Ok, I am now convinced of Global Warming. Now the question: What of it?

Question

I know, some ppl are getting low on buisness because of it, but it winds up being a blessing to the rest of us. I live in Central Maine. And it was nice to NOT have extreme temps this winter. It saved on oil. Any ohter problems I didn't know aobut? If so what's my part? What do I do about it?

Answer 1

Excellent! There are many other problems associated with Global Warming than just the changes in weather. Do a Yahoo! search on Global Warming and you will be directed to many many sites that can explain different problems that Global Warming causes.

On to what you can do...

Now you can move on to helping others understand it! By sharing your experience and thoughts on the issue you can educate others and that will cause more awarness and create more innovations for the solutions that we need to help our environment!

Obviously the first step is to start with yourself. Reduce your consumption and your contribution to the problem.

1. Walk more...drive less... get an alternative fuel vehicle or convert your own!

2. ask for paper bags and don’t use plastic... Plastic is a petroleum product (oil!)

Better yet... use re-usable canvas bags! Not only does this reduce the amount of disposable material that is consumed it also reduces the amount of disposable material that will end up in a landfill!

Did I mention that MOST grocery stores also PAY you to use your re-usable canvas bags?! WIN-WIN!

Albeit a small payment of usually 5 cents but hey!... that was 5 cents I got back in MY pocket!!!!

3. Of course you can also recycle and re-use. I try to re-use what ever I can or try to utilize some thing for at least two purposes. This also saves me money! I so love having more money in my pocket!!

4.Clean up litter. I know it isn’t fun because it is work to clean but the feeling you get afterwards is pretty rewarding. Every time my children and I go camping in a National Park we visit the Visitor Center and sign up for the Jr. Ranger program. Part of the program is to pick up litter in the park. You are provided with the bags...grabbers...gloves etc and then you return to trash to the visitor center and get a patch signifying that you have become a Jr. Ranger. This brings an element of bragging rights to the Jr. Ranger and a sense of contribution to a greater good. My son loves the attention he gets from this accomplishment. So it provides positive reinforcement of a positive healthy behavior and discourages the un-healthy (and dirty!) habit of littering!

A sense of pride is a great prize to obtain for your noble work!

Okay...I could go on and on about ways that I try to be "green" and help the Earth but why don't you visit: http://events.yahoo.com/earthday07/

They have loads of ideas and ways to go about them!

Answer 2

http://www.godandscience.org/images/carb...

http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM107/Glob...

check out the co2 world emissions report this year. Originally, the warming trend will give a 10-15% increase in crop yield within the next 10 years, but then comes massive drouts, changing weather paterns, extinct or migrating species who have lost their habitat (though that only applies to animals since plants cannot migrate), flooding, and all the things that come with flooding and famine: disease, destruction, degeration. Global scientists literally walked out of the Global CO2 emmissions committee becauses the reps. from Saudi Arabia were trying to manipulate the 90% confidence level (as in how confident they were that the stats are correct. "Oh, maybe just 70%, hmmm?") scientists say that it is all possible to reverse, if we start now and act fast.

Answer 3

Global Warming is totaly a fake. i mean look at the u.s it has been freezing just about everywhere for about a week . Maybe we should have a Global Freezing??

Answer 4

Strange weather?  The weather is not strange.  The only thing normal about weather is that it changes.  That has been changing for millions of years.  During the medieval times and the Vikings the weather was much warmer than what it is today.   So much warmer that there was a thriving settlement in Greenland were they even grew grapes.  Here is a link: http://www.archaeology.org/online/featur...

Do you know why they are now calling it climate change?  Because temperatures have been falling since 1998.  So when the evidence does not fit the hypothesis, they change the hypothesis.  Now they can blame global warming on everything.  As  Huxley said, “The great bane of science; a beautiful hypothesis destroyed by an ugly fact."

Answer 5

its alot more searous than people know it is it kills and it will kill no matter what we say or do but we can slow it down which we need to because we are destoying our earth and if anyone tells you other wize they are stupid.

lacy

ps.and the reason there was not a change in maine was beacause its effecting the places that are not supposed to hot like antartica when big ice sheets like that melt flordia will be under water and i live on an island of sc and my home would be totally underwater.

Answer 6

You support things like fuel efficiency standards for automobiles.  You oppose construction of fossil fuel burning plants that lack plans for carbon sequestration.

