5 Deadliest Effects of Global Warming
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Global Warming effects
Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.
5. Spread of disease
As northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them. Indeed some scientists believe that in some countries thanks to global warming, malaria has not been fully eradicated.
4. Warmer waters and more hurricanes
As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes. We saw in this in 2004 and 2005.
3. Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves
Although some areas of Earth will become wetter due to global warming, other areas will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will receive the worst of it, with more severe droughts also expected in Europe. Water is already a dangerously rare commodity in Africa, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will exacerbate the conditions and could lead to conflicts and war.
2. Economic consequences
Most of the effects of anthropogenic global warming won’t be good. And these effects spell one thing for the countries of the world: economic consequences. Hurricanes cause do billions of dollars in damage, diseases cost money to treat and control and conflicts exacerbate all of these.
1. Polar ice caps melting
The ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger.
First, it will raise sea levels. There are 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet. Luckily, that’s not going to happen all in one go! But sea levels will rise.
Second, melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt they will desalinate the ocean, or in plain English – make it less salty. The desalinization of the gulf current will “screw up” ocean currents, which regulate temperatures. The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area!
Third, temperature rises and changing landscapes in the artic circle will endanger several species of animals. Only the most adaptable will survive.
Fourth, global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone. Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight, much of which is relected back into space, further cooling Earth. If the ice caps melt, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.
So what is the solution? Are we just being negative? Are there any positive effects of global warming? What about all the stupid global warming solutions. We welcome your thoughts.
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September 12th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Regarding the fourth item about the icecaps melting, specifically: “If the ice caps melt, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.”
This is fairly inaccurate. I must point out that while the icecaps are responsible for a substantial portion of the earth’s albedo cloud cover is in fact responsible for more. While the albedo-temperature effect is well known in colder regions, because of snow falls, it is actually considerably stronger in tropical regions due to consistently more sunlight.
“On any given day, about half of Earth is covered by clouds, which reflect more sunlight than land and water. Clouds keep Earth cool by reflecting sunlight, but they can also serve as blankets to trap warmth.” (Tetzlaff, G. (1983). Albedo of the Sahara, pp. 60-63)
September 12th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Very interesting point jagwire. My take on it is that, what the author wrote about the ice caps was probably the least important aspect of it, as it was mentioned last. It was also part of a larger point about the disappearance of the icecaps and that it could accellerate the process of global warming.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Jagwire:
Thanks for the comment. Although cloud cover may play a more important role than does ice (I’m not sure, but it sounds likely), the Arctic’s ice does play a relatively (as in relative to the situation) significant role.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
global warming is killing the cute koala bears
January 19th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Man this really helped a lot on my geohraphy project
January 25th, 2008 at 9:28 am
global warming is going to have a very heavy impact impact on Earth much faster than we would have thought. actually its effects are partly being camouflaged by ‘global dimming’, an effect which protects us from the real power of the sun rays. much more is yet to come in the coming years and it will be beyond our control if we don’t act now and take necessary measures to secure our future. my contribution to global warming may seem very negligible but still since our planet is in peril, its my duty on humanitarian grounds to warn others about their actions.
so friends, do not pollute our environment and instead try to protect it. poor people and vulnerable animals are most prone to the effects of global warming rather than those causing it.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:08 am
why doesn’t the melted ice evaporate??
like…
it has to evaporate in a few days because of the sun you know…
so like…
yeah…
it won’t be like 230 ft. of water
maybe 229.9
February 10th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Were All Gona Dieeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
If all this is true about global warming then why isnt the goverment and the economy doing anything about it.
Dosent anyone care about next generations that will suffer.Are we really that selfish.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
i wish people would take this situation seriously.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Take the situation seriously?? The entire concept is based on ‘junk’ science and burried deep in the muck of politics. Here is a different, more common sense point of view: http://earthpro.info/global-warming-is-a-total-scam
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
Let me reiterate one point. The polar ice caps melt which desalinizes the water, which messes up ocean currents, which causes parts of the world (northeast N. America and W. Europe) to cool off. Doesn’t this sound like a natural system balancing itself out?
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:58 am
BOTH sides of the global warming camp are utterly corrupt. As for this article, it’s simplistic garbage with scary pictures. I am on neither side. There are so many unanswered questions. Neither side is producing compelling evidence without it being mired in BS. I mean just one of the many MANY questions… How do they know we’re not coming out of a period of global cooling? That this is the tail end of the last Ice Age? Or is, heaven forfend, NORMAL. We keep getting this predictions of doom and despair, but they never come to pass, and if you stop and analyze the cold hard numbers of weather events etc, and trace it back. There are always spikes and aberrations. The sad thing is, if one year generates more hurricanes, that fact will now be latched onto as “evidence”, despite wider evidence showing the contrary is happening and numbers are dropping. It’s the scientific equivalent of me holding up my mouse here and saying it gets rid of elephants. After all, there are none here. It’s evidence that computer mice keep elephants away. Why is it evidence? Because I have one, and there’s no elephants here. It’s evidence because I say it’s evidence.
Samantha: I think people would take things seriously, if the people putting forward the evidence could be trusted.
