaciers are also advancing all over, including lonely glaciers nearby their more popular retreating neighbors. If retreating glaciers were proof of global warming, then advancing glaciers are evidence of global cooling. They cannot both be true, and in fact, neither is. Also, retreat often seems to be unrelated to warming. For example, the snow cap on Mount Kilimanjaro is receding -- despite decades of cooling in Kenya -- due to regional land use and atmospheric moisture.

3. Climate was stable until man came along.

Swallowing this whopper requires burning every basic history and science text, just as “witches” were burned in retaliation for changing climates in ages (we had thought) long past. The “hockey stick” chart -- poster child for this concept -- has been disgraced and airbrushed from the UN’s alarmist repertoire.

2. The science is settled -- CO2 causes global warming.

Al Gore shows his audience a slide of CO2 concentrations, and a slide of historical temperatures. But for very good reason he does not combine them in one overlaid slide: Historically, atmospheric CO2, as often as not, increases after warming. This is typical in the campaign of claiming “consensus” to avoid debate (consensus about what being left unspoken or distorted).

What scientists do agree on is little and says nothing about man-made global warming, to wit: (1) that global average temperature is probably about 0.6 degree Celsius -- or 1 degree Fahrenheit -- higher than a century ago; (2) that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have risen by about 30% over the past 200 years; and (3) that CO2 is one greenhouse gas, some level of an increase of which presumably would warm the Earth’s atmosphere were all else equal, which it demonstrably is not.

Until scientists are willing to save the U.S. taxpayer more than $5 billion per year thrown at researching climate, it is fair to presume the science is not settled.

1. It’s hot in here!

In fact, “It’s the baseline, stupid.” Claiming that present temperatures are warm requires a starting point at, say, the 1970s, or around the Little Ice Age (approximately 1200 A.D to the end of the 19th Century), or thousands of years ago. Select many other baselines, for example, compared o the 1930s, or 1000 A.D. -- or 1998 -- and it is presently cool. Cooling does paint a far more frightening picture, given that another ice age would be truly catastrophic, while throughout history, warming periods have always ushered in prosperity. Maybe that’s why the greens tried “global cooling” first.

The claim that the 1990s were the hottest decade on record specifically targets the intellectually lazy and easily frightened, ignoring numerous obvious factors. “On record” obviously means a very short period, typically the past 100+ years, or since the end of the Little Ice Age. The National Academies of Science debunked this claim in 2006. Previously rural measuring stations register warmer temps after decades of “sprawl” (growth), cement being warmer than a pasture.

Answer 10

1) Unless we reduce our emissions rapidly, we're still in the early stages of warming.

2) It's not too late, but time is running out.  We need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050.

3) Burning fossil fuels and deforestation.

4) Not doing enough to become more energy efficient or move to alternative fuel technologies.  We're too wasteful and slow to adapt.

5) We can't prevent what's already happening, so no.  We can still prevent catastrophic climate change though.

6) Increasing temperatures, decreased ice cover, changing climate, rising sea levels, etc.

7) Accepting global warming means taking responsibility for our environmental impact and changing our behavior.  Some people are not good at either accepting personal responsibility or changing their behavior, so instead they go into denial.

8) Become more energy efficient, switch to alternative fuel technologies, travel less, etc.

Answer 11

1. At its mid stage.  The earth has been warming up for the last 150 years.  Cyclically, though, it is at its peak and should be cooling off again soon.  

2. Yup.. Nothing we can do.

3. The greatest cause (shown by scientists) is solar activity.  In fact, recent studies showed that solar activity (yup, the sun gets hotter and colder) has 27% more impact than greenhouse gases.  CO2 is a distant second.

4. Driving cars.

5. Nope.

6. Water levels rise.  In the small pacific nation of Tuvalu, they have already lost about 10% of their islands, and the soil on the main island has been screwed for farming because of rising salt water.

7. Because its sooooo slow.  The average temperature of the earth rose 0.6 degrees C over the last 80 years.  It then dropped 0.59 degrees last year.  Sure it will warm up again, but the skeptics have a case.

8.  Walk.  Don't waste electricity because it comes from really dirty coal.  Tell your dad to buy a little Korean or Japanese car instead of that SUV.

Answer 12

1. The global warming is still in its early stage, the actual disasters done by it would be seen later.

2.No, its not yet late to prevent global warming but yet means yet or otherwise it would be really late and we would have to repent.

3.Insustainable development of thehuman beings is the major cause of global warming.

4.Our wrong practices like exessive use of private vehicles making new homes by clearing the forests, using more and more pollution creating industry products,exessive use of air conditioners and refrigeratorsare some of the greatest causes of global warming.

