What is your opinion on Global Warming and Pollution?

Question

I think its horrible to inhale disgusting,polluted air.What do you think about the matter?

Answer 1

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation.

The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas concentrations"[1] via the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[2][3]

These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[9][10]

Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[1] The range of values results from the use of differing scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions as well as models with differing climate sensitivity. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming and sea level rise are expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. The delay in reaching equilibrium is a result of the large heat capacity of the oceans.[1]

Increasing global temperature will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the amount of warming expected in the future, and how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is ongoing political and public debate worldwide regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

Answer 2

I wish people would stop gabbing about global warming all the time and just do the simple things in day to day life that can actually add up to a change for the greener.

Answer 3

They are still many people who have just shut their eyes to what is happening to the Earth! Saying that man is not the cause behind global warming is just trying to bury the TRUTH. Man has sped up the process of Global Warming. This is why unpredictable calamities like Katrina ,Mumbai Floods Tsunami, other cyclones have taken place.

Global Warming has led to melting of polar ice caps and maybe in a hundred years or so polar bears wont have a habitat left!

Now how would man feel if he had no place to stay and just keep on swimming?

Scientists had predicted that because of the natural equilibrium being disturbed such untimely events would occur but isnt ignorance bliss so the people just decided that it is better to stay in the dark than to realise whats happening and spend a little energy and stop it from happening!

Answer 4

I believe pollution is bad and I believe Global Warming that is manmade, is largely myth.

Answer 5

we need to change! it sucks! we suck for taking our eath for advantage

Answer 6

I agree. I think that whether or not pollution is causing Global Warming, we better as h**l clean up because it definitely has some negative affect on us.

Answer 7

What is the fuss all about,it is silly to think about Global Warming and Pollution as a big Global problem, the industry they do not want to know still they throw their industrial waste in the rivers and a lot of fish dies , It is no good getting people to listen to warnings To them its only money ,they want to make and nothing else.,they do not care about what it is happening to our weather so as i said in the beginning Whats the fuss all about when no body want to listen

Answer 8

i think we need to change the way we live and make the world a better place to live in

Answer 9

global warming is nonexistent

Answer 10

its sucks...dont use spray cans...it ruins the ozone layer

Answer 11

Its horrible.  Us human being should care more about our beautiful planet.  If we don't take care of it were in trouble!  Florida and California may brake off of the U.S.  Think of the animals in the artic being swept away by global warming.  Animals all of are living in an over polutted world so are humans!  SAVE THE WORLD RECYCLE.

Answer 12

It's not very nice to treat your home planet that way, is it?  If you have guests over you don't want them to trash the place.  You would ask them to leave!  And you wouldn't invite them back anytime soon.

I've always enjoyed spending time outdoors, hiking, watching birds, going swimming, walking the dog even.  I don't need jet skis or a cruise ship to allow me to enjoy being outside.

But an awful lot of people think the things on Earth are just here to use and amuse.  While that can be true, it's only true to a point.  If the air is too foul our health begins to suffer, or we can't exercise due to advisories.  If the water is cruddy you can't recreate in it, and water agencies may be able to clean it up and let you drink it but it's gonna cost you.  If the soil is contaminated, we need to clean it up or cordon it off.

It seems so much better for all involved to lead a sustainable life, enjoy good health, have all your options options.  You'd think that even the skeptics and deniers could support this, but they seem too interested in saying "myth-hoax-liberal" and trying to act like they understand the science.

What the science says is that the planet doesn't like the way her guests have been acting.

Answer 13

i think that people should be more concerned about the issue and start thinking about  the impact global warming will have on our planet

Answer 14

Polluted air is in fact bad.  Obviously.  However, I believe that global warming is a natural occurance.  It happened without our help when the ice age came and went, now it's happening again.

Answer 15

Well, living with asthma and severe allergies Global Climate change has increased the effects.

The pollution in my area makes it hard for me to be outside, and mentally, I just can't take it anymore. Hearing about all of these things that are going to happen like the extinction of certain animals, and the polar ice caps melting. It is all just so depressing. I have had to go on Prozac now, and I am seeing my shrink more and more.

But I was watching Boston Legal the other night and I guess this is my conclusion:

Live in the now, after a conversation on the balcony and Denny was just praised for celebrating the present this is what he said:

""When you get polar ice caps melting and breaking out in big chunks, and you got Osama still hiding planning his next attack, and you got other road bases with nuclear arsenals and not to mention some whack job, home grown, that can cancel you at any second, and you got madcow, now gets high priority and when you're sitting on the balcony on a clear night, sipping scotch with your bestfriend now is everything."

I NEED A DRINK!!!

Answer 16

Global Warming by nature is true.  Global Warming  by humans is fake

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 mai

Answer 17

i wish that it would all stop because i dont want the world to end! and not very many people seem to care!

Answer 18

HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!!! It's ruining everything for everyone. We need to do something about it really fast. The next generation will suffer if we don't! This is hardy an opinion.

Answer 19

I also think that Global Warming and Pollution is a terrible matter in the world. It is causing temperatures to go up, ocean levels rising because of icebergs melting. Today we are so focus on buying new cars with the latest features, but most cars emitt too many particulate matters and pollutants in the atmosphere. There are fuels called biofuels that are less harmful than the actual gas, petroluem, and alcohols, ect, but they take more energy to make than the actual energy the produce when you use them. So i think if we all stick together and make plans to overcome Global Warming we can help save the world.

Answer 20

we can already see the effects , thunderstorms , tornadoes , etc ...

if u want the economic side , inflation , rising crude prices.etc

but  are we really interested ? no i guess. a man only learns when he is in trouble .

Answer 21

i wear a gas mask everyday

Answer 22

I hate pollutants too.

blame it all on Chemtrails.

Answer 23

According with you but in USA you use "BIG" car and the american government don't sign protocol of Kyoto and the global warning is no important for this government !!

Sorry for error but i don't spike english !!!

Answer 24

I think That we should be trying Harder and Focusing more on the pollution we are putting in the air and try to lessen it. Don't get me wrong we shouldn't focus Completley on that but it does need attintion

Answer 25

I think that it is a natural cycle and it happens everyso offten a great example is in the 1800s we was pumping out alot more gasses than we are now and they had the coldest winters on record. So therfore they shud of had a worse clobal warming than us and yet they didnt they had frezzing temperatures

sure polution isnt great but come on they where poluting more than we are now we have cleaned the atmosphere so much we have made the sun clearer

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