What Exactly Is Global Warming? And What`s With All The Commotion About It? It`s Not Going To Happen Soon.?

Question

Okay so yea i know all about global warming etc.. and im doing my best as a citizen in this world to lower my carbon footprint.. but whats with all the commotion RIGHT now? It`s impossible that there will be major effects on the earth in 20 or-so years right?

Or are we just preparing the people for the consequences in the future?

Answer 1

Global warming has been happening for well over a century, it's just that in the past couple of decades we have been able to recognize the patterns of it. There are many indications that it started with industrial revolution, when we began seriously using fossil fuels (this includes coal). Overall temperatures in many regions, tracked over multiple years, show a slow and consistent increase in average temperatures.

What people don't realize is this a multifaceted problem, and there is much evidence for it, not just the dramatic indicators like the arctic ice melting (there are indications that this may be the first year where some of the arctic areas will have NO ICE during the summer). There are things like species of insects and birds moving up the climate zones, that is, creatures that used to be found below a certain altitude in mountain ranges are now showing up above those levels.

Many people, unfortunately, look at local weather, short-term evidence and don't understand that this is a long-term problem. There is a difference between weather and climate, although they are related. And global warming can actually mean worse winters: more water in the atmosphere (resulting because of warming, ice meltoff, and so on) means longer and more severe storms. It changes overall climate. I live in Seattle and there are computer indications that over the next few decades, we will be moving into a monsoon climate: hot dry summers, much wetter winter weather, more severe storms.

We need to take action now (and some scientists fear it may be too late) so that we don't end up with a ruined planet and millions of deaths.

Answer 2

I have been trying to find out myself and read many books and other sources that have genuine information instead of hype. I have summarized this in an easy to read commentary on my website: www.CitizensEnergyForum.com. Please take a look at it. I now believe the scientific evidence against the theory is much better than the evidence for it. The best science today says Gore is wrong.

Answer 3

It's not going to happen at all.  There's no scientific indication that it is.  The agw movement is a political one, disguised as an environmental one to scare people into giving support.

Answer 4

IT IS A SCAM - TO MAKE MONEY.

It is not a pollutant, but a natural gas that every organic item releases. Even volcanoes release tons 300 times more than every man, woman, and child causes to be produced every year.

There is a new scheme managed by the UN (hmm) Carbon Cap and Trade. Some companies are banking on this Carbon Trading Vehicle. They are trying to make a market out of thin air requiring payment to market participants to do business. Obviously the business that buy these Carbon Credits will ultimately Charge YOU.

THIS IS A HUGE TAX to PAY CORPORATIONS, and GOVERNMENTS.

Global Warming is just the vehicle - it is not real, but an exaggerated illusion.

Answer 5

The effects are happening now. The ice caps are melting and such. Here's what happens

Ice caps melt causing less tundra habitat causing less animals in the tundra habitat.

Ice caps melt causing ocean rise causing less land habitat

Ice caps melt causing ocean current changes

Ice caps melt causing water cooling

Answer 6

global warming is NOW and will get worse it the future. just Google it

Answer 7

Global Warming is probably started with global warning for more than a decade ago. As human kinds in our materialistic society are getting more greedy and more selfish each day, it seems every one want to have the first crack of driving a fast and newest model car. They ignored the global warning and keep on damaging the environment by driving cars, polluting the sky by using fossil fuels for power electric generation, neglecting the emission of dangerous smoke from the industrial stacks for burning toxic chemicals the caused billions tons of Co2 and acid rains and acidified the oceans and killed many fish stocks. The polar bears and seals, penguins and whales, and many arctic animals are getting less and less. Many of the species are facing the crisis of extinction in the future.

What' more? I can quote some facts about the global warning affected the Hong Kong temperature which is beyond the weather report from TVs. Yesterday, the Daily Apple Daily News published an article for telling us that the temperatures from the Hong Kong government's bulletin of 28 to 33 C is not true. A group of university professor, educator, and environmentalist have recorded the street temperatures are in the followings. Causeway Bay, 39.5, Sai Yeung Choi (Females' Street)41.5, and Yuen Long Park, 45.9 C. It is because of the Hong Kong government allowed the real estate developers and built too many skyscrapers in Hong Kong and made all the warm air being trapped inside the city core and even the park all year round. What the prices that Hong kong government has paid for neglecting the global warning by allowing two power generating stations to use the coal-fired generating stations with the car flow capacity of more than 400/km in most of the roads and streets in HK.

There were recorded with 10 million clinical visits for the treatment of chronicle diseases of asthma, heart and lungs, and 3,000 had died last year with air pollution caused diseases.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

Answer 8

there are already effects.

the US southwest has been in a drought for 10-20 years already.

the Ogallala aquifer, that irrigates much of our wheat is being depleted.

presumably, you're heard of Darfur.

maybe you should read more about it.

Answer 9

global warming is now if we dont do anything to stop it  it will get worse an worse you know whos fault it is bushes

Answer 10

1.5 million years of well-documented evidence derived from ice cores, tree rings and other geological materials as well 5 thousands years of historical documents show that our current and future climate is well within its normal range. It has been much hotter in the recent past (1930s) and very much colder. The AGW pogrom is a deliberate fraud sponsored by the oil companies in order to enhance their profits as oil in areas they control starts running out. You must realize that the very people who are promoting this fraud are the same exact people who have fought tooth and nail to prevent practical alternate energy systems from being developed. The have also put in place laws to prevent existing alternative systems from being used to their maximum in order to promote the use of coal and oil fueled plants instead.

So when people do real research and follow the money it is easy to see that the energy companies that sell oil and coal are the only ones benefiting from the AGW fraud. The people are losing all across the board in the price of all energy products, electricity, fuels and gas costs more because of AGW promoting.

One of the dumbest things the AGW promoters have suggested is the idea of collecting and sequestering Co2 in underground reservoirs. One clear piece of knowing real science instead of voodoo science the AGW promoters use is this. Each Co2 molecule contains one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. The plants use it for food and we humans and our animal companions need that oxygen to breathe. If we sequester that Co2 under ground we remove oxygen from the air we breath which means we will eventually run out of it as the idiotic AGW promoters wish and then they will bring the sequestered material back up and sell us the oxygen atoms to keep us alive.

So the scam is looking generations ahead in ways to profit now and profit more in the far future from those who follow media hype and do not look for truth and facts. As one great man once said, there is a new sucker born every minute so I will never starve.

Answer 11

Global warming is just the heating of the whole earth. Its happening slowly but its happening. We used to get feet of snow in the winter. but now its a lot to just get 6 inches. But most of the commotion is if the earth is going thru some sort of cycle, if its from polution or something, and how we slow down/ stop the whole thing.

Answer 12

In the seventies there was the same type of commotion, except the hysteria was about global cooling and the coming of the second ice age.  If you can find it on television (I think it's Showtime) Penn &Teller have a show just about this very topic--it's very informative and quite entertaining.

Humans are responsible for 3% of carbon dioxide released into the air--the rest happens naturally (for example it's released by dead plants).  Even if we cut our part in half, it will not make ANY difference as far as global warming goes.

I wish people would tone down the emotional response to the global warming hysteria and educate themselves on the topic.  Most only know what the hear on TV which is nothing more than propaganda.

Answer 13

global warming is a POLITICAL PARTY between logic and the blind followers..do ur math...

there is an increase in tundra mass

there is an increase in tundra animals...al gore just recorded one tribe of polar bears...thats what al gore is doing to support his "political outreach"