Are you worried about global warming or...

November 20, 2006 1:48am CST
Do you think 'just let the next generation deal with it!'. Please be honest! I think it's quite easy not to take it seriously because the major problems will happen after our lifetimes.
6 responses
@Keruma (36)
• Sri Lanka
20 Nov 06
Global warming is real. There is enough scientific evidence to indicate that it is real and that we need to take every step possible to try and halt it.The most populous state in the country, California is home to over 30 million people. In a country that is the world's most egregious global warming polluter, California is second only to Texas in carbon dioxide emissions. As the 5th largest economy in the world, and a hotbed for innovative and progressive thinking, California has a unique and vital role to play in leading the fight against global warming. The subject of global warming arouses strong emotions. For the oil lobby it is something cooked up by eco warriors bent on destroying their business, and even if climate change does exist they claim it is something entirely normal. For the green lobby global warming will heat our planet on average by 6°C in the next century, melting roads, drowning Pacific islands and destroying the delicate balance of the eco system. Whatever the causes, the ski industry is extremely concerned about the affects climate change will have on its business. Following the little ice-age that lasted from 1550 to around the start of the industrial revolution in 1850 scientists started to speculate on a warming of the climate. in 1896 Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius published a groundbreaking paper on the contribution industrial emissions from the burning of fossil fuels make to global temperatures. The greenhouse effect was born. Arrhenius had speculated that the ice-ages were caused when global CO2 levels fell for some reason and predicted that temperatures would continue to rise during the 20th century. He thought this would be positive. In the 1906 French Alpine Club annual David Martin, a botanist and resident of Gap published an article "Are these indications of a coming change in climate?". He had noticed an extension of the lichen Balea Geographicai on the granite rocks of the Pelvoux range and an increase in the flora on the terminal moraines in the rest of the Alps.
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20 Nov 06
Thanks for quoting something I could have looked up myself. I know it's real and I know what it is. What I asked was do you take it as seriously as you should?
@firelight (1858)
• Australia
20 Nov 06
Yes I am concerned as the 'next generation' taht deals with it are going to be my kids or grandkids etc
@jend80 (2071)
• United Kingdom
29 Nov 06
I've just read that we only have 10 years left to something about before it's too late. Some people have known about global warming for the last 10-16 years - it's taken far to long already for the rest of us & the people with the real power to pay attention and seriously do something.
@shard012 (65)
• United States
30 May 07
I do believe in global warming, I just did a paper on for my science class and I still don't believe its as bas as people make it seam. Why don't they just drop a ball of ice in the water like in futurema.
• Canada
16 Jan 08
Haha yea shard i agree with you on that futurema episode i actully think it might work if they did some reserch into it but then if you think about it... It might not be possible.
@Haiden123 (126)
• Canada
16 Jan 08
This is what i think about global warming i use to think its not real and the goverments trying to get money and other stuff and trying to scare people. Now i think its real and somthing needs to be done i know nothing major might not hapen in our life time but we should still think ahead and do somthing for our future.
• United States
14 Jul 08
something is definitely happening. i've been back and forth about the theory because i've heard other explanations, such as sun spots cause iceburgs to melt. on the other hand it makes sense that too much polution and the trees can't cleanse it all. we should use common sense in how we treat the plant life that is certain. if we are good caretakers then that is what matters.