Now all those thinking the cutting edge of scientific investigation, we look back now on when medicine believed rotting flesh spontaneously generated maggots (for example) and laugh. Science these days will appear no more evolved in 200 years than the maggots do today.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
The effects of Global Warming need to be updated: A recent study from a Global Warming friendly institution reported last month that there have been less hurricanes since the commencement of Global Warming; Antarctica is the thickest it has ever been since humans have been able to measure its density; Economic data shows that global warming has had no change on the amount of money countries spend on natural disaster and disease control. This article is poorly written and appears to be more of a scare tactic than science.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Let’s not forget that the warming is resulting in the thawing of the permafrost in sub-arctic regions, which is expected to release thousands of years of stored CO2, which in turn will likely serve to just speed up the warming process even further. Scary.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 21, 2008*** NEWS FROM NOAA ***
NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON, DC
Contact: Dennis Feltgen, NOAA 305-229-4404Increased Hurricane Losses Due to More People,
Wealth Along Coastlines, Not Stronger Storms, New Study Says
A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased in the U.S. over time due to greater population, infrastructure, and wealth on the U.S. coastlines, and not to any spike in the number or intensity of hurricanes.
“We found that although some decades were quieter and less damaging in the U.S. and others had more land-falling hurricanes and more damage, the economic costs of land-falling hurricanes have steadily increased over time,” said Chris Landsea, one of the researchers as well as the science and operations officer at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami. “There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts.”
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/noaa-hurricane-frequency-and-global-warming-not-the-cause-of-increased-destruction/
Will the authors of this article now remove it as FUD
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
What are your source for all of this?
I’m not saying that global warming isn’t a reality — it’s real — but its degree and effects are certainly debated. History shows us that even scientists have a pretty poor record of predicting what is going to happen in the future.
Science without sources or data to back it up, isn’t science. Citing a single newspaper article that features the opinion of one science isn’t proof. This is no different than the “junk science” that the right wing and industry-backed lobbyists spew. Is environmentalism becoming it’s own type of ideology-based “religion?” This piece would be evidence that it is.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
AAAAAHHHHH! crap! I hope I make it past my 18th birthday! actually I agree with aesculapias we all should help even if it means less computer,tv and air conditioning, we can all help. AND IT IS N-O-T NOT A SCAM!!!!!!!!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
Earth Pro, you should read this, the article you pointed to is a perfect example.
Ad Hominem
I would realy like to read a valid argument for the non-reality of global warming. That article you pointed to isn’t it, maybe you should do some research into critical thinking.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
Now onto this article. I submit that the deadliest effect of dramatic climate change, regardless of the cause, is the damage to food production. If climate deviate from what our food crops have been optimized for then crop yields will be comprimised. Food prices will go up and more people will go without and face starvation.
More importantly those people will have face their children and other family members going without, which brings up the related consequence of dramatic climate change. Conflict. People without food will try to get it, as pressure to survive increases people will get desperate and the result will increaces in population movement, general violence, terrorism, and war.
I also have some questions, what are the risks involved with the different positions and actions regarding the issue of global warming?
If we take action against anthropogenic global warming and it isn’t real, what are the consequences?
What if we don’t take action it does turn out to be real?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 am
Global Warming… it’s not just science, it’s Political Science.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Not only is malaria not a warm weather disease (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/press_r/reiter_pr.htm) but the amount spent on what little global warming is anthropogenic could be spent combatting it and saving innumerable lives. Ridiculous.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
I have a theory about global warming; Global Warming looks like a global scam.
It appears that the earth and planets in our solar have all warmed about 2 degrees during the past 100 years. If this is due to solar activity, why are we wasting valuable time, money and effort on something we have absolutely no control over.
Whatever happened to AIDS, Hunger, Housing, Health Care these are things we really can solve if we wanted to.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
Responses to all the comments were covered in a proposal to use the Millennium Dome London as a centre of excellence in global environmental management. This was the proposal the UK Government’s own consultants wanted to back and was shortlisted.
http://millenniumprojecttwo.blogspot.com/2007/01/millennium-dome-2001-proposal.html
The facts are accepted but it would be seen as a commercial endorsement for the UK Government to support it.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ecodome/
The UNEP IPCC 3rd assessment, 2001 which was part of the business model, gave economic cost of climate change as $200 billion per year. The consultants accepted that this would rise. They also accepted that for a full environmental management centre, it would also cover pollution, species extinction, population dynamics, ecplogical life support systeme collapse etc. Not just an approach from a climate change perspective. Based on the projections of all these factors it was accepted that true economic cost that needed to be addressed could be $1000 billion per year, just over £500 billion.
If the project only addressed 10% of the global dynamic then it would have a ‘positioned’ magnitude of £50 billion per year.
The comment by Jim B on the cost of hurricane damage was covered in 2001 and a central point. The consultants had a large real estate portfolio and were aware of such assessments. This provided an option for funding. If selected a project team would appraoch the large reinsurers with a proposal to limit their liabilities in return for financing to set up the project.
It appears it was a political decision not to have an environmental centre at the Dome as detailed analysis and response to the competition criteria would suggest the environmental management centre should have won.
The project would have provided a globally authoritative source for all questions and comments raised here. As well as implemtation of sustainable strategies.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Utter bull$%£. I can’t believe that that you treehuggers still harp on about this. This planet is still coming out of the last ice age, of course it’s going to get bloody warmer. Know why Greenland got it’s name? Because when it was discovered, it was green and not covered in ice. You eco freaks just like shouting about something and scaremongering. Global warming is a natural thing. You are out of your minds if you think we can alter it. Idiots.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Global warming is really threat to the society.
Some preventive measures are,
1. Plant trees and stop deforestation
2. Minimise industrilisation
3. Stop using of gas, petrol, desiel like petrolium products/hydro carbons.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
STOP THE WORLD- I WANNA GET OFF!!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
The real danger is feedback responses to warming, especially those that release more gases, and a runaway scenario that reaches equilibrium only after Earth more resembles Venus, after the oceans have boiled away, and all but the most hearty microbes perish.
