Global warming..thoughts..?

Question

I have a project due in one week and i am supposed to gether opions about glbal warming and the effects if u have any effects at all it will be helpful..the longest most helpful answer will be chosen best,!

Answer 1

I'm in FL.  It's normally a warm state, granted.  BUT!  It was 85 degrees last Friday.

The 22nd of FEBRUARY!!

I visited New York, at the beginning of January.  There was as much snow on the ground then as I remember from my childhood in October or November.  I'd say "Oh well" accept it was the fisrt snow they'd had all year and it was only a dusting.

I'm not a scientist.  But I FEEL global warming on a daily basis.  

Every day when it's too hot to open the windows of my house.  When I'm forced to turn on the a/c because it's so freaking hot & I'm covered in sweat.  DURING THE WINTER!!

I expect it in summer.  Not winter.

"Why are snow storms getting heavier if there is global warming?"  Because our weather patterns are changing.  

The planet is set up in temporate zones.  The lines are becoming blurred.  

Like I said, I'm not a scientist, but, there is evidence the ocean currents are shifting; perhaps the taller buildings that act as mountain ranges are effecting the jet stream as well.  And the 2 ARE related.

Visit weather.com some time and look at thier map "Departure from average High/Low Temp"  In the Mid-West it's an average of 20 degrees colder, while the entire Eastern seaboard is an average of 15 degrees warmer.

It may be a normal phase of change on the planet as we spin on our axis w/in the universe.  But it may be our fault too.  

"During the days of dinosaurs, the Earth had it's highest atmosphereic CO2 concentrations.  The Earth was able to bury it all under layers and layers of clean Earth.

Until we dug it up and burned it.  Releasing it all once again."  -National Geographic

To who ever said "Tempurature has only changed 1 degree:  The difference between freezing and thawing is 1 degree.

Answer 2

were gonna die!

Answer 3

today was perfect weather

Answer 4

I don't know, but i'll tell you what, I am sick of these snow storms we've been getting up here in Maine! Twice a week, 6-8 inches for the past 2 months. I WISH global worming were real!!

Answer 5

The earth temperature is balanced by solar radiation (UV) emitted by the sun and infrared radiation that is reflected/released from the earth. These two lights will balance the earth temperature. However, there are the greenhouse gases. There are five major greenhouse gases; Nitrogen oxide (NOx), Carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and methane (CH4). These gases trap the infrared but still allow allow the UV to penetrate in. This imbalance of lights causes the earth temperature to rise, ie global warming. There are other causes of global warming but this is the strongest point I could think of.

The effects of global warming is rising of sea level due to melting of ice in the Arctic which could lead to flooding. The ozone layer will also be depleted since the greenhouse gases will only let the UV light in. Apart from that is sudden changes in weather/extreme weather events because of the temperature rise.

Answer 6

global warming is cyclical..I did art history studies .. and saw where artists painted various areas over the centuries. These paintings of industry areas were nothing compared to the areas around volcanoes during eruptions. The volcanoes produced long term heating and pollution..

Studying cartography.. maps.. several places we have built homes were once under water and now have gone dry in the past.. people placed there homes and now they are submerging again..erosion happens..

those are small examples.. greater examples are found in ice core samples..past animal adaptations..climate changes..

the continents divided.. ecosystems changed with and without mankind's presence..we could be speeding it up in some areas like south america and africa and in some places we could be slowing it down..

but climate change is inevitable with or with out us.. the dinsosaurs certainly would agree.

Answer 7

bogus

Answer 8

Why I'm not buying this man-made global warming myth:

The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don't trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.

Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.

Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don't seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.

The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?

It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.

It wasn't all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age?

How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that's frightening.

Because that famous "hockey stick" graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods ... left them off the graph altogether.

The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world's biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.

The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world's dominant capitalist economies.

Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.

Because global warming "activists" and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.

What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?

Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying "we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?"

Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?

In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.

There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.

Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ice mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.

Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.

Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.

Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.

During the last 20 years -- a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels -- global temperatures have actually decreased. That's right ... decreased.

Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?

Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?

Answer 9

check out the Arctic, it is melting at a very fast rate and it is expected that within 10 years there will be no ice on the water there in the summer time. This also will affect the polar bears, they may not be around for your grandchilldren to see in the wild...

Answer 10

I like Dennis's view on this subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruuux4AuH...