I Don't Believe in Global Warming...But for those of you who do how would you suggest we stop it?

Question

Yes the average temp has increased but does that mean that we are the cause? Couldn't it just be a cycle?

Answer 1

I believe "in global warming" because I believe that there are scientists who have devoted their lives to researching something that I know very little about.  I am not skeptical, especially since we are discussing how to better our planet and our lives.  Scientific fact is that our protective layer is disappearing and our planet is getting increasingly hotter because of sun exposure.  That will eventually (probably not in our lifetime) end things as we know it.  It is like lying in the sun all day every day without something covering our skin.  

As for how to stop it...read up on environmental issues.  You have countless ways to participate in protecting our planet.

Answer 2

I would like to make this very clear that

WE CANNOT STOP GLOBAL WARMING

WE CAN JUST MAKE IT DELAY FOR SOME 5-10 YEARS .(MAX)

Answer 3

Do exactly what we are working on currently.

Methods are being developed currently, so businesses can recycle their waste they create, which instead of costing them money it is actually pushing their profits up.

We are working on designing more sustainable methods of creating energy out of waste, and more efficient nuclear reactors to produce hydrogen for fuel.

On a personal level...

-get out of the habit to litter

-use energy saving methods to save on your utility bills

-recycle

Funny how people will believe in Jesus because of the consequences of not believing, but those same people will deny global warming instead of taking an "error on the side of caution" stance on the issue.

Answer 4

We can all kill ourselves so that the rocks and dirt will be happy.

Answer 5

Suppose we are not the cause, does this mean we have to remain believing the possibility that it is only a cycle? That still remain a possibility, remember. We cannot stop global warming if many are not willing to give his or her full cooperation in the solution making process and most especially if many do not pay too much attention to believing its existence.

Answer 6

GW is a myth. We as human beings have only been measuring weather and temp for about a hundred years (minuscule time in earths historical standards). Our tech is still of the mark most of the time. Does anyone think we really have an accurate measure of what is really going on? And don't get me started about how higher temps actually lead to ice ages. Sheesh!

Answer 7

Actually you don't need to believe in Global Warming to still do something about it - most of the suggestions for reducing GW are also good for you as an individual - a cleaner environment, a healthier lifestyle and costs less.

The biggest myth that GW-doubters put forward is the cyclical nature of temperature variations on this planet - yes, the temperature does vary, not in an exact cycle but with some periodicity. What it does NOT do naturally, however, is change very rapidly - natural fluctuations in temperature occur over thousands of years. Recent fluctuations have occured in centuries or decades and directly correlate to increases in CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.

Two other big myths:

1 - That you have to measure something directly for it to be true. Not so! Gravity is true but no one measures it directly (we measure its effect, same as for global temperature).

2 - We have "only" added 300 billion tons (yes, billion!) of carbon into the atmosphere in the last 300 years - this is very small compared to the atmosphere as a whole and cannot affect anything.

These people have never heard of the expression "the straw that broke the camel's back" or "the drop that caused the bucket to overflow". If someone is standing on one leg, they are 'balanced' and can be perfectly at ease but it doesn't take much for them to be pushed over and hurt themselves...

Answer 8

We all should stop eating, breathing, and anything else that could hurt the planet.

Answer 9

I don't believe in Global Warming either.  However I do believe that we can do our part to keep our planet cleaner.  To make significant change, we need to be uncomfortable in some aspect of our lives, which many of us are too spoiled to do.  For example, joining a carpool or using public transportation to get to and from work aren't appealing ideas, and can be uncomfortable for one to adapt to, but it is one piece of what can be done.  Recycling is a pain...wash the bottles and jars before I put them out?  too much trouble so I will just toss them or put them in the recycling bin dirty, which by the way fouls up the whole load if not caught.  But it is so easy to do when you get used to doing it, and almost everything is recylcable these days.  Those are just a couple of ideas to help cut pollution, there are many more out there to choose from, you just have to be open to the ideas.

Answer 10

Don't you just love the argument that this is a quicker change that what happens naturally. Know one knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that that's true.

Ice Cores - Tree rings. Give me a break you might as well be reading tea leaves.

It's natural for our planet to go through changes just like it's natural to have Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall. Same holds true on a Global Scale. It just takes longer for the changes to occur.

