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How Exactly is Global Warming Something Negative?
This is *not* a question about whether or not global warming may or may not be happening. I have become curious, though, as to *why* people who believe in "anthropogenic global warming" think that is is something negative. What destructive scenarios are they envisioning that leads global warming to be the end of the world? Also, why do global warming believers seem to think that weather or climate patterns are not supposed to change?
Perhaps if I can understand their fears then I can come to understand more completely their belief set and their stated positions on the topic.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Who dosent' love a good disaster :therefore all bases need to be covered for " the sky is falling" folks.
When I was a kid "they told us the world would go through another Ice age" by now I was supposed to be in a Igloo & be living at least like someone in Alaska up to like a researcher in the Antarctic. Well that didn't happen.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If huge chunks of Greenland are falling off into the sea, as just happened, and polar bears are dying in large numbers because so much ice has melted and there is not enough ice for them to swim to, that concerns me. Weather has nothing to do with climate change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/world/europe/12i...
"potentially threatening shipping lanes and oil platforms"
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergan...
"Unlike the loss of sea ice, glacial melting causes sea level to increase, and the fate of glaciers like this one will play a key role in determining by how much sea level increases."
And if our planet existed for millions/billions of years with a certain climactic pattern and then it starts to change drastically, why would that NOT be a reason to be concerned? If you got your monthly utilities bill and it had gone up by 200% and that had never happened before, wouldn't you try to investigate the causes? Or would you just say "Oh, utilities are cyclical"?