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by JustImagine
on January 27th, 2011
voted:
Yes
Selected by the asker, Abbyguy. (What's this?)
No, water vapor accounts for more heating of the planet than carbon dioxide ever will.
by jin jang on February 1st, 2007
It is real and it is happening now.Top scientests are releasing thier findings today showing it is very serious.I think I see why we think it is not serious.This is a story from World News from the internet.Almost word to word.Democratic chairman of a House Panel examining the governments response to climate change said there is evidence that senior bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming" Rep. Henry Waxman D California.In the bottom line what do we do to change our lifestyles in order to make life better for future generations.And what we do now to conserve energy and find alternatives energy sources,will determine how future generations look back at our generation and see how much effort we have made to slow the process of global warming.
by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on January 14th, 2007
YES or NO
Assuming that the Earth's weather does cycle from warm to cold, or the reverse, and never "stable", remaining the same over an extended period, then we have a fifty percent chance of being on the warming side of the cycle.
Figuring in the effect of increasing industrialization and population growth and the odds tilt in favor of global warming.
Can we predict how much the Earth will warm in the next 100 years?
LOL. Can we accurately predict the weather for next month? Hint: NO.
Can we do anything about it?
YES.
Can we effectively reverse it?
ROTFLMAO. You have to be kidding me!
However, when the government and free enterprise discover how to make some money riding the back of this emotional issue, expect to see your tax bill and cost of living increase and your standard of living, decrease.
In the meantime, keep planting those trees, I'll need the air while I tread the deepening oceans!
by Universe Of Life on January 14th, 2007
YES! WAKE UP PEOPLE
Only the most important problem in the world today.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due to release a report in Paris on Friday entitled Climate Change 2007 in which 2,500 scientists from 130 countries unequivocally state that the current trend towards potentially catastrophic global warming has been induced by human activity, which began with the dramatic increase in fossil fuel use during the Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century.
A draft of the report, the fourth climate change assessment conducted by the IPCC, has been circulated among major news organizations over the past week.
"As we add to [greenhouse] gases, we are just doing the same thing as putting another blanket on our bed at night," said Sir David King, British chief government scientific adviser, in an interview with CBS News. "The consequences are that you get warmer, and that is as simple as it is."
Dr Kevin Trenberth, head of Climate Analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and also a lead author of the report told ABC News: "Certainly, it will say that global warming is happening, and secondly, that it is due to humans. The whole weight of the evidence has simply increased to show that stuff is already happening. What this report does is provide the basis for subsequent actions.”
The IPCC report highlights a number of consequences of climate change including:
· more warmer days and fewer cold ones;
· more heat waves;
· increasingly intense tropical storms and hurricanes; and
· higher sea levels.
In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the implications of more intense hurricanes and rising sea levels could hardly be clearer for New Orleans.
"The sea level is rising worldwide, and that's going to have an immediate impact on New Orleans,” said Tulane University geoscientist Torbjorn Tornqvist. “It's all related to global warming. That's what's happening. We've seen in the past century, sea level is rising four times faster than in the preceding 1,000 years. We have to push harder than anyone else in the United States to reverse the problem of global warming because we are facing that problem here first.”
A major concern is the possibility that the current melting of Arctic ice is unstoppable, even with future reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, which would raise sea levels by more than 20 feet and see most of the world’s cities disappear into the sea. Sir David King told The Ecologist magazine that experts still have not determined whether a ‘tipping point’ has been reached: “We don't know. That's the problem. It is melting faster than anticipated. If we lose all the ice in Greenland, the sea level goes up 6.5m [21 feet] – 80 per cent of our global cities will go underwater.”
The report ominously predicts that sea levels will keep rising for more than 1,000 years even if governments manage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A source quoted by Reuters said: "Twenty-first century anthropogenic (human) carbon dioxide emissions will contribute to warming and sea level rise for more than a millennium, due to the timescales required for removal of this gas."
In addition to catastrophic flooding, other predicted impacts of global warming include severe droughts, desertification and famines. The social effects would include hundreds of millions of “climate refugees” forced from devastated regions.