People also try to show a false chart trying to claim the Medieval Warm Period wasn't as warm as what we are experiencing today and they also make the Little Ice age appear to be not as cold as it was. Basically making it appear flat so this mini up trend of .6 degree Celsius spike in temperature appears more dramatic than it really is.

All I can say is people better wake up and realize they can't do a darn thing about it.

Answer 11

No, it cannot "just be a natural cycle"  You are making the mistake of assuming that because global warming can occur  naturally, this is the case now. Did it ever occur to you that scientists just might, after years of study and training, be smart enough to check that possibility? Or that maybe, just maybe, they know a bit more about the subject than a drug addict like Rush Limbaugh?

Here are the facts: normally the Earth is  in a state of temperature equilibrium (like a balanced see-saw.  It doesn't take a massive change to shift that equilibrium, causing the earth's temperature to change.  Now, we know many possible causes--from a decline in volcanic activity to shifts in ocean currents, and several other things. Scientists checked all these possibilities. And they found two changes--and ONLY two. One is an increase in CO2 (the greenhouse gas acting like a blanket keeping heat in) and deforestation. Deforestation is directly caused by human activities--not even the fake "skeptics" paid by the oil companies argue with that one.  As for CO2, scientists checked all the possible natural sources for changes. And found none. The increase is due to em missions from burning fossil fuels.

END OF DEBATE.  These are proven facts--there is no debate and there is no "believe" or "disbelieve"--just knowledge or ignorance.

Now--how do stop it?  Two things--first, that won't happen overnight.  And as a result, even if we could do everything that needs to be done overnight, we would have some global warming for several decades while the Earth heals (which it will, in time).

Stopping global warming is a very straightforward proposition: stop using fossil fuels and shift to alternative energy. The stumbling block isn't technology--we have that in the form of nuclear, solar, tidal, wind, geothermal, and bio-fuel technology. Most of which is CHEAPER tan oil, coal, and natural gas. The obstacles are twofold.

One is ignorance--a lot of people who don't understand science or technology (and are so proud of their ignorance they think  they don't need to learn) and so can't imagine any way to live but to run around in a SUV that is bankrupting them with it's appetite for gas.

The other is the special  interests who keep putting out false information and capitalizing on that ignorance.  You have to wonder how gullible people can get when they assume a oil company lobbyist censoring scientific documents for the White House (that's NOT hype--if you don't know about it you haven't been watching the news the last two years) are better qualified to judge the science than people who have spent decades studying climate.

You "don't believe" in global warming?  Nice.  Where did you get your Ph.D. in meteorology?  What is your evidence?  Do you know how to handle the mathematics involved?

Global warming is real. Get over it. And can be stopped. It sin't beig stopped--because special interests  are blocking change--and YOU are paying for it every time you fill your gas tank.

Answer 12

I believe in global warming I just don't care though.

Answer 13

No because we are currently in the warming of the cycle. We have been in this cycle for 10000 years. And according to ice cores, that is about as long as natural cycles go. So we should be entering an ice age not a warm period. I feel the skepticism about global warming is not from logic, it is from fear. Fear that there is a serious problem. So instead of dealing with this, they say it is false.

Answer 14

Man-made global warming is a myth and more people are beginning to see the truth of it. The kids who are taught mostly in the government run public schools are taught to fear global warming so changing their minds is not an easy task.

The global warming jargon are purposefully full of half truths that make separation of fact from fiction a hard sell.

The easiest one is that the Earth is warming. True, but man has nothing to do with it.

The temperature increases because of the increase in CO2.  

(False) The increase in temperature increases the temperatures of the seas which decreases the capacity of sea water to hold CO2.

Man is contributing more CO2 into the environment and this is causing the temperature to rise. False. Natural events such as rotting bio-mass, volcanoes, and the oceans spew thousands of times more CO2 into our atmosphere than we are capable of with our present day technology.

The same arguments are used to blame global warming on just about any natural disaster recorded. Tornados are not caused by heat, they form when a cold mass of air is present. The ozone layer is not being destroyed by man. If this was the case, it would have long since been destroyed by volcanoes.

Answer 15

The first step will be to kill all the non-believers.

XD

Answer 16

Yes, all those who believe in global warming should read this.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/...

It's the sun, NOT the humans.

Answer 17

I'm with you girl because global warming is built on lies and deception and i'm glad you saw that it is just blamed on man because they want us to feel guilty and buy certain products!

Answer 18

Amen! The Earth naturally evolves and so things are constantly changing.  I just heard that the Polar Ice Cap has enlarged?

