Question On Global Warming?

Queenie Ruthers: global warming is not important at all!it does not exist. period end of storythe earth goes thru a cycle every hundred years or so. thats all this is back in the 1920's the glaciers where melting even more than they are now. and back then they didnt drive excursions and the vehicles we have now. ppl who actually go all pshyco over this are insane...Show more

Carter Dewater: Not at all. Greenhouse gas and its effect I worry about. I don't want to walk around in a space suit.Plus I don't want to drink my own urine becuase the water source are polluted.A good example was the China Olympics air quality....Show more

Rosann Mccomb: Whether it is warmer today than 100years ago is not the issue on hand. It is the concept that the current climate optimum is harmful and caused by human civilization that is false! The best science professionals all feel that sunspots are the major item affecting climate variations. Historically this is why scientifically! warm periods like we are currently experiencing are called climate optimums. They differ from cold periods such as the little ice age that ended 180 years ago, which are called climate minimums, because they minimize the world’s population through less food and more sickness. Since the almost extinction of the human race during the last ice age the warm climate optimums have brought population expansion because life is better when it is warm and there is more food to eat. Climate minimums like the dark ages and the little ice age are periods of starvation and sickness.Climate optimums like the Holocene, Roman and medieval are times of plentiful food and comfortable weather that naturally brings population increase in every animal type from ants to humans. Only a real fool would freak out just because the weather is good, but then liberals and their AGW companions have never been considered very bright. If they were they would be skeptics! I think we need to interject som! e real science into the preponderance of rampant alarmist spec! ulation constantly expressed here and apparently also by grossly misinformed schoolteachers. The studies linked below are real science and every conclusion reached in them is as solid as any science our civilization has achieved.http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-glo...http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/...Show more

Ellis Cellar: It's very important. If we didn't have global warming after the last ice age - it would be very cold.

Matt Tiry: Global warming is important to our world because if we don't go a lot "greener" by 2015, our worlds going to be a mess. Many people say that they don't "beleive" in global warming but the truth is it's not a matter of beleiving or disbeleiving. It's a matter of being a smart enough person to look at the heaps of evidence and say "yup, that's happening". These people who tell you it's fake (I'm sorry to them but) they're idiots. There's a few reasons why they say this.1. They don'! t want to change their lifestyles. They like their hummers and SUV's and air conditioning their house so that they have to wear sweaters in summer and heating to wear tank tops in winter. Tehy just don't want to change.2. They have some sort of job involving oil or cars. You see, if we go greener, people buy less fuel or buy different cars, leacing them with smaller pay chcks (though they're paid tons of money already)3. They have no mind of their own and just listen to what Stephen Harper says. Stephen harper has friends in oil companies, so that's why he doesn't associate with this problemSo if you don't beleive me, watch the news, listen to climate specialists and environmental specialists (not some person on the street), the majority of the smart population, the kids with minds of their own who'll have to live in this mess, the dieing polar bears, the melting glaciers, the people who actually have to suffer (usually africa) and that's all i can think of. So yah, hope th! is helps...Show more