The report says that recent extreme weather events have resulted from a rise of only 1.5 degrees in global temperatures over the last 150 years, and that a further increase of at least 2 degrees is expected over the next 50 years. According to the previous IPCC report released in 2001 , the very worst case scenario sees the earth’s temperature rising by 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
The report is not without its critics in the scientific community. One senior British climate expert quoted in The Observer warned that the report’s predictions are relatively rosy, given its painstaking consensus process: “The really chilling thing about the IPCC report is that it is the work of several thousand climate experts who have widely differing views about how greenhouse gases will have their effect. Each paragraph of this report was therefore argued over and scrutinized intensely. Only points that were considered indisputable survived this process. This is a very conservative document - that's what makes it so scary.”
Other earth science experts expressed concern that the report does not include the recent and unexpected melting and breaking off of major polar ice sheets. Professor Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University told the Associated Press that the report’s authors “don't take into account the gorillas - Greenland and Antarctica. I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century.”
Nevertheless, scientists are united in their hope that humanity can stave off the worst case scenarios by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, increasing production of electric and hybrid cars, building more energy-efficient homes, developing alternative power sources and reducing travel where possible.
Responding to long-standing concerns that the solutions are too costly, economists are also uniting behind the consensus that humanity can’t afford not to address climate change, because it poses the single greatest threat to the world economy. The recently released Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change states that, “if we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more. In contrast, the costs of action – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change – can be limited to around 1% of global GDP each year. Tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy for the longer term, and it can be done in a way that does not cap the aspirations for growth of rich or poor countries.”
The US Supreme Court is currently considering a case brought by a dozen states who are suing the federal government in an effort to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles on the basis that “there is sufficient scientific evidence to enable the EPA to make a determination under section 202 of the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas emissions may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.” The Supreme Court’s decision on the case is due in June.
Although President Bush recently referred to “the serious challenge of global climate change” in his State of the Union address, he has in practice resisted any binding measures to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Early in 2001, Mr Bush withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol.
Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), former chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, labelled climate change “the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind” and insisted that there is “no relationship between man-made gases and global warming”. He also repeatedly censored the scientific reports and public comments of top NASA climate scientist Dr Jim Hansen, who blasted the secretive nature of the Bush administration and once told an environmental journalists conference that, “In 39 years at NASA, I’ve never seen anything like the degree to which the information flow from our scientists to the public is as inhibited as it is now.”
This wayward course on climate change looks set to change with the new Congress. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who now chairs the Environment and Public Works committee, strongly supports mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions. She has scheduled a hearing on January 30 in which Democrat and Republican senators will present their own legislation to address the effects of global warming, and she believes that bipartisan support on the issue will make it difficult for President Bush to use his veto power. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also supports legislation that cuts greenhouse gas emissions and provides for the development of alternative sources of energy.
Major industrial producers of greenhouse gas emissions, including oil companies, acknowledge human-induced climate change and have also been pushing for federal regulations. They prefer a consistent national system instead of environmental rules that change between states, so they can make informed long-term decisions concerning such projects as building factories and power plants.
Without doubt, the greatest impediment to the scientific solutions offered in the IPCC report will be the political wrangling that has characterized the climate change debate thus far.
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri told Reuters that he hopes the report will galvanize governments into action: “I hope this report will shock people, governments into taking more serious action, as you really can't get a more authentic and a more credible piece of scientific work.”
Read more of the facts:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MCK20070131&articleId=4655
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62445
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30355707.htm
http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta/news.cfm?cit_id=1481105&FAArea1=widgets.content_view_1
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,53179.shtml
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=240732
Thankyou very much!
Elvis has left the building.
by tripwire on February 1st, 2007
Considering that some of the top scientists and climatologists are saying, "Yes,it's very real!!" and industrialists and politicians who put economic interests before environmental ones, are saying no, I tend to believe the scientists.
One of the former and highly respected science advisors to the white house, is suddenly no longer welcome there since he wasn't telling them what they wanted to hear. Apparently (according to CNN) the president is now advised on these matters by none other than Micheal Crichton the writer of novels.....hmmmmm.
by Gonzo on January 13th, 2007
Yes, and it is happening NOW!
