Worried About Our World?

Question

Do you guys honestly think global warming is going to kill us all in about 5-10yrs? Im sorry but i honestly can't believe that unless i have good enough proof, someone please tell me im abit worried

Answer 1

maybe a little

Answer 2

Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:55 AM

By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size  

Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.

Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impact on the global climate.

Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years.

As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.

As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.

Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.

Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.

AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.

Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.

An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.

In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.

Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.

Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.

More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.

If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death.

© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Answer 3

Ask me again in 20 years. In the 1970's we were cooling the globe and heading for an Ice age, we were going to run out of oil by the year 2000, and would not be able to go outside because of acid rain.

Acid rain was mostly a myth, they have found more oil than they ever dreamed of, And I do not think there are any glaciers in Florida. They lied then, they are lying now.

Answer 4

Kill us all in five to ten years? Pretty much zero chance.

Cause flooding and starvation in certain areas? Extremely likely.

Make the world a miserable place to live? Well, that depends.

Answer 5

Thursday February 21, 04:52 PM

Aust 'most vulnerable' to climate change: Garnaut

A report by economist Ross Garnaut has warned Australia must take a lead role in tackling climate change or risk becoming the most badly damaged country in the developed world.

Professor Garnaut has handed down his interim report on carbon emissions targets and the creation of an emissions trading scheme today.

The report was commissioned by the federal, state and territory governments to help develop major policies on climate change.

Professor Garnaut says Australia's large agricultural sector and a reliance on trade with developing nations in Asia, that are also put at risk by rising temperatures, makes it one of the most vulnerable countries in the developed world.

"Without action we are running towards dangerous points more quickly that a lot of the earlier analysis has suggested," he said.

He says Australia needs to play a lead role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by going beyond its stated target of a 60 per cent cut by 2050.

But Professor Garnaut says Australia is relatively well-placed to convert strong action on climate change into economic opportunity.

The report also sets out an initial guide to the design of an emissions trading scheme.

State and federal leaders have been briefed on the details of the interim report in Adelaide.

South Australian Premier Mike Rann says it paints a very sobering picture for the global community.

"Essentially what I'm sure that you will find out is that in the last five years and certainly since the modelling done by Sir Nicholas Stern, things are much worse for the world in terms of global warming than previously believed," he said.

Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter says the report has a blunt warning.

"What Ross Garnaut has done is basically tell us, 'less time than you thought, more action than you thought, maybe in a shorter space of time'," Mr Carpenter said.

"There needs to be a sense of urgency. This isn't a matter just for governments, it's a matter for the ordinary people of the states."

Policy

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has welcomed the interim report and says it will help to inform the Federal Government as it develops its policies.

But she says Labor will not go past its election commitment of a 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2050.

"Obviously unlike the previous government we have said we would be cognisant of the science," she said.

"But the Government's commitment is the one we made prior to the election and that we took to the Australian people, which is a reduction of 60 per cent by 2050.

"That is the approach the Government will take."

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told Parliament it is vital the Government gets its climate change policies right.

"It's critical for the economy, critical for families, critical for the environment, critical for national security," he said.

"After 12 years of inaction on the whole question of climate change it's time that Australia led the international community on this question, it's time we had a government that led the national debate on this question.

"That's what needs to be done now, that's what this Government is now engaged in."

The final report will be released in September.

The Climate Institute says the report is an important starting point for a mature debate about climate change policy.

Chief executive John Connor says it outlines how Australian can become a low-carbon economy.

"What's significant is that he highlights that Australia is one of the countries most at risk from climate change, but also has most to gain from early action on climate change," Mr Connor said.

"So this is a real important curtain-raiser on a mature debate that we need to have, and that needs to look at strong action and decisive action."

Related links: Commit now on climate: Garnaut Review

Garnaut report a call to action, says Brown

Garnaut report must strike a balance: Bligh

24 world cities in 'Earth Hour' black-out: organisers

FULL COVERAGE: Environment News on Yahoo!7

Answer 6

It won't be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

Most scientists say, in 20-50 years. But we need to start right now to fix it, fixing it will take even longer than that.

Really good website for more information here:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

Lots of numerical scientific data proving it real here:

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

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

Proof that most scientists think it's real and mostly caused by us here:

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

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

Answer 7

You have a 1 in 76 chance of dying in an automobile accident in the US (lifetime).

The slaughter of 40,000 americans each year on their highways doesn't seem to really bother anyone.

How is some warm weather going to destroy the world?

People like hot weather.

If mankind can survive the plague, wars, famine, AIDS, Spanish flu, and world wars, then warmer weather ought to be a cinch.

Even when mankind makes a real concerted effort to wipe out species, like mosquitoes, agricultural pests, flies, bacteria, viruses, etc. it has not succeed (with a few exceptions).

Answer 8

Nobody said it would kill us all in 5-10 years.  But it is a real problem!  Do some reading and you'll see.

One problem we have, especially in the US I think, is that we don't do anything about a problem until it's a disaster.  They knew for years the levees around New Orleans were weak and decrepit and could crumble in a bad storm, but when Katrina broke them people said "Well, nobody expected the levees to break down!"  Sure they did!  And right now, the levees along the Sacramento River in Northern California are in the same condition, with experts saying they need shoring up and repairing  These levees control 1/3 of all the drinking water in the state.  One of these days one of them will burst and there will be terrible water shortages and everyone's lawn will be brown for a couple of years.  And people will say 'Well, nobody expected the levees to break!'

EVERYONE in the world believes global warming is a problem except (a) the big oil companies and (b) their political wing, the Republican Party.  Just how bad it is, just how soon you'll notice rising ocean levels, etc., is not known for sure, and global warming deniers use this uncertainty to discredit the whole idea--well how could it be happening if they can't even tell us -when-?

For 50 years, tobacco companies insisted their product was completely safe.  They even did their own studies to show that nicotine and tars were not dangerous for you.  When it was finally proven beyond a doubt that the stuff caused cancer and emphysema, the states sued the tobacco companies. The tobacco companies said 'Well yeah, we said it was safe but we said that to keep our business going.  You should have known better than to listen to us!'  Politicians from tobacco states who'd protected their interests all these years pretended to be shocked.  "I just believed what they told me!  Is it my fault they lied to me?"  I think years from now the oil companies, and Republican politicians, could be saying this same thing about global warming.

Answer 9

Personally, I worry a great deal about what we are doing to the planet. What happens in the next 20-40 years as we continue to dump more into the atmosphere? Do we reach a tipping point where we cannot stop the decline in our planets ability to support life? Does it get hotter which kills more plants which makes it hotter still such that the cycle feeds on itself?

Timothy D.

West Melbourne, FL