Yes, warmer winters will be nice, for awhile.  Eventually you're going to have to fight swarms of immigrants from more southern lattitudes, migrating to escape deserts and rising sea levels.  One hundred million people stand to starve in Bangladesh, some 40 or 50 years from now.  But who gives a d**n about them?  If any of them had a l**k of sense to begin with, they would have been born American, same as us.

So what convinced you?  The overwhelming evidence?  The numerous careful scientific models?  Or the political chicanery of multinational energy conglomerates?

For me, I knew global warming was occurring when the evidence showed that each of the last nine years have been among the hottest 25 since we began keeping records.  Another bit of evidence that supported a manmade cause for global warming is the fact that careful and precise measurements of atmospheric carbon levels have doubled in the last 50 years.  Volcanic activity, one very small source of total atmospheric carbon, has not suddenly increased so much in the last 50 years to account for that.  However, the data map closely to coal and oil production values.

The final straw for me was the UN report authored by 2000 independent scientists.  The consensus is virtually unanimous.  Subtract the few voices of disent, who are largelly paid schills for energy companies, and the only question left is why so many folks continue to deny plain and simple reality.

What we do about this issue is another matter entirely.  China will be building more than 100 coal fired power plants over the next few years.  As their economy takes off, a billion chinese will want to drive automobiles.  Another billion from india and the middle east may also begin to contribute.  Fortunately, these countries will require some fuel efficiency standards to at least mitigate their effects--something we continue to blithely ignore.

Saudi Arabia's oil production has peaked.  The good news is that we will exhaust much of earth's cheap oil within the next 20 years.  There are big fields in Canada, and shale oil in Colorado, but production costs will likely top $100 a barrel.  The result will be much more expensive plastics and pharmaceuticals.  Only the wealthy will be able to continue to burn fossil fuel as though there were no tomorrow.

Another nice thing is ethanol.  As oil goes up, it will be more and more cost effective to convert corn to fuel.  This will make one of the world's leading food staples too expensive for about a billion people.  But we should feel complacent about death on such large scale.  After all, european borne diseases wiped out much of the indigenous population of the americas 400 years ago.  It is manifest destiny our lamentable gastronomical rapacity for carbon sequestered since the permian acknowledges no satiety.

Without some new energy source, our planet can sustain a population of two to three billion.  (Closer to two billion with higher ocean levels, depleted water tables, and desertification brought about through radical environmental change).  Since 40 years from now the population will be about eight billion, we can expect five to six billion untimely deaths.

Everyone dies eventually.  It is one thing, however, to die from old age, and another to die from thirst, hunger, disease, or genocide.  There is a scene in "12 Monkeys" where the psychiatrist spray paints "three billion die" on a wall.  She's way off--I'm wagering it will be six.  And it is also inevitable.  The same greed and incomptence we suffer today won't change through another four decades of existence.

Answer 7

Global Warming will affect everything. One main consequence is the expansion of the oceans due to increased heat which will submerge a number of coastal areas, including some inhabited by people. Another consequence will be in agriculture: some crops will not be able to grow due to the change in the climate. Animals and plants will have to move from their usual areas to find more suitable conditions and others will become extinct. A number of plants are the source of many medicines, and needless to say, if they become extinct we will not be able to synthesize some of the medicines. Also, the extinction of species without evolution, means a global change in the flora and fauna; some species will remain without their natural predators and will uncontrollably increase in numbers; others will not be able to find food and become extinct. The whole ecological chain of the planet will change and the consequences for humans has not yet been determined.

Answer 8

it may be the thing to end the world

Answer 9

The theory of man-made global warming is false.  Rather than just giving evidence proving that global warming is based on misrepresented evidence I will directly address the points made by global warming scientists.  If you do not plan on reading my post (I know it is long) I would ask you to watch this video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...  this video makes many of the points I will be making.  Now I will list the points that global warming scientists make: 1. CO2 causes an increase in global temperature. 2.  The IPCC has produced a report on the issue.  3. Computer models predict what we are saying.  4. There is a scientific consensus on the issue/all major scientists agree on man-made global warming/the only people who disagree are paid by the oil companies.  5. Major Politicians, CEO’s, scientists, etc agree.  6.  Even if there is a chance that global warming is real we should do everything we can, it can’t hurt.

