Who thinks we have gone the point of no return regarding global warming??

Question

Who thinks we have gone the point of no return regarding global warming??

Answer 1

You liberals need to keep the hysterics to a minimum; there are more important things than global warming.

Answer 2

Global warming is nothing more than natural climate change. There is ample scientific proof that it has been going on for millions of years.

Global warming is a scam by liberal elitist to enhance their pocket book by selling "carbon credits", like Al "The Blimp" Gore is doing.

Answer 3

If you're that worried about global warming and think we're all doomed, I suggest we all remove all emissions equipment from our cars. Supposedly warming would be much worse without the dimming effect from aerosols (air pollution) emitted by our cars and other sources. If we put enough pollution up there, it should begin to cool but we don't need to do that since it's already cooling again. The warmest year on record is still 1998, the past year was much colder than normal, by a margin about equal to the entire temp increase it took 100 years to achieve. So cold that all the melted ice from the Arctic was returned and in some places it's still colder than normal.

Comparing the Earth to Venus is about as useful as comparing us to Mars or Jupiter. There is no liquid water on Venus, the atmospheric density is far greater than ours, and the CO2 concentration is 96% of the atmosphere, on Earth it is a grand total of .04%. Still scared?

Answer 4

I HOPE we have not. But the planet Venus shows us that there IS such a point. We MUST do everything we can as soon as possible to reverse global warming. Otherwise Earth will end up uninhabitable like Venus.

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...

Answer 5

Not me.

Answer 6

Not me.  

What's the date this global warming thing is supposed to start anyhow?  Anybody know?

Answer 7

There is no "Turning Point" with the climate. It will warm for years, then it will cool. we have no control, therefor, no turning point.

Answer 8

We have gone past the point of no return unless we can build improvements to assist in reflecting light away from the earth.

First you have to understand how long the earth has been storing up the fossil fuels. The coal, oil and natural gas that we are using now are products of the earth converting plants and animals into their present forms over (often) millions of years. They have been stored now for millions of years without being used until now. By being used now, we are converting these fuels from stored carbon, into released carbon. Thus allowing this released carbon to act as a greenhouse effect gas again.

Since we are talking about a situation where the Earth once had a lot of stored carbon and now that stored carbon is disappearing at a tremendous rate (and will continue into the future) We can be truthful in saying that there is a definite trend, and relationship in the increase of greenhouse gasses. We can also say that these greenhouse gasses would not have been released without the intervention of man. Logically therefore we can say that global warming gasses have been released and any global warming increases are directly attributed to mankind’s releasing them.

The damage done by increased greenhouse emissions has already taken its toll. This is evident by the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. Some will say that there is no such thing as global warming, because there is in their opinion very little change in the average global temperature. However when you take into account the fact that there is less ice, and snow, because of the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. That melted ice, snow and glaciers across the globe will in themselves temporarily lower the overall ocean temperatures untill they all melt. Thereby lowering the average temperatures on the earth. So if you account for that, the temperature can be proven to be increasing.

We cannot get the world back the way it was, even as of fifty years ago, much less stop the damage that will still occur in the future. Sure we could try to stop all industry that will cause pollution, but at what cost. Without industry we could not sustain the present world population. Giving up industry and sacrificing billions of people on this planet in the process, is not a viable solution (even trying to merely lower greenhouse emissions is at best a temporary solution).

The biggest problem we have now is not just the fact that we have more greenhouse gasses trapping heat in, but we are getting less and less sunlight being reflected out from the planet. As the snow cover melts from more and more of the planets surface, the sunlight heats up more parts of the earth that once reflected light back out. It is like a dog chasing its tail (until it gets dizzy and falls from exhaustion). As global warming just keeps building on itself till the ecological balance fails, and this planet will no longer sustain the teeming human populations.

Greenhouse effect cure (there are no real cures but this may help till we can find one). First I want to point out that there are no real, viable short term, or easy methods of curing our Global warming woes. The damage to the environment has already been done and is, for all intent and purposes, basically irreversible. It is likely, however, that any type of plan to get rid of Global warming, will require some type of dramatic ecological compromises.

Some will say that all we need to do is give up industry on the planet and the world will eventually go back to the way it was. I say it is too late for that solution (as a short term solution anyway).

