Who thinks global warming is real?

Ok.. we just discussed this in an astronomy class im taking. Global warming IS happening but interestingly enough so is global cooling. There is a definate green house effext going on with our ozone causing the tempature to rise. BUT the energy from the sun is also being reflected because of the extra clouds were making due to airplane contrails. So less energy actually reaches us.. but when it does it creates the greenhouse warming.. so in essence. Were pretty balanced out. ^_^

It is happening. It's really sad that some people actually make fun of me that i believe it's real. here's an article i wrote to a Yahoo Answers person that i got a Best Answer on"

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Well, I have always wondered the same question….

There’s never an answer that I thought of it being reasonable.

Many times, my friends say “Who cares, it’s just temporarily, and it’ll fade away soon…”

They act like it’s not a big deal when it is. It can affect our children, our grand-children, our grand-grand-children. There are too much. The suns still out, there are still many years to cover. If we still don’t care about smoking and other uses, it’s just no help. Just prepare to die because of stupid people who say stupid things about something they don’t even know the truth of.

Later, as Times magazine entitled an article about global warming and how it is made and stuff, I brought it to school to read, my friend saw it and start reading with me, then I pulled it away since she doesn’t even care. Later during lunch, she’s like, ok ok, I do admit it might be big now can I really read about now?

The next day she said sorry, I never thought it could have been that serious. Thanks for understanding anyway. I accepted her apologue. But I still think it’s just that people don’t research enough to prove it yet. Things are different now. Humans need cars, homes, and some even need cigarette. I don’t blame it on anyone. But in my deep true heart, I blame it on many people, like for instant; I hate whoever invented the cigarette. Every time I go a person who smokes, it make we have a hard time breathing. Hate this person. Whoever.

It’s just not fair. One day, the earth will really be like a dessert.

I think every country should make a group of people who has to have every human learn about global warming and then have them take a test, but I already know it’s not a easy task and no one probably would be wiling to do it and I admit my idea is a little ridicules.

Well, that’s my opinion..

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i think we've gone up a half a degree since we started keeping track of temperature. but the temp was rising long before the 70's so i'd love to see a legitimate source backing up your claim that people thought we were going to go into an ice age.

the thing i don't think is that humans are at fault in global warming. our planet cyclically warms and cools. we're just warming. the same thing happened, but to a much greater degree the last time we came out of an ice age.

ok, i just called my dad who was in hs and college in the 70's and he said they thought that it was going to be another ice age, just because the had had a few cold winters in a row. but that wans't a global trend, just american. but the trend on a whole for the whole world has been a very slow increase.

sure it is happening, but big deal - we are nowhere close to the warmest it has ever been (maybe since we've been keeping records, but heck that's only 150 years or so), and we are not in an ice age. It's a big cycle - kinda like the seasons but on a much much longer scale. I'm sure that humans don't help it by driving all over creation every stinkin day, but that's a part of progress - some things go up, and some go down...

there is some global warming gong on, although interestingly enough there hasnt been any warming for the last 8 years.

what is disputed is the cause of it, and there is no evidence that it is human influenced

its a natural cycle of warming and cooling

those environmental whackos will have you believe otherwise though

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just like byderule following this post

lester brown is an idiot alarmist, and most of his rhetoric is based on maybe, what if, and someday

not a reliable source

i know a guy who has spent his life proving the timecube

http://www.timecube.com/

brown and this guy are have about the same reliability

It's for real. All the forests are gone, the ice in the polar region is melting fast. The world is heading for ecological trouble.

I think that the earth is indeed warming. Is it a natural occurrence? Or is it due to something more sinister? That's the question. The atmosphere has shown a resilience and a capability to heal itself.

I think most scientists agree the climate is warming. The disagreement is only about the cause and how much warmer it will get.

Global warming is happening. They have the data to prove it. What is causing it is in dispute.

Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,

his little book Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

so he knows something and i have added a couple of things that i know

GLOBAL WARMING IS ONE OF THE MEGA THREATS OF THE PLANET EARTH AND IS AN EFFECT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MISMANAGEMENT

CARBON MONOXIDE

chief causes for global warming are the destruction of the ozone and excessive carbon production ,because we have so many cars and so much land is being deforrested.

the trees absorb carbon emisions ,which is poison to us and they produce oxygen which we need to breathe.

the sea does as well but this is limited to winter periods how ever if the waters also heat up ,the seas will absorb less than ususal and we create more and more

the trees produce the air that we need to breathe.

deforestation must be stopped before desertification goes out of control and consumes the planet.

other reasons are the burning of rubbish especially tires and plastic,and the exessive use of aerosprays which release gasses thes gasses built up ,and because we are a closed system (an enclosed package drifting in space)the trapped gasses heat up and produce the green house effect.

because of the green house effect and the desertification this planet is heating up

Each degree rise in temperature signifies 10% crop loss

DESERTIFICATION

the sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.

two major desserts in northern china are growing together making one giant dessert and,causing dust storms so making thousands of people refugeese

the trees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun .

the planet is drying out at an alarming rate.

in the days of the dinasaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth ,and there were no desserts .

Count how many there are today,and all of them are as a result of mans actions.

the sahara used to be forrests

arabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times

Ghengas Kahn burned all the forrests here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.

Bad agricultural practises is turning vast teritories into desserts ,because of over grazing and the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers ,the surface aquifiers already having been depleted.

And the use of fertilisers and heavy machinery that compacts the ground which raises the salt in the soil.

Modern agriculture today is doing the same as ghengas kahn but in much bigger territories.

it is a vicious circle of chain effects

more and more CO2,,and less and less factors that obsorb

and hotter and hotter.

AND AS A RESULT WE HAVE LESS AND LESS DRINKABLE WATER

WATERSHORTAGE

each year 70 million more people are consuming water but this is ,but a small part of what agriculture uses.

so our consumption of water is ever increasing and our drinkable water supply is shrinking because of polution ,and the production of potable water is less all the time because of deforestation.

in Tasmania one can already exchange one litre of water for 2 litres of petrol.

it is predicted that the wars of the future will be for water.

the water we got in most populated places must be treated or purified before it is acceptable for human consumption.

in Portugal and soutern Spain ,as in many places, wine is cheaper than water.Which would explain the many drunk people there

we are living in a bubble economy and when the bubble bursts

food prices will sky rocket,and so will the price of water.

the wars of the future will be for water

RISING SEAS

The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.

this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.

Green land and the south pole ,which apperantly has a hole in the ozone the size of the usa,are another matter.

this is ice above the sea ,on the land, and melted water will return to the sea .and so duely affect sea levels.the sea has been rising for a long time.

in portugal remains of Roman villas have been discovered 3/4 of a mile in the sea,and in one town the locals say that the sea is eating their town ,in recent years the Dona Philipa golf cours has lost the 16th and 17th hole which have fallen of the cliffs unto the beach.

in California and Florida rising seas have flooded arable land that has been lost

so far only a few millions acres in total globaly ,but this will speed up with the increasing global warming.

And in Antartica arms of ice that even had names because the were so permanent have broken of into the sea.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS

if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks ,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

AND SOME PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THEIR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND AND LOOK AROUND

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