What arre youre views on global warming?

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What arre youre views on global warming?

Answer 1

The Earth has a natural greenhouse effect; without this, Earth would be a frozen ball of ice, and life as we know it would not be possible.

Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels (which emit greenhouse gases) and deforestation are contributing to an enhanced greenhouse effect, also known as anthropogenic (man made) global warming.

Warmer temperatures are not the only affect of global warming. Global warming causes climate change, or more specifically, it causes global climate instability. This means that some places will see more floods, especially flash floods related to rapid snow melt and increased precipitation. Drier areas will see more frequent droughts. These changes could lead to drinking water shortages, spread tropical disease, reduce crop yields[1], and harm biodiversity.

Earth has no emergency exists, http://youtube.com/watch?v=snPdEl0Duoo so it is up to humanity to come quickly to a conclusion that the Earth is worth protecting, human life and biodiversity should be respected, and new technology and alternative energy can and must be created.

Answer 2

It's ridiculous to hear all of the people saying 'scam, or there is no evidence of man-made global warming. I mean are you joking?!?!?!?! The evidence is everywhere. It is not since after the Industrial Revolution and the invention of modern conveniences such as the automobile that have produced so much carbon emissions which is evidently leading to a warmer climate. Our world is definitely heating up which has started a chain reaction of negative effects (polar ice caps melting, species extinction, worse storms). I KNOW as a fact that if we do not take action soon, our future generations will have to live with the consequences and consequently - not live at all. All of you who are saying that it is a liberal scam - OPEN YOUR NARROW-MINDED IGNORANT MINDS AND SEE THE REALITY. We have to put aside our luxurious lifestyles and save our earth while we still can.

Answer 3

Humans are too stupid to deal with it, but too many are making a living from it.

Answer 4

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global warming

We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

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Answer 5

There are many basic scientific facts which can only be explained if the current global warming is being caused by an increased greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

For example, the planet is warming as much or more during the night than day.  If the warming were due to the Sun, the planet should warm a lot more during the day when the Sun has influence.  Greenhouse gases trap heat all the time, so they warm the planet regardless of time of day.  Another example is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because the greenhouse gases trap the heat in the lower atmosphere.  If warming were due to the Sun, it would be warming all layers of the atmosphere.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

We know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming.  What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming.  They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

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

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles.  They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes.  Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions.  We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels.  We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%).  You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 6

it pisses me off that people are stupid enough to destroy the plant in attempt to make money

Answer 7

Completely natural. All the science shows that. There is no evidence of man-made global warming.

Answer 8

I think that global warming is a real issue that should be a concern to us all now and is only going to get worse, rapidly.

However, I think that people are getting confused by the expanding population, the planets inability to support us, the wiping out of the fish stock, the extinction of flora and fauna, coral bleaching, expanding desert, arctic ice melting, third world debt, poverty and starvation, illeagal logging, multi drug resistant TB, and all the other issues facing humanity and then pushing them all together and labeling it as "global warming". Some of these issues are a result of man made Global Warming and some are the result of 6.6 BILLION people destroying the environment.

And then they see the problem as to big to start fixing, so, therefore there is no point to do anything about it as no one else is, etc. However all these issues could be broken down and we ,collectively, could go someway to solving them. However, unfortunately, we are human and historically, when ever there has been a time to band together for the good of all, we have choose to bomb, kill, invade, and attack and take what ever we wanted from are neighbors. *Sigh*.

Check this out its really cool and puts things into perspective. click on the now button and it will all zero.

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldCl...

and have you watched this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVz...

Answer 9

If we don't get people to realize how serious it is soon...we will be at the point of no return and our children will not live to see their grandchildren.

Answer 10

I think it's a good thing.

Answer 11

It is a liberal scam.

Answer 12

We are a product of our environment,it really doesn't matter what area it's in.This leads to some huge implications on our philosophies and behavior,at least in the ways we do things.Earth takes care of us what's wrong with taking care of it.

Answer 13

That some people r effectived badly by it! Animal Endangered! and people need to relize that we need 2 help

Answer 14

It's good. and a liberal scam

Answer 15

All this talk about global warming and how humans can stop it is a scam on the poor so the rich can continue with their opulent life styles wake up and smell the coffee if we are going to go out let it be in the middle of a party we all can join in. party on brother

Answer 16

Anyone who says it's good is a downright fool. There is no hope left for many species, such as the polar bear, and even some that haven't been discovered yet. I think that maybe even if we can't fully reverse the effects, if we want to even reverse it a little bit, we have to STOP NOW. The rainforests are rapidly declining, and many islands, and a lot of major cities, such as Miami, are likely to be underwater. There is no debate among scientists any longer as to whether we caused it. Go green!

Answer 17

I THINK WE NEED TO TALK TO OUR FREINDS AND FAMILY TO OPEN UP THERE EYES TO SEE HOWW IT IS know NEVER MIND 20 YEARS FROM KNOW

YOU ARE A LIND OF PERSON             THAT WE SHOULD JOIN TOGETHER IN A GROUP AND CHANGE THE PERSPECTIVES OF SOME PEOPLE

Answer 18

The world is one big crime zone.  The pollution criminals are still in power.  The planet is already dead.  It is your task to destroy those who would destroy your childrens future.  Money, people and earth do not mix.  The War has started.