1.  This is the main point made by global warming scientists. Data does in fact show that temperature and CO2 are correlated, however the nature of the correlation has been overlooked.  Global warming scientists say that an increase of CO2 causes global temperatures to rise, but this is not the case; a rise in global temperatures causes a rise in CO2.  Using the same graph featured in “An Inconvenient Truth”, (the graph where Al Gore goes up on the cherry picker, the data from the ice core), the graph clearly shows a lag in CO2 as compared to global temperature.  Temperature starts to go up 800 years before CO2 begins to rise.  This happens because of the oceans.  CO2 released by natural or man-made sources is mostly absorbed into the ocean, when the global temperature raises it gradually increases the ocean temperature which releases CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere.  Also most of the warming occurred before 1940 when industrialization was not as great.  One would believe that if global warming is tied to CO2 it would accelerate in the post WWII period, but it didn’t.  The globe actually cooled for 4 decades after WWII, when industrialization was the greatest.  Now take a look at our atmosphere as it relates to greenhouse gasses.  CO2 makes up .03% of our atmosphere, a very small amount of our atmosphere.  Other greenhouse gasses like water vapor make up 1-4% of the atmosphere.  Now take a look at where CO2 comes from, all human activity combined produces 6.5Gt of CO2 per year.  Volcanoes alone match that number.  All animals combined (meaning respiration, decomposition, etc) produce 150Gt of CO2.  So humans produce a very small amount of CO2 which itself makes up a very small amount of our atmosphere.  Water vapor is acknowledged to be the major greenhouse gas, and all of that is produced via evaporation (i.e. naturally).  

I know some of you may be thinking “ha, he acknowledges the greenhouse effect.”  To you I ask you to read a science textbook, the greenhouse effect is real and plays a very important role in maintaining a livable temperature on the earth.  Global warming scientists cite the greenhouse effect via our emission CO2 as the source of global warming.  They are disproved by their own words.  As I said before the greenhouse effect is real and causes heat to become trapped in the troposphere which warms the earth.  So if human emission of CO2 is to be blamed we would expect the troposphere to be warming and thus increasing the surface temperature (the temperature cited on global warming graphs) of the earth but look for yourself: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... the troposphere is actually cooling, only the surface temperature is rising.  This warming is not due to the greenhouse effect it is due to the sun.

It makes sense, the sun is the ultimate source of all of our energy.  Studies have shown that the effect of sunspots much more closely correlates to the rise in temperatures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sunsp... http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...

The other planets in our solar system are also warming. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ma...

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?art...

All this data points to the sun as the source for our current warming, and what about those ice core studies?  http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...

Here are the results of the ice core studies they show a very cyclic effect in regard to global temperatures.  The global warming crowd also argues that weather disturbances will become more likely but the actual numbers show no increase.  Oh and the glaciers, they have retreated and advanced every year since the earth began, they melt in the summer and build up in the winter.

2.  The IPCC, http://www.ipcc.ch/, is the main source of data for those in support of global warming, and has been very controversial.  In a prior report a graph, the so called “hockey stick” graph, was shown to be forged.  A reprint of the report had to be issued but the damage was done.  The fake graph was the main point made in the report, all data rested on its accuracy.  When an independent review took place the data used to make the graph was shown to be made up, that’s a fact even the IPCC admitted the fraud.  Now allegations have been made that the IPCC has censored the report and refused to take scientists names off the contributors list.  Contributing scientists have alleged that their passages, which were critical of man-made global warming, were taken out of the report.  15 passages in all are alleged to have been cut from the report.  Scientists have also said that their names are on the contributors list even though they left the committee after finding their objections to global warming were ignored.  These scientists left the committee but the IPCC refused to take their names off the contributors list so that they can claim all major scientists agree with them.  The IPCC is a heavily partisan committee that went into session fully knowing that their report would be in favor of global warming, any scientist who disagreed was censored.

3.  Computer models are predictions; they are based on hundreds of assumptions.  If even one assumption is wrong the whole model is incorrect.  Every computer model is based off the assumption that man is the main cause of global warming, which if you’ve read the above paragraphs, should be questioned.  Another disparity occurs in the amount of CO2 released, most models have two times the amount of CO2 being released than is actually seen.  You may wonder why these programmers are being so bold with their outrageous assumptions; the fact is these models predict the climate 50 to 100 years from now.  These programmers will be retired or dead before their models can be proven accurate or inaccurate.

