Global warming affecting economy?

Question

honestly, im not into to much science and im also not too much into polotics along with gorvernment type subjects but also honestly im not stupid enough to not see this happening can anyone else see the worlds down fall right now with america relying on oil so much, food prices going up, government failing everyday and every day the world gets even more corrupt along with weather affecting everyones lives.. is their anyone else that understands that things are happening and theyre happening quick.. in florida, one of tha most humid places in america had a fire in daytona beach. maryland and oregon are flooding in. new oreleans has already been a victim of this. oklahomas downfall in tha winter entire city covered in inches of ice with no power. not enough money for people that are victims of tornados that tear out an entire town because of not only gas but food and money as it is.. places losing business because of money. and not to mension tha weather everywhere else is any1else w me?

Answer 1

I live in Oregon , no flooding here, your t.v. news got you

Answer 2

There are already impacts to the economy.  The insurance industry is already factoring this in to what they charge customers in calamity-prone areas.  Climate change is bad for their bottom line, but they will make every effort to collect for this via increased rates, which may end up hitting you in the wallet.

Travel Costs. Food Prices. Health-related expenses.

If action is not taken to curb global carbon emissions, climate change could cost between 5 and 20 % of the annual global gross domestic product, according to a UK government report. In comparison, it would take 1 % of GDP to lessen the most damaging effects of climate change. For example,  in Lake Erie, climate change may significantly lower lake levels, altering shoreline habitats and costing millions for the relocation of ports and shore infrastructure.

I'm with you.  We're all in this together.

Answer 3

i think its important for you to be carefull about what kind of information that you read.Still remember there are reputable scientistst who provide us with accurate information about the environment forexample its true that farmers are growing corn for production of bio fuels istead of utilising it for food consumpution leading to a food crisis and increased commodity prices.However its posible to have clean energy and at the same time have adequent food production and fair prices.dont be afraid use all avairable information as an oppotunity

Answer 4

Sure it is.  

You can believe unsupported nonsense here, or you can believe most all of the scientists in the world.  Like:

The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that global warming is real, and mostly caused by us.  

Don't get too discouraged though.  We can fix this.

And get a car if you need one.  Just make a sensible choice, the smallest one that meets your needs.  We don't have to stop doing things to fix this, we just need to do them smarter.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 5

My God! Doesn't anyone study history. What about the 30's and the great drought? These things have been happening since the beginning. It is only that NOW it is reported globally.

Record temperatures in California? In what? The last 100 years? What about the last thousand or million years. How do YOU know they are records. Did you know at one time Alaska was a GREEN rain forest? Did you know that even in recent (man's) history Greenland was farmed? They always point to the ice in Greenland melting. Well, you know that ice has not always been there. In the 70's we were going to die from an Ice Age by the late 80's. Low and behold it warmed up. Man has only been keeping records for a very short time. How do you, I or the "scientists" know that this is not normal. How do we know that the Earth is only getting back to "normal" temperatures from the cold of the last Ice Age? Did you know Texas got hit with a hurricane much much larger than the one the hit New Orleans? It was BEFORE the industrial revolution and you know what with all this gloom and doom. The US still hasn't had a hurricane that big since.

Answer 6

Global Waming does not exist

GLOBAL WARMING IS JACKED UP!

It has NO and I repeat NO truth to it at all.

It is a political scheme

Here is an outline for a 30 minute speech I delivered

I. For a long time people have been looking through glasses that have foggy lenses of deception regarding global warming. In the next couple of minutes I intend to show you a more accurate eye chart and update your prescription.

A. Reasons for listening to my speech are very simple. One of the main reasons is that Global Warming is nothing to waste your time on. If it so important to the environment, then we would have done something for it by now. Another reason that you should listen is that this could be a life changing speech that greatly effects every moment of your life from here on out.

I am 100% accurate in reporting my information. I have done the research necessary to ensure that you are getting nothing but hard core facts. For the past several weeks of my life has been dedicated to finding out information for my speech topic. Nobody knows as much credible information on this topic as I do.