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Man! Why do I read this stuff first thing in the morning? It’s as if
I don’t have enough to worry about on a daily basis.I guess I’ll have to
add this to my list now…
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
One was left out. The economic devastation and starvation that will come upon all nations that take up and try to do something about this fraud!
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
We must kill our pets ASAP in order to save the planet !
According to the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, a moderately active 80-pound dog requires 1,955 calories a day — the energy requirement of a 120-pound woman. A lactating dog of that weight requires between 3,900 and 7,800 calories daily.
Smaller dogs of, say, 20 pounds consume energy disproportionate to their weight compared to large dogs. Translated, that means two miniature poodles consume more than a German shepherd on the small side. So, when calculating one’s carbon footprint, dog owners should add an extra individual, or two or three, to their household size.
While it is true that some of the carbon dioxide released into the environment as a result of the metabolism of pet food is renewable, the energetics required to produce this food fare — the factories, the delivery trucks, the metal for the cans — are often nonrenewable or renewable more in principle than in practice.
“Tin” cans, for instance, made of iron, require about half a pound of carbon, in the form of coke, per pound to manufacture. After use they go to the city dump, where they may or may not be recycled. Even the best metal-recycling systems recover only a fraction of the metal, while using huge amounts of nonrenewable energy in their operation.
People who purchase organic pet food would hardly be so cruel as to leave Fido in a warm apartment in the summer months without air conditioning. Besides eight hours of cool air, don’t forget to factor in the TV to keep him company, or the electric lights when he is home alone in the evening. In very round numbers, a single 6,000 British Thermal Unit air conditioner run for eight hours has the carbon footprint of .15 gallons of gas, which will drive a car for about 3 miles. Over its 10-year life span, a dog enjoying the benefits of air conditioning will consume about 150 gallons of fossil fuel — and that’s assuming the system is operating at 100% efficiency.
And don’t get me started on cats, which compete with humans in annually consuming millions of tons of various fish varieties from overfished seas.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Ben It doesn’t matter whether climate change is a natural process or induced by the actions of man.
A rise in temp moves the dynamic equilibrium points as described by Oh crap. Primary productivity decreases so biodiversity decreases, food production decreases.
With high population and resource pressures global ecological life support systemes collapse billions die. See ecology on this site Reindeer.
Just because you as yet have not got a full understanding of planetary proceses as you are capable of achieving, please don’t call people idiots who have.
Of course it is possible to alter global systems. Even if it is a natural process intervention will be required. Ask your self the question. If you were told you were going to die next week. Would you be happier that it would be of natural causes or if somebody killed you?
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
u guys are all science f%$”
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Global Worming is FICTIONAL! Anybody that would even consider believing people that present arguments on the warming of this enormous planet that is over 4 Billion Years old is out of their mind. The people conducting these studies only have a few hundred years of data and to compare that to all relative data since the dawn of this planet is simply naive. I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I find it odd that people go out of their way to point out the extremities but never the consistencies.
Just the other day, I was outside of Chicago’s Union Station, and I got stopped by a group of people that wanted to discuss global warming with me. The temperature on that lovely day was about 12 degrees. Are they out of their minds? Are they trying to get laughed at? I mean come on! If they want to be taken seriously they should at least wait for a day in the summer when it’s like 105 degrees out, oh wait, that hasn’t happen for I can’t even remember how long…Don’t buy into this garbage.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
There were major malaria epidemics in Poland and Russia in the 1920s. Archangel, Russia had some of the worst outbreaks, and is on two degrees south of the arctic circle.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
It will be interesting to see what everyone will be saying by 2012, when it becomes very obvious that we are now cooling down.
Global Warming? BAH!!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
1998 was the hottest year on record since 1934.
I’ll pause a moment to let you see the obvious logic flaw in the man-made global warming hysteria…
Still don’t get it? Read the last two words in that statement: since 1934. What does that tell you?
OK, let me help you: it was WARMER in 1934 than it is now.
How can that possibly be? The industrial revolution was in its infancy. Aerosol cans weren’t introduced until 1941. Air conditioning with Freon (CFCs) didn’t really take off until after WWII. Mankind didn’t start actively pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere until the 1940s. So how could it have possibly been warmer in 1934!!
And OMG it gets worse!! Did you know that when the dinosaurs roamed the earth the WHOLE GLOBE was a giant tropical paradise? Man didn’t even EXIST then. In fact, there weren’t even COWS back then to pollute the atmosphere with their evil methane toxin. So how could the earth have POSSIBLY been warmer THEN than it is NOW?
But let’s just forget about all of that. WE’RE DEALING WITH A CRISIS NOW! OUR POLAR ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!! AND IT’S ALL BECAUSE WE’RE POLLUTING OUR PLANET WITH NOXIOUS GASES!!
If that’s true, then they must be really, REALLY bad gases, because they’re melting the polar ice caps on MARS TOO! That’s right! The polar ice maps on MARS are shrinking too. And it’s all because we can’t get people to buy more compact fluorescent light bulbs! Or use less toilet paper! Come on people — CAN’T YOU SEE THAT YOUR SHINY CLEAN ANUS IS DESTROYING MARS?
Let’s try to put it all together, MmmK? It was warmer in 1934 when we weren’t spewing pollutants. It was warmer when the dinosaurs were here and WE WEREN’T. So from all of that, we can conclude…
IT DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MAN! THE EARTH GETS WARMER. THE EARTH GETS COOLER. AND IT’S BEEN DOING THAT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS — ALL BY ITSELF!! IT’S NOT A CRISIS (unless you’re Al Gore and you spent millions getting your books and DVDs produced and now they’re just taking up warehouse space and well, it’s not like you can just take them all to the landfill — no that would be BAAAAAAD and you certainly can’t burn them — no that would be WOOOOOOORSE!)
