Global Warming?
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To answer your question, it is about money and oil. The oil companies do not want those of us in America to be aware of the real dangers of Global Warming. One of the biggest contributors to global warming is indeed our automobiles.
We really don't want to give up our cars, and the oil companies want to keep selling gas to us.
I think the level of ignorance is evident by a number of responses on your question (and in other ones as well.) While indeed earth goes through period of cooling and heating, the heating we have experienced and will experience over the next 50 years is going to be outside this norm.
I think comparing us to the time that dinosaurs lived is certainly no comfort. In fact, that is our concern. If we do not get a handle on this issue, we will make the planet inhabitable by humans.
We the people need to make the change. We need to make the changes ourselves and not wait for the government to save us.
The short answer: Denial
The long answer: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/policy/...
He does not care
I saw that same movie with Al Gore in my science class and I was shocked! People don't really know what is going on until they watch that movie. How Bush can ignore that I have no clue. Its a good thing that this is his last term because he is horrible and if we keep him any longer our whole nation is going to be fu cked up!!
Very glad you brought up this point...people need to be aware of this happening.
Global Warming is not nearly as dire as "Incovenient Truth makes it out to be. The Earth goes through periodic warming and cooling cycles. All one has to do is look at the historic record. The dinosaurs lived in a period of excessive warmth and the ice caps were non-existant.
It is matter of record that Mars is experiencing a warming cycle as well as the Earth. If Global Warming were really man-made as claimed that why is Mars warming as well? Man has at best a very slight effect on warming or cooling. A much larger contributor to atmospheric CO2 is coal mine fires burning throughout the world (none of these have anything to do with human activity).
I would not panic and read a little more carefully a lot of actual information that is around. A very different picture emerges when you do.
there is no such thing as global warming, ice melts(duh) it cant stay that way forever all cold and solid. things change and that is just part of life. and the cars gas and cigaretts, God made the earths layers in the sky to protect us. but the marine layer is close to us know. idk? God said He would not flood the earth again, the proof for the flood is the grand caynyon and the layers dinasours in the ground were found in. and dinasours r still alive. a guy interviwed this tribe in africa that lived in the deep deep parts were no one has ever gone and he said that when ever anyone sees a banana tree they run because the big beast likes the bana tree and will kill them. that must mean dinassours live in the deap parts of africa or australia. the earth still has so many secrets we have not uncovered. when all the Christians disappear I am so sry for the people left behind in the millinion. God will pour out His rath on all of you and you will suffer. the yime is coming and He is coming quickly. watch this video and turn your volume up high.
go to the video section and click on r u ready
http://www.ccmurrieta.com/multimedia/vid...
Read the book Chicken Little, it's a child's story and it's along the same theme-and like Global Warming, it's a work of fiction. Bush can ignore Global Warming because he believes in a God, Global Warming is a form of religion, not an enviromentalcase movement.
Bush has gone through two phases. First he supported his buddies in the oil industry by saying it wasn't real and suppressing government scientists who said it was.
When the mountain of scientific proof became too much to do that with a straight face, he changed his tune, saying it was real but needed more study before we took action. In other words, "let's put this off until I leave office".
All this will change January 2009. The longer we wait, the more expensive it will be to take action, but it's not too late - yet.
Don't be too discouraged. There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on FunQA.com:
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...
And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientific_...
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...
"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."
Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA
Good websites for more info:
http://profend.com/global-warming/...
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"
Its not just Bush .Take a good look outside are people still doing what they where doing .Is the lady next door still jumping into her SUV to go to the market 2 blocks away to get a loaf of bread ? Can you see all the cars going by with just one person in it? Do you see any solar panels going up or do you see the guy next door getting his son a new car for his 16th birthday ?.What about you what are you doing ? I'm just saying you can point the finger at one person if you wish but its going to take more then one person to change things . Poor old Bush is a bit busy at the moment trying to keep the terrorist from killing us like on the day of 911.
All the things that we do our grand and great grand parents where doing years ago . We need to totally change our ways we are going to have to tear down all the old building that our grand parents built out of sticks and mud and go high tech and catch up with the times if we plan to survive . Most of all we have to get rid of the greed in the world .The supper rich are going to have to give up there ways .I fear some day there not going to have a choice man will take it from them things get bad enough . All in all its up to us we are all in this together
Naysayers all are in denial because they don't want to give up their gas-guzzling SUVs that churn out excess vehicle emissions; they don't want to stop building smoke-belching factories; they don't want to stop the rape of the rainforests; they don't care if melting polar ice caps render a few remote Eskimo tribes and a few hundred polar bears extinct; they don't believe that global warming will flood both coasts of both major oceans and displace tens of millions of people; they don't want to have to REuse, REduce, or REcycle; they don't understand how the deterioration of mangrove forests will eventually keep us from surviving on this planet; they don't want to admit that there is a delicate, fragile ecological balance between all plants, men and animals which is absolutely necessary for our very existence. -RKO- 07/08/07
We need to get the media to tell the truth to the American public. The truth has never been told ! Once the public realize that they've been lied to about the state of the planet,Bush loses ALL power ! The lies he's told will be undeniable ! I think that the woldwide concert to raise awareness of global warming will have a huge effect on the way people act to solve the problem. We're on a wet rock spinning through space,and we better take better care of our home !
