BRING IT ON ! Global Warming.

United States
October 28, 2007 10:48am CST
So, you think global warming is all bad? Is more food for the hungry of the world a bad thing? Global warming brings more crop land to the world. It is already happening. Read this. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/28/america/greenland.php As the oceans rise an inch or two every hundred years, a tremendous amount of farmable land will be added to the world every decade. Sounds like a good trade off to me. What do you say?
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Seems to be warming more naturally, but again its still open to interpretation. I will say though, Greenland has been a warmer and more fertile area in the past, most famously during the Iceland-Greenland naming and the Viking settlement, before the Little Ice Age. Oh and nice touch about the very small ocean rising.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
Yes, on the ocean rising levels. Afterall, want to bet the ocean has not raised a millimeter in the last 10 years, yet Greenland is already showing agricultural improvement. If the ocean goes up a whole centimeter they'll probably be able to grow corn.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is in the first place. There is nothing we can do about Global Warming anyway, despite what any scientist or alarmist would have us believe. We are not the cause of Global Warming, not can we stop it or even slow it down... it is a part of nature. We have always had to adapt to our environment and this is no different. The additional farmable land is going to be needed in light of the emphasis on ethanol and biofuels and the increased demands on what would otherwise be crops for food. It is a good trade off, however some people don't believe that to be the case.... they think the world is ending.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
Somewhere, someplace there is a parallel universe. Somehow, you (my other universe self) mistakenly got sent to this universe. It must be so. That is because my mother now swears she did not give up a twin brother to me at birth. How else to explain someone who thinks so much like me?
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• United States
28 Oct 07
Yeah, well most of the people on here think that I am some kind of alien or something anyway, so who knows....
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• United States
29 Oct 07
goodnightmoon...Man made Global Warming is nothing more than a hoax...any impact that man has on the Global Warming phenomenon is barely measurable. Global Warming is a force of nature that is cyclical and repeating. The fact that we are still emerging from the last ice age is the reason the earth is warming, and it will continue to warm until it peaks and then it will cool as it enters the next ice age, just as it has done many times before. Just so you know, Mars is also undergoing a warming period, and I am reasonably certain that man has little or nothing to do with that either.
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@estherlou (5015)
• United States
28 Oct 07
What a neat story. Sounds really good for the people of Greenland. New trees, new foods, new farms, changes and they are all to the good. I still think that Al Gore's scare version of global warming is a bunch of huey, since there have been slight changes consistantly over the years everywhere. We've all noticed changes in our seasons and in our weather. So what? It always changed again, and again, and again. Watch the ozone level? be environmentally friendly? Sure...just don't go nuts. Thanks for this really cool article.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
You are welcome. The internet is fantastic for finding stories and articles about everything. Long term the "net" is going to improve the world.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
28 Oct 07
I guess it's a good trade off if you don't happen to live in one of the areas that end up under water! I find it ironic that those who laugh off the warnings about climate change as "scare tactics" are often the same who go along with the politics of fear we hear from Bush/Cheney and the gang.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
I have actually gone over some of the scientific data concerning ocean levels and earth's temperature. Logically, on the basis of scientific measurements, there is no crises. The earth is slightly warming and the oceans are slightly rising. I really expect only 1 to 2 inches increase in ocean depth over the next 100 years. The earth might rise 1 degree in temperature. This is nothing to worry about and will happen no matter what we do. On the other hand, 911 did really occur. 3000 people really were murdered. The people who did it really do want to kill more of us. They say so. I should not believe them? Perhaps, the people who support President Bush are merely the ones more skilled in the objective analysis of information.
• United States
28 Oct 07
Did you really just compare 9/11 to global warming. Diverting the entire issue of global warming to just the oceans is pompas. Don't be a fool and think everything is fine and stop conserving electricity. Please buy the fuel effcient cars. Help the world stay beautiful.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
I think I agree with you. I am glad Im not the only one with independent thought.lol. J/K guys.