It is logical that if you increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to an unnatural amount, then we cant be doing any good!
Maybe it would be wise it invest in a sun bed! We could all get a heck of a tan outta this!
But anyhow, yes it is real and it is slowly destroying the planet. If facts are what you're after, last year was the hottest year recorded in England (If i remember rightly).
I dont think there is any question about the realism of this. It's as real as real can be!
Our winters are becoming much less cold and there was no snow in Vermont until quite recently!
In conclusion, I think that we should all do our bit to cut down on the polution.
by prisoner
on April 9th, 2008
voted:
No
hoax cause by the world elite.. it is NOT caused by human pollution. It's a natural cycle for the Earth.
by Anonymous on April 10th, 2007
In the time we've been able to make any kind of measurement of the global temperature (somewhat more than a century and a half) the data indicate a trend such that the temperature over that time has risen by less than a degree. This is well within the margin of error for these measurements, so in effect, the data do not support any claim of global warming or global cooling.
This is all Chicken Little on acid.
by jin jang on June 27th, 2008
Yes,the north pole will be free of ice for the first time this summer in human history.Now the sun will absorbed by the surface of the ocean thus heating it up causing a rise in the sea level.The more common fires in California are a result of global warming as well.If you go to Life Science.com you will see I am not making this up .The world is in dire straits.
by muguet on December 29th, 2006
No, global warming is NOT real. When people say that there are record temperatures that prove it's real, that makes no sense. So we hit the record temperature since decades ago - was global warming responsible for that temperature then, too? Of course not!
by cambsman on January 31st, 2007
ITS REAL and its happening much faster than most people originally thought.
In England we are getting record breaking temperatures almost every year (therefore increasing almost every year to beat the previous record breaking...).
Our seasons are messed up. This year we were able to pick fruits 3 months later than normal. 1 month would be very different - but 3.
We had warmer nights in December than the norm for July.
The really worryngi thing is that there is a time lag between CO2 emissions and global warming. If we stopped all CO2 emissions tomorrow - we would still experience increases in the temperature for the next decade...
5 years ago, not many people in England beleived or certainly were not worried about global warming. They could not see it. This has really changed in particular the last year. Before people were able to dismiss record changes as "just a one off", but now they can see a pattern without having to be told by the experts.
Lots of people in England mistrust scientists, they do trust their own senses. Unfortuantely due to the lag - we cant afford to wait much longer.
George Bush will go down in history as the man that ignored Global warming and will be hated by future generations for it. He has no excuse because he recieves the evidence. He is an intelligent man (I know a lot of people may not think so - but you cant become President if you are a complete idiot). He has put votes and business ahead of the true interests of the American people and the world.
Whether he was right with the gulf war will be insignificant compared to the extra millions of people who will starve in Africa becuase of global warming. The whole western economy could collapse if we dont face up to it soon.
It wont collapse today or in 20 years time, but 40 or 60 disasters etc. will be so great...
We must act now to avoid this.
Better get off my soap box.
PS I love America nad a lot of American states and cities are responding to the global warming problem. However, if the USA does not sign up to the next Kyoto type agreement, then China and India probably wont either and the three combined.....
by 60s Rock on December 2nd, 2007
No it is real. The Earth has gone through several ice ages. Time was when the whole Earth was covered with ice. The most recent ice age had ice caps as far south as central Ohio. That ice is still receding. We did not cause it. We may have contributed slightly. We can't stop it. We may be able to lessen the minimal affect we have. The farce lies with those who try to capitalize on a 'CURE' and preach of reform as if it will fix the problem. One of them claims to have invented the internet. I don't know, maybe he invented ice too.
by Carmella on December 29th, 2006
I'm pretty sure it is. The weather where I live is bizarre, there wasn't a day in the summer I didn't get drowned when I stepped out of the door.
by Old School
on April 20th, 2010
voted:
Yes
Anthropogenic climate change denial has about as much evidence backing it as Holocaust Denial, Income Tax Denial, Evolution Denial, etc.
