Global Warming, v. 2007.2
Still going strong. Continued from version 2007.1.
Date: May 27, 2007
Categories: Life, The Universe
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Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Still going strong. Continued from version 2007.1.
Date: May 27, 2007
Categories: Life, The Universe
Wow. This thread has been around for a while and nobody has posted anything yet.
Global warming is a problem we all need to be aware of. Nobody is sure how bad it is, or what is needed to stop it, or if air pollution is even causing it, but even if it isn’t, air pollution is still bad, so we should try to conserve gas (which people are doing anyway given that prices are now 3 and a half bucks a gallon).
Where is everybody? This thread has been around for several hours.
I guess people are just sick of arguing over the same thing over and over again…frankly, I don’t blame them…all my supporters left me, so I’m alone in a world of ignorance…sort of. Sorry about the little insult, but it’s not just you. None are more blind than those who will not see.
I recently read that half the world’s life will be extinct in 93 years. Can anyone back this up?
Where did you read it?
5- Muse. *scathing looks*
I think it was on a magazine cover- didn’t catch the title.
Global warming… Lies. All lies. Exploitation of third world countries. My opinion.
Can we all agree that greenhouse gasses form a blanket, trapping heat, and can we also agree that there are millions of tons of these gasses being released into the air every year???
Another thing-can we agree that this has been a VERY HOT month of May?
Look, the sad truth of the matter is that the planet is heating up, be it natural or man-caused. And the consequences of that aren’t very pleasant.
Okay then, let me just say that it isn’t natural, because we should be headed toward an iceage. You don’t heat up more that ever before in the history of the planet before you cool off.
11: It doesn’t matter. The people who think it’s natural and those who think it isn’t arent’ likely to change their minds, and arguing is pointless because we should be actively doing something to stop it, be it natural or not.
8-*hugs* Except, it is warming up, but it’s being mis-represented…my opinion…lol.
9-Well, I dunno where you live, but it’s sure not hot here!
11-Is your history correct?
12-Alright, I’ll give you that, but I’m only doing something about it if whatever’s being done doesn’t further restrict my freedom. Any ideas?
Shadowkat thinks–Hey, I think we’re actually getting somewhere…me and mine think it’s natural, and everyone else thinks it’s man-made, but either way, none of use want to roast…yay for being constructive, finally!
Oops…none of *us…sorry.
Using public transportation more should be something we do anyway, out of simple respect for nature. Everything that can stop global warming is something that impacts positively on the environment anyway.
we have no public transportation, but most people walk or bike around here anyway since everything’s so close (and finding parking spaces is killer because there’s hardly any room)
well I think we’ll all agree that global warming, wether natural or man made, is here when Antarctica is merely a puddle. Did anybody besides me bother to see Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? My house is so obsessed w/ global warming we have a picture book of it lol
17-We saw it-and we have the book-and global warming is real.
Shadowkat-I do have my history right, and you can’t just say, “oh, it happens to be a nice, cool day so global warming is false”. You need to look at the trends. Overall temperatures are rising.
Some things people need to understand:
Temperatures are supposed to rise very slowly, so even a one-degree change in a decade is huge.
A one-degree change in temperature at the equator means a 12-degree change at the poles.
The poles are vital cooling mechanisms for the Earth. Because of this, when that 12-degree difference melts the ice, the whole Earth heats up, heating the Arctic/Antarctic even more.
The oceans warm because they don’t reflect the rays of sun as much as the ice.
The warmer oceans kill coral reefs, an already declining habitat.
Does that make sense???
18- all of what you say makes sense.
I believe that it’s a combination of mother nature and us but if we didn’t do some of the stuff we do it wouldn’t be half as bad. Seriously. My dad used to want to live in New Mexico when he retired. Now he’s thinking Vermont because of all the temperature risings. You can’t just ignore this problem unless you want your brain fried from the heat.
15-True, that I don’t disagree with.
16-I don’t have public transportation around me, either, but nothing’s really close, so we pretty much have to drive…sorry.
17-You have nooooo idea how popular/infamous (depending on which idea you support) that movie is on MuseBlog…
18-Look, it was a joke, ok? Ya’ll take everything so seriously…sheesh.
i don’t have a car. w00t. what really needs to happen is people move out of the suburbs, which are a total waste of energy, and have every city get a public transportaion system that actually works. new york, hint hint. also food.stop eating old food from ten million miles away as much as you can.like, get a farmer’s market. again, new york, hint hint. Then stop using coal and oil for electricity. say… wind? denmark, hint hint. That should be about enough. not hard at all, doncha think?
Dude…wind wouldn’t be reliable enough for a standard energy source…and I like the suburbs, thank you very much…and you’re restricting my freedom.
GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the oceans are not all rising. the ice caps are not melting.
the earth is actually cooling down, moving towards another ice age.
read “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton. its a fiction book, but he put a lot of research into it and shows what lies global warming actually is. THE EARTH ISN’T HEATING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some places are warming up due to urbanization, growth of cities more concrete and pollution, etc., but many more are cooling down. in some places, sea level is rising, but, again, in many other places, it is falling. many brilliant scientists agree that the earth is moving towards another ice age, and has been for a century, even with industries growing rapidly. one one hand, if you look at, say, a 50-year graph of temperatures in places around the globe, it would look as though the earth is heating up, but if you look at the entire graph going back to the 1800s, you will see that temperatures have actually stayed about the same or even fallen.
Everyone, don’t get me wrong. I am all for lessening our dependency on fossil fuels simply because we will very soon run out, but I don’t believe that humans are causing irreversible climate change that will lead to all life being wiped out or whatever. I believe the facts.
Well, you believe Michael Crichton’s version of the facts, at least.
I haven’t read State of Fear, but it was published in 2004. Knowing how long it takes to get a book out, I’d say that means it was written in 2003 and probably researched earlier than that. So we know it isn’t up-to-date. And he’s not a climatologist — he’s a fiction writer.
He might be right, and the hundreds of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change might be wrong. But if you were the President, with a lot at stake, would you really bet on one novelist?
ZOMG. i hate it when people deny something even though the evidence is right in front of them, just because they don’t want to believe it. if you, Piggy, went and saw An Inconvienent Truth, and actually understood it, i don’t think you would be denying it so readily. what is your evidence that the ice caps are not melting? what is your evidence that global warming is not happening? i have plenty of evidence to support my opinion. you, on the other hand, are making yourself look foolish from pure lack of evidence.
it’s like in The Order of the Pheonix where the Ministry absolutely refuses to listen to Dumbledore saying that Voldemort is back until the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters start a melee in the Department of Mysteries.
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just a little randomness to mix things up.
Hahah yea that was weird-what piggy just did. The ice IS melting-you can see movie clips in an inconvenient truth of massive chunks of ice falling into the sea to be melted.
Also if you saw the movie-a submarine surfaced right under the North Pole.
I hope people are reading post 18.
It’s not obvious. It’s a complicated subject, and the science is hard to do. But that’s the way things work, I’m afraid: when you have an easy decision to make, you don’t need to call a scientist. Scientists get the hard jobs.
25 – I agree. Even if fossil fuel consuption isn’t causing global warming, we still need to cut back.
Last time this thread was here, it turned into a flame war with people calling names. I’m staying off this one if it turnes hostile *hopes* and don’t be mad cuz I said this. Thank You.
i don’t know a darn thing about global warming. can anybody point me to some sources to research? well, about fossil fuels…..we’re idiots to even use them! they are toxic! shouldn’t the asphyxiation of people exposed to these things warn us?!!!
Here’s a nice short explanation of fossil fuels and global warming.
Actually, it’s not much of an explanation, but it’s hell-uh funny.
http:// www. exxposeexxon. com/movie/
It’s a short one-minute movie.
33-If you want the counter-arguments, (and since I cant post a website address) go to google and type in “Great Global Warming Swindle” in the search bar and see the video (TWO HOURS, so skip around some) that comes up.
33- And if you want actual science, go to newscientist.com and find their special report on climate change. Otherwise, see/read An Inconvenient Truth.
12- A (somewhat rare) occasion where I agree with FS.
It seems to me like everyone just argues and argues about who or what is causing global warming and climate change and then do nothing about it themselves. People are always preaching the ‘best’ way to deal with climate change and then– nothing. They do nothing. No apparent progress is being made. I mean, the least people could do is abide by their own opinions. Maybe I’m alone in my view or just clueless, but there you go.
“AAAAAHHHHHH!!! Run!! It’s global warming!! Save yourselves!!!
38 – My family composts!!! I bike to school!!! I bike places!!! I do things!!! Please don’t just assume stuff!!!
38- I’m not assuming anything. I’m not talking about you guys, I’m talking about the politicians and other people who are knowledgeable about the climate and related issues.
Now that I actually read my post through, it does seem a little unclear. Sorry, guys.
37-Oh, please…just stop. “And if you want actual science…” Give me a break. Right now I’m insulting the person, rather than the opinion, because that was a little low. How many times a day does the subject of “global warming”, as it were, come up in your house? Honestly, I’m a bit curious, with your mom working for the EPA, and all.
38-Well, we’re trying to stop arguing about it and do something…
ANNOUNCEMENT: Alright, look, no one here likes pollution. There are some who say that global warming is man-caused, and others who say that it’s just part of a natural cycle. Then there are those who say that it’s not even happening at all. But even the last two groups don’t like pollution. Even if it’s not the cause of global warming, it still mucks up our air, kills animals, makes the world a nastier place, etc.. We all agree on that. Now, I don’t know about other people here, but I’m perfectly willing to do my part in helping the environment (as I already do, by picking up trash, conserving energy, and such…), as long as no one else makes me do it. See, if you make me, or anyone else, do something about the environment, or anything else (barring going to jail/going to prison/being punished for criminal activities), against their will, even if it’s for the good of the people, in your opinion…well, you’re a fine dictator. The key to solving everyone’s environmental problems is campaigning. Show people what’s going on, and show them how easy it would be to stop it. Then offer them the choice of doing those little things. You can also show them the consequences if they don’t protect the environment, but no lying or exaggerating, please. From there, it’s their choice as to what they do. That, I believe, is the simplest solution to our global warming problem. Also, and I’m helping out you greens (not meant in a derogatory way), here, if you don’t present it as a fight against global warming, the skeptics might not necessarily know, and make such a ruckus. You’ll still accomplish what you want to, and sleep better at night, and things will, in general, get better…maybe the earth will even cool, a little bit. Just a thought, but I think it’s a darn good one.
Opinions?
39- i didnt say you yourself were bad, just Americans in general. good for you! but also, you ahve a car. you use it. you heat your house. these things i think i can safely assume.
41-good idea. i like.
22-not only wind of course. but sustainable energy. and my infringement of your rights is a valid argument, but suburbs are just bad. i can see your right to live there, but maybe make it so noone would want to live there? think gas taxes, and public transportation in all cities. also, why do you like the suburbs? just out of curiosity. the suburbs seem horrid to me. (nothing to do but go to the mall, your parents have to drive you everywhere, homogeneous population, etc. etc.) i really dont get suburb people. perhaps you would like to explain? i’m thirteen, i can go anywhere i want without my parents, i have a choice of literally hundreds of schools to go to, i go out to lunch, i regularly go to the theater, and there are awesome people and stores everywhere. how can the suburbs compete?
41- First I’ll reply to the little personal attack, and then address your suggestion. It makes me angry, as a person, when people do not take science as truth. Science is not a debatable subject, you just cannot have a different point of view of results from experiments that are done well or data that is collected well. I am a science girl, and while it may not be what I hold most important about myself, it is a determining factor in my identity. You may not understand this, but I really don’t know how to explain this any more clearly. That movie, The Great Global Warming Swindle, uses skewed results, gives incorrect or insufficient data it touts as truth, and did not consult with any reputable climatologists who opposed their views (in addition to falsley “boosting” the reputations of those who appeared in the film and featuring some climatologists who get tons of money from big oil and coal), and is even being sued by one of the scientists appearing in it who says he was tricked into saying things he didn’t believe. Sound like a reputable documentary to you? And by the way, global warming comes up in conversation probably twice a week, sometimes more. Unfortunately, my mother is too busy trying to keep our water clean and commercial products safe to deal with the more earthy side of the EPA, not that she doesn’t have a strong viewpoint on the issue. Do you make sure to bring up the imminent destruction of our planet with your parents every day?