So do yourself a favor. Start investing in PARKAs, cause it’s going to get COLD again, just like back in the 70’s when you were all panicking over the coming ice age!
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
And then there are those idiots who say the Earth is a sphere!! If that was the case those poor sods in Australia would need to glue themselves on it, to avoid falling off… :(
Fortunately for us, the Earth is flat, and sits on the back of four elephants which are carried by giant turtle. And only 6000 years old. Everybody knows that.
(Btw I loved this sentence: “global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone”)
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Guys their would be no such thing as global warming if they had a solution for it correct? Well they do, my chemistry professor worked for NASA and they have a blimp ready to enter the atmosphere and release the molecule, ozone, into the atmosphere which counters the process of global warming. For those of you who are just knowing this, i bet your asking why don’t we take action right away. Heres why, we are spending billions of dollars in iraq and we can’t even fund projects in our own country to save OURSELVES.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I don’t deny that global warming is happening, i do however disagree with what they are saying will happen with polar icecaps. One major thing people not seam to remember is that when water freezes it expands, so when the icecaps melt the water level wont raise nore will it lower it will stay the same. The full weight of the ice is already pushing down in the surrounding water and as the water pushes back it keeps it floating. So as it melts it shrinks.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Global warming is fictional.
If Al Gore was really concerned, he’d stop buzzing the country in his personal jet, pumping out all of that CO2, to tell us of this “crisis”.
The earth has had HUGE variations in temerature for millions of years, both hotter and colder, even before man entered the picture.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
It is easy to say global warming is a farce until you look into it. It is not as easy as understanding just one realm of geology, it is the combination of all the realms and when you experiment a little with unbalancing one part, another one fails with it, this is what is called feedback loops. We are just starting to hit the steep part of the curve, and anyone who disbelieves in the impact that man has will be proven wrong. Earth is old, yes, but she has never been through this. We have records of all the gasses and temperatures of the Earth going back 600,000 years plus, that is long enough to make sound scientific observations on what key gasses do to the atmosphere. Now, you here a lot of talk about CO2 because it is easy to understand, but it is not the only gas that will effect us, but lets take CO2. It has always coincided with Earths temperature, guiding it from Ice Age to warm periods. There are reasons for this that would take too long to explain, but the basic is every time CO2 has gotten to about 300ppm Earth plunged into an Ice Age. Currently we are at about 400ppm, which the last time it was that high is when the Earth was nothing more than a hot planet covered in volcanoes. But why aren’t we falling into an Ice Age again? The answer is that Earth is doing something it has never done before, and the natural protection of a run-away heat wave, an Ice Age, is not happening because of the abruptness of this rise, the destruction of all the heat sinks, the melting of the poles, the toxification of the atmosphere, and the feedback loops that are pushing it faster and faster. The sun is not the answer, it has been dimming the last few decades, and still we see the years getting hotter and hotter.
What I have written here is one page of a thousand page book on the subject. It is not politi-science, it is not a religious thing, it is simply science. I am not an advocate of fear mongering, yes the Earth will survive, but we are making it so that we are destroying everything good about this planet, and we will be the ones to suffer. Once we are gone this planet can go back to being what it was, but to claim that man has no effect belittles the fact that we do.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Humans have not had that much effect on the planet, we have been here for 40000 years compared to 4.5 billion years, and weve only been producing these “harmful gases” for the past 50 or 60 years. Its all b*****t its another scam to rally votes for the dumbass candidates.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
You want to REALLY stop global warming? Stop funding the research into it. But at the same time, start funding research into the effects of global COOLING. Wait 1 year and watch how many scientologi…er…I mean climatologists come out of the woodwork warning us of the coming ice age (again.)
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Global warming may increase windshear which will reduce the formation of hurricanes. http://www.sarasotaspeaks.com/node/18674
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!!! i feel like global warming is like a religion i.e. jesus=gore/global warming=christianity. If stupid americans can believe a “story” made up by shepards 2008 years ago i think they can believe in global warming.Also who decided that gore was a scientist?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’ll believe these global warming nuts when they can answer one simple question. What is the “ideal” global temperature for our planet?
Hmmmmmm, I’m waiting.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 am
How about the Earth’s atmosphere made of 95% water vapor which gives us the CO2 factor. Also if global warming is happening how can El Nino affect the hurricanes? If the temps are up there and they cause the hurricanes why would nature counter act their theory. Plus everything Gore said has already been discredited.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:04 am
Wrong question, it has absolutely nothing to do with the concern regarding global climate change. Your question is nothing more than an poor atempt to changing the subject.
A better question, one that I suspect many concerned with global climate change find interest in, is “What is the ideal range of global climate for humans?”.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
The answer was partly given in comment 34.
One answer would be the one that equates with the highest gross primary productivity (plant growth) globally without energy subsidy (eg fosil fuels in farming).
This supports the greatest amount of global community respiration which is related to bio-diversity which gives the greatest global ecosystem stability.
Conversely if we implement a planetary management system to gives the highest global ecosystem stability the temeperature you seek will evolve as a resultant of that. Everything is connected and dynamically inter related in non linear feed backs.
You are entering into the basics of applied planetary engineering.
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I suggest there are too many of you people scrambling for a finite world’s resources. Control population at some fixed number and build a soiety to that figure, lets say arbritrarily 10 billion.
