I don't know if warming is cycle or not. The issue has not be reported from a balanced point of view. Google globel warming myths. Tons of article apear, but you never see thease reported. most of the polution comes from third world countrys anyway. yes we have more cars, but we have emission controlls. when I went to mexico every car had smoke shooting from the exhaust pipe. I also saw people burning tires. can you imagine whats happening around the world. emerging markets will continue to grow and increase their poluting. don't always blaim the u.s. first. how about under water valcanos! Look what sadem hussain did when he burnt all the oil wells in kuait. we cant unilatteraly disarm our country untill we know what is happening is not cycle.
Dear Anonymous,
What exactly is Al Gore trying to win?
He is not running for any political office, so I can't see how he can be elected.
He is not looking to win any contests, unless you know something I don't.
Just suppose, for a minute, he may be trying to tell you something you are too
blind to see. Global warming is now in progress, in fact, it may be too late to
turn things around. Especially if people like you are in the majority.
there are so many things you can do that can make a big difference over time.
you can use energy efficient items, offset your carbon use, stick to locally grown food as much as possible, an endless number of things...
sorry to say this, but your answer is a cop-out for laziness
will get you no where. there is plenty you can do. What if eveyone said there was nothing you can do about the holocaust, or communism in the USSR, or Terrorism. What Kind of world would we live in....Man give me a break...and go check your carbon footprint to see if there is something you can change in your life to make a difference !!!!!!!!!!
Dear Anonynous,
I remember you! I saw you sitting in the middle of a road waiting for a truck to run
over you. I heard someone tell you, "Hey, get out of the road." Then I heard you say,
"I'm here now, and there isn't really anything we can do about it."
"It's better to light a candle, than curse the darkness." I'd say that's something else you really can't find the energy to do anything about!
Take care of your environment and it will take care of you... destroy your environment and it will destroy you...
With all of the pollution, the cutting of trees and the disregard for other species we are destroying our enviornment. Take it seriously and be responsible for the effect that you have on the planet... recycle, drive less, use environmently safe products, talk about it, learn about it, be about it. Its the future of our Planet and the Human Race. ~ Dr. LA
Looking to the solutions out of Love for ourselves, the planet and the future is where the change begins.
To put ourselves in opposition to a thing makes it stronger.
To put ourselves in the flow of higher consciousness choices and take our actions from Love without the motivation of righteous, simply taking our action because it is the highest most loving action we know how to take is when we gain power and when our actions do not produce the negative polarity.
Feed hungery people, plant and conserve from the love of beauty and the many benefits of a green planet, hold hands with people who are different than you and find compassion, for yourself, for your enemy, the unconscious actions that we all inflict and suffer under. When you find compassion there is space for change, when you attack they attack back and then what do you have? Everybody is right in their own mind and dead.
If you do a search on the Web. You will find that the suns output is higher and that Mars' icecap is also melting.
So you tell me, if Mar and Earth are both having icecap shrinkage. Then either there are Martians creating pollution we don't know about. Or the warming is not human in origin.
Davemon
He is a politician, and would not know science if it bit him. Check out 'Environmental overkill' by Dixie Lee Ray, and Lou Guzzo, Dixie Lee Ray was an environmental scientist and what can Albert Gore Jr. claim, he is a politician, and has always been one.
Arthur
Dear Arthur,
Look up your facts and learn a little bit more before you blatantly charge
another human being. You have on a heavy set of blinders. Al Gore is no
longer seeking office, although he is doing his best to serve his country.
Mr. Gore has followed scientist's opinions from the time he was in College.
Let's say, a long time ago he was bit by the science of what was happening regarding Grobal warning. Look up Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Charles Keeling,
and Gore's Harvard Professor, Roger Revelle. You have to go back to the
1960's to begin Al Gore's introduction to science.
It's nice to know you have read a book! Does that gualify you as a reader?
If so, do read Al Gore's book, "An Inconvenient Truth." You'll learn that when
you called Al Gore, Jr. a baffoon, you were really looking into your mirror.
Al Gore has devoted much of his lifetime to trying to convince us of global warming. He has toured extensively worldwide with his slideshow. He has written books on the subject. The vast majority of the scientific community agrees with Gore's views on global warming. Think about it. Ever since the Industrial Revolution we have been rapidly escalating our abuse of the planet with no conscience. We are decimating our forests worldwide, polluting our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans and air around us. Our planet has been able to keep up with the minor pollution created by man prior to the industrial revolution because it was minimal. Now there are more people on earth creating far far more polution and destruction than ever before in recordable history. How can you possibly deny that man is not having an imact on our planet and producing global warming. The facts are in! FACE IT!!!