Now to your arguement. I understand what you’re saying, and I agree we shouldn’t have to force people to do anything. Do you see anyone being forced right now? Unfortunately, most of the country’s population is apathetic to the problem. Not everyone is going to be like you and try to cut down on pollution just because it’s a good thing. Today I saw a girl throw a styrofoam cup on the ground. Do you think she doesn’t know that littering is bad? Of course she does, but she doesn’t care. The protocols the “green movement” are trying to put in motion won’t make anyone give up their car, or destroy businesses. All they do is encourage companies and individuals to cut down on emmisions and use more environmentally friendly fuels.
42- Not all of us want to live in the smoggy cities, and just so you know, the suburbs can be just as diverse as the city. The suburbs have plenty of advantages, including cleaner air, lower crime rates, foliage, community closeness, etc. I love living in the suburbs.
41-My oppinion: Brilliant! On the other global warming thread, people said that I was denying Global Warming as a whole and that pollution wasn’t bad and stuff. But, I HAVE been to New York City and San Fransisco, and you could literally SEE the smog from the Golden Gate Bridge. All I’m saying is, the environmentalists are not for Global Warming, they’re anti-technology! Where would America or any other industrial nation be without factories (that unfortunatly produce thick, black, gross, polluting smoke)? Living in mud huts. So, unless we can come up with another power source *ahem* *coughnuclearenergycoughcough* excuse me unless we can come up with another source for power, right now, we’re stuck with what we’ve got. *coughsoinvestinuclerenergypeoplecough*
I’m afraid nuclear is bad. It’s not renewable.
Solar, and sometimes wind, are the main things. Geothermal isn’t too bad. Wave energy, etc…
All of those things will power those “smogg-releasing plants”.
I like what Julieb said. I don’t now of any credible climate scientists who are saying that global warming doesn’t exist, or is part of a “natural cycle”.
GAPAs-below is a link. I think it is safe-and will show what i’m having a hard time explaining. If you don’t think it’s okay, just snip it out and sorry for the trouble…
http:// data.giss.nasa. gov/gistemp/
RtH
HYDROGEN! PRAISE HYDROGEN!
We bows to hydrogen… *drool*
Ahem…
I know that every single one of the cars today could be converted to a hydrogen-powered car. We have the techonology right now to do it. The only obstacle is manufacturing and distributing the H.
Thank you. I just had to get that out of my system before I murder someone at my school who doesn’t believe that hydrogen can work. Of course it can work. We just need the intiative to do it. And then it will work.
Please stop me, or I shall go on a rant about fossil fuels.
Storing and transporting hydrogen are not trivial obstacles. Those little atoms (protons, basically) are mighty slippery.
And, of course, you have to make the hydrogen. Chemists know a couple of ways to do that. One is to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. That takes lots of energy, which at present most countries are likely to get by burning coal. Another way is to strip the hydrogen atoms off molecules of hydrocarbons, i.e., fossil fuels.
All in all, I wouldn’t bet on hydrogen to solve everybody’s problems overnight, or possibly ever.
By the way, I drove a hydrogen car a couple of years ago. It was an experimental prototype that cost a million dollars. An engineer was in the passenger seat, and a public-relations man was in the back seat. The car stalled at a red light on Independence Avenue, a couple blocks from the Capitol building. It didn’t have a key, so they couldn’t restart it; they had to reboot it, all the while explaining hastily that this sort of thing never happens, that this car had driven from Norway to Spain without the slightest problem, etc., etc. They were afraid I was going to put the mechanical problems in a news story. I didn’t.
I prefer alternative energy that doesn’t need to be conditioned before usable. Power that can be converted directly to energy. Solar is good, and wind isn’t terrible if they put the farms somewhere quiet instead of right in the path of major bird migration routes.
Then this power can be used to power homes, and re-charge totally-electric cars. (those need some work too, but really just to enhance possible travel before charging again.)
RtH
45-Know what the waste product of nuclear is? Water vapor! We actually do have the technology to renew nuclear energy. France uses it, and so far, their fine!
Problems with ethanol: Ethanol can’t be distributed through pipes because it dilutes quickly, so it has to be transported by truck. And trucks guzzle fossil fules. It takes more energy to produce ethanol than it gives off, anway.
Problems with Solar Power, Wind, etc.: These are a good thing. Dosn’t pollute the air to power your cities with water, either! But they do have their dissadvantages. Like ethanol, it takes more energy to produce them than they put off. Think of it this way. Say you buy a mint that costs a trillion dollars. But the machines in the mint only produce pennies, and one at a time. It would take a LOT of pennies to pay off for the whole mint, so whoever bought it would be in big doo. Our government would buy the windmills and solar panels, but who’s going to pay the government back? No pollution though, so I’m afraid those and nuclear are our only alternatives. The fossil fules need to stop.
49 – That’s why we need to buy all those solar panels and windmills NOW, so they will pay back sooner! The longer we wait, the worse off we will be!
And mints don’t cost anything near a trillion dollars.
Fossil fuels are going to run out within the next 300 some years. We need to develop the technology now, so when we are REALLY in trouble, i. e. when the coal runs out, we’ll be prepared.
Oil is going to run out within our lifetimes.
It just seems to me that there wouldn’t be hundreds of books, a movie, and groups of scientists who devote themselves to stopping global warming if it wasn’t real. That may be naive of me, but thats just how I see it.
47- Very interesting!
49 – then make the dang E85 trucks run on the fuel they’re carrying, then.
“Not all of us want to live in the smoggy cities, and just so you know, the suburbs can be just as diverse as the city. The suburbs have plenty of advantages, including cleaner air, lower crime rates, foliage, community closeness, etc. I love living in the suburbs.”
okay. number one. new york does not have noticeably lower air quality than the suburbs. hwere i live, no smog. whatsoever. smog is for places like LA, which are fenced in by mountains, and dont really have public transit. lots of cars, and nowhere for the air to go=smog. no so many cars+lots of space for air to go=no smog.
they can be as diverse as the city? im sure they can. i have no doubt. but are they anywhere near that? lower crime rates…. only cause you never walk anywhere. also, the aforementioned homogeneity might have something to do with that…and the lack of poor people….and why cant community closeness exist in the city? where i live, it doesnt, but thats voluntary. in smaller buildings, it certainly does, and there is no reason it couldnt exist if you wanted it to. and foliage is overrated. no, seriously its called parks. from my expierience, going to a park gives me much more foliage than there is in any one spot in the ‘burbs. and if you wanna go hiking, it not gonna be in the suburbs anyway. one has to go to like a mountain. (which i do, with the help of a train.)
43-there are real scientists opposed to the human cause of global warming. and AIT is a bit unbalanced too. but… i agree with you.
Can we all at least agree that pollution is bad??? By the time we eventually decide whether GW is true or not, it will be too late to do anything. If you can’t agree that we need to use new technologies to stop pollution, you are saying you don’t want to clean our air.
I agree with r-t H! All of the ways they are focusing on to stop GW are beneficial to the enviroment no matter what!
57: Well said! It doesn’t matter if you believe GW is happening or not, but you can always do something to help the environment.
In environmental science we’re doing puppet shows about the environment. In my group, we are working on one about global warming and what you can do to help the environment. Guda (the cheese) is also mentioned several times in our puppet show. One group member has this thing with cheese.
43-It wasn’t technically meant to be an attack, simply a retort. I’m a science girl, too, which is why I’m especially wary about which science I believe, and which I don’t. I didn’t know about the suit, so thank you for telling me…who was it, do you know? I’d like to check it out… And, no, I don’t bring up environmental issues in my house every day, I was just curious…taxes come up in my house all the time, because that’s basically what my dad deals with…I figured since your mom deals with the environment, that would probably come up fairly often…that’s all.
But they shouldn’t be “protocols”…they should be suggestions. Look how many people break the law each day. Do you honestly think that most of them do it just because they can? No, they do it because they don’t care. If someone doesn’t care about the environment, you are not going to convince them of doing so by enforcing a bunch of “protocols”. You have to inform them. Don’t just tell them that GW is bad, tell them why, tell them what’s going to happen.
45-Actually, although it’s not renewable, it’s still safe and clean. All it takes is uranium and plutonium, and those two resources should last for a few hundred years. Granted, that’s not forever, but it’s still quite a long time, and by then, we can hope to be advanced enough to have a new solution.
48-Alright, that’s fine…as long as we had enough energy to be productive and keep society moving forward, not just staying in the same place. Development is the key to survival. If we don’t develop, we won’t live on as a species no matter what we do.
57-Hey, that’s basically what I said…see post 41, if you haven’t already.
Be always wary of “junk science”.
61 – “Junk science”?
“Junk science” is a term coined by advertisers referring to actual science proving that smoking causes lung cancer. The tobacco industries had ‘think tanks’, so-called scientist who, instead of being given a problem and asked to look for the solution, where given the solution and asked to justify it. The companies would label any concrete actual scientific evidence of a connection between smoking and lung cancer “junk science”. The same thing is happening with GW.
I think there are many ways to improve the ways we get our energy. In small amounts, everything is good. In sunny places, use solar panals. In windy places, use the wind. In others you can still use fossil fuels, but cut down on it substantially. I mean come on! Florida could use solar panels all year long!
43- :]]
60- I explain what global warming is to a lot of people. Though sometimes they just stand there looking bored and nodding every so often while they stare behind your head.
Just frustrates me so verily much. You tell them about it, they recycle a can, then the next day they forget. Maybe that’s why people make it such a big issue or rather, “overly dramatizes it.”
sigh.
I agree with, er, someone back in those older posts (too lazy to find). I don’t feel a point in arguing anymore (or informing) because people won’t change their minds. I’ve explained it absolutely too many times. As long as they do good for the environment(like shadowkat) I’m fine with what their opinions are (mm, sorta).
65-Lol…nice. What do you mean, “sorta”? Maybe I can fix things…:grin:
Carl Wunsch, a professor of physical oceanography at MIT, is suing because what he said was taken out of context, falsly representing him as not believing the science behing global warming. By the way, other’s are now critiquing on the basis that the graphs shown in the film were not from NASA, as the film claimed, and some of the “scientists” had their titles boosted from “retired proffesor” to “respected leading scientist.” The channel that broadcast the documentary is distancing itself from it, and you might want to look up the director, Martin Durking (his record isn’t exactly clean as far as making accurated documentaries). Have you read any of this?
Ok, that should say “accurate,” not “accurated.” Sorry, it was a typo and I’m getting really neurotic about it…
67-No, I hadn’t, but I will…*reads Wiki article*…true, that doesn’t speak well of him…ok, I won’t refer to that, anymore, but the books and articles I have read/am reading tell a similar story. And those authors have good, clean records. You can find them on the other thread.
68-Lol. That’s fine
Oh…my second comment in reply to 68 should have a period…I’m not awake today…
60-No, the nuclear components will only last 72 years.
69-Please tell me which posts they were! I must have missed them!
RtH
fossil fuels…..ugh. me hates them! we probably first started widespread use of them about….80 years ago? something like that(automobiles, trains and more) and look at what that eighty years has done. hundreds of millions of cars, buses, trains(not as much), and more are spilling toxic, foulsmelling, exhaust fumes into the very air that we breathe. hhmmmm….do you think this could have a remote effect on the world in which we live? yes, no, maybe-so? i hate pollution. the problem is that the average American can think of no alternative to driving everywhere, using manufactured goods, going to stores and more. only 100 years ago this type of thing would be unheard of…but today? mention one thing about taking away any of our americans comfort and….BLAM! they shut the door of openmindedness in your face. “no way am i going to save my future!” the idea that i want to promote is the idea of sacrificing present pleasures for future benefits….or maybe for a future at all! about the city debate….well, cities in themselves are not at all bad. its just the stuff we’re using to power them, commute them and more. humans feel safer in large groups. it lets us keep in touch and carry on (in our minds) a normal, friendly life. so, anyway, i hate nuclear, fossil fuels and more pulluting power. the problem is that right now we don’t have a viable, cheap, clean alternative power source that everyone is willing to trust. sigh. lets all sit back and watch our world die. man, i feel like crying.
