Shelley Stevens: Many of the posters here have basically explained what global warming is. I don't think there should be much debate on that. As far as what causes it is where the great debate takes place. Regretfully, few of the larger fear mongers out there want to talk about the cyclical nature of climate change and the fact that we have gone through many periods of more significant and rapidly changing average global temperatures during the history of the earth than what we are going through now.While mankind may well have some impact on global climate change with the emission of greenhouse gasses, there is plenty of evidence to support that what is happening right now is natural. The earth has, on a fairly regular basis, gone through these changes. There are also instances where the cyclical nature of climate change has been given a jolt by an asteroid striking the surface of the planet or the eruption of a super volcano (Read up on Yellowstone National Park for! more info on these) puts so much dust into the air that it has brought on severely colder temperatures world wide. We can certainly do much to make our planet a more livable place and help clean up the earth but they aren't going to stop the current trend of warming. One day the earth will kill us or force us to take extreme measures to survive. It has done so with countless other species on our planet. Most people don't realize it but 99% of all plants and animals that have live don this planet are today, extinct. Considering how many different species we have on the earth now, that is a staggering thought. We are better equipped to deal with climatological change than our ancestors and one day (and this is a VERY VERY long way off) we may well be put into a situation where life as we know it now will be history. It sounds dark and scary but there isn't much we can do about it but use our own ingenuity to find the way to survive....Show more
Pei Heatherly: Ho! w does that make sense? drop opposition so it can be ratified ! and then scrapped.If Australia have come to their senses now, doesn't that mean we should be sensible right from the start and make sure it can not get approved.
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Michelle Sohre: at the moment im cool with global warming, where i live its kinda getting nicer, but i think pollution should stop or decrease global warming or not, but i also think if stuff like bans on big polluting companies happen many people will be out of jobs, Im really at a cross roads with this.
Justin Casten: The globe has been warming for the last 6000 to 10000 years, ever since the last Ice Age. It's all part of the global climatic cycle. I think it's important to protect our environment and as global citizens we should do all we can.But to say that man is the cause is a bunch of !@#$%&*. Do we help it along? Sure we do. But not to the extent that the media and certain former VPs would have you believe....Show more
Lana Uliano: I believe in Global Warming a! nd Cooling - hence Ice ages, and Tropical Ages, Dino's etc -Humans effecting that pattern no -First Mars Polar Ice Caps melting -Martian SUV's?Martian Deforestation?Martian Cow Flatulence?Second - How did the Ice Age End? How did It start?How about the greenhouse Gasses in the Dino age?The Earth Warmed between 1919 and 1940 and then cooled down until 1976. BTW the sea levels have been increasing since the start of the melting of the Ice Age.This winter in 3 weeks NY got 11 Feet of snow and the first 3 weeks of April the Midwest was below or at freezing.in 982 AD Greenland was farmable. When did it freeze?Greenland has been loosing at the rate of 0.4% each 100 years. But that has reversed in late 2005. If the ice is growing back - how can that happen in the Warming?How do we answer the little ice age between 13 century ad - 19 century ad?What started the warming in the 1800's if the greenhouse gasses were much less then today.Science is an exact thing -Remember Science said ! the earth was flatRemember Science said that the earth was the center o! f the universeRemember that science in 1975 said that we would be in a deep freeze/ice age by 2000.Could we have the cause and effect mixed up. Could the greenhouse gasses be the effect of some outside cause (the sun?)?...Show more
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Jerald Florence: Thats what basically animals do.Just survive.Humans have come a long way from that and you should recognise this fact. Who wants just a shi**y existence. We want much more from life.
Shamika Schools: global warming's is the gradual heating up of the planet Earth... caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFC) which trap sun rays and don't let the reflecting ray out of the atmosphere thus trapping the heat.... its effects are the gradual warming up of the planet resulting in the melting of iceburgs thus increasing the sea level worldwide and also warming up the sea affecting marine life... global warming CAN BE controlled by reducing carbon dioxide production and gr! eenhouse gas production.......Show more
Georgina Natal: There would then be a bipartisan consensus not to do anything about global warming.