Unfortunately, a far larger fraction of the population has fallen for the hokum than in the case of Holocaust Deniers, Income Tax Deniers, etc.
In every one of these Denialism movements, the 'logic' of the argument is the same. There is a mountain of evidence that the 'conventional wisdom' is true (Yes, the Holocaust happened. Yes, you have to pay your income tax. Yes, anthropogenic climate change is occurring).
The Deniers then pick out a few inconsistencies (or outright fabrications) and assert that because the evidence is not 100% perfectly consistent, the proposition must be wrong.
Furthermore, even when these inconsistencies are put into context or debunked, the Deniers just throw up another crumb, all the while ignoring the mountain of consistent evidence.
Alas, I am of the opinion that it doesn't really matter. The Deniers have delayed action for so long that the best humanity can hope to do is adapt to a very different world climate as gracefully as possible.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming-border-dispute.html
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/index/#Responses
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/consult/debate/climatechange/summary.asp
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/guide/quick/doubts.html
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/07/23/anti-global-heating-claims-a-reasonably-thorough-debunking/
http://www.ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/myths
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT
on December 24th, 2009
voted:
No
the fossil record indicates that the warmer the planet the better life flourishes.
global cooling... now there is a crisis... one which back in the 1970s we thought was occuring.
by cameron2012
on December 17th, 2009
voted:
No
No, i believe the government made this up so they could raise taxes sky high. Also to set in the one world currency later on but its already happening in some countrys.
by prisoner
on March 24th, 2008
voted:
No
No. It's not. It's a conspiracy... seriously...
Before you go downrating me, there's no proof showing that human's cause global warming. Al Gore isn't a scientist, so "Inconvenient Truth" doesn't count. There are scientists representing BOTH sides of the spectrums. Everyone should look at ALL the scientists' studies before making up their mind, and before listening to what celebrities think. Scientists have shown that our neighboring planets' temperatures are also rising. There's no way human pollution causes this! Fact is, our Sun is getting hotter. Al Gore never mentioned that.,.. yet him and his friends want to impliment a CARBON-Tax. I'm not OK with pollution, but I'm not OK with the Taxation of it either.
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I live in Japan. Why does it matter whether we're from the US or not? this is a GLOBAL issue, is it not?
by Barcaluv on March 3rd, 2007
I do. I just saw "An Inconvenient Truth" last week and it was an eye-opener, no matter if some sectors try to downplay it and accuse Gore and other enviromentalists of being alarmists and extremists.
by RFlagg on March 3rd, 2007
It's hard not to believe in it, seeing as the effects are occuring all around us.
There has been an undeniable climate change over the past century or so, and the only cause that seems likely is human industrial activity.
So yes, I geuss I do.
by Fun on March 3rd, 2007
I totally believe in global warming. There are probably many web site links I could offer, but I believe you asked for my personal opinion (I could be wrong). It's days like back in November and I'm walking through Manhattan sweating because it's 60 degrees. It's a very scary thing. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the nice weather but I kept thinking that something wasn't right...
by black dove
on April 20th, 2010
voted:
Yes
Maybe we caused the changes, maybe not. That isn't relevant; what matters is, the ice over the North Pole is disappearing, the weather is changing, and people had better start seriously planning for major events like tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Time to pull the fingers out of our collective ears and stop saying, 'la-la-la, can't hear you...' History has proven, Mother Nature can play really rough. It's not an invented crisis, it ISN'T political, and inaction will cost human lives.
by Tallyman
on January 22nd, 2010
voted:
No
No, it is now very clear to most people (especially scientists) that the man-made global warming scare is all a scam to give profit to Al Gore and his carbon credit-mongers and total control to governments.