72-Yup.
The thing that shocks me the most is how people refuse to believe pollution is causing this. Do they understand the whole greenhouse effect??? Should I explain it here? What tells them pollution isn’t making the atmosphere thicker, when scientists can see it is?
Has anyone here heard of Bioplastics?
74-No, but with the word “bio” in front it must be made of recycled plastic, right?
75- It’s biodegradable plastic made out of things like corn or potatoes. It’s really cool, and a great alternative to the chemical stuff we use now.
76-Hey, that’s pretty cool…but are they as durable as regular plastic, or what?
I’ve never heard about it, but it sounds cool.
74- Oh! We had a grocery bag made out of corn for a while, until my mom put it on the compost heap, probably because it was getting old, and we have a spoon made out of potatoes.
77- It always seemed to me that the grocery bag was rather more durable, and the spoon is certainly less brittle.
79-Huh…but that almost doesn’t make sense…I mean, you can’t really wash it, can you? It would fall apart! There has to be something else in it…
80- No, you can! I have many, many, times, believe me.
81-Lol…well, I like the idea…and it doesn’t make all your food taste slightly like potatoes, or anything?
A bag made out of corn? Cool. I just collected a bunch of cloth bags that were lying around the house and am going to force my mum to use them for groceries from now on.
I was doing some research just now on how to reduce my carbon footprint. If anyone else wants to do this, I suggest carbonfootprint.com, the EPA web page on flourescent bulbs and home depot’s eco-options page (you can just google the last 2).
We are working on our carbon footprint too. We use cloth bags!!!
Anybody who doesn’t believe in global warming should really go back and take a look at the global warming ARTICLE.
82- Nope. It’s a weird grainy texture, though.
83- Yeah, we have a bunch of cloth bags and we use them a lot.
My family has cloth bags too. We use them very often.
83- That’s what I did, too. “Mom. Cloth bags. Use”
Heh.
We have solar panels on our house, and it’s really cool to see the meter running backwards. As for me, personally, I eat veg to lower my footprint, as well as some other stuff.
It’s really irritating though, my mom has a friend who claims to be really enviromentally active- but eats meat. He just doesn’t make the connenction. D:
84-I pick up trash that I see in the park, in the neighborhood, etc., whenever I can…and which article are you talking about?
85-Haha…well, I guess that’s not that bad…p.s. that was a joke (about it being bad at all)…that’s cool.
87-But being environmentally active isn’t necessarily about going veg. That’s more animal-rights-related. I’m not saying going veg is a bad thing, just that it’s not always (nor usually) associated with environmentalism.
88-Actually, there was a whole ISSUE. A whole issue of Muse about Global Warming, saying how the scientists are right and giving evidence. How long have you been getting Muse? It was the one with the dying flowers on the front.
MWAHAH!!! No comments now, eh???
Eh.
91-Huh??? I wasn’t mad at you! *chocolate*
I know. I was noting that you were correct by saying “eh”. Is that not what the word is used for?
89-Oh, yeah…I thought you meant something else, like, from a different magazine, or whatever. Yeah, I know…come to think of it, though, I never actually got around to reading that whole issue…*makes mental note to read ASAP*
94-Good.
Wow! No one is posting here. It must mean that people finally believe in global warming.
Cuz it’s real folks. And we caused it. Not we foxes, we people. You people. Yeah, you folks. I’m confused.
I don’t know why people don’t post here any more. See post 90 and how much attention that even brought. But yes, people are the problem. Not foxes or HAWKs, just those crazy humans…
*commiserates with Fox With Drops of Rubies*
OH_brother…No posts in two days??? Come on people!
world is warming, warm is worlding. Bad, very bad.
97, 98- But you two are humans, beyond your blog names. And yes, it’s real, and yes, we caused it. And you two as well as the rest of us.
101-Joke!
Read the latest Audubon. Aerosol is making it worse…
101- NOOOO.Noooooooo. nooooooooo. *sinks into denial* *says in small voice* Can we fix it?
Oh, my dear, it is time for our species to learn that not all of our mistakes are fixable. We must arise and face our consequences.
Oh please. It’s natural. I’d state all my reasons, but I did that before and it didn’t convince anybody. let’s just not argue.
105-Scientists study the trends of ice ages and such. There are patterns. We should be headed toward an ice age but instead are experiencing temperatures more extreme (on the warm side) than ever before. I can see no logical reason not to believe it is human caused, when we know carbon creates a blanket that traps heat like a greenhouse. Please state your reasons.
105-You’re not alone!!! And never think you are! Do you have any idea how many people agree with us??? Assuming, of course, that you and I are on the same wavelength…? And don’t give up, either way.
106-Actually, the “Little Ice Age”, which took place in the 12th century, lasted for almost 700 years!!! Also, the Earth has been much hotter than it is now. For instance, Greenland used to be just that: green land. Then the Little Ice Age took hold, and it got covered in ice. Another point: the southern hemisphere is not experiencing very much warming at all, if any. And even if you go with the “mean global temperature”, the warming is only going at a rate of about 1.2-1.7 degrees C per century. By the way, it’s impossible to get a “mean global temperature”, because measuring stations aren’t evenly spaced out anywhere, much less around the world. In fact, there aren’t any stations in many places. The “warming trend” started in the early 1990’s, just after Russia shut down a bunch of measuring stations in its country because of economic problems. If you stop measuring a colder spot on the world, of course your average temperature is going to increase.
As to whether or not it is man-caused, humans produce a meager 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. The rest is Nature-produced.
107-But nature has also been making CO2 for ever, while we ADDED. The South Pole isn’t experiencing much warming because the wind and sea currents do not flow in a way to bring it there. An increase of something like 2 degrees at the equator is 12 degrees at the North Pole, so it is warmer there. And CO2 is going up, too, and mature has no reason to be making more. If anything, with an even SLIGHTLY warmer climate trees would grow more taking more out of the atmosphere.
I’ll look into that Greenland melting thing, but anyway, do you think it was good to live in NYC, etc. when that was happening?
The planet will not be fun when Global warming is done with us. I don’t see how we can put so much pollution into the air and not have a problem. Do you think the sky can just take it all in and keep taking it in, without there being side effects?
And what about this new cloud thing they’ve found out about? the sun will bake all day on the ground and then the heat will form storm clouds. The new types of storm clouds will keep the fw remaining rays of afternoon sun out, but hold ALL of the day’s heat in.
Sorry if there are any spelling errors…
BTW-Where are you getting your facts? Mine are mostly from Al’s book, but the cloud thing is from the latest Audubon.
Red-tailed HAWK
108-I’ll reply to all of this more, later, but I get my facts from various sources, the main one being The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.
If you look at weather from the past, the Earth tends to go through 500-year cycles of warm and cold. We are in a warm cycle right now. You should be scared when we start cooling down again-we could end up in another Ice Age. A really good place to test your knowledge of global warming is:
http:// www. geocraft. com/ WVFossils/ GlobWarmTest/ start.html
Read the explanations after u answer each question, too. G2G!
GAPAs, please let this link through
I’ll allow the link (with spaces inserted), but I’ll note that websites are notoriously unreliable sources of information. Basically, any idea you can imagine has a site somewhere to support it, and so does the opposite idea.
In the case of this site, I’m no expert. But I suspect that if 500-year climate cycles did exist, climatologists wouldn’t be able to spot them. I’ll ask some scientists next time I encounter them.
111-OK, but it says the same stuff about the 500-year cycles in books too, like The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, and other stuff like that.
*gives Donaldo a high-five*
As someone once said, “That’s my BOOOYYYY!!!!”
Lol.
I’ve done a little search on this guy, and will check his book out of the library. What I found was he thinks it’s a whole plot for the government to get away with controlling peoples’ lives. Well, we can see how much the conservatives have controlled our lives, and so, I really can’t see why the “evil democrats” would like to control us. They are usually thought of as the party for the people, and the republicans are thought of as the economy group. Does it not seem likely that the republicans wouldn’t like global warming simply because it would blame industry and threaten the oil business??? When someone’s job or income is threatened by them saying something, don’t you think they are going to say the other thing? Before Bush became president, once upon a time he had an oil company. It didn’t work out, but the oil business still gives him lots and lots of money, and he, of course, isn’t going to let that stop flowing any time soon, right??? Does this make more sense now?
Sorry for any spelling errors, and for the long paragraph, but I’m just in a bit of a hurry and wanted to get you this asap!
DEAD THREAD ALERT!!! DEAD THREAD ALERT!!!! WEEOOO WEEOO!! ALERT!! ALERT!!! WEEOO WEEOO!!
Ok, don’t zoom around in your fire truck or whatever you’re putting polution in the air!
116-We’ll just say he was running around in his underwear yelling…tehe. See? No pollution.
116-LOL
117-Bigger LOL
117 – Except for that nasty byproduct of the beans he ate last night.
119-HAHAHAA!!! Nice…oh, man, nastiness, right there…:razz:
!!!!!!!~NOTICE FROM RtH~!!!!!!!!
I will be staying with my grandmother from tonight, till late Saturday, but may not even be on the blog till early Sunday. Please hold anything that involves me, or things that I need to agree to, until I return and can help/decide about.
I am sorry I have to leave you, but I shall miss you all…
Blog safely,
RtH
121-And you stay safe, alright? Good! Have fun!
ditto
*apple pie*
122-124-Thanks! Oh, and 124-I LOVE APPLE PIE YESYESGIVEMESOMEOHYOUDIDTHANKYOUSOMUCH!!!
Now for some evidence:
The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sets the probability that humans are to blame for global warming at higher than 90 percent.
We can change the outcome of climate change if we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions greatly soon.
Gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons have greatly and rapidly increased over the last 200 years, after a period of 10,000 years of roughly stable levels.These gasses are the main ones to blame for causing the well-known process of “Global Warming”, or trapping thermal energy.
I won’t say any more as to not make this post too long…
125-Those 10,000 years weren’t stable. They fluctuated between miniature ice ages and warming trends. Those ice ages and warming trends, however, have conveniently disappeared. I need to review this section of the book before I go too in-depth, but, well…yeah.
126-No, they have made it very clear that there were those “mini” warming trends and such, but the current one is so much higher than before, there is no comparing them…see the latest newsweek-I haven’t read it yet, but I’m going to…
Ok, I’m readig the article…
I am typing after I read something of note:
A report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries said : “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal.”
There is a 90% likelyhood that people are causing this, by releasing greenhouse gasses.
A conservative think tank funded by ExxonMobil offered scientists $10,000 to write articles that didn’t fully show the evidence from the latest models.
That’s just a taste.
And people try to say “water is the biggest greenhouse gas!”, but water has been around a good while longer than coal plants.
128- Wait, let me get this straight, those ExxonMobil people payed scientists money to not tell us the truth, and the scinetists actually did it?! That makes me really mad….
129-I don’t know if all of them took it, but the ones who don’t believe in global warming have been getting all sorts of money from the oil companies. And most of the government scientists have been either told not to say anything, or are hired because they have an agenda. Here’s a list of what our previous cheif of staff had been doing before he became it, and where he went the day after he resigned:
Phillip Cooney:
Step 1. 1995- January 20, 2001 Worked for the American Petroleum Institute, was in charge of disinforming people on global warming.
Step 2. January 20, 2001 Hired as cheif of staff in the White House Environmental office.
Step 3. June 14, 2005 Resigns from his position*, goes to work for ExxonMobil the next day.
