Global warming.. seems like nothing is being done about it?

Question

Is anything being done about global warming currently, apart from watching Al Gore's movie and seeing what usa is trying to do, i dont see anything being done in my country.. how long are they waiting for?

Answer 1

"Is anything being done"... well, yes and no.

Europe has a system of tradeable GHG permits.  Companies which fall under the permit system must keep their emissions below their cap, or buy permits from others.  Companies emitting less than their cap can sell permits for cash.  It was found that regulators were issuing far more permits than they should, so the market value of the permits collapsed.

There are also some scams going on.  Companies in e.g. China which work with refrigerants (strong GW agents) have been paid to install "afterburners" to prevent leaks from getting into the atmosphere.  This is good, but the payments amount to far more than the cost of the afterburner.  It's just become a way for some Chinese to collect European cash for doing nothing (there has to be some corrupt influence there somewhere).

Meanwhile the USA and Australia have no real programs at all, and China is due to surpass the US as the world's top emitter of CO2 this year.

This policy gridlock suits the interests of people who make their money from the mining of fossil carbon and putting it in the atmosphere:  Peabody Energy (formerly Peabody Coal), Exxon-Mobil and especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  They appear to have veto power over US government policy, and will until they are vigorously opposed.

Answer 2

they are not waiting but simply ignoring the threat to life as it will be expensive and a loss incurring project for any country to undergo such a project

Answer 3

The theory of man-made global warming is false.  Anyone who believes otherwise has not investigated the evidence or is purposely remaining ignorant to the legitimate opposition to global warming.  I have given up an one and a half hours to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” so I ask you to do the same and watch the movie detailing the opposition.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...  

Another general resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...

CO2 is not causing the globe to warm the opposite is true, the warming is increasing the atmospheric CO2.  When the world heats it gradually increases the temperature of the oceans which serve as the largest CO2 sink.  As the oceans heat up they release CO2 which is stored in them.  The information comes from the same data Al Gore uses, the temperature always goes up before the concentration of CO2 goes up.

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...

CO2 makes up only .03% of our atmosphere.  Water vapor, another greenhouse gas, makes up 1-4% of our atmosphere, this gas is acknowledged to be the main greenhouse gas.  All human activities combined contribute only 6 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.  Animals, through respiration, decomposition, etc contribute 150 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere.  So humans contribute only a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which is already in very small concentrations in the atmosphere.

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science.html This is where my data came from, it is an interesting site, it displays the same graphics as Al Gore in his movie but it tells how low the human contribution is.  So Al Gore is using the same data but coming to a different conclusion, who do you want to believe a politician with no scientific training or the NASA CO2 laboratory, a group of scientists who spend their entire careers studying CO2.

We know the greenhouse effect is real it is a necessary effect to keep our planet at a habitable temperature.  However if our current warming is due to greenhouse gasses it would cause warming in the troposphere , but the troposphere is actually getting cooler.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... That points to other explanations to our current warming.

So what is causing our current warming, it is the sun.

http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/s...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...

The fact that only the earth’s surface is warming points to direct heating from the sun rather than heating due to greenhouse gasses.  Also other planets in our solar system are warming pointing to a common cause of warming, that common cause being the sun.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

The global warming crowd says our glaciers are melting and animals will suffer this is another false claim.

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2Sci...

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA235.htm...

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

the global warming crowd also claims a scientific consensus on the issue, this is wrong in two ways.  One, there is no consensus, this is a false claim to make you believe in global warming by suppressing the opposition.  http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

Second, even if there was a consensus it would mean nothing, science is not politics, you don’t vote on theories to determine their legitimacy.

The IPCC is the main supporter of global warming, their statements are defended blindly by people who don’t want to admit that global warming is not real.  People will claim that they took into account natural sources of CO2, they didn’t.  Take a look for yourself:

http://www.ipcc.ch/activity/srccs/index....  That is the latest IPCC report, read the entire report, do a search of the documents, there is absolutely no mention of natural sources of CO2.  The natural sources have been completely ignored.  Also people will claim that the IPCC took the sun into account in their report, this is not entirely correct, while the sun is mentioned the report it’s effects have not been accurately represented.

http://www.john-daly.com/forcing/moderr....  The IPCC did not take into account the Svensmark factor.  This would greatly reduce the effect of solar radiation on the earth.  Look back up to the solar resources to see the effect of the sun correctly represented.

Also allegations have been by IPCC scientists who disagreed with the IPCC statements.  They say that their research was censored or taken out of the IPCC report.  This is not the first time the IPCC has lied, they forged the famous “hockey stick” graph, which later resulted in a reissuing of the IPCC report.

Quotes form politicians, CEO’s, and others are not proof of global warming, they issue these statements to get votes and customers.  Scientists are able to get published and get time on the media by supporting global warming.  The IPCC continually lies and misrepresents data so they keep their jobs.  

In regards to the precautionary principle that says we can only help if we switch over to alternative energy, this idea is not correct.  While this may seem legitimate it only helps the first world, third world countries can not afford to switch to the more expensive energy options.  Also the US currently spends 4 billion dollars a year on global warming research which could be better spent on research for disease or to fight poverty.  For an excellent example of how the precautionary principle is harmful you do not need to look further than DDT.  This pesticide was cheap and incredibly effective but it was banned because of it harmful effects on egg shells.  Now thousands of people die every year in third world countries because of malaria, a disease that could be easily controlled with DDT.

I hope anyone who believes in global warming they will take a look at the resources I provided.  These resources should convince you that global warming is not man-made, it is caused by cycles in the earths climate.  If you are not convinced I hope you at least take a new look at global warming as an unproven idea.  Remember that global warming is big business for anyone who aligns themselves with it.

I could not go this entire post without mentioning global cooling.  In the 1970’s it was claimed that there was a consensus on the fact that the world was headed into an ice age.  We have seen once before how damaging a false claim about our climate change can be to our world.  Most of the global warming crowd does not want you to know about this scare because it is so similar to the scare today.  Government panels were formed and claimed the world was headed to an ice age, evidence poured in supporting the claim, a consensus was claimed, then the whole issue just faded away.  That is what will happen with the false scare of global warming.

Answer 4

The UN report on GW said that no matter what we do or don't do its going to be around for a millienium.  So there is no point in a lot of silly knee jerk "fixes" like walking 20 miles to work every day, or running out and buying an expensive new hybrid car.  The best thing to do is to study the issue from all technical points of view and ignore the sloganeering and public posturing from movie stars and politicians whose fortunes still are derived from the oil industry.  If you are insistent on making a difference and a personal statement, then be prepared to spend $10,000 on a solar PV cell system that would be good enough to completely disconnect your home from the public power grid.

And one final note...."awareness" isn't going to save one molecule of CO2 from being loosed into the atmosphere.

Answer 5

public op pinion has changed from the 1980s when this subject was a joke till now when people are stopping to really start asking whats going on with this weather and could this be connected to global warming.people around the world have been talking and writ ting about global warming in french and German but it has not been a positive subject for the American media.most people that i meet on the internet are very aware of this subject.

Answer 6

you're right...everyone's apathetic; they all spend their time trolling the internet and asking dumb questions and giving dumb answers on yahoo! answers.

case in point...meeeh

Answer 7

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

Answer 8

No matter what, the Earth is still going to keep warming.  Even if we make a few slight changes, we will barely even see a difference.