Helen Zafar: Global warming is when the world heats up. People are the cause of it. The effects are disasterous. We can try to control it.
Abraham Ladick: Have you read books such as "Into The Wild " and "the Call of the Wild" - you may enjoy.Then try and channel that passion and negative drive into something productive - the world needs passionate people , not angry drones
Dawn Saha: in case you choose to acquire furnish money for climate learn, do you think of which you will get a cheque in case you assert," i choose the furnish, as i think of that i can coach that the figures that the present paradigm relies upon are incorrect" ? the large environmentalist, David Bellamy, has been silenced, and refused airtime. there continues to be no shown causative link between the quantity of Co2 in the ambience, and a! n strengthen in international temperatures. The WWWF photos of the pola! r bears swimming have been taken in the Arctic summer; while the ice cap in part melts, as they could no longer upward push as much as image in the iciness. The ice replaced into too thick! The East-Anglian uni learn figures. "Oh! The figures do no longer journey our expectancies. Oh nicely. save quiet. as a results of fact all of us be attentive to that we are suited." while the thought, and the religion is greater significant than squarely dealing with the valid doubts of extremely some non furnish-supported scientists, technological know-how has been superceded by potential of non secular zealots. As Oliver Cromwell colourfully reported." I pray thee, in the bowels of Christ, evaluate that thou mayest be incorrect."...Show more
Dedra Furguson: There are so many weather disasters happening all over theworld and records been broken monthly as predicted, bytoo many people too mention.where do you stand is it global warming orthe natural cycle of world climate change?
Carli Watterson: It's because Earth is so over-populated already, think that it will grow a lot more than 6 billions in some years... The basics to survival everyone is born with: Instincts. The hardest challenge of all is to make life on Earth still sustainable for all this ever-growing population without destabilizing the ecosystem. Each year many animals are slain, plants suffocated, because of human presence on Earth and all their needs have to go into the planet, but it's the only planet we have, unless humans learn how to space-travel any time, we need to adapt to this environment and love the planet, because that's all we got....Show more
Russel Gajate: We exploited this planet for far too long and now when it can't take anymore no one gives a damn. The ones that do give a damn are far too little in numbers. Most of my country's land is transforming into a desert and the govt doesn't even care. Their sollution is to import more cereals and veggies. If peo! ple don't get organized in mass numbers the whole thing is gonna get wo! rse and the main enemy is greed and envy. The outlook's grim so we better start getting used to it....Show more
Leora Klingelhoets: it is still real nice to keep our envoirment clean and nice looking.But I do not believe in Global Warming,all cause of back in the day they thought Global Freezing was going on so,why should I believe that when they all said that we were gonna die in 10 years,well I sure didnt'.So I do not believe.
Giovanna Sherlin: You need remedial skills to be able to survive, which means some basic critical thinking ability. Classes like english give you communication skills, literature and history give you a general idea of society (kind of important if you want to interact with people), civics an idea of law, math and science for reasoning, biology and health for obvious reasons. Plus, the biggest one is that you need to learn _how_to_learn_, and the best way to do that is in a mildly challenging environment around your peers (i.e. school).Sk! ills cross over. With a simple stick and some sunlight and a small notion of astronomy, you can tell what time it is and on what latitude you are located. Using geometry and the pythagorean theorem you can tell how tall something is without a measuring tape. Stonemasons built entire cathedrals with the technology of math. You would need some of the same to build a safe home for yourself.From history and other social sciences, you can survive in the urban world. By urban, I don't mean areas immersed in technology, but rather immersed in people.Basic survival, outdoors or in, doesn't just benefit from remedial skills; it requires them....Show more
Raleigh Lufkin: Global warming is the natural cycle of the average temperture increasing on the planet. The "greenhouse effect" is believed to cause this, which is the trapped C02 below the atmoshpere. Some believe this is due to human activitiy, like the burning of fossil fuels. In realtiy though the earth goes through cycles! of warming & cooling, such was the ice age 10,000 years ago. There is! little we can due to change this natural process, except learn to adapt, which species have been doing for billions of years.The effects are slow & will not be anymore significant than any natural disaster seen in our lifetime. With that in mind it is still a good idea to be environmentally friendly. & remember Al Gore's movie is only his opinion & driven by a political agenda. Best to do your own research to form an objective opinion....Show more