*He left the white House because someone leaked an article to The New York Times that was found out to have been edited down by him, taking all of the parts showing how the scientists found problems that would affect the American People out.
I guess the point of all this is, the ones who don’t believe in GW have been paid not to, and so saying they are scientists and so they must be right is not really logical once this has been exposed. But even with these paid scientists, all of the other ones who aren’t being paid have been warning us about this for decades.
130-Ya, they have been warning us for a long time, and they have good proof dont they? So why must the other scientists (I respect opinions, but now it just seems to me they are being stubborn or something) like you said, say since they are scientists so they are right? Something aweful could happen because so many people dont believe them. Well, wait, something already has happened. Our Earth is way too warm!!!! And look at all the pollution!!!!
I just want to say I wasnt trying to be sarcastic when I say ‘wait something already has happened’ , I just realized those things as I was typing them. And I am not a global warming expert and I dont read about it or anything, so please dont think I was being rude if I said something.
131-And the sad part is, warming in some areas will make other areas VERY cold. Europe could go into an Ice Age if Greenland melts from the heat, as the water current that brings warmer water, and thus warms the continent, will almost stop from the cold, dense, fresh water sinking into it. The whole planet is in bad shape, and people need to do something instead of making absolutely sure we are to blame. 95% is good enough for me, and if we wait for 100% it will be too late.
I’m glad to see you are understanding me, I was begining to worry I wasn’t making any sense!
132-You make total sense to me. I hate it when people want to make sure it is 100 percent true just to be stubborn, becuase they dont like someone, or just want to be right becuase they said something before. Think about all the people who would die, all the animals who would die, this is REAL and people are going to ignore it. Now I am not talking about everyone, some people just are uneasy. But I wish those stubborn people would snap back to reality. Again, I am not an expert, so please dont get mad anyone!
133-Thank you! Well, I hope nobody here will be mad, becuase as far as I know, none of them are climate scientists. There are some people here who think Global Warming isn’t true, though, and they will probably be here any time now…
Thank you again for understanding!
Red-tailed HAWK
134-I know, I dont mean to make people mad, I just want to help!!! I hate making people mad, so please, anyone here, please dont get mad!!!!
And thanks for understanding me too, sometimes I feel really dumb, becuase I dont know much about the subject, but I just want to say what I think, and help!
I don’t know much about global warming. I’m not really sure if I should believe that it’s natural or that it’s our fault. I think that people need to stop trying to figure out if pollution is causing global warming and just stop polluting. Global warming or not, it’s still destroying the environment in other ways. There’s stuff saying that global warming isn’t happening, and stuff saying it’s natural, and other stuff saying it’s our fault. I don’t get why the average temperature of the Earth going up 1 degree makes such a difference, but like I said, I don’t know much about this.
136-One degree may not seem like much, true, but half of the problem is we should be in a cooling period, and the other half is, when it calculates out, a one-degree change at the equator is a 12-degree increase at the North Pole.
So what I’m trying to say is, because of the patterns the scientists follow, they can tell when we should be cooling or warming, and so when we are warming when we shouldn’t be, like now, there is an added factor beyond what nature does.
You may hear people say there are “natural cycles”. There are, but they are usually milder, and as I said before, we are going against what the current natural cycle should be.
You are totally right about the pollution. People who don’t believe in Global Warming should still try not to pollute so much. Sadly, some of the people against it are just so they can busy themselves arguing about it instead of working on cutting emmisions.
I hope I’m not overwhelming you, I just want to share some of what I know!
137-Wow. See I dont even know that much. And its not really too much. *sigh* I really need to learn more about it but, sadly, I am getting ready for school, and although I have time to post, I do not have time to thouroughly search the web. But I found what you said quite interesting, and now I know more!!!! Yay!!!
132-So they’re covering all the bases. If the planet gets warmer, it’s our fault. If the planet gets colder, it’s our fault. They can’t lose, according to their rules. Unfortunately, their rules don’t exactly follow those of nature, or history.
136-It’s actually warming by .49 degrees Celsius per decade (?) I believe. The other paid scientists decided to exaggerate.
138-But you should still do some of your own research. I came to my point of view through making my own decisions after looking at information from lots of different sources. Looking at An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle would be a good idea.
but how reliable are those sources? how do we know the movies didn’t exaggerate as well?
Well, we can make our own judgments on that, can’t we? I was simply pointing out two very different sources. She (or anyone else) can find anything else they want…I would, though, prefer if they didn’t only take information from those with one viewpoint.
Er…well…you know what I mean.
139-I will check it out. At the moment I am researching something else, but I will definately right that book down, and actually I talk to my friends about global warming, and we have different view points, its just that again we dont know that much. But we kinda heard some stuff in science class, so you know.
Shadowkat, who is paying the scientists I have pointed out? I have given clear evidence that the ones you have pointed out were paid, but I haven’t seen any comments on who is paying “my scientists” and why. Do you have any real climate scientists who have not been paid or bribed who agree with your viewpoint? I would be interested in seeing their information if you have any…
I haven’t read all of the recent posts; I was just reading from the beginning and I was something that I have to somment on: “Piggy” (posts 23 and 24) needs to watch An Inconvenient Truth . Yeah, the Al Gore movie. Yes, the Earth is heating up. Yes, it is a problem. And yes, a lot, if not all, of the blame does go to us humans. If ya don’t think it’s a problem, READ THE ISSUE OF MUSE WITH THE GOLDEN TOAD ARTICLE IN IT! Y’know, not just Piggy, but everyone needs to watch An Inconvenient Truth who hasn’t already. Maybe Al Gore does talk about himself and his past a little more than he needs to, but look at the statistics he shows!!!
Aha! I just read some more posts (139 especially) and I guess I’m not the only one who’s seen An Inconvenient Truth!
-WPG
I’ve seen it.
I would be very interested in seeing some actually data from climate scientists, instead of cardiac surgeons saying how they “feel” about it. Just “saying” the Earth is cooling with no actual data is odd. How would they ever put laws into effect for anything if no actual information was given? Vague statements can never be used as proof that a theory isn’t true.
I just have a strange question. Why dont people make laws about recycling, and make people recycle instead of just encouraging it? I cant think right now, maybe the answer is right in front of me…..
Maybe because it’s not that important, in the big scheme of things — at any rate not everywhere, not yet.
148-Because recycling takes up money, and some people don’t have the money to pay for a big truck that takes a box out in front of their house, and some people don’t have the time, and most don’t have the ability. Think if you were some old lady living on the third floor of an apartment building without airconditioning or elevators, and you had to walk down three flights of steps with a box full of cans and newspaper every Thursday?
In my town I think it is the law. A lot of people don’t follow it, but it is the law. A lot of people aren’t old ladies in un-air conditioned appartments, and they should be recycling. The world’s resources don’t go on forever, certainly not at the rate we are using things. Another reason Nuclear power is bad…
151-NUCLEAR POWER CAN BE RECYCLED!!! We actually are that high tech.
152-how can it be recycled? Explain, please.
I found an interesting story on Snopes.com. Everyone should read it. You can find it on Snopes by searching up “The Story of Two Houses.”
154-I had not heard about that. It is very interesting. However, we must not be blinded by one house compared to the whole country. Standards should be raised and use of fossil fuels lowered in the entire country. That’s great he’s done that, if it really is true, but it just can’t make up for all of the big problems I’m afraid.
Excellent point,HAWK.
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I just read something by Jane Goodall about global warming. Here is her example: If you are sitting in a coffee shop in Hawaii and are putting sugar in your coffee, it could have originated across the street, but before it got to you it was flown to New YOrk to be whitened (which is pointless, it will taste the same, brown sugar is something different), and then to California to be packaged in little wasteful paper things that destroy the Earth, and then back to where you are. HOW REDICULES IS THAT? They do that with almost EVERYTHING!!! How horrible is that? People can be so stupid………
Also, sorry to bring this up, it is a hot topic, but I heard from various sources that George Bush was having a meeting to prevent anything from being done about Global Warming, now I know some people dont believe in Global Warming, but that doesnt mean we should destroy the environment in the process. I thought it was totally ridiculous and I wanted to throw the stupid radio across the room.
I was rather shocked to hear about the president’s house. If it is true, I have a hard time believing he wants to fix the whole country’s problems, such as the one dancergirl mentioned.
Part of the problem is the oil industry supports some political people, so they don’t want to blame Global Warming on oil or fossil fuels at all.
156-Why thank you, Agagabagabag!
157-Yes, destroying the environment is stupid, with a capital S, but in my opinion Global Warming is a hoax.
I was just beggining to like my science teacher when I found out she was a tree hugger.
Smoke-tower hugger.
152-How?
155-Did you even read the whole thing? That first house is Al Gore’s!!!! And did you guys hear that Al Gore was caught flying on a private jet? He is nothing but a big hypocrate.
158-Helloooooo? The first house that was bad for the environment was Al Gore’s!! The second house that was good was Bush’s!!!!!
157-I am guessing that that is a rumor.
159-Fight the power man!!! Global Warming is fake! Saving the environment is fine, but Global Warming is false.
Whoops! I spelled hippocrate wrong.
Supergeek, go at once to the Sea Roc RRR or I will never speak to you again.
162- You spelled it wrong twice. I think it’s spelled hypocrite. I think.
161- You ignore science, and yet you call yourself a geek. Shame.
161- HAWK understood you fine in 155. And you guess that one thing from a prodigous scientist is a rumor, and yet you tell of something just as unsure.
159- lt’s not a matter of opinion. lt’s a matter of willingness to believe the truth.
159- Man, that is just wrong. There’s nothing wrong with people who care about the world.
148-Because whether or not one recycles (along with many other actions) should be voluntary.
Alright, so I have come to a conclusion. According to Libertarianism, person A can not make person B do or not do something unless person B’s choice of action is harmful to person A. This would normally mean that person A cannot make person B protect the environment unless person A can prove that person B’s actions are harming person A. But, if person A is able to prove that person B’s actions are harming person A, then person A can tell person B what to do relating to that topic. So, if ya’ll can prove that what everyone else is doing is harming you, then you can make a law against our current actions, eh?
On a side note, it occurred to me that, even if we “take action against GW”, we’ve only been told that these actions taken against it will “minimize the effects” of GW. Therefore, whether or not what we did actually had any effect can never be proven, because what if the result was exactly what it would’ve been? And don’t tell me that computer models are the answer, because those can be programmed to have whatever result the maker pleases.
But, that’s just a side note…sort of.
166- Only if you’re a libertarian. And with the models, give us some credit.
167-What’s “only if your Libertarian”?
You’re. Sorry.
159-What is wrong with someone who cares about the world? I care very much about it!!!
Ok, and for those of you who dont believe in global warming, I respect that. I am just saying that it is rediculous that some people who dont believe in it just assume that they dont have to care about the Earth or nature or anything anymore. Like my example in my last post when George Bush was preventing anyone from helping the environment, just because (this is my impression) he wants to be stubborn and stick to his point even if he knows he is wrong. I totally respect the fact that people dont believe in global warming, but again, that doesnt make it right to stop helping the environment, because either way our planet is in trouble. Within the next 50 years the rainforest is in huge danger of disappearing, and that is really bad news, over half the worlds species lives there, and think about all the trees that supply oxygen. This means a HUGE crisis for everyone living on this planet. And dont get the wrong impression of this post, I wasnt getting on anyone about their global warming opinion, I am just mad that he is trying to prevent things that are good for the Earth.
161-I did understand you. I just don’t think one house in the entire country will make up for all of the problems.
I was also attempting to say that polititcians sometimes are given money by the oil industry, and so do not want the industry to go bankrupt when fossil fuel use would stop.
Sometimes being a politician envolves things that require a large house. This does not excuse it, but he might not want to spend all of his money fixing his one house, when he do better things with it.