It may be that Al Gore has taken some poetic license with his claims but it is undeniable that the industrial revolution has effected the climate. There is too much science to support it. There are easy, simple and increasingly cheaper ways to replace oil as out main power source for industrial progress.
The largest consumer of energy in the USA is heating and cooling our buildings. Geo thermal heat pumps use the consistent temperature or the earth several feet into the crust to supply heat and coolant to buildings. The only power needed to run a heat pump is electricity, which can be supplied by photovoltaic panels. No Oil involved.
The second largest consumer of oil is automotive. When electric vehicles are finally used for commuting and running errands, and charged up using PV panels the oil used will become even less.
We can do this. We can turn the damages of the last fifty years around and let the earth heal itself.
It's not up too Bush or any other money grubing polotician...It's up to us..."We the people" just as it always has been. There are many things that we can do. The easiest thing that we as an individual can do to make the biggest difference may sound a little different then what you are used to hearing, but pay attention to the following facts. I came across this and much more info on a web site called goveg.com...look...
According to the United Nations, the meat industry “emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”
Global warming has been called humankind’s “greatest challenge” and the world’s most grave environmental threat.1 The scientific community says that there is no doubt that global warming is real and that humans are largely to blame. Human activities are emitting vast amounts of “greenhouse gases” that prevent heat from escaping from the Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists report that this phenomenon will increasingly lead to catastrophic natural disasters, such as more frequent and intense droughts, floods, and hurricanes; rising sea levels; and more disease outbreaks. Scientists also warn that global warming threatens the lives of millions of humans and countless other animals. Many conscientious people are trying to help reduce global warming by driving more fuel-efficient cars and using energy-saving light bulbs. Although this helps, science shows that going vegetarian is perhaps the most effective way to fight global warming.
In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) said that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. Senior U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that the meat industry is “one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.”2
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide together cause the vast majority of global warming. Raising animals for food is one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide and the single largest source of both methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
Carbon Dioxide: The burning of fossil fuels (such as oil and gasoline) releases carbon dioxide, the primary gas responsible for global warming. Producing one calorie of animal protein requires more than 10 times as much fossil fuel input—releasing more than 10 times as much carbon dioxide—than does a calorie of plant protein.3 Feeding massive amounts of grain and water to farmed animals and then killing them and processing, transporting, and storing their flesh is extremely energy-intensive. In addition, enormous amounts of carbon dioxide stored in trees are released during the destruction of vast acres of forest to provide pastureland and to grow crops for farmed animals. On top of this, animal manure also releases large quantities of carbon dioxide.
You could exchange your “regular” car for a hybrid Toyota Prius and, by doing so, prevent about 1 ton of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year, but according to the University of Chicago, being vegan is more effective in the fight against global warming; a vegan prevents approximately 1.5 fewer tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year than a meat-eater does.4 The math is simple: You could spend more than $20,000 on a Prius and still emit 50 percent more carbon dioxide than you would if you just gave up eating meat and other animal products.
Methane: The billions of chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows who are crammed into factory farms each year in the U.S. produce enormous amounts of methane, both during digestion and from the acres of cesspools filled with feces that they excrete. Scientists report that every pound of methane is more than 20 times as effective as carbon dioxide is at trapping heat in our atmosphere.5 The Environmental Protection Agency shows that animal agriculture is the single largest source of methane emissions in the U.S.6
Nitrous Oxide: Nitrous oxide is about 300 times more potent as a global warming gas than carbon dioxide. According to the U.N., the meat, egg, and dairy industries account for a staggering 65 percent of worldwide nitrous oxide emissions.7
You Can Help Stop Global Warming!
The most powerful step that we can take as individuals to avert global warming is to stop eating meat, eggs, and dairy products.
Bush has enough good since to know that al doesn't know crap, let alone anything important. You can drool all you want over his lies most know the truth.
He has no heart.
1. GOres 'truth' is based mostly on lies..and provable lies in that most of the gw evidence is based on invalid data models. There is no real danger of global warming and in fact the 'real' science proves that we will be coming out of the latest warming trend in 10-25 years or sooner.
These trends last anywhere from 50-300 years each time.
Thats been proven also, for 1800 years including hard proof (actual factual evidence for 200+ years).
Besides its a political tool, so neither political party is being factual about gw. Shame they both need to concentrate on real issues..not global warming.
Youi know what cause al gore i s mother fuucker and he wants to scare people.The world is fine.Some people believe and some dont.
Proove that is real.EGGGHHH!U CANT!
You just wasted an hour of your time watching pure propaganda / pseudoscience.
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