Tomeka Hameen: Global Warming is more accurately global climate change. What causes it is that the solar energy that enters Earth's atmosphere, 70% of which is abosorbed by the Earth's surface, and 30% that is reflected back, cannot escape the atmosphere due to the abundance of greenhouse gases (the most prevalent of which is carbon dioxide). Thus the temperature is elevated within the troposphere. (The level at which we live). The effects are as varied as shorter, milder winters; increased severity of storms; damage to se! nsitive ecosystems (like coral reefs, and the cloud forests in Costa Rica); loss of biodiversity due to extinction or extirpation (local extinction) of sensitive species; shifting weather patterns and habitat loss. Humans can begin to reverse the effects of global climate shift, but it will take serious changes in behavior, which must start with people in developed countries like the US and Britain. Carbon Dioxide is one of the most abundant greenhouse gases. It has become such a problem not only because of the sheer number of vehicles on the road (of which most use fossil fuels, which emit CO2), but also from use of coal and natural gas to provide electricity and heat, and the tendency that wealthier countries have to cut down forested areas and replace them with shopping centers. Trees and plants breathe in CO2, and could help draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, if we would let them stand. In addition, we need to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, which involves investment ! and research not only in the new renewable resources (wind & solar in p! articular), but also in alternative fuel sources for vehicles, since emissions from automobiles is one of the main contributors to the problem. Although fossil fuels may be less expensive at the moment, the cost to the environment is much greater. (And the FACT of the matter is, it is NOT a renewable resource--whether it is 40 years from now or later, the rate at which we are utilizing fossil fuels far surpasses it's ability to recharge its supply. So, if people would commit themselves to engaging in activities that will utilize less fossil fuels, and vote with their wallets for products that conserve energy, perhaps we can actually do something about this problem! Thanks for asking!...Show more
Lawanna Livsey: What worries me is not so much the possibility of oceans rising at the rate of 3-4 millimeters per year but rather the knee jerk remedies being proposed to a process that supposedly began 250 years ago. These include stifling US commerce and industry more than! it already is so that China and India can overtake us quicker, and the possibility of slashing food grain production in favor of fuel grain farming. Plus the loony fads of bans on safe pesticides on what agriculture is left, and even proposals to end the consumption of meat products altogether....Show more
Ronny Nowzari: Does climate exchange exist. definite, worldwide climate is a dynamic technique, and as such, is often in a state of exchange. Does human activity reason climate exchange? No, this is been happening ever on condition that we've had an atmosphere. Does human activity make a contribution to climate exchange? definite, the sum entire of our climate is the top results of the interplay between organic and organic, geological and cosmological components. To what diploma does human activity make a contribution to climate exchange? Out contribution is minute. If we stopped all fossil gasoline use altogether it could make a distinction of a few tenths of a d! iploma. This obsession with carbon dioxide to the exclusion of all diff! erent components is in simple terms nonsense, and has ensue because of the fact this is the only ingredient which would be utilized for a political schedule. the main significant threat the the environmental well being of the planet is the exponential advance interior the human inhabitants. one million.5 to 6.0 billion interior the twentieth century and a further 800 million as much as 2006, and nonetheless becoming. the thought that a majority of those human beings could be housed and fed, presented with sparkling water, power, delivery and employment, and on the comparable time, decrease our consequence on the atmosphere, in simple terms would not upload up. In inhabitants dynamics there are 3 known components which administration populations. starvation ailment Predation (conflict and crime are the human equivalents) if we don't locate an equitable political answer to inhabitants administration, the above components Will do it for us....Show more
Tawny Grosskreutz:! usa need to stop the fight that cause alot of pollution bomb.....people need to take bus or metro more oftenlyclose the tv entirely we shouldn't see a red light
Sylvie Snetting: I suggest you try to move the wilderness and learn to survive, maybe Alaska. Who knows, maybe you will love it but I think it is most likely you will miss the comforts of civilization.