Also, his house doesn’t make his facts false. One of the main issues with taking people who write books for their word is they can twist things, as some of you think Gore did. But anyone can do that, so when you have a book with lots of pure facts (not “oh the world is cooling!” but ” the world has been warming at exactly ‘x’ rate”), you must consider the idea that at least some of it may be true. Then you go to real facts, reports and data, and realize what is going on. It takes time, but it helps you become more knowlegable about a subject.
Has this been helpful? I may not always sound clear when typing these long posts but I try…
hug trees!
Red-tailed HAWK
Wangari Maathai said that she thinks that she cares about people doing simple things like buying envirfriendly lightbulbs more than governmental and coorporative action. I’ll try to find the quote later.
172: Let me repost that.
Wangari Maathai, the first and only Nobel Peace Prize for Enviromentalism Winner, said:
“This morning, I had a wonderful experience here in Seattle, Washington. We went to a small avenue here with kids from local schools and with the mayor, the local mayor, and we were planting trees in a little groove where there were some big trees, but we were planting some small trees with the children. It is that kind of activity, where the mayor, the local populations, and the children come together to do something that simple, but which demonstrates the dynamism, the commitment and the energy of the people of the United States of America.
And even before, when people would tell me that we need to do something about the fact that America had not yet signed the Kyoto Protocol, I used to say, “I’m not too worried about the fact that the government has not signed the Kyoto Protocol. I’m much more encouraged by the activities of ordinary citizens in America, those who are changing their bulbs and using bulbs that are saving energy, those who are deciding not to drive a car unless they have to, because they want to reduce the amount of fossil fuel and the amount of greenhouse gases that they dump in the atmosphere, those who are making those small actions, like those children this morning planting trees.†That’s what makes the difference.”
Wangari Maathai is a native Kenyan, but is currently living in the US. She is active in concerns of the affect of Global Warming on Africa, where the snows of Mt. Killomanjaro (sp?) are melting. This quote is from a recent interveiw by Democracy Now! which you can google as the GAPAs donøt allow links.
163-Oh. WHoops!
171-OK, I understand. Still, we are cooling down here on Planet Earth, if only by a little, according to the most accurate temperature monitors, like satellites and stuff like that. I have nothing wrong with helping the environment, but I was disgusted when I got an issue of Time For Kids in school last year and it featured one of Gore’s plans for towns. He wanted to have supermarkets and public schools within walking distance of every home in America. Do you know how hard that is???? I know my school’s district is low enough on money and enrollment already! They have closed four schools in the past two years! I am sorry, but I do not think that plan is practical.
Also, many scientists have said that the Earth goes through heating and cooling cycles every 500 years. If we start cooling down a lot, that means we could be headed towards an ice age! I guess everyone would be scared about Global Cooling then! LOL
172-That’s neat. BTW, Kilimanjaro.
I don’t think God would cause the end of mankind by global warming and ice caps melting.
I forgot to add: In Sacramento, we are getting cool quick. A couple days ago, they said there was a chance of sleet in the Sierra, and its only October!
169-Oops…sorry, I didn’t mean to misquote you. But I really meant “what’s ‘only if you’re Libertarian’?”…as in, what were you talking about?
Alright, ignore me, people…
163- I think you’re write! And I just posted, don’t worry.
Please change your name. You’re no geek.
What does God have to do with global warming?
We shouldn’t disbelieve the facts that say Global Warming is a threat, just because some people would prefer a different “messenger” than Al Gore.
I’m sorry. That sounds a bit… not nice. You can edit it if you want, GAPAs.
God shouldn’t have anything to do with science, be it global warming or evolution.
181-That’s kind of what I’m meaning to say.
That’s ridiculous! God made science, didn’t he?
183- That’s your belief. Unfortunately, science cannot prove or disprove the existence of any sort of deity who might or might not have created the universe, so on that topic, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Who cares about Al Gore? Because Al Gore does non-environmental stuff doesn’t mean that global warming is false! Many acclaimed scientists agree with global warming. Warming and cooling cycles have nothing to do with this. Warming has accelerated(is that how you spell it?) at a faster rate than ever before in this century. IT’S BECAUSE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, PEOPLE. Just because Bush denies global warming for the sake of arguing with Democrats doesn’t mean Republicans should too! I know two Republicans who believe global warming.
Besides, God has nothing to do with this. There’s a Religions thread for that.
185- There is no religions thread anymore. That always degenerated into flame wars. Actually, I think it’s time for a new one, now that FS has left MB. What do the GAPAs think?
Heh heh. I think I was partly responsible for the flame wars too.
174- A god who damns people to eternal torment? I think he would.
184- That’s not my belief. l’m an atheist. And science definitly proves most of religion wrong, but people deny it. What l meant was, why wouldn’t god have nothing to do with science? Oh, wait. l see. l thought you meant that as a diety he should avoid science.
Hahah, I replaced some lamps in our house with cf’s on January 13, and one just burned out. The box said they would last nine years, but they were made in china…worse, it has a small crack at the base, and it looks a little gross at the bottom there… We are going to find another source of bulbs…
I wish more people would recycle. That may have been random but I think it fits in with this thread. I get so mad when people are just too lazy to put stuff in their recycle bin. Its just like, you are living on this Earth with tons of other people, so you should do your share to take care of it. Respect, its important. Gosh.
191-I hope in the future recycling will extend farther out. I know some people who don’t recycle because the truck doesn’t go to where they live. But yes, people in my town break the law by not recycling, and the guys on the truck don’t complain because they don’t have to stop…
Red-tailed HAWK
192-I know it doesnt come to some people, in which case I understand, but those other people….they drive me crazy, and do you know how many people have told me the workers just dump the recycling in with the trash and drive on?! How stupid is that? OH MY GOSH IT DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!! People can be so ignorant, again, we all live on this planet!!!! *storms off*
Golly, it’s been a long time…how on Earth did religion get into this?
I live in Alaska and by now you usually see ice on the horizan at this time of year, but it is hundreds of miles away, if you count a couple mounds of slush here and there, ice.
Woww. There are three less glaciers in Glacier National Park.
195,196- Thats horrible……and really sad!!!!!
196-Yup, they may have to change the name to dry gulch pretty soon. Depressing!
Hmm…who got the nobel prize? Hmmm…SOMEBODY thinks he’s right.
Storms and earthquakes raging across the country…not good…
Droughts across the country, with some cities possibly running out of drinking water within three weeks. Not good either.
RtH the WORRIED!!!!
Global Warming doesn’t exist. Our planet has always had slight temperature changes and always will, all the hype is political.
Welcome, Anna C! *pies*
199-Another person who sees REASON! *pies* Welcome, welcome, welcome! *does happy dance for Anna C*
199-please excuse me, miss Anna C, but even though we do have cycles, our warming cycle is way over where it should be, rising since the industrial beginings. Plus, as far as I know, we should be in the cooling phase at the moment, so that makes it an even bigger deal.
199-Hi, welcome to MuseBlog! I don’t agree with that, but since you’re new I won’t attack you right away. Except with pies, of course!
*pies Anna C*
Hey, gim and l agree!
199- *pies*
201-Ditto!
199- *pies* Welcome!!! But as I have said before, even if you dont beleive global warming exists, it doesnt mean we shouldnt help the environment, because anyhoo, all our pollution etc isnt good for the environment, we are still destroying it no matter what you believe about global warming. I personally do believe in global warming, as post 202 said. But WELCOME!!!!
I haven’t posted for a while, but here I go. I think that the media hypes global warming too much. I don’t really think its a “catastrophy waiting to happen”.
199-Welcome, but beware that there are people with facts on this thread. *hugs Gim and agagabagabag and dancergirl and emma so tightly they turn purple* Sorry!
As far as I know, nobody opposing the theory of GW has given anything but disputable evidence or explanations. CNN is even putting on a whole series thing on climate change around the world, from Australia to Greenland.
Adapted from the story:
According to scientists, temperatures are up 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 30 years on Greenland, more than double the global average. NASA estimated in 2005 that the ice sheet was losing about 200 gigatons per year – roughly 200 times more than the amount of water Los Angeles uses every year.
And when they say global average, of course we must assume they mean the NEW global average. Species are only able to adapt to new environmental conditions over periods of thousands of years. Thus, temperature rises of a degree a year may not seem like much, but when that should have occured of a thousand years or more, and the rises started when we started releasing millions of tons of co2 into the air, it seems very clear.
I hope people read my post 198.
I also hope the anti-gw people will post some FACTS please, at the moment you seem to be delighting in posting obscure insults and celebrating in your supposed knowlege. If you feel so strongly, be brave! Come to the front of the stage, and enlighten us all!
Red-tailed HAWK
207-Oh bah, us non-belivers are not just gonna let our planet go to heck and pollute all over the place and not worry about endangered animals and water, but that dosn’t mean we’re gonna blame it all on the industries. Where would we be without industry? Living in little grass huts and caves eating wheat berries.
Ethanol=more trouble than it’s worth.
Nuclear Power=:mrgreen:
did you watch the 20/20 episode on global warming? Or read john stossles book? Well, he interviewed some scientists, and they laught at the idea of a global warming catastrophe. Here’s why:
they agency for global warming actually said that seal levels would rise only 6-24 inches. And besides, if se leves are going to rise that much, are we just going to stand there? No! we can build dikes, levees, and all sorts of buildings to keep the water out. Adjust to our enviorment.
sorry for double posting, but-
210-I agree. Nuclear all the way!
211-Plus the fact that if ice burgs DO melt (which they won’t) then there won’t be a big gaping hole in the middle of the sea and water covering North America, there’s just going to be no ice burg! The water will fill in the hole were it was, and stay there. There will be about the same water level.
213-Um LOOK AT A PICTURE of the surface of greenland please. The ice is on land, and so it will all run into the sea. Even the part that is in the sea goes above the sea. Glaciers are on land and can be very deep. But when entire glaciers disappear in 20 years, you have a problem. And they will melt, they have been melting, and disappearing. The entire antarctic is land covered by ice, and the entire arctic is ice surrounded by land.
The permafrost is melting too…
If one studies pictures and charts, they soon realize the classic picture book depiction of “the arctic” is not representative. And christmas wrapping paper with polar bears and penguins dancing with santa hats on is not realistic.
Also, solar and even wind is better than nuclear. I have heard that nuclear will only last 72 years, and besides, the waste is too nasty to think about before I go to bed. Solar doesn’t require deep pits to be dug to bury waste it doesn’t even create anyway.
I hope this post has been interesting and understandable, especially for the poor GAPA who will have to moderate it!
Red-tailed HAWK
214but then agaoin, at modern solar technologies, it’ll take 1,000 ACRES of land to power the amuzement park.
This discussion about sea levels makes me think about my aunt’s former beach front property. It’s now two lots’ deep away from the shoreline — under the ocean. Since she only has to pay something like 25 cents in taxes, she’s holding onto the title. Just in case.
North Carolina has been trying to hold back the ocean for decades, and so far many of the measures employed have only worsened the situation or created other problems.
213-By the way, just so you know, it’s Iceberg, and an iceberg is a floating mass of ice detached from a glacier and floating at sea. There shouldn’t be many of those left, as they will melt in the sea, but they will take more room because if they came off of a glacier, they used to be on land, and so when they fall into the sea they take up extra room. You’re thinking of them as ice floating in a glass of water that is full with the ice, but in reality you should be thinking of dropping ice into an already full cup.
Does this make sense? *hopes*
Red-tailed HAWK
I think that global warming is a big problem. We need to find alternate energy sources, though I learned that hydrogen fuel cells are not reliable when I competed in science bowl. I am starting a project on the energy used at my school and ways we can cut down on it for a robotics competition. This years theme is energy. I took a quiz and found out that if everyone used the amount of energy that I do, we would need about 4 earths.
Double posting is awesomely awesome!
idea:
Uhhh! Why isn’t my kpink buny icon working?
220-Forgot the first :
Also, sometimes a space is required at the front of the line…There is an HTML thread if you are interested…
Red-tailed HAWK
211-Ya, but think about how important the glaciers are to polar bears and penguins and seals etc, how will they live? Antarctica is very important!
