If you live on an island, would you be concerned about global warming?

Question

If you live on an island, would you be concerned about global warming?

Answer 1

yes, and everyone that doesn't agree is an idiot!....global warming is melting the polar icecaps and therefore causing the oceans to rise......which means after a little while bye bye islands! you don't have to listen to me but don't listen to them....they are obviously not well educated......WE CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING.......and we should....it's killing us.....and all of these people are going to realize it AFTER the ozone layer is gone and we're dead....that's too late...

Answer 2

Nah, just worry about bringing sand into the house, that's about it.

Answer 3

If that island is surrounded by ocean, you bet you should.  If you're not you're not up on the science of the globe.

Answer 4

I live on an island, I am not concerned about global warming. Even at worst case ocean level rises the slowest of creatures will be able to move.  It is only the stubborn creatures that refuse to move that have to worry. I am concerned more about oil running out, living on an island most goods are imported and are very expensive. When the oil goes everyday products will become unavailable unless we find a new power source for shipping.

Answer 5

More so than if I lived in continental territory.

Answer 6

No definitely not. The only thing you need to be concerned about is how much is your government going to charge you in taxes to try and coerce you into not burning fossil fuels,and the billions that will be spent trying to come up with an alternative fuel. All the while millions if not billions are starving wile we turn good food into fuel. Also since the middle of the second world war if not before governments US and possibly UK have had the technology in the form of magnetic motors that require no input of fuel at all and will run forever at zero cost. Quite obviously if they let the cat out of the bag it would destabilise governments worldwide,but surely a gradual introduction could have happened by now. See http://www.gammamanager.com/index.html

Answer 7

Other than switching to safe methods of spraying stuff, I'm not worrying about it much now, and I don't live on an island. One good volcanic eruption creates more ozone depleting gasses than all the history of mankind. I've got more pertinent things to worry about, like paying bills, raising kids, etc.

Answer 8

Tuvalu isn't sinking.

Answer 9

Last time I checked, every land mass on this planet is surrounded on all sides by water if you look far enough...we all live on islands.  With that being said, I am not concerned about a natural 1 or 2 degree increase in the average global temperature over the next hundred years.

Answer 10

Nope

Answer 11

For a large part of the year I do live on an island and I am not.  There are people who have been living there for a long time and they claim that the beach is actually expanding.

Answer 12

No, The surf would be awesome.

Answer 13

I live on an island and am not the least bit concerned about global warming.  The earth goes through cycles, both colder and warmer and it is something we have no control over ,so, why worry about it!!??

Answer 14

absolutly worry about it.  whoever tells you global warming is a myth or that it isn't going to effect  your life, is not informed.

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Answer 15

Not at all.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.