It must be obvious that our present way of life is not sustainable. Global Warming is simply a symptom of a larger malaise.
If all the people in the world had a standard of living similar to Canada’s, then the planet would have to be seven times larger to meet the demand for resources. This isnow with a population of about 6 billion.
But I am a voice in the wilderness- without a beard.
Durgan.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:21 am
It was merely a matter of time before Iraq and Bush was to blame. You actually believe there is a blimp BIG enough to take all the Ozone that the wackos claim is needed to fill the ‘ozone hole’. Blind faith in crazy ‘fixes’ is as bad as being spoon fed the entire global warming scam. http://earthpro.info/30
February 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Do I strongly believe that global warming is happening and is a threat? No, not really.
Do I believe that we are perfectly fine and don’t need to do anything to help the environment? Again, no
February 29th, 2008 at 1:19 am
I do believe in global warming I do believe that these things will happen and deep down i know everyone else does. people just want to side step the whole issue because it’s going to be hard to change.But i for one am doing many little things that make up the bigger picture. And i hope everyone else wii catch on too.
P.S al gores jet is electric so screw you
March 1st, 2008 at 10:15 am
Electric Jet! LMFAO!!! Sure, the Plasma TV and other items in the jet are electric, but not the jet itself! You don’t seriously believe that do you? If so, you are more than just gullable to the global warming scam!http://earthpro.info/41 Read this to learn about Obama blindly following the herd, much like yourself!
March 4th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
aaaahhhh!!! Everybody run!…. .. the sky is falling!… the sky is falling!
March 6th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
thats scary
March 6th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
DWalla… yer g*y
March 7th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
can u give more about global warming
March 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
wat can i do aas my part of contribution..??
i m using public vehicles instead of individual..
March 11th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Usage of alternative energy such as wind, solar, geothermal, ocean current and bio fluids should be given importance by the leaders of our nation. all of this factors will definetely lessen the cause of global warming. :) We are distroying our eco system with out knowing the effect of this in the next generation. God help us to realized our mistakes.
March 13th, 2008 at 8:18 am
This isn’t something to be taken lightly. It’s something that the next generation has to be in control of. Things can be fixed as long as people pay attention and understand what is going on in the world around them. At the moment, its like no one cares. Ridiculous.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
i will c u in hell unless we stop or slow all of this destruction and caos now. All of the ice caps will melt floding all of the earth and will kill us all unless we can all turn into fish ppl witch is imposible. or is it? ha
March 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
and those stupid religious d-bags who dont beleive that humans are the cause arent helping at all…and those d-bags from kansas who says that god is killing reno can go f themselves to hell! if we could send all the evengelicals to mars so they could explode and die…that would be a problem solved.
March 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Great article and fascinating pictures!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Apocalypse
March 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I have this overwelming feeling of dread – have for some time. First heard of GW in the 1970’s –
I equate this to a cancer in the body – that kills the body, therefore itself. Are we the earth’s cancer.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
we need to do something!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
good writing
April 5th, 2008 at 1:05 am
ok so im doing a 5 min speech on global warming that is due on monday, so what started global warming in the very first place??
April 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
let’s protect our mother earth…..
April 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Wow, A lot of diffrent comments on this. I would like to state that one I do believe in global warming, I do not believe it may be as severe as stated but none the less I’m sure its here in some shape, way or form. The world is old and yes she has been going through changes since before we were here and will continue to do so when we are gone. The world has to many damn problems right now… and global warming may just be another to add on the “to do list”. I believe that burning all these fossil fuels and such can’t be to good of a thing either. I mean sure the earth might have been “hotter when the dinosaurs” were around but the earth was not emitting more CO2 into the air before we got here, and Im not saying this will be the “death” of us , hell humans will probably kill each other off and then mother nature won’t even have to worry about our stupid asses. Obviously there are scientific facts here that support the case and that don’t. There are a lot of problems that are caused by people.. deforestation , well I don’t think the trees chopped themsleves down when the dinosaurs were here, we are responsible for that. Just like we are responsible for some aspects of gw, you people who are against it , sounds like you don’t want to admit that your presence on this planet hasn’t the slightest bit to do with some of the problems we are having. People will always mess with nature I mean we have to , to surive , we have to cut some trees down we have to farm we have to fish , but we don’t have to over do it, thats the key. To the people on this comment page with all the bad attitudes about us “tree huggers”, as one of you “smart” people so nicely put it, so what , we care about the eviorment.. we want to see it thrive and we want to make sure future generations will live to enjoy as much of it as they can. As a colleege student pursuing a degree in zoology, yes I love the earth and the animals and I want to help stop these things from happening to our planet. Do I go around preaching about it, no, I do what I can in my own way. So I chose to go with the dillusional, low paying, life of someone who will probably not accomplish anything big to help save the planet but as long as I felt like I made a diffrence in something I believed in then im fine. You can call me a “tree hugger” or “hippie” , all those words are fine, at least I’m devoting my energy into doing something I am passionate about while it seems the majority of you on here are bitching and complaning about how your tired of hearing about al gores movie, or seeing gw on the news, tv, and, spending your tax money on stupid gw issues , all i have to say to you is… no one told you to go see the movie, you don’t like watching and seeing things about gw then turn of the t.v ( you would be saving energy anyway), and as far as tax money well please who does like paying taxes??.. we pay a lot of taxes right now for stupid things… get over it!!! You know if all of you would stop bitching we could probably reduce the CO2 leves by 50% from you just not opening your mouths.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:02 am
jonathan you nipped it in the bud
April 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
theres so much stuff on here, that i never knew about before.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
For all of you who say that global warming is garbage and that the scientific proof is nothing but “scare tactics”, I must ask you: Are you really so self-absorbed and comfortable with your convenient lives that you just don’t care about the planet that supports your life? Is it really so difficult to drive a vehicle with lower emissions? Will it complicate your life too much to reduce, reuse, and recycle? Even if the global warming message is exaggerated, or just plain false, how is it hurting you to make small changes in your life to protect the planet that has fostered our evolution for all these thousands of years? Since you are so self-centered, let me put this a different way. Do you really want to find out the hard way that global warming is actually happening all around us, or do you want to take precautions now, instead of saying later on, “Gee, I wish I would have listened when I had the chance!”
