Global Warming

Truth or fiction?

Your opinion.

Why are the glaciers melting? Is it because there's a global freeze?

i believe we are in a period of global warming. Does it matter who or what caused it? No. Does it matter that humans can do something to help prevent it from becoming disastrous? Yes.

There are little children suffering from asthma in areas where there are high carbon emissions.

Water is running out and whole populations are having to migrate.

Forget the "Why!!!!" Do something about what we can do.

We need to be stewards of the earth, plain and simple. And if it is a natural climate change, than we have work to do to deal with it.

Carol

Carol,

What did the doctor say and do?

The evidence seems to sugguest that global warming is happing and that greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of fossil fuels are a contributing factor. If I remember correctly, the carbon dioxide levels are higher today than they have been for several tens of thousands of years. Mostly from about 150 years or so of burning fossil fuels. Even if global warming were not happening, there are still many reasons to move away from fossil fuels. First, fissil fuels are finite and will eventually run out. Secondly, there will come a day when fossil fuels will be insufficient to meet the energy needs of civilization. Thirdly, besides greenhouse gases, burning fossil fuels realeases other contaminents into the environment, such as sulfur dioxide, which can react with water in the atmosphere to produce sulfuric acid and thus acid rain. Burning coal can also realease mercury into the environment where it can form organic compounds many, many times more toxic than elemental mercury. Burning of fossil fuels is also responsible for the haze over big cities known as smog. Furthermore, if the fuel does not undergo complete combustion, harmful particulates (soot) and hydrocarbon compounds harmful to the environment may be realeased. A further problem with petroleum based products, such as plastics, lubercating oils, ect. is they tend not to biodegrade in the environment and can be hazardus to wildlife. There is a large area of dibris in the Pacific ocean known as the Pacific Garbage Patch that consists largely of petroleum based plastics, such as plastic shopping bags.

There is also a problem with debating this subject.
It seems that that is the only thing people do.
Talk, Talk, Talk, no one goes beyond discussion these days.

If there is money to be made from action then they do it, if not they stall the process.

The planet is warming up but what is really causing it? There are different theories different views it is a huge debate.

To the people who run things money is absolutely everything. They won't do anything unless money can be made from it. There are many in this world who would utterly destroy the Earth in a few generations of it ment they could make tons of money now. That's a major part of the problem, many people (especially those in power) are more concerned with having wealth now rather than with the future of Earth and civilization.

If the money being spent on the debate were being spent on a solution, we wouldn't have a problem.

Ann

I think I must be a paid up member of the Flat Earth Society because I just don't buy into global warming. When we visited New Zealand (a young country), we saw flooding that knocked out Dunedin airport for several weeks. Otago suffered the worst flooding for 56 years. New Zealand is as far away as it is possible to be from heavy industrialisation and the burning of fossil fuels on a massive scale. The cycles of weather are from forces of nature just like the cyclones and hurricanes that blow up from the Pacific and wreak havoc across the Southern United States, and the Tsunamis that wreck the beautiful Asiatic coastlines. Industry can cause local problems of smog and water contamination ... but on a global scale? No, I just don't get it.

Global warming is almost a religion.
People get so worked up about it.

The earth has undergone climate changes--warming, cooling, etc.,

Mercury is warming also. We are not there causing it.

We drive a Prius some global warming gurus fly multiple airplanes.

I guess they need to get arouind quickly to spread their message.

I think whether you believe in it or not, do your best to take care of our planet.

Weather is global. Pollution is spread globally.
If nuclear fallout was containable there would not be such a big deal about it.

Shelagh wrote:

Industry can cause local problems of smog and water contamination ... but on a global scale? No, I just don't get it.

It's quite hard to visualise, for sure

Global impacts of local events are quite genuine, when you consider that when people dump plastic shopping bags into the sea in Europe and America... which later end up inside fish and marine life as far away as in the Polynesian islands.

I remember seeing a BBC news report on this a couple of years ago, when they pulled out dead fishes out the water with bits of plastic bag stuck inside their gills and guts... in coastal waters of one of the Polynesian islands, some 12,000 miles away out in the Pacific...

It isn't just plastic bags, fishing with lead weights causes a lot of damage to wildlife too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230943/Climate-change-scandal-BBC-expert-sent-cover-emails-month-public.html

How about this?

http://www.fightcleanenergysmears.org/?gclid=CMLK2qD0zp4CFRMhDQodOGY5yQ

This, maybe?

Ann

Thanks, Ann,

I guess I coudl not go into court and swear either way. I am doing the best that I can to be environmentally correct. but the best way to do that is even disputed by many.

It is hard to figure out--too many ideas, too few facts.

Ann,
thanks. It will take some time, but we will eventually learn about the politics behind the campaign to negate the data on climate change. I believe it concerns economic issues - it always does. Remember GWB's opposition stating that it would hurt the economy?

I believe we need to restore the greener planet we had before industrialisation kicked in.

The evidence is clear from a debate I had a few years back on the enviornment forum:

http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/forum/climate-change-forum/8132-terraform-sahara-reverse-global-warming.html

Before dark, satanic mills, polluted waterways and London pea-soupers?

We can do it, we have the 'tech'.

Most electrical appliances at home have a low voltage equivalent, there is no real need to generate thousands of volts of electricity to be channeled across country to power our mains voltage tv. When you look inside a typical mains powered appliance you will find the mains circuitry is designed to lower and convert the voltage from AC to DC. meaning that these devices only require a lower power to operate. A typical device plugged into the mains supply converts the mains to 12 volts or 24 volts. You can buy 12 volt kettles fridges TV's etc. If every home had a wind powered generator and solar panels and was fitted with low voltage appliances things would be better.

Our society needs to change but all this costs money, big money. Electricity companies will loose money, oil companies will loose money. The Tax charges put on oil and electricity will be lost and governments will loose money the fat pigs will no longer be able to buy their cigars and wine and dine.
This is what is taking down our world the greed of those we put in charge.

The crime here is that all this has been possible for years and years.

Well said, David.

It would seem that Antarctica is expanding, not melting:

http://www.news.com.au/antarctic-ice-is-growing-not-melting-away/story-0-1225700043191