Percevill Lowel, the noted astronomer in the early 1900s was totllay convinced that he could see the works of a civilization on Mars. Eric Van Daniken was totally convincing in his assertion that aliens built Macu Pichu in Peru and that a nuclear war was fought in the Indian sub-continent 15,000 years ago. But that don't make it true. Wha tthe Global warming crownd seems to wnat to ignore is data from Mars that shows the Martian ice caps melting at the same rate as those of the Earth and the same corrisponding rise in average temperature as a percent of total temperature. In other words, this is a solar system effect that leads one to think tht the sun has heated up just a bit in some sort of cycle. Don't forget, 1000 years ago Scandanava was ice free all year. That's why the Viking conqured most of Europe and sailed to North America.
Dear Yeah Right,
Do buy yurself a book with all da big words in it. I think they call it somthin like a
dictionary. Learn to spell. Then, your ignorant replies would be easier to read.
Al Gore and the rest of the nuts have no idea what it takes to cause a change in the weather. If it was possible we could make rain and change lead to gold.
Tony
Global warming is absolutley the biggest issue the human race will have to face in the next 50 years.
Whether it is a natural warming cycling that occurs every 20,000 years or whether it is being caused by humans burning fossil fuels and using many other chemicals that have modified the earth's atmosphere allowing more of the sun's radiation to hit us or whether it is a combination of both it actually does not matter.
What does matter is that we do everything humanly possible in order to slow it down in order to have an inhabital planet for our children's children.
Therefore, if you believe at all that humans with coal burning, oil burning, gas burning manufacturing, heating/cooling and transportation is possibley having an impact to the speed with which global warming is occuring you are obligated to do what you can.
You might say that much has been done, but we are moving into a new cycle where China and India are developing and new factories are bieing built that have many more times the impact of natural events like volcanoes. But here at home in North America, we have actually done very little to curb our use of fossil fuels and production of atmospheric damaging chemicals.
It is crazy we are caught in this debate whether global warming is occuring or not. It is in fact occuring - the evidence is overwhelming - the debate should be on what we can do and right now each individual needs to do what they can to speak out, reduce their use of fossil fuels personally and purchase from companies that practice good environmental stuardship of the planet.
Political Commentary "clouds" the issue of global warming
by Anonymous on July 22, 2006 - 5:24pm
Maybe straw men will catch fire now since "each second is hotter than the one before" and we won't have to endure the use of same in Don Williams political columns. The political patter the left is using goes something like this: "Well, if you have any doubt about the cause, the effect or what to do about global warming-then that means that you don't belive that global warming exists and you are a stupid Republican, widow starving, orphan kicking, kitty cat hating doo doo head and the rest of us God fearing good and honest folk will be voting Democratic!"
Hell I like it. After all, someone has to be the lead Lemming.
However, most of us are not interested in diving over the next blind cliff that the left would like to use for our destruction. Are parts of the earth warming-uh yep. Are parts of the earth getting colder-hu huh. Is there a rise in average mean temperature of the earth-yah you betcha.
Is it going to be a problem for the United States, hmm maybe. Does the economic activity of man increase it-hmmm maybe. Is the use of fossil fuels and the use of automobiles in the United States even a minor cause-don't think so. Is world population and the destruction of eco-systems in the third world to blame-maybe some.
So what is the answer. Well, shit happens.
The problem for us, the United States, will be and is the cyclical reduction of thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic a.ka. "the great Jacuzzi stops working again" as it has done many, many times in the history of the earth.
The Left promots the wadding of panties about fossil fuel and auto use, and the right just whistles. Neither think beyond how they can make a buck on the deal. It is a money deal with political parties-always.
However, as United States folk, we do need to implement short and long term planning to deal with the effect of a colder climate and shorter, less robust growing seasons. All of which we can do very well and insure our safety and survival if we ignore the political opportunists, educate ourselves and make local/state governments begin planning to implement a response.
We (generally speaking) have done nothing but destroy our earth and air from the very begining. The Indians respected the earth and air and it respected them in return everything needed by the people was provided by the earth. We as a society have depleated the minerals in the earth by not respecting it. We added insectisides and poured waste into the waters. The waste we put into our waters evaporates into the air dispersing itself all over the world, collecting wiht water molecules and raining down upon us. We then allow our animals to eat and drink this rain water full of our waste products. Then we eat the animals. See a patern here. Have we not noticed our summers getting longer and winters becoming warmer? We did exactly what the ancestors said we would do..... Give them enough time and they will destroy themselves, unfortunately they will destroy us all in the process. They do not respect our earth.
So yes I believe we have something to do with the global warming. Yes it also may be that it's in the natural cycle of life but we may have rushed that cycle a bit with all our pollutants.