C. My point for this speech is to try and persuade you to see the light at the end of the dirty tunnel of humanities’ lies.

II. Global Warming is the most debatable topic that was probably ever around. You need to know this information. If you don’t educate yourself properly on this topic you will live the rest of your life in fear of something that doesn’t exist.

A. Global Warming is a natural cycle. Everything about it is natural. Carbon dioxide levels vary throughout time. Humans can make little or no impact on the environment.

1. Take a look at this chart taken from an online internet poll. What do you notice from this? There is a close tie between adults that believe in Global Warming and some that don’t. As you can see the charts are pretty close. There is about one person who doesn’t believe in Global Warming to two people who do. This means that only 60% of the world believes in global warming. My goal by the end of this speech is to have the 60% be persuaded that they are not believing in the accurate thing. With the following facts, I am 100% sure that this goal is possible and will be achieved.

2. Al Gore stated this quote in his movie “…The 10 hottest years ever recorded were within 15 years of today.” Now this point is valid and true, but we have not been measuring the temperature or anything since the early nineteen hundreds. Can we go down and see how the polar ice caps were doing in the early 1800’s? We can not do that because temperature was not recorded. You may say that they guessed using carbon dioxide levels, but whose to say that they are right? I heard that scientific measures were not always accurate because they took a hundred year old log and did some carbon 14 testing on it. Scientists thought that it was thousands of years old. It was later proved to be younger after more tests were ran. Whose to say that our method of discovering weather is right? We have been measuring temperature for only a short period of time. Earth right now is in a heating process. Thousands of years ago we were cooling which is when we had an Ice Age. Now we are doing the opposite and are starting to warm up before cooling again. Look at this political cartoon. What is one thing that you notice? I notice it being freezing then gradually getting warmer. As my next point is about to prove, we have no effect on the environment no matter what we do.

3. In 1990 a volcano in the Philippines erupted violently. It was by far one of the biggest explosions of the century. We all have read about how volcanoes let off carbon dioxide, but did you know this… When the volcano erupted, it put more carbon dioxide in the air than all of humanity has ever produced…. More than humans have made since the creation of time. All in just a matter of hours. Look at this picture. See all of this carbon dioxide being put into the air? While, with all of this there was no temperature increase or decrease at all… just some carbon dioxide level changes, but nothing major. If volcanoes put off this much carbon dioxide with no effect, then how could we be doing this? When all this happened, then how could you be persuaded that humans who produce fractions of that amount could impact the environment in fractions of the time. Humans if we tried could not severely impact the environment. It is just too big. Even if we are letting some off, plants and other natural recyclers of Carbon Dioxide are just transforming them to oxygen.

4. During World War II, we dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. We spilled tons of harmful green house gasses into mother nature. This includes radiation, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. After all of that happened, again there was no effect to the environment that was found. Hiroshima has been having radiation problems still, but there is no significant temperature problem. Nothing humans do can severely change our environment. We only occupy about 50% of the globe. The other 50% is the ocean, ice caps, and land that is not suitable for humans. How could two nuclear bombs not have an impact on the environment, but changing a light bulb in your house to fluorescent can save the environment? It is just impossible that we could have an impact.

5. Another point is that if you look in your text book, I promise you that you will find these words… “When Washington was marching his troops, it was bitterly cold outside” Bitterly cold means freezing. I know that they didn’t have supplies but Virginia in the summer (which is when they fought) is warm. As you can see by these charts, it was 106 degrees outside in the summer. This is without humidity too. Now when we look at this chart it shows us that the battle was fought in Yorktown. There isn‘t much of a distance between Yorktown and Richmond, were this was recorded. How was it bitterly cold a few hundred years ago when now it is normal? The conclusion is that it is a natural cycle. The cycle changes every several hundred years. It was cold then, and now it is slowly warming up. We have nothing to do with it. This is perfectly natural for our environment to do. We would like to believe that humans are the dominate species. Have we ever thought to wonder if what we believe in is caused by nature?