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@AD11RGUY (1265)
• United States
28 Oct 07
This is horrible! What will happen to the fabled tales of only lamb chops and potatoes? Can't change tradition, ya know.
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• United States
29 Oct 07
At last! Someone with a sense of humor! Thank you.
@AD11RGUY (1265)
• United States
29 Oct 07
I figured we all could use a break. Glad to be of help.
• United States
29 Oct 07
I apologize for the tension. Sometimes I am a little to direct in my ideas. Debate on all. lol
@Kegleneq (54)
• United States
28 Oct 07
You guys are thinking a lot more about conspiracy then what you are talking about. The real thing to think about is not wether or not everyone is lieing to you. Find the info on how our pollution(from light bulbs to refridgerators) effect the world around you. Smog is an effet of pollution and global wraming. Would you really tell me the brown cloud looming over my city and yours is make believe and not really effecting the environment around yo8u. I can smell the differecne between downtown and where my house is. It is hotter in the city and my city is running out of water because of the steady decline in rain. Also a lot of the global warming hubub you think is lies is prevention. The longer we arrogant enough to think that the way we handle our trash, water, and air is safe and not actually causeing harm the more likely that our kids won't have a world as nice as we have. If you say your not concerned with their world then have yourself serilized and don't pollute the gene pool of the people that want to make our world better instead of hiding behind statements like "I can't make a diiference" I few people saying they could created the great land we live in. Its our turn to protect it. I implore all of you to look into what you and your home is doing to your environment and help my world and yours.
• United States
28 Oct 07
"Find the info on how our pollution(from light bulbs to refridgerators) effect the world around you. Smog is an effet of pollution and global wraming. Would you really tell me the brown cloud looming over my city and yours is make believe and not really effecting the environment around you." You are exactly right. Pollution is horrible and must be stopped. I've seen Los Angeles in the 1970's on days where the brown haze was unbelievable. They even had/have air quality alerts. This sort of pollution must be stopped. Well, we are working on it. It is getting better. People are learning to control pollution. The arguements against man made global warming do not argue for pollution. It is better to not confuse the two issues. Pollution is bad and we can do something about it. Man made global warming is mostly a myth and we can't do anything about the earth getting warmer. I promise that eventually it will get warmer and then eventually get cooler again. What's that got to do with pollution really? Not a lot.
• United States
29 Oct 07
"So you are saying that the destroying of the air though pollution, that increases the color, temperature, and toxicity is in no way connected to global warming?" Pretty much that is the case. The earth is a huge system that gets its heat input from the sun. Pollution can move the heat around here and there, greenhouse gases can change the temperture for a short time in limited areas, but in the final analysis, the sum of minuses and plusses of heat input and output that determine the warmth of the earth is completely dependent on the amount of energy coming from the sun. None of this is to argue pollution is good. Pollution is bad. It can kill us all. It just won't be because of man made global warming that pollution kills us.
• United States
28 Oct 07
So you are saying that the destroying of the air though pollution, that increases the color, temperature, and toxicity is in no way connected to global warming?
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@uath13 (8192)
• United States
29 Oct 07
Its good for greenland not good for everywhere else. Areas that were good for farming are now suffering droughts which more than offset greenlands farming increase.
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• United States
29 Oct 07
I certainly can not deny that as some areas benefit from a warmer climate, some other areas will suffer. You are definitely correct.
• United States
31 Oct 07
I had a thought similar to these when I first read the article here. We are talking about inproved growing conditions for land near the artic circle. Their isn't supposed to be as much grwong thre as every where else.
• Philippines
29 Oct 07
realy/ well i hope for the best, i always hear people been afraid and complainning about this global warming.acctualy i am starting to worry too.but anyway what ever hapened its for a reason, so i hope thiers a good outcome to this.
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• United States
29 Oct 07
A very nice polite response. Thank you.