Answer 19

Die.

That's really it, don't believe me? read the c**p in their own words.

http://vhemt.org/

Answer 20

We have gone past the point of no return unless we can build improvements to assist in reflecting light away from the earth.

First you have to understand how long the earth has been storing up the fossil fuels. The coal, oil and natural gas that we are using now are products of the earth converting plants and animals into their present forms over (often) millions of years. They have been stored now for millions of years without being used until now. By being used now, we are converting these fuels from stored carbon, into released carbon. Thus allowing this released carbon to act as a greenhouse effect gas again.

Since we are talking about a situation where the Earth once had a lot of stored carbon and now that stored carbon is disappearing at a tremendous rate (and will continue into the future) We can be truthful in saying that there is a definite trend, and relationship in the increase of greenhouse gasses. We can also say that these greenhouse gasses would not have been released without the intervention of man. Logically therefore we can say that global warming gasses have been released and any global warming increases are directly attributed to mankind’s releasing them.

The damage done by increased greenhouse emissions has already taken its toll. This is evident by the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. Some will say that there is no such thing as global warming, because there is in their opinion very little change in the average global temperature. However when you take into account the fact that there is less ice, and snow, because of the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. That melted ice, snow and glaciers across the globe will in themselves temporarily lower the overall ocean temperatures untill they all melt. Thereby lowering the average temperatures on the earth. So if you account for that, the temperature can be proven to be increasing.

We cannot get the world back the way it was, even as of fifty years ago, much less stop the damage that will still occur in the future. Sure we could try to stop all industry that will cause pollution, but at what cost. Without industry we could not sustain the present world population. Giving up industry and sacrificing billions of people on this planet in the process, is not a viable solution (even trying to merely lower greenhouse emissions is at best a temporary solution).

The biggest problem we have now is not just the fact that we have more greenhouse gasses trapping heat in, but we are getting less and less sunlight being reflected out from the planet. As the snow cover melts from more and more of the planets surface, the sunlight heats up more parts of the earth that once reflected light back out. It is like a dog chasing its tail (until it gets dizzy and falls from exhaustion). As global warming just keeps building on itself till the ecological balance fails, and this planet will no longer sustain the teeming human populations.

Greenhouse effect cure (there are no real cures but this may help till we can find one). First I want to point out that there are no real, viable short term, or easy methods of curing our Global warming woes. The damage to the environment has already been done and is, for all intent and purposes, basically irreversible. It is likely, however, that any type of plan to get rid of Global warming, will require some type of dramatic ecological compromises.

Some will say that all we need to do is give up industry on the planet and the world will eventually go back to the way it was. I say it is too late for that solution (as a short term solution anyway).

My plan, however, will require the use of old tires and recycled plastics. Of course it will require some engineering feats also, and a few ecological compromises. The benefits of using these wasted products will far outweigh the compromises required.

My idea is to build large floating islands (white on top, to reflect sunlight back out of our planet) made from used tires (filled with co2) and recycled plastics. Yes there are engineering and ecological problems, but everyone has to admit there are worse problems in our current situation. So the only feasible solution is to build a bunch of artificial reflection "islands" across the planet.

There will be other benefits realized, once we build enough of these islands. One of the problems associated with the increased temperatures we are experiencing is the possibility of increased hurricane intensity and frequency. Having enough of these floating islands in strategic points in the oceans will help to alleviate this problem also. It is a well known fact that hurricanes form in areas of the ocean where the temperature rises above approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If we can keep those areas below that temperature (by reflecting sunlight away), we can prevent the formation of hurricanes. Without these floating islands, hurricanes will probably continue to increase in intensity and frequency…

We need a solution to deal with our Global warming woes, and we need it now. Even if this is a difficult path to follow, it will pay off in the future. The overall problems I see for Greenhouse effect is that we can go green all we want, but Global warming and our constant desire to be comfortable, will eventually undermine any efforts we may do. Unless we can get rid of some of the excess heat in this world, we will always be under the eventual threat of a thermal overheating demise.

Answer 21

dejavu...

global warming has already happened and is in the process of continuing to happen, and if all ELSE fails, IT will kill us. I give it 4 years max...the extinction of mankind that is. global warming could take hundreds of years of miserable deterioration to actually wipe "us" off the map. but I believe that we will guarantee or own demise far before then. :)