6. One of the most important factual information is still on our planet. Greenland is one of the most misunderstood places around. People like to believe that the reason that it got it’s name is because the settlers didn’t want people to move there so they called an icy land Greenland so that settlers would move their instead of Iceland were it really was green.. After I saw a show on the discovery channel, I concluded that it was actually green. When the first settlers went there, they dined on grapes and cows. I don’t think that I am mistaken, but how could a cow live on an icy land with nobody to feed it. Grapes grow in warm environments which is not ice. Greenland fits that exact description. Also as you can see on this picture, there is still some green left in it. All of it was green once, which proves that it once was green and now it is ice because of the natural cycle, it is starting to freeze. Now Greenland is melting to start the process all over again. In a few hundred years, Greenland will begin to freeze.

NOTE TO READER: FOR POINT 67-8 IT MAKES NO SENCE UNLESS POWERPOINT IS VISIBLE… THANKS!

7. Ok… Phoenix is known as a hot dry desert place. You think that it keeps getting hotter and hotter here each summer. Take a look at this display on the screens. As you can see, during the day the sun is radiating energy to a large city… lets call it Phoenix. It does this all day until the sun starts to go down. As you can see now, the buildings are built up with radiation while the desert area barely got any radiation build up. Now it is night and as you can see the buildings are radiating heat forming a heat bubble. Now in Phoenix at night it is around 95 degrees. That is because of the buildings radiating. We are made of concrete and steel so we absorb heat. Take a look over at the desert. See how the temperature there is lower? This is because it is not trapped in the heat bubble of radiation.

8.Many people relate global warming with long citywide droughts. Like in Phoenix, we are in a drought. There are many reasons why this is not caused by us. Have you ever watched the news and heard the following phrase “… and people of Chandler are getting pelted by rain, many individuals are putting up sand bags to protect their homes…?” What this is saying is that small little cities are getting poured on. Look at the power point and see why, The big glob in the center is called Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria. Ok now imagine that we are in the middle of a storm. The red indicates heavy rain and the yellow indicates moderate rain. As you can see from this animation that I made, the storm is going around Phoenix. We are a giant blob and the storm is just simply avoiding us. Smaller cities like Chandler and Mesa are being pelted by this continuous down pour. So in smaller cities they may say, “We got rained on the most we ever have” and the airport were they measure the amount of rain says there were only a few drops of rain. This proves that we did not cause the drought by carbon dioxide, but we did it by industrializing.

9. Global Warming is also just a political trap. Who are the only ones who want to try and do something about global warming besides tree huggers? Politicians do. When somebody is running for office this makes a better point, I am going to save the world! Who would you rather vote for… Mr. Free Dental Insurance, or Mr. I am Going To Save The Planet From Destruction! The choice is pretty clear. Which, that was Al Gore’s main election motto. They want you to vote  

Answer 7

It is true that global warming is affecting economy, but the economy is the first who affected the global warming....

People destroy the nature, nature will destroy  people

that is the circle of life

economy won't matter anymore when the apocalipse will be done

a people product against people

Answer 8

HI Jessica: Turn off your TV. Turn off your radio. Do not go to MSN or Yahoo or CNN for your news. You will get totally bogus info. Remember not all people...many ...do not buy into the global warming idea. It is well reported in the news the pending doom. Don't buy into it. Let the others swallow it while you move onto the future,  Your future. You will NEVER EVER hear any news to the contrary or that there is data that does NOT support global warming. If you hear something over and over and over you might start to believe it. That is called brainwashing. Let the lemmings believe it. Expand your research to include opposing views. There are many reputable scientists who are not on drugs who do not buy into it. Don't listen to the stories about the penguins or polar bears. Don't listen to the ice berg stories. Remember the titanic hit an ice berg that broke off in some 1912. Gosh remember (maybe your are too young to have heard this) but in 1970s we were absolutely going to freeze to death. These people are nut cases but do not ever disagree or share a different point of view because you will be called names and hated. After all we are talking about Mother Earth and the religion of worshiping her. Jessica: LIVE YOUR LIFE, Buy the car, and drive. Don't forget to buy a incandescent light bulb while you are out. LIVE ON.