April 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I feel that something should be done to change or try to slow the the process of global warming because it regardless of what we do there’s no way of preventing it
April 15th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
why dont you do go to hell because global warming is natural just like global cooling
April 16th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
oh em gee really?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:15 am
hi im paul marjun from philippines, one of the very most difficult problem in fronting of the present time is global warming cause as I observed our environment has being captured by this serious phenomenon. Many of our natural resources has been totaly damage due this condition. One common example that global warming is overlapping and being disaster is the melting of the ice of alaska!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 am
i understand that there is one chemical (i am not sure about the name but i have seen it on discovery channel) which observe carbon in the atmosphere. In the program it was shown that only with 10 tones of that chemical time that we can have another ice agi understand that there is one chemical (i am not sure about the name but i have seen it on discovery channel) which observe carbon in the atmosphere. In the program it was shown that only with 10 tones of that chemical time that we can have another ice age. How does this sound?? e. How does this sound??
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
“it was WARMER in 1934 than it is now.
How can that possibly be?”
some years are hotter then others. GW is a warming trend over hundreds to THOUSANDS of years
“Did you know that when the dinosaurs roamed the earth the WHOLE GLOBE was a giant tropical paradise?”
thats because CO2 levels were many many times higher at that point in time. besides that was 65 million years ago, climate has warmed and cooled hundreds of times since then.
“If that’s true, then they must be really, REALLY bad gases, because they’re melting the polar ice caps on MARS TOO!”
I thought we were talking about OUR planet…… mar is millions of miles away and has absolutly no relevance to our global warming problem
“Or use less toilet paper!”
toilet paper is not a greenhouse gas, and is actually entirely biodegradable and eco friendly….. dont worry you can keep your ass shiny
“IT DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MAN! THE EARTH GETS WARMER. THE EARTH GETS COOLER. AND IT’S BEEN DOING THAT FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS — ALL BY ITSELF!!”
fantastic! a thread of truth in one of your sentences!
climate change has existed at slow gradual rates ever since its formation and it has been “doing it by itself”. it was not until recent years that humans have had a role in climate change.
“just like back in the 70’s when you were all panicking over the coming ice age!”
I think you were the only one
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
global warming is as real a theory as gravity.
it is not simply an instant change in temperature. If global warming can be felt in 1000 years it would be considered a rapid climate changing event.
Natural climate change is not a wam bam thank you mam ordeal
it takes millions of years for climate to change (excluding asteroid impacts and sudden events)
What I dont understand is how people can argue with fact
CO2 IS A GREENHOUSE GAS.- fact
greenhouse gases raise the temperature of the planet- fact
PPM levels of CO2 have dramatically increased since human presence on earth- fact
how can you not conclude then that this will lead to human induced climate change!?!?
saying ” its not that much warmer now then it was 100 years ago, therefor global warming is fake” is irrelavent
thats like putting a cake in the oven and the second the door closes taking the cake out and because it has not yet baked concluding that ovens are not effective at baking.
aside from all the facts
who has more to loose?
oil companies and governmental agencies that would have to cut back efficiency and production to help the environment?
or earth loving hippies who are spending millions of dollars trying to convince others GW is real?
and btw every government on the planet accepts global warming as fact and a serious issue. some like the US just conciously choose not to relate to it because it would mean making less money.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Global warming is change of climate through which the whole world is becoming the target of disasters
it is damaging the ozone layer that protects the earth from ultra voilet rediation of sun that causes
different diseases
April 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Ben i think u r right A bit. But i don’t wont to die man. But its not like we are the rulers of the sun we cant help it if the weather is sunny or not. So enjoy your life mun. and if any parents are reading this well i am only 11 and so copy and paste this in your brain make the most of your life and spend some time with your kids and take them on a holiday and spend loooads of money on them coz us kids love that {believe me}.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
i dont wanna hear it
April 28th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Climate change is a fact. The earth climate has never been entirely stable. There is little doubt that man is contributing, but it is impossible to say with any certainly to what degree. The end of the current Inter-Glacial Period could come to an end at any time and send us into a deep freeze.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Hi, I am only a 12 year old girl but i am very concerned about global warming. I care about this planet more than you think I would. There are some simple solutions to reduce global warming. For emample, people use hairspray , and alot of it also. That is stupid from my point of view would it matter if your hair doesn’t look perfect it isn’t going to get any better. Hair spray usage should be reduced. Another thing is Gasoline. It is insane how people keep on using gasoline. I do realize that, that is important but reduceage of amount of gasoline would be good also. We need to find a solution for this and quick. Climate is going really bad it is getting hotter that it should all because some stupid people think that all they have to do is sit back and relax. I do not believe in this. I too myself want to be a scientist and find a solution for all the troubles of earth. I think that there is a solution standing visably in front of us all we need to do is see it. It is very sad to think of the future of Earth if there is one. There just has to be a solution if we work small steps by step. First by stopping alot of usage of gasoline and hairspray. Hairspray is really dumb. I think hairspray should be banded or something because otherwise our future isn’t very bright. I would like to help improve our plant.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:56 am
I dont really care!! It’s all the fault of the politicians! Businessmen! fucking great! There is no fucking way we can reverse the effect of this Global Warming!!! IT IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
1st of al, I can’t belive there are still some idiots who think global warming isn’t happening. We’ve already seen some effects of global warming like, hurricane katrina. Scientsists predicted that and were it was gonna hit but, the goverement was denying global warming as a threat. 2nd of all, CareForEarth is right. Don’t put on a bunch of hairspray for your kids school play. You’ll problaby be killing them or their children in the future. I do think global warming is irrevirsebel but, we can prolong it so other people will get to live their lives and, I don’t want to be one of the lazy people who will end up killing people just cause they drove around in their Jeeps, littered in parks, and sat in there living room watching T.V. I would like to be one of the scientist who helped prolong global warming.