My plan, however, will require the use of old tires and recycled plastics. Of course it will require some engineering feats also, and a few ecological compromises. The benefits of using these wasted products will far outweigh the compromises required.

My idea is to build large floating islands (white on top, to reflect sunlight back out of our planet) made from used tires (filled with co2) and recycled plastics. Yes there are engineering and ecological problems, but everyone has to admit there are worse problems in our current situation. So the only feasible solution is to build a bunch of artificial reflection "islands" across the planet.

There will be other benefits realized, once we build enough of these islands. One of the problems associated with the increased temperatures we are experiencing is the possibility of increased hurricane intensity and frequency. Having enough of these floating islands in strategic points in the oceans will help to alleviate this problem also. It is a well known fact that hurricanes form in areas of the ocean where the temperature rises above approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If we can keep those areas below that temperature (by reflecting sunlight away), we can prevent the formation of hurricanes. Without these floating islands, hurricanes will probably continue to increase in intensity and frequency…

We need a solution to deal with our Global warming woes, and we need it now. Even if this is a difficult path to follow, it will pay off in the future. The overall problems I see for Greenhouse effect is that we can go green all we want, but Global warming and our constant desire to be comfortable, will eventually undermine any efforts we may do. Unless we can get rid of some of the excess heat in this world, we will always be under the eventual threat of a thermal overheating demise.

Answer 9

Me. We are dead look at all the tornados already this year another record and the record was just broken not too long ago. My newscaster recently said that the 5 hottest recorded months of May where all in the last few years.

Answer 10

we can return if we do sumthin about it. it's just soooo many ignorant and stupid people out threr that think global warming doesn't exist.

Answer 11

the biosphere we live in is quite robust, and while man can have a minor effect on it, in the long term nothing man does short of detonating several hundred nuclear weapons at once will have any real effect on the climate. climate change has been happening since the formation of this planet, and will continue long after man has left. the environmentalists like al "i want to control the world" gore want you to believe that if the polar ice caps melt that the planet will somehow die a horrible death. OH we cant drill for oil because we MIGHT hurt the polar bear! a species which has been around for many thousands on years by the way, and is stronger than it has been population wise for 50 years!!

the environmentalists claim that there is soo much carbon dioxde in the atmosphere that we might turn into venus. what they dont tell you is that if we capture 100,000 molecules in the air, 38 of them will be carbon dioxide. and by the way, carbon dioxide was considered to be a harmless molecule up until al gore started opening his loud mouth and proclaiming that we have to do something about global warming within ten years or we are going to die. that was more than ten years ago when he made proclamations like that. do your own research, and look at BOTH sides of the issue with an open mind, and you will find that global warming is BS.

and before anyone says that 2500 renowned scientists have proclaimed global warming to be real, there is a panel of 31,000 scientists that proclaim global warming is natural, and cyclical. and some of those 31,000 include 500 defectors from the global warming is a real threat and man made crowd.

Answer 12

Me. There is no going back from what we have done. We have created a monster and no one is willing to sacrifice anything that they have to help improve either their own lives or other peoples.

The publics greed has exceeded the desire to save our surroundings.

  The population of Kiribati are looking for a new home as their Island will soon be uninhabitable due to rising sea levels. I have been there and I bet everyone that disagrees with that statement has not.

  We are living in a time of negative returns and are consuming horrific amounts of the planets resources, with no thought as to what will happen in the future. The politicians are to scared to make any drastic changes. Etc

  I do not think that we are all going to die in the near future but I do think that there is going to be a major upheaval and I think that the loss of life due to climate change and  population increase is going to be quite shocking.

  Food production is now so energy-intensive that more

carbon is emitted providing a person with enough

calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit

over the same distance.

Ha ha ha, you caught me at a bad moment there, but I feel very strongly about this issue.

Answer 13

I think we have reached the point of no return in terms of teaching idiots not to listen to people like Al Gore.

Climate change is happening.  I just don't believe our actions are having much impact on it. The planet's climate changes throughout the centuries and will continue to do so. SUV's were not responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs or the end of the ice age. That's not to say we can't be good stewards of the planet, be responsible and look for alternative energy sources, but we also need to know when we're being duped so someone else can profit on our fear.

Check my link for an interesting look at Al Gore's personal commitment to the environment and you may view his integrity differently.

Answer 14

No, people have realized it's a scam.