30,000 Scientists and the founder of the Weather Channel are suing Gore for fraud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ
31,000 Scientists know that man-made global warming is a hoax:
http://www.petitionproject.org/
by Mr. Sex ~ The Original Mr. Knowitall on February 12th, 2009
Global Warming is a complete hoax. For proof, just go to http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php. Man has known about the Earth's environment for less than 100 years. Just as we experience temperature changes through the different seasons, so to does the Earth go through temperature changes in phases that have nothing to do with what time of the year it is. Global Warming is nothing more than a hoax that's perpetrated by Liberals, Extremists that want Big Government, and those who make money off from it by writing books about it.
by Anonymous on May 26th, 2008
Global warming is real, but it is a natural cycle to do with the sun
by jin jang on May 21st, 2008
Global warming is real and the human race has the blame because of its misunderstanding of it's relationship to the earth.Humans are the only species that will ruin its surrounding environment,thus lead to it inevitable extinction.
by Ms.A on February 14th, 2008
In the 1970's the top scientists (including one Carl Sagan)predicted that a new IGE-AGE would be upon us by the 2000's.Hmmmm....
by bolilla on May 1st, 2007
'as Al Gore puts it' or 'every scientist and person with a brain on the globe puts it'?
by Glenn Blaylock on February 2nd, 2007
I just happened across a series of articles (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=22003a0d-37cc-4399-8bcc-39cd20bed2f6&k=0) that I think everyone here should read. In recent years those that support the scare campaign known as global warming have increasingly tried to dismiss those that disagree with them on this issue as being untrustworthy, in the pockets of of various industries, cranks, and/or one the periphery of the scientific community. In this series of articles the credentials of several global warming critics are examined and their arguments presented. If you will take the time to go through the articles, you will find that they are not what the global warming advocates claim they are. You will also get a perspective that such people don't want you to have.
One of the articles that I found particularly interesting (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&k=0) tells about how Mars is also experiencing warming. Obviously, it would be very hard to make an argument that we humans are responsible for Martian global warming. So, perhaps another explanation should be sought that accounts for the changes in the climates of both planets.
by jin jang on February 1st, 2007
World scientists are meeting now in Paris,and represent all countries.They are reporting as a whole in 5 years of study.They say that global warming is much worse and critical than was previously known.They say within ten years many catastrophies such as Katrina will become more common.They are 90% sure that the cause is human with the excessive use of fossil fuels.Within ten years major climate changes will happen,and by the end of the century,Florida,Holland and most of Australia will be under water.It is time show concern,about future generations,for it is our responsibility.
by Jim100 on January 15th, 2007
"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." Author: Stephen Schneider (leading advocate of the global warming theory)(in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 1989)
"In the United States...we have to first convince the American People and the Congress that the climate problem is real." Author: former President Bill Clinton in a 1997 address to the United Nations
Hmmmm, I guess I don't beleive it.
by janacide on January 14th, 2007
you know...I dont know really...what i do know is that it is friggin C_O_L_D here right now and has been for a week now....single digits and under so at the moment I am not convinced.
by lannab on January 14th, 2007
hell yea i think its real. didnt you see that one movie i forgot what it was called but i believe it is so real. i think its interesting. but i think we need to use things that help the world.
by Valparaiso on December 29th, 2006
I'm not sure anymore.
There is evidence for it and evidence against it.
I think if I had to say yes or no I would say Yes but I don't think its as immediate of a problem as some people are saying and I think there has been a lot of fear mongering attached to it.
by Ezzy on December 29th, 2006
yes I believe it's a possibility but I hope it doesn't happen
by Caroline
on April 20th, 2010
voted:
Yes
Poor polar bears.
by HoboJoe on October 31st, 2009
Real. Greenland is melting like crazy.
by ChandaDiane - est. 1975 on February 19th, 2009
I think it is a myth that the human race can cause it or solve it.
The Earth has many different types of cycles, one of them is warming and cooling. That is all. There is nothing we can do about it. We are not that powerful.
by maS elcnU on November 28th, 2008
As real as Santa Claus, Harry Porter, and Snow White.
