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Sure.
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It’ll get hot.
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Would I get CAS hours?
- The question needs rephrasing. The Earth gets warmer and cooling. Everybody agrees to this. I think your question is more about whether there is a man-caused, increased warming trend.
According to the carbon dioxide record, which can be measured over geologic time, yes, the Earth is warming up alarmingly fast, and it doesn’t match with any known past trend of ice age cycles or anything else.
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The effects are well documented. Ice will melt, seas will rise. Ecosystems will be affected and destroyed. Much of the world’s most expensive real estate will shrink. Deserts will grow or move, while new areas of lush vegetation will be created. We humans will continue to argue about what to do, with corporate interests taking the selfish, bottom-line path and zealots taking perhaps a too-extreme path.
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- I think the science is already there, but there are too many people being paid to say it isn’t, continuing to cloud the waters while the problem continues to worsen. Also the developing world, such as China, can’t afford the cost of being “greener” so places like that will have a much harder time curbing their increase in greenhouse gasses.
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What made someone think there was nothing to do about it? I am already trying to use less gasoline, and hope to get a hybrid, or better yet, non-gas car when my current one needs replacing. Also I intend to vote for (who I believe to be) the right people.
Thank you very much for not trying to make this into a poll.
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Not as a result of anything man has done.
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I’ll let you know in 2 million years.
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If I believed that man caused it, I would do what I could.
I side with monkeyman on this one. He summed it up nicely.
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- Volcanic erruptions, people spontaneously comusting, buildings melting and burning
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1, Yes
2, Floods, severe weather, crop failure, starvation, mass migration, war, desertification, loss of coastal plains, higher taxes, extinction of many species, more crime.
3, 5
4, yes, of course.
Nao
You may need to research more fully. One piece of research I read, very recently, suggested, quite sensibly that the whole life ecological cost of a car is what matters: manufacture, usage and scrapping combined. The calculations suggested that the extra manufacturing costs of a hybrid, together with batteries etc etc, made its whole life ecological footprint greater than that for a similar sized petrol car.
The hybrid car may not really be taking that green step. And if it is, its strides may be far shorter than you think.
Nao
Exactly.
It’s not a matter of believing or not believing. It’s a matter of facing up to reality or ignoring it.
I read that, I think it was posted here. Fascinating article that really makes you think! Right now I think I’d like to stick it to the oil companies as much as anything else, so when the time comes for me to get my next car, if hybrids are available and hydrogen or other types of cars aren’t, I’ll still opt for the hybrid if possible.
And I’ll continue to vote my conscience, which will hopefully have greater effect.
Yes I believe in Global warming
Increase in temperatures, rising sea levels, Increasing ocean acidity, the inundation of low lying costal areas, the mass extinction of more than half the macrofaunal species (ie not micro organisms).
A change in the location of agricultural centers, therefore shifts in the geography of world economy
The places that currently grow the best wine grapes will wither. damn.
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most concerned
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I am a scientist studying climate change professionally, so I give much of my life to the issue. I also keep my house a chilly 55 degrees in the winter and drive only when necessary… I do my work at home.
We’rrrrrrre all doooomed!
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Completely, how not. Being in North Dakote, over the last 6-7 years winter has gotten shorter. We broke loads of records last year. El Nino, don’t give excuses, this may be happening, but it is only making it a littlle bit better than last year. Next will, will be even warmer than this year, and you won’t have the ability to blame El Nino.
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Storms, Sea levels rising, Shrinking land mass (with growing population and shrinking land space. not good). If the temperture rises slow enough it’s possible we may adapt to it, but it seems to be too drastic.)
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+5 if at all possible
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One person can’t do much, try to recycle, plant trees, try to talk to people about it, spread the word, power in numbers.
-Shaun Johanneson
after some thought, I am alarmed!
For all you folks that acknowledge global warming but not an anthropogenic cause:
What is the natural cause of it this time around? It’s a big enough change, a cause should be evident. Climates don’t swing so fast without a known cause.
What natural cause can cause such a steep rise in global temperatues and has there been such a causal event in the past 120 years?
The CO2 levels have measurably increased dramatically over the past 100 years because of the burning of fossil fuels. What do effects will all the input of a greenhouse gas do, if not warm the globe?
Why would you choose to listen to a politician or a religious zealot on a matter of science. Don’t you think listening to a scientist on a scientific matter is a better choice?
Look up this word: propaganda.
then look up this word: gullible
and this: indoctrination
I am astounded that so many folks on the fora have their head in the sand on this matter.
Hmm, I looked it up and it’s not in the dictionary. Are you sure it’s a real word?
+1 on propaganda, though.
1)Yes
2)historicaly natural cycle and pollution isn’t helping
3)1.5-2
4)MORE electric and solar powered transportation
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I believe that global warming is taking place but that it is a naturally occuring phenomenon and that the puny amounts of greenhouse gases we add makes very little difference. By the way, the greenhouse effect is almost entirely caused by water vapor, which we can in no way increase or decrease.
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Humans have very little power to affect the environment on such a large scale, so no, you can’t do anything to affect global warming.
Look at all we have done in the past. Its pretty evident that we can have an effect at a large scale, hell, we can blow up our planet if we wanted to.
More on topic though, is I hate how people are basing judgement on what side they believe, right side, left side, all that crap. Try this, dont believe what your side believes, look up all the facts from everyone, and base it on your opinion. Not the opinion that your side agrees with, but your own, based on all the facts, from everywhere. Forget the politics, lets see how you really think.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061210/BIZ/612100351/1005
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Yes
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Keeping it brief, significant slowing of the ocean circulation that transports warm water to the North Atlantic, more extreme weather everywhere…
…I hope you were kidding. Canada, Alaska and Russia are experiencing initial melting of permafrost. This may disrupt ecosystems and by increasing bacterial activity in the soil lead to these areas becoming carbon sources instead of carbon sinks. Increasing intensity and occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms. Ocean acidification will affect the growth and reproduction of the bottom of the food chain like corals, fish and the plankton on which they rely for food, etc, - leading to mass extinctions of species higher in the food chain.
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Yes.
1:Believing is not everything, if one doesn’t believe in God, can he still smite them?
2: mmm globe warmth
3: 3 (Note: answer was not influenced by to the number of the question)
4: but what can i do? i am only one person in a big warm globe of billions