Should developed nations bear the responsibility for global warming?

Question

If so, should they be allocated a quota of pollution they can produce and be taxed for exceeding it? Or are developing countries also responsible? Should they be made to pay such a tax?

Answer 1

All nations should be provided with incentives to reduce their countries impacts to global warming.  Developed countries should help countries such as China fast-forward their development so that their impacts are reduced, by providing knowledge and technology.

More informed individuals than I have explored the particular options.  I do know that some countries, some groups, have stepped up and are trying to guide the Chinese through this period in their nation's growth.

s**y Beast: I'm well aware of how many products sold here are made in China.  Our household makes every effort to buy products made in North America, for several reasons.  But to answer your question, why should we help? Check the links below. The simple answer is that we share the same planet and what goes around comes around.

Answer 2

Climate change is an established scientific fact, man made global warming is a political doctrine. In an open society people have the right to believe in if they want, they don't have the right to force their opinions on other people and certainly not tax them for it.

Carbon dioxide is NOT pollution, it s a natural and vital component of our atmosphere. Without it there would not be any plants, therefore no food, and as photosynthesis produces the oxygen in our atmosphere, nothing for animals or plants to breathe

Answer 3

It is not real

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 for them do th

Answer 4

And just who will collect the tax? The UN? They're all talk and no walk, s***w that.

Answer 5

GLOBAL WARMING IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON! NOBODY IS MORE OR LESS RESPONSIBLE FOR CAUSING IT.

Let's tax everybody, yes, that's the solution. Are you a Labour minister?

Answer 6

NO !!!

Answer 7

responsibilty yes - tax no - unless use it to buy solar panels and other renewable energy things

Answer 8

That's what we're doing in Europe.

Answer 9

all industrialized and modernized countries should take the most responsibility when it comes to the planning, implimitation, and sacrifices needed to face ecological chaos.

#1 America especially has lead the world in carbon emissions,

#2 (as a general rule) don't recycling their garbage,

#3 they have a "social responsibility" to drive more fuel effecient cars, but don't..

Well, now when we have three Countries (China, India, and Russia) desiring the very things which we have defined as our American success. We are in for a serious ecological disaster.

Yes, the fault falls heavily on our shoulders

Answer 10

NO, GLOBAL WARMING IS'NT CAUSED BY ANTHING MAN MADE. we dont have the technology to weaken the invisible forcefield (OZONE) and only allow just enough of the sun's rays through to create this melting of the glaciers or expanding the disasters. yet not allow our atmosphere to leak out or outer space to enter our atmosphere, but allow solids to come and go from outer space and back without incidence. but decipate all non- solids that make it to the icy cold thinned air. unless you know what countries are responsible, I DONT.

Answer 11

Here in the Us, we fought a war over such ideals,  Want another one?

Answer 12

I live in the US and I am sick and tired of being blamed for EVERYTHING that happens. I don't think we will pay their taxes. We have a problem with being told what to do.

Amy L: WHY should we pay to help China develop???? They are one of the richest nations in the world and you want me to give them more money. h**l almost everything I buy is made there.

Answer 13

No country can take credit or responsibility for the Sun (the true source of this warming trend).

Answer 14

I think you have no idea what you are talking about.  Teachers act if these things are verfiable,  at least in the sense that these short term warmings of coolings have any lasting impact or the trends might reverse themselves.

Answer 15

So you don't think we should hold the third-world countries responsible for deforestation of their lands?  Why is it only industrialized nations that get the blame?

Answer 16

Not everyone shares your faith in man made global warming.  Some of us think it's hyped beyond all reason.

Answer 17

No one should be made to. I live in australia a developed country and I think its stupid. How dumb.

Answer 18

No because manmade global warming is not real, the earth is going through a natural warming cycle and their is nothing man can do about it.

Answer 19

EVeryone should....dont use spray cans..