218-I agree!!!
210-I didnt say that, I am just saying, some people are trying to prevent us from lessening our pollution, which I think is…..wierd (for lack of a better word). Because pollution is not a good thing, (please, i am not trying to sound harsh) give me one good reason its not. Industry is a good thing persay, but do you know how wasteful some people are? Back to the sugar in a Hawaii coffee shop, they fly things back and forth for the stupidest reasons I have ever heard (it is farther back on this thread somewhere). That is very wasteful, and if we cut things down like that, think of how much healthier our Earth will be. And pollution is destroying our Ozone, I dont think burning up from the sun is a fun way to die.
209-*gives Red-Tailed HAWK a hug back*
then again, hydrogen isn’t that viable…it needs platinum, and If everybody switched to hydrogen, platinum would run out in years. All the platinum. And anyways, I have a contrarian streak.
222-Point understood. I hate pollution with as much passion as lots of you. Why, yesterday I threw a dirty glance at a hot girl because she tossed a cigarette into the grass. (Which, is very rare, because I rarely throw dirty glances at hot girls). But you can’t blame it on the industry. True, shipping sugar to England or something and back just for it to turn white is stupid, but most industry is not horrible. I aggree with alternate fuel sources. We’re in the 21st century for heavan’s sake! COAL?! But ethanol don’t work, and neither does solar panels or wind power or water power. It would take more power to operate these facilities than they produce.
Just because the renewable technologies aren’t great at this point, doesn’t mean you don’t start making them better. It’s true they aren’t perfect, but do we want to start trying to fix them when the coal runs out and we don’t have a light to work by? Putting things off never works. It creates a rush at the end, and SERIOUS energy shortages. Even if you think co2 HELPS the environment (which I hope you don’t), coal and oil will only last a couple hundred years at best.
There are so many things that are renewable that we should be working on. Wind. Solar. Oscillating water columns, OTEC. HEP. And new ones may be discovered if we try. If humans are considered distinctive as a species as being adaptive and inventive, we ought to show it in the choices we make about energy. If we think ourselves the smartest animals on the planet, we are responible for saving it, especially because we caused the problem.
Red-tailed HAWK
sorry, edit…
then again, hydrogen isn’t that viable…it needs platinum, and If everybody switched to hydrogen, platinum would run out in 2 years. All the platinum in the world. Solar technology isn’t viable to power the whole world, uranium will be quickly depleted if we switch to fission(nuclear fuson would be great), and ethanol would drive up prices of corn, and might creat a food shoratage in mexico. But then again, reducng pollution isn’t just for global warming. It’s for ourselves. And, by the way, many scientists don’t even think that global warming is that big of an issue. Carbon emmisions increase after temperature increases.
There’s not that much co2 in the air anyways. 2%. That’s not a lot at all. But I aggree, cutting down trees for huge random housing developments is stupid. I live in one of the fastest growing counties in the whole US, and they never seem to finish those stupid projects! I remember the cows, the wheat, and the huge trees. Now they’re all gone.
226-just becuase many scientists dont think global warming is a BIG issue, it is still an issue that can become huge (I think it is a huge problem now) and it doesnt mean you should believe them. Red-Tailed HAWK has told us many times about how so many scientists agree to tell us false information for money, which is stupid. I would like to give those scientists a piece of my mind.
Whoops you’re all a bit exaggerating about the ice caps melting, it just froze over today, and I know because i saw it with my own eyes, but if we keep this up I won’t be able to see it all year around.
Ethenol isn’t that great, but what about Sugarcane? Brazil has been running on that for its gas for Decades. It gives back 9 times the energy it takes to make it. Peoplethink about global Warming in centuries, when they should be thinking about it in decades, or half-decades. Solar Energy and wind power are both clean, and you don’t have to spend millions of dollars protecting the countries the wind blows in, or the sun shines. And what about India and CHina? China is pumping out a new coal plant about every week, and India about every month.
Well, My contrarian streak gets me in the oddest of places…
228-paying the scientists? I don’t think so. Those scientists live in apartments…with barlely any power…I don;t think they get paid. I think thathat global waming is exaggerated. for 1-The media sells fear. And 2-the government has spent billions on global warming research, and doens’t want that money to go to waste.
230-Then again, you can only put wind farms in windy places, and you can only put solar panels in sunny plances.
231-But once their built, you don’t have to fight over where the wind blows.
226- Many could mean 25. C’mon.
232-huh? restate that.
I don’t like global warming. Its killing the polar bears, destroyng environments, and endangering our lives, and the lives of animals that we need to survive. CURSE YOU, OIL COMPANIES!!
231-Hyping GW is also a way to gain control over peoples’ lives; if you can scare them enough, and make them think you can do something about it, they’ll hand over their freedoms in exchange for “security”.
There’s something else I don;t like. Scientists make computer models. They ask the media to treat the computer models with “great scepticism”. Vut what do they do? thay don’t!
And another thing-most of the tmeperature increase of the century from 1900 to 200 has been caoused in the years 1900-1945. If we were the cause of global wrming, wouldn’t there be more warming
from 1946-2000?
236- That’s not what’s happening in the case of global warming. That’s what’s happened in the supposed “war on terror”. The only rights you could possibly take away to stop global warming would be the “rights” of greedy companies to destroy our environment for the sake of profit.
231-ask red tailed hawk about the paying, he knows more about it.
237-The point isnt whether we are causing global warming, its the point that we are making it worse.
Sorry, I’ve been busy…
Scientists were paid. I’ll try to get more info soon…
236-The only thing that could be taken away from you would be the right to burn gasoline in your backyard. There are so many things we could be doing to replace our current energy, it’s just scary how it isn’t being explored more. See my post 225 for many examples of new power options…
I have info on the temperatures rising, etc. and will post when I can.
235-You’re right. Polar Bears are drowning, the temperature MUST be rising!
Red-tailed HAWK
240-only 4 polar bers drowned-and that was from storms.
I really admire the Scientists who dont wupport global warming. They’ve been given death threats. DEATH THREATS! and hate mail, lots of it…Good for them for sticking to their opinions.
It is my opinion that Chicago is a mythical land and there is nothing that you can do to change that.
242-did you post in the wrong thread?
No, l’m trying to prove a point. l’m stubbornly stating my opinion.
238-You’re twisting what you’re saying to make the companies sound like monsters. They don’t have a right to “destroy our environment for the sake of profit”, but they do have the right to do what they wish with their own property, as long as that action does not provably harm another who has not consented to said harm.
(I love using “said” in that way…it’s such fun!)
245- Have companies ever asked consent of people who might be affected by polluted rivers, or acid rain, or smog?
this has nothing to do with the previous posts, but it is on topic:
ok, i think global warming is terrible and all, don’t get me wrong, but my science teacher told us that it’s mostly the planet that’s causing it, not people. people do cause some of it, but only a little. i mean, is it true that we are just in a period in geological time when the earth is warming? like in between ice ages, the earth gets warm, and that’s what our teacher said is happening now. is it true?
Ok well, a good point was brought up the other day outside of the blog. Who cares what is causing global warming? We need to be aware of pollution and cause less emitions and less pollution anyway. If we keep arguing about whether it is caused by us or naturally it will be too late if we keep arguing. And since something has already caused it, why keep arguing about something in the past? The point is, we need to stop being careless and help the environment!!!!!
248-How do we know how to “stop” global warming if you don’t know how it got started?
249-Well think about it, the reason people are getting worried about global warming is because of all our pollution, right? Well we need to be more responsible about that anyway, because its horrible for the Earth anyway, so why dont we just stop being lazy and actually do something about that instead of just arguing about how it started? Because even if global warming is all natural, pollution causes problems anway, so once again why dont we just do something about the pollution? Did that make any sense?
well, global warming is actually DECREASING by some statistics…
251-But once again the point is we need to stop polluting so much and destroying the environment.
Perhaps l should refrase this.
It is my opinion that Chicago is a mythical land and there is nothing that you can do to change that. l refuse to change my opinion no matter what evidence you shove at me, and l will stubornly stick to my beliefs.
OK, people, I’m just going to explain some things here:
WE are IN A COOLING PERIOD, not a warming one. I want to make that clear. If the temperature goes up one tenth of a degree right now, it is ALL the fault of humans. But it hasn’t, it has gone up quite a bit more. Even a degree or so up in 100 years is a drastic and disastrous change for the environment. Animals cannot adapt fast enough to make up for the changes, warmer world, food changes, inhabitable area changes, etc.
We know gw is cause by co2. co2 comes from natural sources, yes, but the Earth isn’t putting out more, we are.
OK, I have to go, but I’ll try to come back tonight to finish what I’m saying…
Red-tailed HAWK
Poor believers in global warming… you’re in the minority on this thread now.
An important point that isn’t really being stressed enough is that it’s not just CO2 from factories and such, it’s also methane from factory farming and the destruction of trees and algae that recycle atmospherically detrimental gases like CO2.
252-And you suggest we do that by doing what?
253-I understand that I cannot sway you in your decision that Chicago is a mythical land, so we will listen to your proof that it is a mythical land. If we’re not swayed, we will thoughtfully not burden you with crap about how it isn’t mythical, because we understand that your belifes will not change, no matter what we do. Including kidnapping you and carting you off to Chicago
256-Recycling (they burn alot of trash) making more fuel efficient cars, ride the bus, eat organic, there are so many things we can do, just think about it, its easy!
256- Ah, but wouldn’t you rather that l knew the truth rather than letting me be stupid? Knowledge must come before happiness.
my favorite answer:
A most excellent question! Who benefits? Those that plan to use the global warming ruse to seize power.
The Global Warming scam is at the base level, simply a play for power.
CO2 is generally accepted as only 0.033% (330 parts per million) of the gases in the make up our air. Well over 90% of the greenhouse effect of the Earth’s atmosphere is attributed to water vapor. Why are the proponents of man-made global warming focusing almost exclusively on CO2, when that particular gas has such a minuscule greenhouse effect? Because you can’t produce energy en mass with out producing CO2. So if you control the production of CO2 then you control the usage of energy, if you control the usage of energy then you control the economy and every other facet of life in a modern society.
It is all about control. The anointed elite socialists and communists get to seize power and tell us all how to live – all under the guise of saving the planet! Think about it – which groups squawk the loudest about man-made global warming? The UN, Europeans, Academia, Misanthropes, the main stream media, anti-capitalists and the rest of the hate America first crowd.
If the price for our advanced civilization, our food supply infrastructure, our economy, our convenience, longer and healthier lifespans, industry, and COMFORT turns out to be an increase in the world’s temperature by 1 degree Celsius on average over the last 100 years, I say GOOD.
259- Ah, but is america truly great? ln my mind, the ideal civilization is that of enlightened people without need for divisions or rulers.
For such a smart group of people, it’s quite disturbing how few belive* in global warming.
*Sticking up for what you were told first, or in this case “believing”, isn’t necessarily good.
258-As long as it’s not going to hurt anybody, and as long as you don’t turn into a mushball, and as long as you stay smart enough to stay on MuseBlog, then I’ll respect your firm belifes. My belifes in anti-GW aren’t THAT firm. I’d rather you knew the truth, but since your belifes cannot be swayed… In short, no.
Although I can say that I’m rather incredulous, even though I’ve never been to Chicago.
260-I was just repeatimg something I saw in yahoo answers that loked good…
259- Oh yes, because big companies have nothing to do with controlling our lives based on skewing information to serve their own needs, not to mention doing everything they can to make you psychologically attracted to their product or service… it’s those power grubbing scientists who need to be looked out for…
Seriously, I don’t mean to start anything, but how stupid can people get?