We all have been more and more dependent on energy and gasoline and all of these other things that we are becoming consumed with thinking that we need these things. To an extend we do need them, but we can certainly do something to reduce what we use. Think of how much we waste in our everyday lives. We can slow down global warming and help our environment simply by cutting down on wasting our natural resources.
Dear Fellow Humans,
Yes, if only we could respect the earth and take the demise of Mother Earth, seriously, we might work as a team and change Global Warming.
All the know-it-all smart-asses will be talking out of the other side of their mouths
when they live to see our precious earth die, no longer able to sustain life. Will the smart-ass crap will still sprew out of their mouths? I'd like to see what they would
be like under pressure, instead of sitting in a comfortable room someone else has
provided for them.
I remember when I was 5-10 years old, and my parents would take my sister and I to the beach every Saturday and Sunday. Those were the days that SPF 15 wasn't a high priority. The last few times I went to the beach was half a year ago, and I'm now 27. It felt truly like a desert. Being in the sun reminded me of those days when we were younger, and we'd put a magnifying glass in the sun and burn our hands just a little. That's what it feels like now, and I'm not talking about going to the beach, but sitting in my car with the a/c blasting away.
Individually, we can try to take care of our planet, but realistically, as a whole, as humans, we can't do enough to repair the damage that occurs every day! The ozone layer won't regenerate when oxygen levels decrease. Plants produce oxygen, and humans are destroying our planet's plants. Even if we grow plants in our back yards, and trees sprout up slowly with time, it won't replace the forests of trees that disappears so that corporate people can make money. We need cars to get around, and riding horses is out-dated. Polution will occur, even with "emissions" tests and restrictions.
There really is nothing we can do to prevent global warming. People will always profit while we slowly suffer extreme temperatures.
To quote Agent Smith in the Matrix, "You multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed, and then you move on. There is another organism, that follows the same pattern that you do... a virus. Humans are a disease, and we are the cure..."
My quote might not be accurate, but the jist of it is... we are the cause. We'll keep multiplying, and we'll need resources to survive.
will get you no where. there is plenty you can do. What if eveyone said there was nothing you can do about the holocaust, or communism in the USSR, or Terrorism. What Kind of world would we live in....Man give me a break...and go check your carbon footprint to see if there is something you can change in your life to make a difference !!!!!!!!!!
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
Global warming is absolutley the biggest issue the human race will have to face in the next 50 years.
Whether it is a natural warming cycling that occurs every 20,000 years or whether it is being caused by humans burning fossil fuels and using many other chemicals that have modified the earth's atmosphere allowing more of the sun's radiation to hit us or whether it is a combination of both it actually does not matter.
What does matter is that we do everything humanly possible in order to slow it down in order to have an inhabital planet for our children's children.
Therefore, if you believe at all that humans with coal burning, oil burning, gas burning manufacturing, heating/cooling and transportation is possibley having an impact to the speed with which global warming is occuring you are obligated to do what you can.
You might say that much has been done, but we are moving into a new cycle where China and India are developing and new factories are bieing built that have many more times the impact of natural events like volcanoes. But here at home in North America, we have actually done very little to curb our use of fossil fuels and production of atmospheric damaging chemicals.
It is crazy we are caught in this debate whether global warming is occuring or not. It is in fact occuring - the evidence is overwhelming - the debate should be on what we can do and right now each individual needs to do what they can to speak out, reduce their use of fossil fuels personally and purchase from companies that practice good environmental stuardship of the planet.
I remember when I was 5-10 years old, and my parents would take my sister and I to the beach every Saturday and Sunday. Those were the days that SPF 15 wasn't a high priority. The last few times I went to the beach was half a year ago, and I'm now 27. It felt truly like a desert. Being in the sun reminded me of those days when we were younger, and we'd put a magnifying glass in the sun and burn our hands just a little. That's what it feels like now, and I'm not talking about going to the beach, but sitting in my car with the a/c blasting away.
Individually, we can try to take care of our planet, but realistically, as a whole, as humans, we can't do enough to repair the damage that occurs every day! The ozone layer won't regenerate when oxygen levels decrease. Plants produce oxygen, and humans are destroying our planet's plants. Even if we grow plants in our back yards, and trees sprout up slowly with time, it won't replace the forests of trees that disappears so that corporate people can make money. We need cars to get around, and riding horses is out-dated. Polution will occur, even with "emissions" tests and restrictions.
There really is nothing we can do to prevent global warming. People will always profit while we slowly suffer extreme temperatures.
To quote Agent Smith in the Matrix, "You multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed, and then you move on. There is another organism, that follows the same pattern that you do... a virus. Humans are a disease, and we are the cure..."
My quote might not be accurate, but the jist of it is... we are the cause. We'll keep multiplying, and we'll need resources to survive.
There is no stopping global warming.