5.Yes, only we can prevent global warming every individual on his own can do a lot to prevent it. But first of all for that we would have to give up our ego and standard and must use public vehiclesinstead of private ones because there is no use of standard if we may not have the life.

6. Every disaster occuring on the earth is the sign of global warming. Seasonal imbalance, exessive temperatures in summers, floods, droughts and submergance of islands are all the signs of global warming.

7.Some people are ignorant and they want to live in the land of dreams where everything is quite well. They don't want to accept their mistake and do not want to give up their standards.

8. Its your very good step to make these types of projects these help to increase awareness you can use the ways told by me in above questions and if anybody discourages you dont be discouraged and I am also with you in this social cause.

Answer 13

1.) Do you believe global warming is at its early or late stage?

I believe we're somewhere in the middle

2.) Do you believe it is to late to prevent global warming?

Definitely not, I do not know if we've done permanent damage yet, but as we have seen, the ozone layer is reconstructing itself, so I believe anything is possible

3.) What are some of the greatest cause of global warming?

Definitely CO2 emission!

4.) What are we as people doing wrong to benefit global warming?

People aren't aware of it or are not taking action against it...

5.) Do oyu believe it is possible for us to prevent global warming?

Definitely, by making our lives greener

6.) What are some signs of global warming?

The rising of temperature, the climate being screwed up, glaciers melting in the north, to cause flooding in low regions, therefore destroying whole countries, making animal species disappear, ETC.

7.) Why do some people still seem to not be able to accept the existence of global warming?

Because they do not see the immediate effect of it and maybe don't want to take action against it.

8.) What are some ways that I as an individual can do to help fight global warming?

By offsetting your CO2 emission, being aware of consomation, buying locally, organic, taking the bus or subway instead of a car, saving electricity, send less trash to landfill, and a bunch of little everyday actions!

Answer 14

7. We are basing all our assumptions on global warming trends on only 20 years of research and then making predictions for hundreds of years from now

also the way scientists get paid is based on the relevance of their research giving them incentive to exaggerate and over defend any theories or hypotheses they may have. not to say every scientist is doing this but their are a few who give a bad rap for the rest

Answer 15

Global warming is real. My professor Dr. Roger Opstbaum uses Venus as an example for global warming that you should use for your project. There are only two stable climates, ice age and Venus. We are in an unstable climate right now which is where we want to be. Increased greenhouse gasses will cause us to go towards Venus. Make sure you point out CO2 is only 5% of the problem while water vapor is 95% of the problem. Global warming is preventable if we start now. Solar and wind should be used for energy not chemicals because they are worse than oil for the enviornment there just cheaper. A new but good idea is burning coal which we have a lot of in this country and blowing the CO2 back in the ground (i forget what its called but i think it starts with a C). Something people can do is change temp on thermostat 1 degree, and invest in some rentable solar panels if you don't have the money to buy them. They work just like direct tv. PS. Make sure to point out HYBRID cars are bad for the enviornment. The ones you plug in get electricity from coal burning and the others emit water vapor which as i said is worse. The same goes for the new hydrogen cars, they emit water vapor.

Answer 16

1) Its in early stage

2 Its not late to prevent Global Warming. In past Human Beings lived Ice Age when the weather was only Cold and now the weather will be only hot if we do not prevent it.

3)The asnwer for your 3rd Question i have already asnwered to one person in yahoo asnwers.

4)We are polluting the atmosphere by using machinese that pollutes gases, the green gases that comes out of Vehicles. Human Population is sooo big and people want to use vehicles for their convinience and  many vehicles pollutes and other reason is factories that uses machinese that pollutes gases. All these gases makes atmosphere hot.

  In china, there are soooo many factories but now the Govt. have made strict rules so many factories have shut down and some factories are marging and they use new machinese that pollutes very less gas.

5) Yes, Everything is possible but its  just difficult.

6)Signs of Global Warming  : Artic Ocean and Antartica are the cold places on earth and these places keeps our earth cool. Due to hot weather the ice in these cold places have started melting.

  

7) Some people don't care about these problems coz they think Govt. will take care of these problems.  But many countries are already taking care of these problems.

8) I don't know where to start either.

Answer 17

1. somewhere in the middle..

2. not at all, people can still take action

3. obviously pollution and cfc(chlorofluorocarbons , commercial name is freon)

4. using products containing cfc like hairsprays and some aerosols

5. of course

6. unusual climate changes, distruption of weather patterns

7. because they never hv really taken notice of it, once the effects occur, they will wake up ... trust me :D

8. plant trees, avoid cfc products and don't litter for god's sake ..

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