P.s. I am 11 years old and if you don’t think global warming is a threat, I must be smarter than you.Outsmarted By A Kid.Ouch
May 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
praise the lord
May 7th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Global warming is happening, we probable wont be affected but our childern will be, will have to look after the earth that God gave us and use it to our best ability but also remember what ever happens is God will, and nothing can stop that!
May 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Right on! Way to tell it like it is! Great job! Kudos!
May 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
i think global warming is very interesting because of of the diffrent facts about it and if any one disagres that is there problem global warming is one of the topics of my three page paper i have to wright
May 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
this is stupid, how in the the world can you deny that global warming isn’t real. I can’t belive that you are naive enough to say that this is all the fault of politicians are they burping C02 out or something?
p.s. I’m 11 and I have better surivial skills than you. ouch!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
global warming can be caused by heat reflecting materials
May 9th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
wow. a bit of a downer. What can we do to stop it???
May 11th, 2008 at 12:12 am
We’re going down, that much is obvious. One day we’re all going to die out like the dinosaurs, and the earth will be a barren and un-hospitable place, like Venus. We cannot stop now, it’s too late. Greenhouse gases such as CO2 have increased by 31% and methane by 151% and it is going to increase by far more. There is no way we can save our planet anymore, we can only extend the time we have. Banning the use of hairspray and cars is not a possible option. Although we do have the initiatives such as the Kyoto protocol, it isn’t enough, we’re not doing enough! Instead of spending billions on nuclear bombs and ships and prancing around Iraq and Afghanistan and chasing Osama Bin Laden around (and getting thrashed up in the process) why can’t we use this money to build eco-friendly power generators? This money could be used for planting forests and educating the world. The world does not need bumbling idiots like Bush anymore. We need someone who cares about the Earth; Al Gore would be the most likely candidate now. We need to start forcing the governments to start using solar energy, wind energy, start using natural resources instead of burning coal and blowing up nucleur bombs. We have to change or else we will all die earlier.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
im the 99 person to submit!
May 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
YOU GUYS are F***in IDIOTS
May 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I am only 13 years old and yet I am one of the people that are so concerned of Global Warming. For people who say that Global Warming is nothing, and that you only have one life to live so your going to ignore this dilemma and just move on like nothings happening around you imagine whats going to happen to you when your still alive and the effects of Global Warming get worse and worse until the ozone layer is completely gone and there is nothing protecting us from the strong rays of the sun. Imagine what you thought was and could be completely impossible now happens in the next 5 years. I really don’t know how more clueless you guys can be! Global Warming cant be stopped, but it can be slowed down, it can be slowed down also meaning people that actually care about the effects of Global Warming can make inventions to make life easier and let us adapt to the continuing changes of Global Warming. I read a comment here saying that Global Warming is nothing but complete crap and I completely disagree. Just because you people have questions that you haven’t heard the answer to it doesn’t mean that its not true. Why don’t you try to figure out how hot the Earth is and see how hard it is. And for people who ask how they could possibly know all those things, well thats because they care enough for our generation and the next generation that comes that they try to figure out what on earth is happening! I don’t know how some people can be so daft as to ignore every single information being pointed out to them and all they can do is increase their use of gas and ignore everything. Well go ahead. But when the real effects of Global Warming starts to kill species and humans, see how ignorant you can be then.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
wow steve! Being the 99 person to submit is going to stop global warming!?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
milla how can you say that this is all the fault of politicians?! their trying to help stop global warming!and businessmen yea I think its messed up that their screwing people over with those morgage rates but they arn’t doing anything to help global warming!so get a brain and off your butt!
p.s.waffles!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
abi is the tv aways right?NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! and if it did exist why have we not deployed it? BURN!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:43 am
whats this shit about global cooling wheres the proof?I have seen lots of proof for global warming but none for global cooling its crazy.when I see proof of global cooling some hard evidenc I won’t believe you so screw you DON’tWORRYABOUTIT
May 13th, 2008 at 2:20 am
WE NEED TO TRY TO GO GREEN SOME AND THE THE KOALA BEARS LIKE KIMBERLY SAID AND I SAY WE NEED TO SAVE THE OTHER ANIMALS LIKE POLAR BEARS AND MANY MANY OTHER ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO GREEN GO GREEN GO GREEN GO GREEN GO GREEN GO GREEN GO GREEN
May 13th, 2008 at 5:12 am
global warning is a scam!
john coleman knows better than this douche.
global warming will be cyclic.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:18 am
in reply to anna your freakin 13 you know nothing. You are an adalecent who has still years to learn. You cant say oh global warming will kill us unless your a freak who can see into the future or your butt buddies with god. Learn both sides before choosing next time. Get BOTH sides of global warming i mean honestly you shouldnt be worrying about this. There are so much evidence that points to global warming being cyclic. And another thing understand its not all humans fault. You have volcanoes and other NON RELATED things that mother nature makes that we cant control or stop. You dont think the dust and sulfure from volcanoes ISNT polluting our atmosphere. Think again. Like i said you are a adalescent and need to do some research.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Wisdom,
You have lost your credibility as a source of ‘wisdom’ since you could not spell adolescent or write a complete sentence. Please understand that I am not saying your points are incorrect. But how do you expect people to take you seriously if you write like a two year old?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
This article and all the comment that followed has opened my my eyes…..