Mikel Bethay: okay. I'll tell you the real f! acts.Since you are not asking how or why Global warming is occurring, I won't do a spiel about that, I'll just skip to how its going to effect us. alright so, as we let CO2 emissions (carbon dioxide) and other green house gases into the air, it causes the green house effect to react even more. you know about the green house effect, right? well just in case, the green house effect is something our earth ABSOLUTELY needs. It keeps a thin layer of green house gases, CO2 mainly, in our atmosphere. So, when rays from the sun are coming down to Earth they will hit the ground and get soaked in, some will hit the ground and bounce off, and some will get trapped by the green house effect. this allows our earth to be warm, without it, we would be dead.So anyways, our Co2 emissions are let out into the air more and more, and that layer of atmosphere (green house effect) is now doing too much warming!this affects us in many ways, for example, Polar Ice Caps! those are essential! sure p! eople are like, well I don't live there blah blah, but common sense would tell you as an ECOsystem if one thing fails, we all fail.From their melting we get extinct speicies. For the first time EVER have scientists found polar bears drowning. So, this is causing our sea levels to rise. right now, not a big deal, years from now, very dangerous. Of all of anartica were to melt, places like madhatten, san diego, new orleans, venice, shanghai home to 40 million people, world trade center memoria, most of florida, etc. would be completely under water.But even before any f that happens, we get warmer sea tempuatures. we are already seeing that. Hurricanes get their wind, speed, and turbulence from warm sea levels.In this year we have already had 2 major hurricanes and by average there is only 3 a year, we have had like 4 tropical storms and by average there is only 3 a year, I forget the rest, look it up on CNN.global warming causes sever weather! thunderstorms! hurricanes! etc. ! the average rate of animal extintion a day is 5. think about that. (nat! ional Geographic?think about Katrina. What a horrible disaster. Now imagine 3-4 of those a year. the refugees made by KAtrina quadruppaling in size!!!! any other questions? giugiu12@hotmail.com feel free.Nothing I said up there was intended to be bias, most were facts. Facts I have read and looked up. ...Show more

Margy Sandquist: Composite findings of about 2,000 scientists do not augur well for future years due to the alarming rate the earth's lower atmosphere is warming up. The world is being warned of hunger and thirst for millions (even billions) due to global warming. The continuous emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane has worsened the situation especially in the most recent years. Global warming has triggered climate change in all parts of the world, most apparent of which is the warming of the polar zones which has flushed water from the melted ice to the oceans, disrupting the ecology and the affecting the lifestyle of thousands ! of people.Millions of homes (pegged at 7 million) could be washed away by sea levels that are continuously on the swell. The Great Barrier Reef, the pride of Australia and the refuge of most of the world's most treasured sea creatures, (the living reef in itself considered as the biggest organism in the world) could die in just decades, the same reports say. This is part of the draft of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Global Warming Awareness 2007 or IPCC. This highly compelling study from IPCC is a significant development it has always been reputed for no-nonsense (neutral), highly statistical (cautious) reporting.Australia is a focal point in one part of the reports, warning on the effects of warmer and more acidic seas on the Great Barrier Reef (mainly coral bleaching) by 2030. This detrimental effect is caused by the death of the corals, leaving only its skeleton (used to be sold but is now prohibited as decorative items tourist shops).In the report, scientists say th! at the coast northeast of Australia known as The World Heritage would b! e most damaged by warmer temperatures. This means extinction of more than 133,000 square miles of underwater living wonders.Over the past century (reference year 1900), global temperatures on the average have risen from 0.7 to 0.8 degrees. This has been documented as the culprit in the ongoing death or bleaching of the Indian coral reefs, as well as those in the Indian Ocean. Warmer temperatures also means more evaporation increasing the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, another influencing factor that has increased the greenhouse effect over the oceans by 4% over the past 35 years.Once temperature increase reaches 2 - 3 degrees above that in 1900, Australia's alpine zones will totally be gone. Another scary consequence would be the imminent total destruction of Amazon forest system of South America. The greatest casualty: biodiversity.As with any late realizations, global warming awareness is not without trade offs in regards to human and economic costs, whic! h is relatively higher in poor countries. Many African countries are now being debilitated by very serious water shortages. Flooding of coastal areas in low-lying regions is now a common phenomenon. Hardest hit are Bangladesh and many islands along the Pacific.Other alarming consequences of global warming include:Killer heat waves . They will be worse, will last longer, and will be more frequent than that of summer 2003 which hit southern Europe.Stronger, more destructive tropical storms and hurricanes. There will also be marked increase in rainfall and flooding of coastlines.High probability of ice-free summers in the Arctic, ongoing melting of mountain glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets.Significant rise in sea levels. Even if carbon dioxide levels will be stabilized, the world will still stand witness to higher sea levels 0.43 meters higher in 2100 and 0.8 meters by 2300....Show more