Companies exist to make profits. Scientists become scientists because they like to discover new things and find out the truth. At least, that’s why all the scientists I know chose their careers. And because I live in the biotech capital of the world, I happen to know a lot of scientists. All of them chose their careers because they are sincerely curious people who don’t mind questioning what is taken for granted. You’re doing the same thing, challenging accepted beliefs, which is a good thing, except in this case it’s a really dumb thing, because you don’t have any hard scientific evidence to back up your argument (and that means established studies, with references that are not from books with titles like “Global Warming Isn’t Real.” If you’re really desperate, and it’s a well written book, it should cite it’s sources either in the back or in the text itself) Research like that is the only thing we idiot scientists who actually believe in global warming are going to have a hard time dismissing outright with facts of our own. Come on, think like a lawyer!
263-I thin the exact oppisite of you. Lawyers are bad, Scientists are good in the ase of global warming.
And yes, there is hard scientific evidence.
for example, only 4 polar bears died this year, nad that was from storms.
Most of the temperature increase oh the 20th century happened during the First part of the century.
Greenlands northern glaciers are actually thinckening, not melting. Only the southern greenland glaciers are melting.
scientists tell the media to view their computer graphs with “great scepicism”.
gloabl warming is actually stopping by some statistics.
264- The lawyer part was the only weak part of what she wrote.
1. What is it, then?
2. How do you know that?
3. See last.
4. Can you prove it?
5. That’s because when you look at it with scepticism, it’s still bad.
6. Which are?
My point is that some musebloggers say that one thing is fact, while others say the opposite. l actually don’t base my opinions on the subject on muser’s posts.
I never understand why people hate lawyers so much… they’re a pretty integral part of our justice system and do serve to make things fair for those being represented, having someone with knowledge of the law making sure they get a fair trial… sure, some cases can be skewed because the lawyer is good or bad at his or her job, but how would you suggest we run the court system without them? Never mind, off topic, off topic…
And you just proved my point. You didn’t even mention a source for any of those “facts,” much less cite a scientific study.
267-
alright, I cited it from a study by agroup of scientists from norway or sweden, and article from athe daily tlegraph, time magazine, and John stossel’s book.
I used to believe In globable warming, until I realized that in the year 1970, during the first earth day, students said by the year 2000, the earth would be starving and thirsty for energy. It’s just human nature to think the world is coming to an end.
Once again I think people should stop arguing about if global warming is real and just focus on reducing pollution, because it is STILL BAD even if you dont believe in global warming.
If you don’t believe in global warming, however, you don’t think carbon dioxide is pollution.
(Well, apart from its role in putting more carbonic acid into the oceans. Even if CO2 weren’t a greenhouse gas at all, putting more of it into the atmosphere would still be bad for some sea creatures.)
270- interesting, and although our manmade resources contribut much more, overpopulation could be killing our planet becuase with every breath we take, we exhale CO2……..I believe in global warming though, i have to, my mom teached college level Enviromental Science (that explains away some of the geek)
CO2+H20=H2CO3, right?
no idea, ask some other geek
That’s the reaction.
I thought An Incovenient Truth with Al Gore was a really good documentary about Global Warming.
And Al has a strangely gentle way of narrating.
I thought that the book is better if you do not read the stuff about his life.
People-The time has come for us to stop talking about whether or not global warming is something we believe in. We don’t talk about whether we believe that the sun is hot, or the ocean filled with salt. It seems as if all this believing and disbelieveing is hiding the bigger picture: the plantet is tilting into a worse situation than the one it is in right now.
Hurricanes get more powerful, droughts longer. The oceans higher, the desserts larger. No, New Orleans would not be the wastewhole it is now if it weren’t for Global Warmong.
I have something good I can post sometime soon, I hope!
The fact is, Whatever data you have or say isn’t trustworthy due to this or that, you can just (a) look at how much CO2 we put out every day (b) examine the very well understood theory of the greenhouse effect and (c) put the two together and realize the world cannot be in anything but a bad situation becuase of the result.
You cannot deny we are putting out pollution. You can see it being pumped into the air, even on any road with cars (or cows! Methane!)
The theory of the Greenhouse blanket trapping heat is fully understood and demonstrated.
And when you put the two things together, the result is temperatures rising in some places and falling in others, with overall changes disastrous to the planet.
And I should make this clear: there is no reason Climate Change shouldn’t be called a theory. There really isn’t any complete fact, anything can be questioned. But I guess there is one fact, having a theory to support you view is the best you can get. They don’t get a theory from nothing, it is formed when many scientists give data suggesting the same thing, and they all agree that something is happening, and so what they have discovered is the best in the world (at least at that time).
Red-tailed HAWK
275-I think the movie was good, except the data was bad. Did you know that al gores teacher asked him to treat his graphs with great scepticism? But he didn’t…
And, to make it clear, I sort of am neutral on global warming, the stats contadict themselveles. I don’t think global warming is a huge catastrophe,though.
279- *cough, splutter* New Orleans? Anybody? My friends lived there. No, of course it wasn’t a catastrophe….
Don’t want to sound unfeeling or anything, but it would help if New Orleans hadn’t been built below sea level.
280-Global warming didn’t exactly cause hurricane katrina though…
Ooh, l thought of something.
Isn’t the greenhouse gass source cows?
281-Yeah, and it also would have helped if the scientists had built better levis to hold back the storm surge.
You wanna build the levis?
As someone who’s mom is a New Orleanian, I don’t think it was the levee’s fault. The person to blame for Katrina is FEMA and George Bush who probably can’t find Louisiana on a map.
About the cows: Whose fault is it that their population has exploded?
287-Ours, of course. You are right.
Levees people, and maybe we shouldn’t try to live where we have to constantly worry about floods and protect against it. No, the coast has never been a good place to live. It seems to me building where you know it is even natural for the tide to come in and do some natural selection work is no better than shooting yourself a couple of times because, “well, the fire department just bought a new ambulance!”
Prevention is key. Just like using less energy, or not buying a 80 square mile television and instead investing in enough solar panels to power your 30″ set.
Red-tailed HAWK
288-I beg to differ. The coast is a wonderful place to live. I know lots of people who live on coasts. It’s not just great because of the tourist attraction of swimming and resorts and spas, but also because some people make their living off of the ship building industry, and even more people off of fishing. Please don’t rant at me about how horrid and inhumane fishing is. Without people on the coast, our economy would be a lot worse off. Do you expect people from other countries shipping goods to just “leave the stuff there and we’ll send you a bill in the morning”? I think not. And airplanes are “polluting” and we don’t have fuel for the airplanes that aren’t.
If we could develop technology that would allow us to live there without being pounded and having a whole ‘nuther Katrina every hurricane season, why not? If you use it responsibly, of course. No building on alligator nests.
Yes, the evacuation was very crappy. We could have had a much lower death count if people got out of there faster, and I put the blame for that on George Bush and his bogus “scientists” who should have known what to do. It’s their job to study science. THEIR JOB.
And solar panels that power places are HUGE. There’s this barn place a few towns down from where I live and it takes a HUGE area to power just that barn. HUGE. Not like football huge, but still way to big to have on every house property.
So why not an even huger one for every house, hmmmm?
I am not sure what technology they are using for the barn solar power, but many regular houses can even earn money by feeding extra power from solar panels into the grid system. Just from the panels on their roof, or some out on a hill that they aren’t using.
Work still needs to be done, but they can make solar panels for space satellites. The basic technology is there, we just need to keep working on it.
Solar panels really need to be on the roof of your house, not in some distant land over the horizon as we want the coal plants to be. The fact that they put power plants far from most houses shows how nasty they are. But to have enough solar panels to account for power loss over the distance in the power lines would be impractical, as you cannot have sqaure miles of land just for solar panels. Roofs aren’t used for anything else, so it seems quite logical to put the panels on the roof.
Red-tailed HAWK
l made an electronic design for a solar module that stores electricity.
Let’s just build a giant sphere around the entire earth that’s covered in solar panels. That should provide enough electricity. Of course, it would probably kill us in some other way, so maybe that’s not the best idea.
291-“Some hill that they aren’t using?” The little hills that are left not in use are covered in trees, and we can’t cut down all the trees, can we?
Oh man I am sooooooooooo ticked. I live in a small town, and when my mom was growing up it was so much smaller and if we drove 5 minutes in one direction there would be tons of trees. Wll now they are cutting down like……..ALL OF THEM for stupid subdivisions when people ARENT EVEN BUYING HOUSES!!!! *throws the tv across the room* ARG! I hate the dude who does all that, the guy who keeps buying all the land and cutting down the trees, etc etc is rich, has a ginormous house, and lives on a huge amount of land on which there are no trees except little ones they plant in certain spots after they cut down like the other hundreds. RRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Who else is extremely ticked?
295-Me. There’s a rich guy in my town, and he’s always finding another place to put a building. The latest is going to involve bulldozing at least five old (maybe close to historic) houses farther down on Main street to build a shopping center. Across the street from the giant gas station, another shopping center, and just up the hill from the massive shopping center including a huge walmart and *chokes on own spit* TWO starbucks, in my tiny little town. One is in a store, the other, a mere 500 feet or so across the parking lot, its own building w/ drive-through. There is so much commercialism in that whole stretch it could make you want to…throw the tv across the room. Only we don’t have one. Anyway.
293-Do I sense sarcasm?
294-No, leave the trees, please, the hills people have in their yards that are so steep they kill themselves trying to mow them. The bare eroding ugly slopes they create when they perch these new homes on hills that would otherwise be too lumpy to build on. You can’t sit on that portion of lawn, why not put solar panels on it? I did not mean a hill of solar panels to power many homes, the best way to use solar is to have the panels right where the power is needed.
And living along the coast isn’t a good idea because of natural disasters. I’m not saying you don’t have a good reason to want to live there, but there are many reasons it is not a good idea.
Red-tailed HAWK
293- That’s stupid. When has anyone said anything like that? Oh! How about, “Lets kill the civilians of a country and turn a great cultural city into a hellhole to defeat terrorists!” Or maybe “Let’s force everybody to buy different health insurance! That’s good for individual companies that have hospitals far away from each other, and it solves overpopulation!”
294- Yet you ignored the roof part. Are you admitting that that part was rational? Or can you only point out the bad in it cause you’re hardwired against it?
Um this is random, but I saw posts earlier on this thread that said going veg is about animal rights, not the environment, but actually TONS of people go veg to help the environment. All those meat factories cause a ton of pollution, and then they have to transport the meat which also causes polllution, and there is the growing of food for the animals which uses over 70% of our farmland. Etc. Just thought I would point that out.
I have to do a speech on the effects of global warming. It’s actually quite interesting.
251 million years ago the global temp. rose 6 degrees and 95% of living species became extinct.
In the worst case scenario this could happen to us within the next century.
Not only is there a hole in the ozone layer, but there is more low-level ozone.
The polar ice caps are melting rapidly because the poles warm faster than lower latitudes. The average temp. at the South Pole has actually risen several degrees, not just fractions like middle latitudes.
There is a lot more but I don’t remember it right now.
www. whatreallyhappened. com/globalwarming.html
www. junkscience. com/Greenhouse/
299-it might’ve rose 6 degrees,but also other factors contributed to the dieout.,
My opinions are basically the same of E2MB’s in post 1.
2) Methinks E2MB is addicted to Museblog.
293) hee hee. Problem is, there isn’t that much silicon in the world.
This is a very serious topic and one that I care about a lot. But doing little things can help a lot.
If you’ve never heard of it, look up the essay “Pale Blue Dot”.
Global Warming is a serious danger to “ourselves and our postarity”(from the preamble of the constitution of the United States of America),so indeed we must reduce this danger this effect which could effect the future generations for the worse.We can do this by reducing our use of the item(s),service(s),and ideals that effect the world,and instead may use Geothermal Energy, Solar Power ,and water to power our earth,Got to Go for dinner.
P.S. I hope this isn’t to complicated.
301- thats cus Your E2MB!
In the past fifty years, we’ve seen a lot of planets, moons and other sorts of worlds. We’ve seen worlds so cold the atmosphere itself freezes and worlds where the air is sulfur. We’re seen moons scorched by sun and torn apart by tidal forces.
But we have NEVER seen another world upon which humans could live unaided.
And that is why this one is so important.