4. This is the most blatant lie made by the global warming crowd; there is no scientific consensus on this issue.  Here are the names of over 17,000 scientists who disagree.  http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm  This lie of scientific consensus is purely propaganda meant to make you believe without evidence.  Consider for a second, what does scientific consensus mean?  This may sound silly but imagine that all the scientific community got together and decided that humans can fly unassisted, does this mean it’s true, no.  Science is not politics, issues are not voted on, and truth is not based on which outcome is most accepted, if it was we would be the center of the universe not to mention the earth would be flat.  Those were the scientific consensus of the time, but experimentation has proved them to be wrong.

5.  A recent poll has shown that only 8% of the population believes that global warming is not man-made.  Everyone else believes global warming is man-made and this will affect the world either in this generation or sometime soon.  This accounts for the support of politicians and CEO’s.  Politicians see their constituents believe global warming and the politician jumps on the global warming band-wagon to get votes.  CEO’s and presidents of corporations also see the poll data and try and get customers by pledging their support.  Price differences between stores are often not that great, so leaders of these corporations want to gain customers based on “morals.”  Scientists love the global warming hype; more and more funding is being poured into various institutions for scientists to use.  Scientists find applying for grants easier with this increase in money.  Scientists can get media face time and get studies published before moving on to their real interests.  You may wonder why so many ordinary people believe in global warming even though all the evidence disagrees.  The fact is global warming dissenters are ignored.  The media airs only stories in support of global warming; many people don’t even know that there is a legitimate opposition to global warming.  And the claim that the only people who disagree with global warming are paid by oil companies is unfounded, its mudslinging.  That claim is just as founded as the claim that all those in support of global warming are paid by the major environmental conservation companies.  

The global cooling scare can show where this is current scare will take us.  If you don’t remember this scare I’ll explain.  In 1974 scientists were convinced that the globe was cooling so fast that we would soon enter a new ice age.  The media portrayed it as fact, committees were put together and came out with the global cooling conclusion, a scientific consensus was called.  Ordinary people were scared that the world would end and what happened?  We now have global warming a 180 from the ice age we were supposed to enter.  Global warming is the exact same scare as global cooling.  You’d think that people would have acknowledged global climate cycles by now.  

6.  This claim has been made more popular recently; it’s called the preventative principle.  This may seem to be the end all global warming argument.  However this statement just conveys ignorance.  You, in your rich country in your house or apartment and on your computer, will not be affected by the precautionary principle.  These changes to alternate energy would apply worldwide, and it is a fact that these energy options are currently much more expensive than coal and oil.  Take Africa for example, a continent made up of mainly third world countries.  How do you expect the poorest people in the world to ignore their coal and gas resources in favor of very expensive alternate energies?  They can not afford it but the UN via the IPCC expects them to switch over.  Also the US alone spends over 4 billion dollars on global warming research, that money could be much better used to promote any number of charity programs.  

If you read my post or watched the video you should at least have been prompted to take a fresh look at global warming as an unproven theory.  It is no lie I do not believe in man-made global warming, my purpose in writing this is not to completely convince you global warming is false.  I wrote this to wake people up from blindly following the global warming crowd.  I urge you to look at global warming and take in consideration arguments made by scientists who oppose global warming.  Your time, vote, money, and liberties are being taken in the name of global warming.  

Start with these links:

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2Sci...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA235.htm...

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

Answer 10

Keep in mind that it was Al Gore who scared us about the Y2K bug.  Also keep in mind that his family owns the world's largest zinc mine which is a prime ingredient in fuel cells.  Also keep in mind that single volcano spews more carbon into the air in one year then all of man kind in recorded history and I think you will stop believing in this farce.

Answer 11

Your part is to live your life be happy with a nice winter.  It won't stay that way forever.  We are in a little warming trend which has numerous benefits.  Global warming are buzz words generally meaning human caused global warming.  That is not proven.

Answer 12

Nothing, nor should you buy into this political scare tactic. The fact is that "natural" climatic temperature cycles control CO2 levels (not the other way around as Al Gore would have you believe), so there is not much humans can do to prevent this natural, geological phenomenon.

We are not in any danger, anyways. At the rate the sea level is rising (1.8 mm per year for the Earth's global ocean level), it will take 3,500 years before any major cities are flooded.

Answer 13

Why do you now believe it, because Al Gore said it, he also said he started the internet.