Does it hurt you to react to the hype about global warming and do something positive?

You're preaching to the choir here. I have been doing all these things and much more since the early '60's.

I recycle and reuse everything I can. I don't buy plastic except for what I can't avoid....bread wrappers, etc. I use those for food storage and to put sloppy garbage in. I use the empty 20 lb pet food bags for my garbage and tape them shut with postal tape when they are full. I have canvas bags that I take to the market and use for my groceries, so I don't get unneeded plastic or paper bags. Junk mail becomes scratch paper. Empty jars are used to hold nails, screws, rubber bands, buttons that I remove from worn out clothing and use to replace lost buttons. Worn out sheets become pillowcases, worn out pillowcases become hankerchiefs. Other old clothes become cleaning rags, eliminating the need for paper towels. I don't drive. I don't put out outdoor Christmas displays. I don't use pesticides or herbicides or fancy overpriced chemical cleaners. Bleach, detergent or ammonia takes care of practically any cleaning chore. The only disposable that I haven't been able to wean myself from is toilet paper.

With all this, it galls me to know of many people who understand the problem, recognize that it is a problem, know what they should be doing, and still sit around waiting for someone to come up with a magic wand that will enable them to continue using and wasting without doing damage.

For those who don't believe in global warming or think that it's all part of the natural cycle and not being hastened and extended by our high-jinks, it isn't just global warming that will be helped by all these measures. It's pollution of our oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater. It's clean air and preventing many species of plants and animals from becoming extinct. It's our own health that we place at risk with thousands of unneccesary carcinogens placed in our foods, expelled into our air, soil and water during the manufacture of much of the stuff we use on a daily basis, not to mention the waste products of that manufacturing.

As you know all too well, unfortunately, it isnt hype. There's little point in wrapping up the issue in nice quiescent phrases like this to soften the sceptics resolve to deny the problem. Look at the responses - there is a clear unambigious split. Either "its an issue and stuff needs to be done" or "its a load of balony, natural cycles, not us etc"

I totally agree with what you said - why not do something positive, even if the science is wrong these types of actions can do no harm - it's the sensible cautious route, it minimises risk.

To deny there's an issue and carry on regardless - well if you're wrong (which the naysayers are) and the science turns out to be right and there really is a problem - then what? Then deal with it in the future? It'll be too late.. And if that still isn't a worry for you, then clearly gambling with the future of our children and future generations is something that you consider acceptable - Well I don't and I'd say the vast majority of sensible right minded people would consider this approach unacceptable too. It's morally banckrupt and will not be allowed to happen.

The day of the naysayer regards global warming is now over. The debate is closed - you LOST. Drag your heals all you want - the rest of us will get on and adapt (and save some money,too) - you guy's can go to hell.

I agree - it's no hassle at all to do something positive. I already do, but I'm still amazed by parents driving their kids around in 4x4s on the grounds of safety, when their carbon emissions are going to hurt their kids a lot more in the long-term than an unlikely and minor traffic accident.

Ah, "stealth taxes, hype, gullibility"... It's nice to see free speech is still around. All the climate-change deniers have their right to go on quoting unreliable pseudo science from that very small minority of climate-sceptic academics who (call me gullible if you will) are so often funded by the oil industry. Personally, I'd prefer to rely on the opinioin of the thousands of independent scientists from around the globe who make up the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, people who actually know what they're talking about. Has anyone also noticed how few of the sceptical scientists actually hold their qualifications in fields relating to climate?

It certainly hurts me.

What we need to do is replant trees not keep chopping them down.

That is the only way to get the ecological clock back on track

It is a very simple solution.

For your information trees take in Carbon Dioxide in the night & let out Oxygen in the day.

This happens 365 days each year & 366 days every leap year.

The hype is greed & more taxes & scare mongering

The rain forests in Brazil & the far east that have been dessimated and should be replaced.

NOW

Why believe in junk science? I do not subscribe to the premise that we are doing all of this to our selves. That doesn't mean that I think that we can be wistful. The number one Meteorologist in Canada Their very first one and also a professor for 30 plus years in the subject says that it is just that junk science. Today autos are producing almost no flora carbons and yet the nae Sayers are blaming every thing on to our use of autos, I would also point out every one in the world wants to blame the USA for all it's ills but the truth is that most of the products that are manufactured in the USA are used through the world.

I agree. If only we could get enough people to go along with the conservation movement. But people are so ready to pass the buck, thinking that someone else will go the extra mile. It's disturbing that most of the population does not realize the seriousness of this. Or maybe they do but they console themselves with the thought that it isn't their fault, since the world is full of people. Everyone is responsible so no one is to blame. But blame can be assigned in fractions, and anyone who doesn't do their part is 1/6,000,000,000th guilty. And just one of these tiny fractions could mean the difference between life or death for all of us. And nearly 98% of the human population is to blame.

Simple really, take a look at google earth, and when you`ve had a good look around the earth, zoomed in, zoomed out, you tell me and everyone else how we are being sucked in to the biggest con going, i`ts all our fault and WE have to pay. If anything needed to be done, IT WOULD have been done, without raising taxes to make you feel guilty, to raise money to be used elswhere. The word gullible comes to mind. Just a thought, so you are going to walk to the shops to do your bit eh? Well tell China what you are doing, and maybe they will stop opening one fossil fuel power station every week.

There is nothing you can do, have done, or will do that affects the earths temperature it's a natural cycle. Every decade has seen a rise in the worlds temperature since the end of the ice age and it will continue until mother nature reverses the situation.

hmmm, well, thing is you see, i dont really care, I spend far too much time on planes to worry about saving the planet. I'd like to know the cost of offsetting my last years air travel, went to New Zealand, Boston and Nairobi in the space of 12 months, but if I pay the offsetting for all that I wont be able to afford a 4.2L 4WD when i go to New Zealand again this year.

Aint life a biatch.

Does it hurt liberal do-gooders to mind their own business? I don't need you to tell me how to live my life.

I do write on the back of used paper, seperate my garbage, and walk more than most people, but my reasons have nothing to do with the Global Warming hoax.