Jess Grizzel: Why not test your hypothesis? go out into the forest in some remote place, oh, like northern Canada. Take nothing with you that is or was created by technology. Live there for three years, with no contact with others. Then (if you live), come back here and tell us how wonderful it was.
Venetta Coulbourne: Global warming is a dangerous condition every one individually feels and does nothing. Every body wishes to have more than 1 car, all air conditioned room, fridge - double or triple door, daily pumping out a lot of ground water just for pleasure of bath and swim - and many many more ! - all boilers either coal fired or wood fired or furnace oil - whatever! it may be - everyone spoils the air and atmosphere. Forest land is diminishing, ..... I DON'T DENY I AM ALSO CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL WARMING??? you??...Show more
Terrell Lawman: The weather is to do with Climate Variability there has never been a link established with Global Warming. The NASA scientists who determined that Solar activity didn't explain Global Warming, stated in 1998 that the high energy light was absorbed in the upper atmosphere causing warming up there not at the surface. They claimed that these solar cycles were directly responsible for Climate Variation because of what they did to upper atmospheric winds.Records for low temperatures are broken as well, there is no discernible pattern. Nor would you expect one, regardless of the cause of warming.For the record I suspect that a warmer upper atmosphere will impact on the way heat leaves the lower atmosphere. As for Fossil fuels it wouldn't hurt to clean up our act, particularly in regards to heat abso! rbing particulates like soot from transport and fires. (pun intended)You may be surprised how much difference that would make without touching CO2....Show more
Charissa Riley: Wow! That really has to make sense to someone. Try the local Socialist sign up booth, or better yet the local insane asylum. My goodness, the tax was crammed down the Aussie's throat. They politically vomited it back up. Why would anyone in a sane world drop opposition to an obviously corrupt tax based upon pseudo-science?...Show more
Jarrod Darnall: Global warming is when the biosphere(the earth) contains to much heat. What causes it is too many people gases from like factories and cars and stuff. The effects is that the only ice we have in in the biosphere would melt and we'll drown. We can probably control it by not have gas in cars that we'll help it alot.
Delmer Pectol: The current global warming began as a "natural cycle" as we've been coming out of the last ice age. Since t! he Industrial Revolution and particularly since about 1960, global warm! ing has accelerated.http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/Scientists can't account for this warming with just natural causes. They simply don't account for sufficient radiative forcing to have caused the recent acceleration in warming. When they factor in greenhouse gases to their models, climate scientists find that greenhouse gases have accounted for 70-95% of the recent global warming.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_...The evidence is strong enough to convince most climate scientists, and it's strong enough to convince me that humans are the primary cause of the recent warming, and that we need to stop accelerating soon it or we're going to face some very nasty consequences....Show more
Dalia Causby: I don't want to discourage you from learning basic skills - we do need more of that. And there are some places that teach survival skills, and group of people that live off-the-grid sustainable lives. We need more people to live on the land, b! eing good stewards of the soil, growing food organically and sustainably, expanding land devoted to 4-season edibles, creating permaculture gardens, and reviving basic skills of all sorts. This is one of the most exciting times to be alive in our era, with so many people who are rediscovering and sharing traditional ways of living sustainably - and cleaning up toxic waste via natural methods. I think a lot of what kids learn from school and television and movies is so depressing and slanted and incomplete. Seriously, you need to question what you are being taught. You may or may not learn critical thinking in school. But since most questions come back to money, some time spent learning math and economics (both left and right leaning varieties) could be valuable to you. Learning history - again, you probably need supplemental education outside of what you are fed at school - is revealing. When you are ready for it, it will probably fascinate you. Science, ditto. Ju! st don't make the mistake of worshiping science as THE answer. Scienti! sts are political and money-loving and religious in their own way because they want their beliefs to change the course of others' beliefs and the way people are taught and get rewarded based on those beliefs...atheists as much as anyone who believes in God. If you ever take Logic, you'll be able to see when arguments make sense, and when you are being strung along with words that just SOUND impressive. You need math to keep a budget and live within your means - and to understand why voting for liberals will eventually mean that you won't have the freedom to live as you wish, where you wish. We can't just spend and spend based on good intentions and expect a good outcome. Do your math and figure out how politicians are juggling numbers to trick you into voting for them. Here's a good example of bad math uncovered that is important to virtually every American:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yTY2MciOk
Stevie Kizziar: Global warming is a myth cooked up by Al Gore so he ! could make lots of money scaring people and exploiting the issue. Global warming and cooling cycles have been going on for 4 billion years. Ever hear of the Ice Age? Most hot air is a result of the opportunist Al Gore opening his mouth.
