How bad is global warming really?

Question

Do you think its going to get worse? Get better? Do you think people will realize how bad global warming is?

Answer 1

global warming is at it's initial stages, there is as yet rather small damage caused by GW, but it is going to become far worse.

Answer 2

ANTHONY

Looks like you have you eyes open. Can’t say that about to many people in society today. Most of us walk around with blinders until a catastrophe hits, then we wake up pretty quick. Unfortunately we go blind again a few months later…

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.

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

http://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 http://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 3

Really bad. I don't think people relaize how bad it is. They are just  waiting for the government to do something about it, while they put their feet up.

Everybody has to work together to solve this problem and somebody has to start.

It would get better if we start to get a bit eco-friendly.

Hope people would listen and start putting plans into action.

:)

Answer 4

of course its not going to get better beeezy.

its just going to get worse

Answer 5

Im afraid people will never understand there fate in global warming....They dont see that the future of Them depend on global warming.

Answer 6

I really don't think it is bad.

I think the variations in temperature (if there really is one)

could be due to solar flares (the sun doesn't burn at a constant temperature does it?)

Also consider a country like "Greenland"...it is now ice covered...but before it must have been green (thus the name "GREENland"...which means it must have been warmer back then so things would grow and be GREEN...which means it is actually colder there now than it used to be....which to me means that the temperatures are going down ---not up.

To me the "global warming" frenzy in the mass media almost seems like a coverup to distract people from the much colder temperatures trend.

Answer 7

did you know that thousands of years ago...the planet was actually hotter than it is now....and thats fact...so draw onto your own conclusions, i dont think its as bad as they say it is...BUT saying that....i think that lowing pollution is a good thing

Answer 8

I hate it when people post a 5000 page essay as a answer on here. Global warming is c**p... even if it was true there is nothing anyone can do about it cutting co2 and going green does nothing

And many people on here say omg its going to get worse! how many global warmings have they been threw?

Global warming is complete bull ****

Answer 9

It's creepy if you think about what will happen with global warming in a couple of years, especially if your a kid.......

Answer 10

Al Gore is an idoit. Global warming does not exist!!!!

Answer 11

Global warming is so bad that it has covered the world and griping it in fear that some one else will ask the same question about Global warming