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Are you afraid of global warming?

Everyone keeps saying that believing it is happening is causing fear and panic. I don't get that. I believe it and I'm not scared. I know we need to make changes but that doesn't scare me. Give me an example of how global warming is causing fear. Please, cuz as far as I can see the only ones saying it is causing fear are those who don't even believe in it - how do they know this?

Update:

John, Sounds like you need to pack your bags and head for warmer weather - the mojave desert is warm year round.

Update 2:

If you're afraid your home will be flooded in the future wouldn't you move to higher ground before it happens? Is that really fear or is it an inconvenience and therefore unwanted?

Update 3:

John, You really should research global warming. Erradic weather patterns ARE part of the deal.

Update 4:

Daniel, Where do you get the 27 years? Last I heard NO ONE knows the day of his coming. Although I hope you are right - I'm ready, this place is getting messy.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    NO.Change is the natural progression of things.There will always be those who oppose what they don't agree with.Those people are naturally scared of everything and live in a boxed world.And can't or won't understand why the rest of us don't want to do the same.They are the ones spreading the fear.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Example: well the world has been shifting since 1996 at a very slow pace. Today we feel the effects more then ever, it will continue to shift until it has done a full rotation were there will be a new north pole and south pole. Does this frighten you. now imagine this what country will be in the north pole and south pole that will be covered up in snow like the north pole is today. imagine the people suffering and dieing in the thousands frizzing to death. There will be new ocean bed were there have never been ocean before, some great cities will be at the bottom of the ocean like the lost city of Atlantics . Scary now but it will gets worse yet. Starvation world wide. Those that count on drugs to survive will die no more medications for anyone. World in great wars ever wear. Plagues, diseases, Volcano will appear were they have never appeared before even in the middle of New York, shell a Volcano rise up from underneath ETC…and any thing else that can happen as the world continues to shift. For our would will change as we know it today. FOR ALL OF THIS MUST HAPPEN BEFOR THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. For the lord say that he shell cleans the earth of its wickedness. For the lord cannot look upon sin in the least degree. The lord say that at his coming that there will only be one quarter of the world population left at his coming, and there is well over 6 billion people and only one quarter of this will live, and there is less then 27 years before his coming. This is the truth there is no lying or deception here in any way it is the word of the lord Amen

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't necessarily fear it, because the most devastating effects of it will take place long after I'm gone (with my children and grandchildren), but that doesn't mean it's something to ignore. People who are scared of it right now are the ones it's effecting right now. Like people losing their homes that are right near rising sea's. Also animal-lovers are scared of it. Some species of arctic birds and frogs have already become extinct due to global warming.

    Source(s): I had to do 3 speeches on global warming last semester in one of my college courses.
  • 1 decade ago

    I think our planet has unlimited resources. Look at Canada: It is a huge open space with 33 mill population just on the southern border. the northern part of Canada is virgin lands! It has not been discovered yet. The global warming scare is just a beginning. I think people like this topic, because some of us believe in Armageddon, and people find it exciting but scary.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    global warming isn't a problem in our world today because it's not true. the average amount of carbon dioxide in the air now is .04%. There is so much evidence against global warming that they are even trying to change the name to climate changing because they know they are wrong. In russia they are even starting to say there is global cooling going on now, so its all just something that al gore made up because he wanted attention.

  • 1 decade ago

    I fear the taxes and other limits that government will impose based on "global warming" and I think it's ludicrous to be sitting in my car shivering in 11 degree hell while two idiots on NPR compare the possible policies to "reduce our carbon footprint."

    e - this isn't "just Winter" - this is quite cold AS WINTERS GO here in the Boston area.

    EDIT - Icarus overstates the sea level rise by close to 3-fold. And the sea level has been rising since the end of the Ice Age.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    hazards of a hotter climate: greater drought, not adequate sparkling water for persons and vegetation, increasing tides, etc etc. only as many problems as a chillier climate.... the version is that we are dealing with a hotter climate, not a chillier one. and albeit, international warming is genuine, its purely a count of no count if its guy-made and the severity of the warming. it ought to be purely a organic warming cycle and not additionally be that threatening. purely time will tell. the two way, the earth is warming.

  • 1 decade ago

    Afraid of global warming? That's like being afraid of the boogie man. Kinda silly to be afraid of an imaginary creature or an attempted hoax.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, because regardless of what you think about the issue, or our role in it, the undeniable fact is that sea level is rising constantly at 3.3mm per year. This can only be due to thermal expansion and meltwater from glaciers and other ice cover. Since I live only inches above sea level, this is worrying.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i don't think that global warming will affect me during my lifetime, so no, i am not scared of it. however, it eventually will effect our planet so we need to do our best to reduce it.

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