Marcellus Yoshimori: Climate change is the correct term for what people call global warming. There is irrefutable evidence that man's activities over past years has changed the atmosphere and has led to a change in the balanced greenhouse effect we need to survive on this planet. With no greenhouse effect we could not exist here. As the effect gets stronger as it has now, we will experience more intense weather events as the basic mechanisms of weather respond to a higher energy input. There is always a natural cycle of hot/cold, dry/wet but many extreme events can be attributed in part to the probable cause called "man induced climate change" (scientifically we cannot make the definitive statement). We know that we can change our! lifestyles and change the way our industries affect the environment in! a cost effective way so we can still enjoy the good things we want but at a lower environmental cost.Enjoy each day as if it were your last.Treat the environment as if you will live forever....Show more
Azzie Trembly: I hope that the U.S. is smart enough to learn from the horrible mistakes that Australia and other countries have made.
Majorie Chester: And just how are you going to build a house or anything, without knowing some math?Or raise a garden, know which plants are safe to eat, or even riding a horse takes knowledge.Survival skills are based, in large part, on knowledge. And the more knowledge you have the better (& longer) you will survive.Having a lot of common sense is a major factor too.Might want to rethink your education a bit more....Show more
Horace Escue: "Global Warming" is an urban legend contrived to allow crypto-socialists to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. The desire for political power causes it. The effects are huge volu! mes of hot gas heating up the political stage. There is no way to control it; all we can do is respond to their nonsense. And, YES, I do know what I am talking about. For those of you who passed your first midterm in Stats101, the average temperature of the earth is 14.7 degrees Celsius. The measurement error is +/- 0.7 degrees at 95% confidence, while the measured increase in temperature over the past 150 years is 0.6 degrees. Conclusion? The warming is not statistically significant, and therefore we cannot conclude that any has occurred. Never mind that any ice is melting....Show more
David Kuper: nothing, n/a, negligible to good, no; you're welcome
Cristopher Gavalis: school is useless whats the point of math history science? what is there too it they messed up our society brain washed us why do we need math again? all we need to do is learn how to survive ._. make homes find food yourself why do we need television what would happen if we didn't have any of t! his what if we just had a school that teaches survivability and maybe a! outdoor nature society no television no cars no nothing just feet hands or maybe riding on some animals like horses i hate it it just makes me wonder too much why do we have to have technology im sure all of you guys enjoy it but i dont who knows maybe this would make us more smart!...Show more
Rebeca Mckin: Well your point of view is you like in the past forward society we are now in the trend of latest technology, but if you dream of this re discover another planet where every body can live, and apply the best way of life survival. Wishing you the best.
Lucille Saetteurn: Those are good questions that can be answer by watching Al Gores Inconvenience Truth...
Donte Hamme: Gobal warming is when world warms up. It is caused by carbon amissions eg. cars. Ice caps will melt, sea levels will rise and place will flood and aslo counties will get hotter. If we work together we could slow it down.
Shawn Lelis: Global warming is the increase in the averag! e temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and the continuation of the same in the coming years.Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up.We can control it by reducing pollution from vehicles and power plants. We can increase our reliance on renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal. And we can manufacture more efficient appliances and conserve energy....Show more
