If there was no global warming,...?

Question

would you still be concerned about the environment and want to take good care of it?

Answer 1

What does that mean? “Take care of the environment

I was born naturally, my life is a natural presence here, and nothing I do is un-natural.

Our increasing numbers and use of resources is natural as nature has allowed us to do these things. If the temperature of this planet changes as a result of our presence, this also natural and perhaps a good thing. We are to limited in our views to really have a clue.

Answer 2

Even a dog won't p**p in his own dog house!

As we evolve as modern human beings it is natural to learn from mistakes and try to keep our country as clean as possible!  We don't need any any "global warming - climate change" to make it so!

Besides, the fear of "Global Warming" is just a method to control Western countries, to bring down their economies, in particular America, to keep us in our place!  In the last 10 years the earth really didn't get much warmer at all!  That's why global warming is now being called CLIMATE CHANGE!  

Our Earth has had 10's of thousands of CLIMATE CHANGES in our past - this is just one more of event that is a normal cycle we go through!

Answer 3

No!...

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

I've always been concerned about the environment. All this "Go Green" movement does to me lately is p**s me off, due to how commercialized this has become. It's like sports figures doing good deeds that are televised. Can't they do these things without a camera rolling? (I know most of them can and most people do the right things automatically with out it being shoved down our throats.)

Answer 6

Absolutely---------- I have no issue with all efforts to provide clean air, clean water, and remediation and/or control of toxic waste disposal.

As you are aware the USA spends billions of dollars each year on the environment. EPA's budget for 2009 is 7.1 billion dollars and they employ over 17,000 people--- this does not include other Federal or state environmental agencies.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf...

Answer 7

Environmental protection has been around for decades, long before man made global warming was thought up.  Ever hear of acid rain?  Hear of a portion of Lake Erie catching fire due to high pollution levels in 1969.  We have been bettering our world with clean air bills, clean water bills for some time.  CO2 is not a pollutant.  If it were we should all stop breathing to stop global warming.

Answer 8

Honestly, it probably wouldn't come to mind... but yes I am very concerned about the environment and I want to take good care of it.

Answer 9

Check out George Carlin's stand up about mother Earth.  It will explain all.

Answer 10

About the same way I try to avoid dirt getting onto my dinner plate.  I like drinking clean water and breathing clean air.  I also enjoy seeing trees, rivers, and lakes without litter and pollution ruining the view.

Answer 11

Of course.  There is no global warming but that doesn't mean we should pollute and damage the earth any more than we have to.  But we shouldn't go crazy over it either.  Most people are good at being at least a little bit 'green'.

Answer 12

Of course! We should always be grateful and treat our planet with respect. It's disgusting they way people have treated our planet and the way many still do. Are they stupid?!

Answer 13

Even if I felt there is global warming and that we can not stop it, I would still be environmentally concerned, and I would still want to conserve our fossil fuels.

Conserving our fossil fuels is important for other reasons. Even if we have an infinite supply of fossil fuels, we would eventually use up all of our oxygen. I know, we assume that plants will convert our CO2 and water into oxygen. But note that our plants are not keeping up with our production of CO2, presumably because they are not getting enough water.

Our environment is critically important to us all.

Answer 14

Yes I would.

It doesn't matter whether global warming is man made or just a cycle in the earth's history .... it is happening. Between solar processes or natural earth processes such as volcanoes and the ever present forest fires which will be argued to have occurances whether or not mankind were present. It still just doesn't matter how it is happening, it is.

FACT: "Atmospheric levels of CO2 are determined by how much coal, natural gas and oil we burn and how many trees we cut down, as well as by natural processes like plant growth. Atmospheric levels of water vapor, on the other hand, cannot be directly controlled by people; rather, they are determined by temperatures. The warmer the atmosphere, the more water vapor it can hold. As a result, water vapor is part of an amplifying effect. Greenhouse gases like CO2 warm the air, which in turn adds to the stock of water vapor, which in turn traps more heat and accelerates warming."

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1011

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.

We can also try to get more people to use reflecting surfaces on buildings (which will be as difficult to do, as no one likes to have to do things exactly the same as everyone else).

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 15

Kris

there is not global warming, it is a method of controlling people, telling them what they can drive, what they can buy, it is a lie, it is socialism at its worst!

we need to take care of the earth for it is the only one we have, not because of lies and fraud.

how are you?