What are your thoughts about global warming?

How can these "Bush-backing right wingers" not understand that Global warming is a problem? I am so sick and tired of them trying to deny what is happening to the earth. I understand that most of the media we are being fed is produced by politicians, so I don't read that. Try going to Green-Peace, or any other number of sites. Have they not seen a change in weather patterns as of late? What about the fact that last year, had the highest amount of hurricanes in years? Do you people not see that if the world keeps getting worse, we will not have a planet left for our children or grand-children? Or does that not bother anyone?

there is a lot of evidence of man made climate change .and there are many reasons to hide the truth scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.for political and economic reasons Global warming is a very complex collection of many effects this text only covers some aspects of global warming ,mainly agriculture i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification water and air polution such as caused by industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories, and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions there are natural cycles in the planets life but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms climate change is caused in great parts by desertification ,and most desertification is caused by man the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions DEFORESTATION in the past the Building of the Spanish Armada deforrested Spain the Phoenician trading fleet turned Lebanon in a dessert Ganges Khan put everything to the sword and torch, then filled the wells with sand, the sun finished of the job and whole countries turned to wastelands. Today , Slash and burn destroys the protective vegetation (which helps to form the soil ), leaving it open to the Sun ,and then ,wind and, water erosion. The Plough turns the soil ,killing micro-biotic life (essential to soil building) and accelerates the drying out . Pressures of the :vehicles, cattle and rain impact brings the salt to the surface. Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil . Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification. and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,Farmers are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers and plowing more and more unstable lands going into the jungles and onto mountain slopes expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's clearing them for farming and settlement areas . Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result ,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts. collectively this planet is drying up , each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production , and there are less and less farmers to do it.. Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities. Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms. This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people. Africa and Asia are loosing millions of people to AIDS , many of whom were food producers. The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil. Over the last half century, Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. . RISING SEAS The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times. this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter Global warming could be slowed down to some extent,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen, At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where,instead of just some third world countries Source(s) here are a 100 ways to help http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p... http://www.greenpeace.org/international/... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur... Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE , his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003 Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico http://byderule.spaces.live.com...

Global warming is real and mostly caused by us. Three reasons, with solid support, most important first. There's an overwhelming amount of peer reviewed scientific data that says that. Short and long summaries. http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html There's a large number of people who agree that it is, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many: "Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed." Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart "Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming." Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona “DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate." Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/329.php?nid=&id=&pnt=329&lb=hmpg1 And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 Good website for more info: http://www.realclimate.org "climate science from climate scientists"

There is so much to say...but I'm to lazy to say it. What the documentary that came out last year, very good it's called "An Inconvenient Truth".

It's liberal bullshit.

Watch "Planet Earth" Sunday on the Discovery channel.

I don't think there is anything we can do about global cooling, I think its too late.

I'm not worried about it at all. I heard that the damage is already done and even if we tried to reverse it would take forever anyway. And..if it wasnt us polluting the Earth then something else would have... The earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling on its own...We are in the middle of two Ice Ages right now. The Ice Ages are to do with the Earth changing its orbit around the sun. You know how the Earth moves towards and away from the sun during the year? Well imagine that every few hundred thousands of years apart and the Earths orbit moving further away from the sun than usual and staying there...cooling the Earth...and then moving back towards the sun back to its 'normal' orbit... That creates an Ice Age. But its not the only contributer. I could go on forever but I wont... Read the book called "Revenge of Gaia", its very informative. I am, however, worried about the volcano in Yellow Stone National Park that is yet to blow!!! That bugger will send us into a VERY long winter...

Be careful about depictions of wildlife in trouble. Most wildlife exists on the edge of survival. Their populations are held in check by nature. They have good times where their populations grow and tough times where they decline. The declining times are never pleasent. The penguins have been pressured before. The polar bear populations are in no trouble at all. Reindeer are moving south because that's where the food is. They are very mobile animals. A warm planet can sustain more life than a cold one. If you feel you have to worry, worry about a cooling planet. Then you would REALLY see some wildlife in trouble.