Just wondering, because it makes me so sad that my three year old son, and mostly all children growing up now will have such a difficult environment to grow up in if global warming is extreme. Hopefully it won't be the harshest it could be, for that I pray to God
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Don't worry Melis - your children will be just fine. Global warming is highly exaggerated.
frflyer
What worries me is all the idiotic posts by skeptics who are only repeating highly prejudiced opinions by people who believe Al Gore to be a communist devil out to get them. BOO
Ignore the stupid remarks about cold winter too. the IPCC climate report only claims about 1degree farenheit temperature change in the last century. Nowhere in the IPCC report do they say it will be noticably warmer everywhere on earth. In fact they say there will be all kinds of variations over individual decades and years and in different places.
We all know the weather varies all the time. That says nothing about global patterns over decades or centuries.
In arctic regions temperatures have increased much more than in the temperate zone where most of us live.
It's the overall effect; like have you noticed that spring comes about 2 weeks earlier now?
You are right to be concerned. What's ironic is that most of these skeptics are obviously very young. I'm not. It's for them and their world that I am concerned. Maybe they are too self centered to care.
Don't let the debate about global warming get in the way of realizing that we are endangering all our ecosystems in other ways not related to global warming. There are solutions and they are the same ones being recommended to reduce global warming. Don't lose heart, we have the ability to make a difference. We are only limited by our thinking.
Zarathustra....alas
Well, you can thank Al Gore for that scare tactic.
The world won't explode even if it is true 100%.
It will simply , change.
It's not like, one second your kids are playing in the sandbox; and then, BANG, global warming knocks them into a disasterous death. NO.
The world is MUCH different than it was 1000s of years ago (even millions) yet life and humans flourished. We adapt, thats what happens. ( I'm not saying humans existed in present form millions of years ago, for those who like to point out small flaws)
Worst case scenario : New coastlines. I live in Philly. Hey, I could have beachfront property. Sounds cool! In either case, life goes on. AL Gore is a showman with his gang of pseudo-scientists paying attention when it gets warm and completly ignoring it when it is abnormally cold. That is NOT science. That is agenda-driven "proof" gathering. If it don't fit in, ah, ignore it.
PS: remember the ice age scare a couple decades ago. They were SO sure about it, and a host of other scary scenarios.
I believe it is getting warmer, but so what. We'll live through it, we are an intelligent species.
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do no longer concern, Gaia will proceed to exist long after the human race is as airborne dirt and dirt. we could continuously no longer waste our time aggravating, purely prepare your existence around the opportunity of flooding, (ie, do no longer purchase or build a house on low laying land or flood planes). it rather is us that desires saving no longer the Earth. perchance if we had respected Gaia extra in the previous this does not be going on now, yet because it rather is, prepare, plan and get on which comprise your existence. the international has been in circumstances simular to this all throughout the time of it rather is historic previous, and if society became to interrupt down there could be many cleaver people who could have arranged for this experience, (like myself) and could upward push from the flooded cities to construct wish a clean. Humanity has survived for over 4 billion years, and we are able to stay at right here couple of billion, if we don't it will be an end of our making, no longer one in each of nature.
devlin
Ummmm...have you checked out the weather in China lately? I think they are praying for global warming about now... They are experiencing the coldest extended weather on record there....
It's just the Earth being it's usual unpredictable self. It's also proof God has a sense of humor. :-)