Does anyone care about the massive dangers of global warming and the effect that it's going to have on this planet and the people who live on it?
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Do you have a economically viable solution?\n\nMost environmentalist take the cost of repairing all items that this present course of action, and throw out the capital cost of the replacement to declare Renewable Energy & The Hydrogen Economy is viable.\n\nTo make Renewable Energy & The Hydrogen Economy economically viable requires 2 international governments to donate/invest a large enough quantity of land for the private investor to sit up and take notice.  This land will have to be in the right place.  The design will have to change the value of land to subsidize the cost of the infrastructure.\n\nThere donation in effect does the due diligents for the private investor & advertises both the investment and the product.\n\nThis solution has been offered up to both governments and all political parties.  As you might guess they weren't interested in a solution, just patting themselves on the back for actions that have proved worthless.  At best there actions have gotten a few rich enough to pay their utility bills decades in advance to install a Renewable Energy collector!\n\nI started my investigation just to make photovoltaics economically viable.  They never will be directly outside of niche markets.  The amount of energy required to purify & crystlize the silicon means the price of enrgy has to skyrocket after installation for a return on investment, when all capital cost are included.\n\nI'm interested if you think it is likely in your life time to see the end of fossil fuels.  I'm not talking about, because of replacement.  Will the well dry up as more go to the well?\n\nThe 1st World's life style runs on energy both to make us more productive as well as to consume the toys we sell.  Everything is a toy to someone!
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It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be.  To a certain extent, he's right.  The media does tend to give more air time to violence and destruction.  It is also true that many environmentalists are blind idealists that can't face reality.\n\nOn the other hand, people who claim that global warming doesn't exist are usually trying to say that pollution doesn't matter.  That simply isn't true.  Pollution is a serious problem in the world today.  Proof of that can be seen in the massive dead zones that show up in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea every year.\n\nRegardless of the state of global warming, pollution should be kept to an absolute minimum.  Remember, our children will have to live on this planet.  We have no right to destroy it for them.
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Global warming is due to the huge quantity of some kind of gaz that human activity ejects in the atmospher. That gaz in itself does not warm, but it has indirect effects: destroying the earth's protection towards these sunshines and keeping the heat of these sunshines into the earth's atmospher.\nWhy people don't care much about it? It's because they don't realize that the earth as they know it could drastically change. Until now, it took billions of years to change, so human lifetime (and even the complete human History!!!) isn't much compared to the usual scale of big climate changes. But the earth human population, its activity and its ability to pollute have increased so much that it has become possible for humanity to go straight into a wall without even realizing it!!!
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The earth will last a lot longer than we will. It will not be the same but it's the humans that will go crazy and kill each other when they can't get the necessities of life.
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I guess I'm one of those people who notices changes in my own state - winters are NOT the same - but I am aware that our planet has undergone changes in the past. Are humans having an effect? I'm sure of it. But how much? And how much of the changes we're seeing are completely natural in the grand scheme of things? I'm not prepared to answer.
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We are already seeing the effects. Read Bright Dawn, dark future  it was published in the early 90s but predict several events that have happened since do to GLOBAL WARMING!!!
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Actually we are going for Global Warming, where all teh Ice is going to melt and probably flood alot of places, the atmosphere is gettinng thinner and more ultra violates are entering earth. P.S. did you see any Acorns? Keep looking for it...
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The artic ice shelf IS melting .Not a myth .Polar bears ARE drowning .Artic communities have experienced increased flooding and evacs.Worst droughts out west since the thirties.There is abundant evidence of glaciers retreating.The science is out there and I will believe scientific evidence and experience  over people who want to bury their heads in the sand and stupidly do nothing any day of the week.Don't let yourself get conned by people who are in denial and have no proof of their own to contradict scientific evidence and eyewitness accounts .Global warming is no joke and we must do something to prevent it from getting worse now before it's too late.
