Why can't people wake up and realize "Earth Day" is a far-fetched excuse for tree-hugging snobs to blame the vast majority of citizens for their so-called "destruction of Mother Earth"??  First of all, the Earth is NOT your Mother!!!  Second, there is no PROOF of "global warming" since we only began to record weather phenoma reliably around 125 years ago!!!  (isn't the Earth a little older than that!?)  SCREW YOU HIPPIES and SCREW EARTH DAY!!!  It's common sense to not litter and waste resources!!!!!!!!  Plant a tree on your free time!!!
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Earth isn't being destroyed, everyone knows that unless they are morons.  Earth doesn't care if we deplete the ozone- people do.  If the water rises, people's overpriced homes go away- poo poo.  Earth was fine before people crawled out of the water, and will be here after people go to the molten core.  Earth is just some Aluminum, Carbon, etc. (all names we make up).  Sad, but true.  If you seek comfort- read the Bible, that's what it is there for.
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I do agree,they claim el nino is responsible,some claim global warming. The semi cold weather with wet,cloudy days is depressing not to mention it brings on aches and pains......Illness The cold snowy days seem to bring excitement, to cold for the germs. My personal theory is the whole Earth has shifted orbit just enough to mess the weather up. Scientifically I would go with global warming or the green house effect. We have used and released so much freon or R-12 into the atmosphere, plus other pollutants its really damaged are enviorment all for comfort. Maybe we should go back to horse and buggies..lol
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1.  Yes, temperatures actually have been rising - in certain places.  2.  No, it isn't too early to make predictions, as long as they are based on sound, unbiased scientific findings.  3. I believe that the warming is being driven by both people and natural causes.  We can do something about the former, but not the latter.  To what degree (no pun intended) each one is a factor is still up in the air, I think.  4.  Yes, it certainly could benefit some regions of the earth, but it would damage many populated regions tremendously.  That's why we need to try to slow down the human contribution a.s.a.p.
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On April 22, 1970, people across the country united to validate the importance of the environment and take action. Earth Day was initiated by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who said he was determined to "forcibly thrust the issue of environmental quality and resources conservation into the political dialogue of the nation." He manifested the nation’s environmental cause through what started as a 'teach-in' to protest the government’s environmental ignorance. His accomplishment in the environmental arena eventually led to fundamental legislation, including the Environmental Policy Act (1969), the Clean Air Act (1970), the Clean Water Act (1977) and fuel efficiency standards for automobiles.\n\nFor over 30 years, on April 22nd, millions of people have united to heed this urgent call to action and celebrate the environment. Earth 911 has taken the mission of Earth Day and made it an everyday opportunity by offering information and resources available to protect the environment in every community in the United States and Canada. \n\n[For any more information on it, you can check my source below. Hopefully this helps you!]
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I am terribly disappointed with global warming. I read in an article that in 40 years or so, the polar caps will completely melt, and the water from there will flood the whole earth, except midwest America. Then, everybody who wanted to live had to move there. That would be a complete shame. Everybody is using electricty as if it were for granted. We need to preserve our energy, and of course, recycle! We don't want our children (if we have any) to always experience hot weather! We want our children to experience cold weather, like snow! I remember... I used to love and examine the snowflakes. I guess our grandchildren will never experience snowflakes... but, the positive side is, that my science teacher said that after a while, we will start to cool again, and that will become the cooling period (ice age). So, I guess everything will be even a long time later (if we're still alive!).
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You know, when my grandfather was a kid, the government and the military dreamed of controlling the weather.  Now, 70 years later, the government has long since given up on the idea of controlling the weather.  But now we have people running around screaming about global warming who are supposed "experts" in the field.  We can't control the weather and bend it to our will so now they want us to believe that we can drastically alter it by ACCIDENT?!?  What arrogance.... Michael Chrichton's book was a work of fiction but his writing was solidly researched based on actual scientific data, not by waiting till the middle of August and then claiming that since it is 105 degrees outside, it must be due to "global warming".  What a riot.  Why do you think the government refused to sign the kyoto accord?  Because of money?  Bull... it was because it could not be scientifically verified.  OK. Very sorry to have climbed up on the soapbox.
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all those who oppose are refusing to admit their participation in destroying sacred mother earth. we all suck .. and will witness our earth be destroyed because of it. we cannot save our earth.. we've gone too far. screw us all.. we're paracites, we're god, we're cancer.. we're everything
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Aren't the developed countries ultimately responsible?  With our greedy consumption and our obsession with ME.  Global Warming?  The people who live in harmony with Mother Earth are not responsible; those that create the problem have a moral duty to respond.
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I do not get Popular Science, but I have heard proposals to put a sunshade in space to reduce the solar energy reaching Earth and so solve the global warming problem. This would definitely work, but I think it is too soon to proceed. What if we cool the Earth too much? Who would be to blame? If NASA put up the shade and Finland or some other country had a bad winter, would the US have to pay damages? It would be a political nightmare. With great power comes great responsibility. If we can really control the weather, then if somebody doesn't like the weather is our fault. Do we want to take that responsibility? Yes we do if massive bad stuff has already happened that can be 100% blamed on global warming, but when was the last time the world agreed 100% on anything? Even if sea levels rise 100 feet and we put the shade in place, somebody in the world would sue us anyway, but if we put it up now, before sea levels rise at all, EVERYBODY will sue us!
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Because the U.S. is looking out for their own self-interest.  Screw the planet!  I also suspect that a lot of the people running the country are scientifically illiterate and/or morally bankrupt.
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It is a myth....a bedtime story.  The Earth was formed over millions of years.
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How about the fact that the entire scientific community accepts the age of the earth to be 4.6 billion years old?\n\nI have no idea what sources you're reading from or even if you just made all that up, but science is in no way "proving" the Bible. If anything, it's proving that the Biblical creation story is even LESS likely to actually have happened than we originally thought.\n\nAdam & Eve? Mainstream scientists laugh at that, man.
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It is Global Warming.  Geologically speaking we are still coming out of the last ice age.  We are on in a natural cycle which has been accerated by pollution.
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8:00 pm east coast, history channel. Maybe some people can learn a bit of truth about this holiday. Native Americans have gotten the crappy end of the stick more than any other race of people in America. If more people really knew their history, not the crap they teach about feel good history, they wouldn't write the kind of responses I have read. I guess it applies to all forums on here. Some people wouldn't believe the truth even if it was smacking them in the face. Demonize it, then kill it or pass a law to control it. Worked then, works now.
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I don't believe in global warming . .I believe in my opinion is the signs that Christ is coming back soon! If you don't agree that is cool by me.
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what a troubling Q: but i agree with that 6k yrs of this planet... the carbon dating is nothing but a paleontological gibberish... the world is not a million or so yrs old... mybe they just need a lil more tyme checking the computations... one million yr wud mean a day or a week in the christian "dating" watdayathink?? (,"}
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They have no logic or rational thought on this subject.\n\nNot one reasonable response with actual hard evidence.  Why? Because there is none.  \n\nJust too stubborn to admit they're wrong.  Just like fearless leader I guess...\n\nBTW scorbore's links above are all bogus (except one) he posts them to every global warming question.  Here's the definitive link;\n\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686\n\nEDIT; Hey Scorbore dates don't mean anything.  Do you even know the scientific standard of publication by peer review?  Only one of your links was a peer reviewed publication.  All 928 of mine were.  So, which do you believe your 1 or my 928 :)