Is everyone aware of global warming and what about people going crazy over cars that guzzle fossil fuel.?
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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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My south is social genocide on one side and golf courses and $300,000.00 houses on the other. I worry about the environment too, but I'm afraid I may be the only one.  Check out hydrogen power and spread the word to your friends.  It will save our planet if we act.  Also, adaptation is our only means of survival...those who fear change perish....infuse modernity with all things natural...see what you come up with.
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Just to add a little to the middle school science teacher's answer ... we are also using up the fossil fuels of the earth at an alarming rate, which is contributing to global warming.  This means that the Arctic ice cap is melting at the rate of about 75,000 square kilometers a year, and has been melting at that rate for about 30 years now, which is about the size of Lake Superior every year.  This means that the level of the oceans will rise, causing erosion of many coastal areas.  Many species of wildlife are endangered because of us, including whales, polar bears, and many tropical species that live in rain forests particularly. \n\nWe are endangering other people because we have a great division in the world between those who have plenty of everything and those who are starving.  If the world's food was shared in a fari way there would be plenty for everyone.  The same applies to all of the world's resources, not just food.\n\nWe are also endangering the world when we don't recycle and use products that are so over-packaged.  We throw pop bottles, all kinds of paper and containers and organic stuff into our landfills instead of recycling.\n\nWe over-use many medications, especially antibiotics, which means that many bacteria are becoming immune to the antibiotics that used to be able to treat them.  We see this in the many infections people can now get just by being in a hospital.  We also make this worse by using products such as antibacterial soaps in our homes, which we don't really need.\n\nFor the most part the western world, those of us who have enough of most things, ignore the poverty, starvation and disease in the poor parts of the world so we are endangering the peoples of many countries when instead we could help them much more than we do.  Also, we tend to ignore the wars in many parts of the world unless we think they will have an effect on us.  For example, nobody pays much attention to a lot of the bad stuff that happens in many parts of Africa because it we think it doesn't have much connecton to us.\n\nHope this helps.
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Global warming caused by humans is a myth.  It has been debunked by scientist after scientist.  The reason the earth is in a "warming cycle" (the temp on earth has risen 1 degree in the last 100 years..1 DEGREE) is because the sun is hotter.  \n\nThe environment is the new "religion" of the left, both in America and abroad. They don't believe in God and hate America.
833807
I agree, that global warming MUST be a lie, I mean it's fu.ckin freezing here!\n\nI need to start burning my rubbish. Fu.ck the councils and their spy-chips in the bins, If they want to charge me extra on enviromental grounds for taking away my rubbish, I'm gonna start burning it!\n\nand  I am going to part ex my efficient small diesel car for a fu.ck-off huge SUV and have a monster truck engine installed, and then drive my car, with the windows down and the heating up full for miles and miles for no apparent reason.
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It's full of lies. Keep in mind, this is the same person who predicted another ice age in the seventies...sorry, i really don't believe in global warming until i get some real facts. After all, how do you think the glaciers melted? The earth had to warm...and that was long before SUV's were around. just my thoughts.
984253
I'm very skeptical of global warming. When I was a kid back in the seventies the conventional wisdom was there would be a new ice age sometime around the year 2000. It was even a front page story in Time magazine. Fool me once...
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Global warming is the term used to describe how the average temperature of the planet is going up. No one denies that the temperature is, in fact, going up. Therefore, no one denies that global warming is a fact.\n\nHowever, according to studies of Antarctic ice, the average temperature of the planet has been rising for 6,000 years, which is well before the Industrial Revolution of 150 years ago. This proves that global warming is not caused by man. In that time, however, the rate of temperature rise has increased, which means that the actions of humanity probably has worsened the situation.\n\nThe critical facts about global warming are these:\n\nWhat are the effects of global warming going to be, and how can we prepare for them? Currently, no model of global atmospheric projection has shown itself to accurately predict to any degree the general weather patterns of the Earth (such as the number and ferocity of hurricanes). Until we come up with an accurate way of predicting the effects of global warming, preparing for them will be difficult and based upon conjectures, which are a difficult sell to taxpayers.\n\nWhat can be done to limit the effect of humanity on global warming in the future WITHOUT putting a major damper on economic growth and development, especially in developing nations? For example, all nations could agree to stop driving vehicles that use internal combustion engines, but to do so at once would devastate the economies of many nations. However, other options, such as diverting tax funds to subsidize the development of alternative-energy propulsion for vehicles, would accelerate the advent of such earth-friendly technology.\n\nAll in all, because of the massive stakes involved when discussing global warming (and the subsequent misinformation flying around about it), many people are confused as to the facts about it. I was hoping to be as informative and unbiased as possible.\n\nPlease let me know what you think!
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Global warming is the latest trend by Governments of the world to try to convince the population that we are at fault for warming the world.  The world's weather and climate has been changing regularly over the last 15,000 years - before cars and planes were invented.  Carbon dioxide is one of the most prolific gasses in our atmosphere because it is needed for plants to survive.  Without CO2, the plants would die and we would have no oxygen which is a by product of a plant and we would all die!  Remember all the other scare stories over the years - in the 60s it was nuclear bombs from Russia, then we had SARS and bird flu, then terrorists and don't forget the hole in the ozone layer.  Every couple of years, we get a major scare story to keep the world's population under control.  The effect of global warming is that we are all paying out so called green taxes that actually do nothing to stop the problem but it sure makes the Governments rich!  What is the point of worrying about future global warming when now you have people freezing to death in the winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes because the price of gas and electric has risen so much because of green taxes?  Or we are getting plagues of rats and other vermin because Councils only collect our rubbish every two weeks because recycling is top priority?  We really should solve todays problems first before we start worrying about something that will most likely never happen.