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If you only realized that there is really no such a thing as global warming caused by us citizens, or by our vehicles, you would be amazed.\n\nFirst off deep space is extremely cold, and we loose our heat fast to it, it is only near the surface of the planet where we are capable of feeling the warmth. however the warmth which is created at the surface is the first thing to be lost, just go up into a mountain a few hundred feet and feel how cold it is, and only a five miles above your head you would not be capable of surviving the cold temperatures even on the warmest sunny day.\n\nThe underground nuclear tests which were done in the 1950s through 1960s did more to increase the core temperature of the earth than anything which we can do above it.\n \nour planets core will take along time to cool with respect to those tests, possibly a thousand years, also with respect to those tests we peppered our planets surface with radioactive dust, which now causes lung cancer, however everybody wishes to spin the lie that lung cancer is being caused by second hand smoke, and direct smoking,  when this is not the truth at all, I never here mention of the nuclear testing which actually has brought about this state of affairs.\n\ninstead they attack the tobacco industry, and the persons who they use to encourage to smoke because they were making great taxes from it, as they still continue to do today, although today they wish to blame this cancer problem on you and I, and take away a legal product which we are now hooked on, and only to mask the damage which nuclear testing has brought about.\n\nyes, our planets surface cools quickly, but our planets core is much like a hot water bottle, which once raised by even a minimal amount of degrees, will take many years to cool, and sorry to say we will continue to see strange weather patterns like El Nino, and Catrina, and sunami Ocean tides caused by earth quakes because of it.\n\nYes I stand amazed, and in true awe of the short memory which our citizens have, and there inability to recognize the truth unless slapped in the face with it, however now that I have brought this to your attention, I believe you will understand the logic, and the truth in it.\n\nWhen I was a child, I remember hearing the warnings on the radio, alerting parents not to let there children go outside and play as radioactive clouds were passing over our state, and I grew up in Iowa, I now live in Colorado which is very close to Nevada, and you would not believe the number of people coming down with cancer here, and dieing because of it.\n\nAlso Christopher Reeves Wife recently passed away "God rest her soul", and she died of lung cancer, and never smoked a day in her life, and Fox News came out and told the story, and also talked about how so many people who have never smoked a cigarette a day in there life were developing lung cancer, and dieing because of it. and they never even conceived of the truth of the nuclear testing which started all of this.\n\nRadioactive clouds do not just passover any state with no effect, clouds by nature form water droplets, which trap the radioactive molecules with in there structure, and when the clouds release there water by nature, they carry all of those radioactive molecules with them, and release it into what ever they make contact with including soil, homes, and upon people who are out in the rain.  also once the water evaporates, the radioactive molecules do not diminish, they remain, and are picked up, and carried into the air that you and I breeth and lung cancer is formed in those persons who are not as resistant to it, or who have been subjected to higher quantity's over time.\n\nJohn Wayne 'God rest his soul' shot a movie in a Nevada desert shortly after the nuclear testing, and while riding the horses there was allot of dust raised, and he, and many other people who shot that movie developed severe cancer because of it and died a horrible deaths.\n\nPlease
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Hell no, all humans will die from some crisis or big disaster, or maybe the earth will be swallowed by some black hole (Actually it's happening) scientist found out that our galaxy is being sucked by some Massive black hole.\n\nI just don't want to be there when it happens :D
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Start with Al Gore's Inconvieniant Truth to get the big picture. Then if you can consider other people elsewhere besides where you live you would know they are being effected right now. The world is warming up and ice is melting everywhere. We should all be very concerned......
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No, they won't be outraged.  Somehow it will be the fault of "neo-cons" who are Gore bashing and don't have any proof that he is wrong.  It's easy to mislead people with fear.  Especially when you say things like "the polar ice caps are melting more rapidly than ever and will lose significant portions of land mass in the next ten years!"  Okay, what does that mean?  How much is it losing relative to its mass?  Where are your numbers?  Oh, I forgot, numbers don't SUPPORT their arguments.  Why must we suffer the ignorance of fools?
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I think we'll screw up the atmosphere, then choke to death.  1000 years later, the Earth will probably fix itself, sans us.
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I'm pretty afraid.  I don't know where we're headed economically, politically, environmentally, anything...and I'm not even sure what will be the biggest problem first.  For instance, it's relatively clear that climate change will be an issue, but when?  And is it even possible at this point for us to turn some of these things around?
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Our grand children or at least our great grandchildren will live in a really ugly world filled with violent people. They tend to get that way when food is scarce, and even the larger animals (bears, panthers, dogs, etc) will consider man a rather choice meal since their prime natural resources will be sorely diminished.\n\nThere is a massive domino effect that most do not even consider. The majority of the so called Civilized Worlds live for now, and tomorrow be damned. Or so it seems.\n\nYou and those (including myself) who are concerned, unfortunately do not make up the majority of whom it requires in stopping the global warming process (or slowing it down). Sad stuff. It really is.
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Global warming is in theory reversable,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.\n\nSOLUTIONS\nif you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes\n\nreduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.\n\nthe capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia \n\nWaterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.\n\nthe protection of existing forrests.\n\nstop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation \n\nstop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.\n\neducation to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.\n\neducation on environmental awareness\n\neducation on family planning to combat overpopulation which contributs to 70 million people each year which puts more presure on farmers tom grow more food \n\nAgricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.\n\nmore environmental or land design, to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks \n\nregulations and control for public behaviour on polution and limiting the use of fossilfuel \n\nalternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine\n\nrecicling wastes,\n\nlimit water use
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Well, I have always wondered the same question….\n\nThere’s never an answer that I thought of it being reasonable.\n\nMany times, my friends say “Who cares, it’s just temporarily, and it’ll fade away soon…”\n\nThey act like it’s not a big deal when it is.  It can affect our children, our grand-children, our grand-grand-children.  There are too much.  The suns still out, there are still many years to cover.  If we still don’t care about smoking and other uses, it’s just no help.  Just prepare to die because of stupid people who say stupid things about something they don’t even know the truth of.  \n\nLater, as Times magazine entitled an article about global warming and how it is made and stuff, I brought it to school to read, my friend saw it and start reading with me, then I pulled it away since she doesn’t even care.  Later during lunch, she’s like, ok ok, I do admit it might be big now can I really read about now?\n\nThe next day she said sorry, I never thought it could have been that serious.  Thanks for understanding anyway.  I accepted her apologue.  But I still think it’s just that people don’t research enough to prove it yet.  Things are different now.  Humans need cars, homes, and some even need cigarette.  I don’t blame it on anyone. But in my deep true heart, I blame it on many people, like for instant; I hate whoever invented the cigarette.  Every time I go a person who smokes, it make we have a hard time breathing.  Hate this person.  Whoever.\n\nIt’s just not fair.  One day, the earth will really be like a dessert.    \n\nI think every country should make a group of people who has to have every human learn about global warming and then have them take a test, but I already know it’s not a easy task and no one probably would be wiling to do it and I admit my idea is a little ridicules.\n\n\nWell, that’s my opinion..\n\n<>dia gemz\nsheri