So, Global Warming is not real?
@lookatdesktop (27156)
Dallas, Texas
April 3, 2016 11:08pm CST
I am not saying I think global climate change is not real but I know that for every argument for this hypothesis there are several more to the contrary. The world seems to be as divided about global warming as the politicians are divided about the economy.
According to statistics, there are just as many articles on the internet that support the argument against global warming or humans causing any form of global climate change and that we are supposed to be due for another ice age.
Then I was not around when the last ice age happened.
If we are doomed for driving cars and such then we could at least support the effort to make them at least able to run on electricity just so we are not energy dependent on other countries. Wind turbines and Solar arrays and Geothermal and that other kind that uses ocean waves to generate some type of power would be better than just keeping with the status quo and risking life as we know it on this planet by the end of this century.
Who wouldn't rather have a cooler planet if we were in fact responsible for it getting hotter by actually considering changing our bad habits?
But, on the other hand, those who believe the meting of the glaciers and polar ice caps and mountain top glaciers are just a transition of the natural order of things, outside of our own so called human foot print, then we could just ignore the stories and go about our daily lives and just wait and see what happens.
It is true that super storms have happened. But think about this for a second, only until recently did we have the kind of technology that enabled us to see the world's weather and geological changes with the instant availability of information from computers, orbital satellites and radar systems developed in just around 100 years or so.
Maybe it is just that. Maybe the weather is just more up close and personal because as a planet we are more globally aware and just because of all the weather taking place on our planet it may have been going on from day one and we just think it's out of control. For the most part, at this moment, I feel fine and it's currently 68 degrees in Dallas. How's the weather in your neck of the woods?
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
4 Apr 16
The thing that seems to be the biggest hurdle in any scientific discussion about weather and climate is 'can humans really influence weather?' Everyone that says no will refuse the point, everyone that says yes will jump on the wagon. The most important thing is not to fight the end point, but see what we agree on and what we can change along the way.
We all can agree that volcanic eruptions and emissions can change climate locally and on large scales globally. Volcanoes are huge and powerful forces of nature and that's something to consider. However volcanoes emit 0.3 billion tonnes of Carbon Dioxide each year, while human activity (as of 2007) emits 29 billion tonnes. That means for the year taken, volcanic emissions were only 1% that of human sources. That's like 100 times more volcanic activity... kind of scary.
The ocean is rising. Do humans have a part in that? Forget glaciers and ice caps, can you think of other ways humans add to the level? The combustion of hydrocarbons creates water as part of the process, but that's pretty small. However, desertification of formerly fertile land is growing through over-farming, wells are drying up as aquifers are depleted, and rainforests are chopped down. Not to mention all the land that is sealed with concrete and asphalt, preventing water to be absorbed into the land. Where does all this extracted water from these activities go? Into the ocean! That's all human caused and by no means a small amount of water over thousands of years of at least the first two activities.
Interestingly enough, there is enough damage in those two examples, and both can be changed once again by us. I don't care what is changing what, we can change it to where we want it to be.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 Apr 16
@lookatdesktop Yes, but simple acts of cloud seeding are certainly proven ones. In changing that little of a weather pattern, what could change down the line? Also, though they deny it, icebreakers breaking apart sea ice. It's small and heals up, but I know for a fact that broken pond ice never refreezes completely to bear weight. The act of breaking it once is enough to weaken it for the rest of the winter. When you take that into context, they are making the sea ice more vulnerable to heat, so it melts faster and fails quicker.
Everything has a small impact.
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Apr 16
I think HAARP is one example of an alleged attempt by man to change the weather, or so it has been suggested by some. I myself do not know enough about HAARP other than the conspiracy theories about it along with the other one that mentions Chemtrails.
Neither of these has been proven but seem to merely suggest ideas that may or may not be true. I neither deny these technologies nor fully believe they are in truth, being used by our governments for any type of weather manipulation or for that matter any type of experimental geoengineering processes. Perhaps they do some type of computer analyses with algorithms.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
5 Apr 16
In our place the tempreature has an average of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius. But last Saturday in one place in our country the heat index reached to the highest level of 49 degrees Celsius. We have a terrible hot temperature here so far for weeks now. The hottest this year ,compared to previous years. Our country becomes hotter and hotter each year.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Apr 16
The Earth may be going through some changes. After all the human population has increased a lot in the past 40 or 50 years. As the population of humans on this earth increases, so too will it's construction of more dwellings, agriculture, industrial growth and along with that changes in the overall structure of the land. With more land being converted from once forested land and agricultural to urban there will come a point when the balance is off and in addition to this offset we have to face some facts.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
4 Apr 16
Global climate change does not necessarily mean global warming.
Some people just do not know the difference, and yet they try to act smart.
Those idiots are talking about next ice age, and yet they are saying that global warming leads to ice age, they really have something wrong in their head.
If there is global warming, then ice age will not come.
Hot and cold just does not co-exist.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Apr 16
When you look back at the past 20 years do you see it being more dry and warm than before? I have noticed changes in Dallas that suggest some degree of change that is notable.
@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
4 Apr 16
Raining here
With regards to global warming if you accept the current scientific view they'll be no damage to the environment if you take up anti global warming measures.
I don't know if global warming is real but the things I've seen to combat it make sense.
Less pollution, lessening reliance on fossil fuels, recycling and all sorts of other things.
But if you disbelieve global warming in my opinion it will be a bad thing.
If we buy into the global warming thing there are no cons as far as I can see...oil WILL run out.
Lets get more sustainable energy sources...win win situation.
With regards to global warming if you accept the current scientific view they'll be no damage to the environment if you take up anti global warming measures.
I don't know if global warming is real but the things I've seen to combat it make sense.
Less pollution, lessening reliance on fossil fuels, recycling and all sorts of other things.
But if you disbelieve global warming in my opinion it will be a bad thing.
If we buy into the global warming thing there are no cons as far as I can see...oil WILL run out.
Lets get more sustainable energy sources...win win situation.1 person likes this
@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Apr 16
Projections for the end of oil are not fully written in stone. However, there are more facts that support the eventual end of fossil fuels like coal and moreover, the diminishing supplies of underground fresh water supplies which will tilt the balance of human life being sustainable for the next 50 years along with the possible increase in global temperature by 1.3 Celsius or greater.
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