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to save the environment!! Hybrid cars and some alternative fuel cars save on emissions and do not attribute to the overuse of fossil fuels such as petrolium ( which is refined into the gasoline that we use in our cars).  Yes i am a tree hugging hippie..but at this time of global warming and overall ecosystemic breakdown...we all should be...did you know that by 2050 the north pole is expected to be ice free through the summer months?? That will mean a dramatic increase in ocean levels...meaning a dramatic loss in usable land mass...meaning people will be moving further in land...rebuilding..using up more of nature's building materials and facilitating further breakdown of nature...and eventually both world economy and humanity itself...never mind the aesthetic value of once booming tourist attractions going way downhill
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As partisan and insulting a statement (not even question) as that is, there are a few aspects to be addressed when discussing global warming.\n\nGlobal warming is the term used to describe how the average temperature of the planet is going up.  No one denies that the temperature is, in fact, going up.  Therefore, no one denies that global warming is a fact.\n\nHowever, according to studies of Antarctic ice, the average temperature of the planet has been rising for 6,000 years, which is well before the Industrial Revolution of 150 years ago.  This proves that global warming is not caused by man.  In that time, however, the rate of temperature rise has increased, which means that the actions of humanity probably has worsened the situation.\n\nThe critical facts about global warming are these:\n\nWhat are the effects of global warming going to be, and how can we prepare for them?  Currently, no model of global atmospheric projection has shown itself to accurately predict to any degree the general weather patterns of the Earth (such as the number and ferocity of hurricanes).  Until we come up with an accurate way of predicting the effects of global warming, preparing for them will be difficult and based upon conjectures, which are a difficult sell to taxpayers.\n\nWhat can be done to limit the effect of humanity on global warming in the future WITHOUT putting a major damper on economic growth and development, especially in developing nations?  For example, all nations could agree to stop driving vehicles that use internal combustion engines, but to do so at once would devastate the economies of many nations.  However, other options, such as diverting tax funds to subsidize the development of alternative-energy propulsion for vehicles, would accelerate the advent of such earth-friendly technology.\n\nAll in all, because of the massive stakes involved when discussing global warming (and the subsequent misinformation flying around about it), many people are confused as to the facts about it.  I was hoping to be as informative and unbiased as possible.\n\nPlease let me know what you think!
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It's politics but it's also the incredible egotism human beings have that we are at the center of everything. Sure, we need to be concerned about pollution. We have to breathe the air and drink the water. Human beings have clearly had an adverse effect on local ecosystems, but whether we are powerful enough to warm up the whole planet is an open question. I am afraid that all the focus on global warming is taking attention away from environmental issues where there is a clearer cause and effect.
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No. There are plenty of other theories. The EPA can't and hasn't proven any of their theories. Even a Harvard scientist said that we may just be recovering from a mini Ice Age that caused famine for 400 years (Ireland's potato famine). Who am I supposed to believe? I am not scared, although I do believe it is a good time to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Who knows what the cause of "global warming" is? Oh well. Let's just reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There's nothing harmful in that.
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No and yes. \n\nWith regards to un-educated and mis-informed rubbish that goverments tell us that global warming is an artifact of human activity on this planet no I do not. Global warming is a topic which for the last thirty years or so has been 'fashionable' to study. If you look it at this way, the Earth is approx 4 to 6 billions years old and we are only studying the past few centuries. To me this is not even a dot on the Earths timescale so how can we possibly deduce mans influence on the climate. The climate of the earth is changing constantly. What we recognise as the four seasons; sping, summer, autumn (fall) and winter have only been in existance for the past few million years!\n\nAlthough some scientists have looked at the recent erosion of the ozone, they fail to see the bigger picture and take into account the varying orbit the planet has around the sun, its tilt and wobble (see link below for info on the Milankovitch Theory). They also fail to recognise in they're studies the gravitational pull of the earths core and the movement of the fluids contained within. Additionally the 'hotspots' or 'solar flares' on the sun are not taken into account when global warming is discussed, of which also effects our climate.
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Sure as long as they thought it would be popular.\n\nI just can't belive with all the real environmential problems we have they are worried about Co2.\n\nThat is the gas that somes out of you when you exhale.  That is what they are worried about.\n\nCo2!
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I had to stop for this one..........what a great question Girl!! When the Scientists, Geologists and all the other "BRAINIACS" figured out that we were,as a planet, destroying everything, what they left out, was the fact that it was already too late. (Alot of evidence, as well as some awful smart people are of this opinion) But as you know, they're still telling us to buy fuel efficient cars, don't use deodorant with aerosol.........you've heard it too. It is food for thought, have we gone to far.......will there be anything left for our Grandchildren? You are a smart Girl!!                      LATER!!!!
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honestly global warming is a big f'n lie. If anyone knew anything about meterological weather history, they would know this "overall world warm up" happens all the time, along with the "overall world cool down" if you knew anything about science in that area, you probably wouldnt be a crazy liberal. PS, driving a enviornlementaly friendly car isnt going to do squat.