297-I doubt that roofs are big enough. And plus, even if solar panels were smaller, they’d need a lot of replacing. Roofs aren’t the best place for fragile items. Not like sliding off or something, like there’s a lot of stuff that can happen up on a roof.
Read As the world Burns: 50 ways to stay in denail.
face it, not all data points to global warming…
but I do believe in changing the polution in the cities, just not that it causes global warming.
307- Why. I don’t want to be in denial. Denial is dangerous.
The title is a joke. lt’s about how doing things like recycling aren’t enough to stop our problems.
310- But that doesn’t mean you SHOULDN’ T recycle.
recycling does help, but you need to do other things to, like carpooling.
Ironnically, that’s another too-small thing.
311- Soda production pollutes. lf you recycle soda cans, you only make more soda.
yea, but if you don’t recycle soda cans, they will pile up in solid waste and create even more pollution then they would. plus, the company is going to keep making soda regardless of whether you reycycle the cans+bottles or not. so, we come to the conclusin we should reycycle soda bottles+cans, or else it will get plenty hotter!
A friend of mine on another forum said that if everybody sent him their used soda cans, he would probably have enough metal to build a moon rocket.
314- lt’s just as bad either way. Solution: don’t drink soda.
There is simply not enough evidence to support the fact that global warming is caused by human activity. The Earth is coming out of an ice age. Humans are not causing the Earth to heat up because human carbon dioxide emissions make up less than 4% of all greenhouse gases. The rest is natural. End of story.
317- Are you accusing National Geographic and the United Nations of lying?
There have been many ice ages and warm periods. Unfortunately, we are switching between the two. I don’t know if our man made global warming is a major factor in this, but I am assuming that water levels will rise and people will die, even if we all stop polluting this second. Which is not possible. IT would take a long time for our own pollution to go away.
319- man made global warming is the major part in this.
I’m scared. The ministers are considering utting a team of scientist on the job of making the evacuation plans, as københavn will be right after the netherlands in the race to get flooded.
320- I feel for you, Vixen. I live in a low sea level area, too. We can stop this from getting worse, but first the deniers in high places must admit that it is a real and very serious problem.
then again, people will have plenty of time…
come on, even if the sea is rising, people will have DECADES to prepare for this…they’re not just going to stand around and waint for the sea level to flood towns….
I really don’t have time to say much here, but I have been plenty active enough in the past. Try to find some of my posts, and understand them. They may help.
But in the mean time, Yes, our pollution is only a small part of the whole spectrum of greenhouse gasses. But it’s just enough to tip us over the balancing point.
When a planet survives and adjusts itself for billions of years, it begins to fall into a cycle. A balanced cycle starts up, and because generally natural occurrences will not change this pattern, or will eventually work into the pattern that repeats, the planet will remain stable in its own way. Life will have time to change its ways to fit new circumstances that arise. OUTSIDE FORCES come in and interrupt this pattern every now and then. The dinosaurs went extinct because an outside force–one that was not part of the Earth and didn’t come in in a way that allowed for adjustments–came, an asteroid. Then, a while later, another huge bulk was chunked at the Earth and its main inhabitants. People. Burning coal. And wood. And cutting trees. Etc.
I will happily address any concerns that arise later, and I hope I am being understood.
Red-tailed HAWK
I state again that humans are not the main cause of global warming. I do believe the earth’s temperature is rising, but man’s contributions are a very minor part to this rise. Even if man was causing it, there is nothing we can do to get the environment back to “normal”.
I’m not saying the world government are lying to us, keeping us scared and controllable, like during the Cold War, but even governments and scientists are affected by peer pressure. Like I am, any scientists who argues against man-made global warming is ridiculed and not believed. And must I remind you that the U.S. Congress has only one scientist in it?
However, I am all for reducing our dependency on fossil fuels and getting rid of as much pollution as possible. Oil will not last forever, and pollution is killing animals. Our cutting down of forests are destroying species that have not even been discovered, as well as possible medicines that could save millions of lives around the world.
(In keeping with the extemp spirit-) Today, we have looked at the fact that humans are not and can not cause global warming, how our governments are not always right, and why living “greener” is still an excellent idea. I hope that my schpeel has opened at least one person’s eyes to the unpopular truth: global warming is not caused by man.
I personally think that global warming is caused by man, not completely, but a great part of it…
We are basically the dominant species. We have gone mad with power. We are killing forests. We are killing animals. We are even killing each other!! Humans are the only species that kills its own kind. I don’t mean species killing for food. We are the only species that kills for vengeance or for power. At least animals eat what they kill, so they have a reason.
I do agree with you, Piggy, that global warming is not completely caused by man. Just like the Ice Age was not caused by man, this coming Global Meltdown is not caused by man either. Well, not completely. We have speeded up the process quite a lot.
These are my thoughts, and I do not mean to disprove anyone or anything like that.
324- People don’t understand that global warming is not an issue of belief. lt’s proven to be man-made, and to say otherwise is unnescessary stubborness.
44- Waah! l just reread that! New York can speak for itself, but that you saw at SF was fog.
326- Indeed. It has been proven scientifically. Sure, I would LIKE to believe that it wasn’t happening, but that wouldn’t be true.
The idea that I could stop doing all I do to help, the idea that I could just back down, is tempting, but I’m strong in the Force and I will not give in.
A couple of points:
We should be headed towards an Ice Age, so there are no natural processes which would be supplementing the human influence on global temperature rise which has in recent years become accelerated much beyond the historically acceptable rate.
I do not see what the great absence of Scientists in the United States Congress has to do with anything. That is the PROBLEM. Scientists are trying to show us how global warming is real, the government has done very little. The US is THE BIGGEST contributing nation in the world to greenhouse gasses released, besides the obvious natural instances which have been present throughout history. Yet, though we are very forward-thinking on many of the major issues, we are the ONLY COUNTRY which has not signed the Kyoto Protocol (Australia signed, I said before they were the only other country, well, now we’re alone. Something to be proud of? )
Red-tailed HAWK
Yay Australia!
330-Yes!
There is a really neat site packed with information about (mainly) garbage and recycling and where it’s going and such. It has so much information it would be impossible to bring it all here, and there is a 20 minute video which is quite funny.
GAPAs, below I will say how to get to the site without using a link, do you think it’s okay?
The website is: www dot story of stuff dot com
You will want to remove the spaces and change the “dot”s to “.”s
I hope you enjoy it, if the GAPAs approve of it…
Red-tailed HAWK
331-Wow, that’s really amazing. Thank you sooo much for providing me with this cool resource! I really appreciate it.
Red-tailed HAWK
Yipeee!!!!! My very own thread!!! *Jumps up and down*
332-You’re soooo welcome, I’m glad to help
Red-tailed HAWK
331* will definately check it out, but is watching vampire movie currently.*
Hi HAWK.
Mum and I are going to work on reducing our carbon footprint. It’ll be easier in the summer. No bus to ride, fresh food available, no need to heat the house, etc. On one of those calculator thingies we calculated that the carbon footprint of our household was about 11 tonnes a year! 0.o The scary thing is, that’s almost half of the average carbon footprint for people in the US!
One problem with CFPC (carbon footprint calculators) is their view on meat. Perhaps it takes more energy to produce meat than vegetables, I understand that bit, but depending on your region, eating vegetarian could cut out a lot of your local food options, thus not lowering your carbon output at all.
March 29th 8-9 PM is Earth Hour. If you want to participate, turn off all nonesential electrical devices during at eight, local time. Here’s the de-linkified site:
www . earthhour. org /
Just came up with this:
5 steps to stop Global Warming:
1. make Solar Power the cheapest option for power.
2. Have the UN pay to install these.
3. create solar cars.
4. have gas fazed out over ten years.
KaiYves, i just took a look at earth hour. COOL.
337- That’s for steps.
GAPAs, when you have a chance to make threads, could we have a new Global Warming thread? Sorry to make two thread requests in a row!
Red-tailed HAWK
My dad wants a electric car with four seats (smart car eliminated).
the problem is most electric cars like that can usualy only go 25mph so the only car we can find acceptable is the zap xebra which can go 40mph but zaps aren’t exactly legal everywhere. *sigh* When I’m old enough to drive I’m going to try to get a Zap Alias, a finaly more practacle electric sports car that comes out next year! top speed 100mph battery lasts 100+ miles! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
To see that there really is a wide variety of electric cars on the market contrary to popular belief here is a list of american electric car companies:
-Zap
-ZENN
-Miles
-Tesla motors
-Dynasty
Go to green caar congress’s website for more! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
342- There should be a period inbetween belief and here, and there’s only one a in car! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Did anyone here know that 1/4 of all mammals, 12% of all birds, one in three fish, and probably more than 50% of all flowering plants and insects! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
344- Are Endangered (forgot to finish)! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
365- Oops, the last time I posted using this computer I was Veni, Vidi, Vici! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Did anyone know that if global warming continues scientists predict it will kill 6.5 billion HUMANS (that means you) in the nex century and there are only 6.4 billion people who live on this earth today! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Also, does anyone remember last summer when scientist predicted an ice free arctic ocean by as early as 2040 well there was a revision made so now it is predicted that there will be an ice free arctic ocean by 2012, no lie, if global warming continues! ! ! ! ! ! !
342- Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla Motors, is AWESOME! Most people would get rich of the Internet and then retire, but he started a company to create electric cars and THEN another company that does satellite launches.
348- Yes, according to one online article starting electric car companies is the latest hobby for the super-rich! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
EPA recently anounced that Global Warming will happen in the US and things will heat up! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
350-And did you see how certain people in the government tried to stop them from releasing it?! That really proves something’s being kept from us. If it’s not happening, why are they so worried about it getting out?
Red-tailed HAWK
351-Maybe they don’t want to raise an unnecessary uproar.We don’t need any more people freaking for no reason!
Look, I don’t mind the electric car idea and all, but there is NO such thing as global warming. It is a perfectly natural fluxuation of the temperature of the earthen core.The earth cools and warms in a normal cycle. Back in the 1970’s they said we were going into the next Ice Age. Hey, no Ice Age. What does that say? There have been many ice and heat periods in the history of the world, and this is certainly no different.
Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. 800 AD to 1250 AD? During this period, just before the “Little Ice Age†(about 1300-1850), temperatures were about 2º C higher than present days, something that opened vast areas in Europe and Russia for agriculture and trading, and allowed the Vikings to colonize Greenland, because it didn’t have the present thick ice cover. Those were not Apocalyptic years, as shown by the huge leap forward experienced by makind in terms of agriculture productivity, commerce and opening of new territories for all kinds of human beneficial activities!
It’s not us killing the polar bears, nor is it the CO2. It’s the fact that the core of the earth is heating and cooling in a perfectly natural cycle. What seems clear is that polar bears have survived for thousands of years, including both colder and warmer periods. There may be threats to the future survival of the polar bear, but global warming is not high among them.
Sorry for being so strong worded. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but I speak only the truth.
Sources of information, both sides?
351- The government has been trying to deny it forever when its been scientificaly proven that speicies of animals have been dying out due to it since the 1970’s. I learned this from the “A Warning From The Golden Toad” article in the September 2006 Global Warming issue of MUSE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
i’ve always wanted to do a survey of my town (or anytown really) to see how much people new about the environment and globla warming, what they could do to lessen their impact, and how much they actually did.
352- Even if its natural and not killing polar bears its still killling other species of animals like toads! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
352- Did you even read the september 2006 issue of MUSE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
4- Yes, read post 347! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
(358 and earlier) Magazines, even the great Muse, aren’t sources of information. They’re media for spreading information. So are TV shows, websites, and documentary films. To decide whether to believe something (or at least to know why other people believe it), you have to know where the information comes from.
So far we have some people saying, “We’re all gonna die!!!” and other people saying, “Oh, nonsense. No problem.” At the risk of sounding like a teacher, I think it’s worthwhile to take a time out and figure out exactly who is saying exactly what.
I think it’s time for a new Global Warming thread.