My 2 cents.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202007/GWHoaxBorn.pdf
by BelaBartok on May 8th, 2008
Global warming is real. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant in my books.
by Jaimie.x on April 28th, 2008
Global warming is a real thing.
by jin jang on March 24th, 2008
It has been going on for many decades and maybe over a century and a half.The burning of coal to run factories and heat houses has gone on for over one hundred and fifty years and has contributed greatly,and scientists acknowledge this fact.Then the automobile was invented in the early 1900's and a new form of pollution was introduced.Then the airplane became popular and spews out a great deal of pollution.Now with the icecaps melting at an alarming rate,and the climatic changes are happening now,we as humans with our heads in the sand are arguing and discussing if it is real.One justs needs to look out the door and look.Also it is human nature to never take the blame for our consequences and thus blame mother nature.Why make a human survival issue into some political nonsense is beyond me.
by Anonymous on January 19th, 2008
Not really. I know the earth is getting hotter but I feel the believe its having effects is no diffrent that in the 1970's when they said it was getting colder.
by Pepsi_drinking_redneck on November 21st, 2007
Strictly speaking, global warming and global cooling refer to the natural warming and cooling trends that the earth has experienced all through its history.
Global warming the view that the earth's temperature is being increased, in part, due to emissions of greenhouse gases associated with human activities such as burning fossil fuels, biomass burning, cow and sheep rearing, deforestation and other land use changes.
Humans make up less than 1% of the Co2 emissions throughout the world the sea constitutes for around just over 90% Co2 em. and the rest is animals and trees, so even if we did cut off all of our Co2 waste it wouldn't make the blindest bit of difference to global warming
its ALL government and company spin to win votes and make money, during the 50s-60 they were worried about "the big freeze" and were still here
Global warming is triggered the suns activities we actually no control over global warming at all
cows produce more Co2 though methane (farts) then all the cars do. just kill the cows problem solved.
by Fixated on paternal age research on October 11th, 2007
Not a real problem http://en.sevenload.com/videos/ha4PoKY/The-Great-Global-Warming-Swindle
by Midnighttoker
on April 8th, 2007
voted:
Yes
only a fool would think it's not happening. it's partly natural, we sure aren't helping.
by anonymous on March 5th, 2007
Yes, I am sure it is real. I'm actually shocked that some people don't even believe in it.
by Vesper on January 30th, 2007
Yes.
by thepilgrim
on April 25th, 2010
voted:
Yes
It does not matter weather the melting of our ice caps is due to human activity or not. It is happening. We should be focusing our energies on preparing to meet the challenges that this will create.
by gillaspy01
on April 20th, 2010
voted:
Yes
wow the results of this poll really shocked me. I had no idea people could be that in dark about reality. maybe many of you are just burrying your heads in the sand and denying the reality. sadly enough while you find excuses to do nothing the world races towards irreversable cataclismic disaster.
Saying that global warming is not real and that it is not human caused flys in the face of the entire scientific community. just because you see out the window that it hasnt changed much in your neck of the woods doesnt mean anything. and just cause the opinion spinning idiots on fox news trot out the couple quacks that doubt if its real doesnt mean that they are right.
Grow up and get out of your comfort zone people. the earth isnt an unlimited resource. the completely unsustainable consumption practices of all indistrialized nations will lead to the death of billions if they arent changed. and im not talking changed in a few decades, im talking changed today. because there is six billion people here and there will be 10 billion in the next 50 years. we do not have enough resources to go around. so burry your head in the sand and pretend it isnt a problem all you want but when the shit hits the fan at least ill know i was right.
And about the propogandists out there spinning that global warming is a hoax, i dont blame them for doing that. they make trillions off the status quo of consumption and energy practices in the industrialized nations. if i owned a fossil fuel company id spend every last dime i had to convince everyone that humans useing my product wasnt hurting the environment. if i owned a fosil fuel company id aslo fight anyone trying to say they had a reason to use alternative energy because that falls outside of my area of control.
But what it really comes down too is that we have this growth model in this country and in the westernized contries where we think that we can go on consuming and exploiting the earths resources forever without end. thats antiquated thinking that is completely at odds with reality.
by user deleted
on April 20th, 2010
voted:
Yes
Damn, so many dumb people have their eyes closed.
Look outside! Has nature ever acted like that before? This year, in my country, we have so damn aggressive floods! And we haven't ever even had any floods!
All who say NO are either drunken dumbasses, who have never gone to school or greedy newriches, who are owners of massively polluting factories.
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