To what total and utter FREAKS you all are…
‘Kill all the pets’ ok mate, you do that.
‘THIS IS NOT NOT NOT A SCAM’ wtf, get a life.
’stop the world i want to get off’ Yeah, let me know how that works out for ya.
YOU GO RALPH, I LOVE YOU!
SOLUTION 1:
Freeze Iraq and make it the new antarctica,its only causing trouble anyway.
SOLUTION 2:
KILL ALL THE PETS ASAP.
SOLUTION 3:
get someone to drink all the access sea water through a massive straw.
SOLUTION 4:
(Advice from Alex) Put a huge umbrella over antarctica to stop it melting.
SAVE THE POLARBEARS!
Love From
3 Bored pupils in ICT
xxx
May 13th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Carbon dioxide is one of the major causes of global warming. it reflects most of the sun rays of the sun. if global warming increases…..so will the level of carbon dioxide, and it will trap the heat.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Crazy kid, why do you have to bash on other people? You bashed steve Cause he said im the 99 person to submit! At the end of your comment, 103, you said, “p.s. Waffles!” just cause you said waffles isn’s gonna stop global warming.Think before you type because now your just being a hipocret
May 13th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
because being the 99th person to submit is not helping stop global warming and waffles are goodso back off man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
what about Obama and the other people?! and I don’t think “fucking politans” is peaseful
May 14th, 2008 at 7:22 am
To that Wisdom dude,
Well number one just because I am only 13 it does not mean that I am some dumb child that doesn’t know a damn thing about anything. I’m not stupid.
“I know nothing?”
Oh really. I find that hard to believe being a Deputy Head Girl and going to one of the finals of the speech contest and being in the top class 3 times in a row. Don’t you dare say I don’t know a thing cause for all I know and anyone else, you might know as much as I do and thats never impossible even for someone of my age and yours. I never said that I knew everything in the world because I don’t. At least I have more than enough pride to admit that one thing. Unlike you who tells me to get both sides of the story when you know perfectly well that you are on the other side of Global Warming.
Its not like they don’t have evidence that the Global Warming is actually happening and I never said that they don’t have evidence to whatever side you are on. I’m pretty damn sure that humans have done much more damage than volcanoes and any other natural thing. I didn’t say that humans are the only reason why this is happening, all I am saying is even if what your saying is true it still doesn’t mean that we can cross out the fact that the earth is suffering from things us humans are doing.
So get that in your head. I haven’t taken sides yet, all I have done is pointed out the facts of the other side. So please get that through your head.
To Ralph,
Thank you. You don’t know how much that made my day. =]
I know you probably are on the other side or possibly not even deciding to take sides but at least you are one of those people that don’t say that adolescent people don’t know a thing about anything when we are perfectly capable of learning just about anything we want to.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
global warming is a joke its not happening
May 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I am a 12 year old girl that is very concered about GLOBAL WARMING! We are learning a lot about it in school. Every time we learn more and more, i get the feeling that it will interfer with our childen lives or i will think that it will may come even sooner than you thought it was. So please if you have a way to make us, our future, and our future kidsfeel safier around globe warming please SAY SOMETHING OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!!!!!!!!!
or send a message to datbabygirl123@yahoo.com
May 15th, 2008 at 1:43 am
woah this helped me
but made me sad
so many bad thinsg because stupid ignorant people cant open their eyes:P
May 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Mhhmmm well yoo need to shut the heell up the fact that she is 13 has nothing to do with I am 13 also and I know plenty about Global Warming and I do research and go to awarness rallies its sounds to me that you have some growing up to do if your coming at someone that is younger than you.And also it is basically all humans fault it is ignorant people like you who are not helping this planet at all. You are an uneducated jerk that should get his ass off the computer and go and do some research himself. I hope you choke on your words someday and end up being the idiot who realizes he should have taken action. You are a naive selfish intolerable person that should be kept ina zoo you faggot!!!!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Me and my fellow classmates are once again bored in ICT.
We have 7 lessons a fortnight,You can only imagine how bored we are.
We are quite upset that we got no replys to our first comment,Alex is in tears as we speak.
Comment to either this comment or comment number 110 would be much appriciated.
LOVE YOU MY FELLOW GLOBAL WARMING FREAKS.
xx
May 15th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I’m not going to bash on you like some other people(crazy kid) but, tell me why global warming is a joke. Atleast backup your comment. I’ll be waiting for your reply…
May 15th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
there is to much evidence to say that global warming is not real and if you still say that then you are so naive its not even funny. so when your children ask you “daddy what did you do to stop global warming?” you can reply “nothing,I did nothing to help save the planet and left it all up to you”.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
WHO THE F*** is jonn coleman!!?? if he does not have evidence then screw him! and where’s your evidence F***TARD and not F***ING jonn coleman!!!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Thanks heaps Desiree !
That Wisdom guy is such a dumbass!
Cant believe he said that 13 year olds didn’t know anything.
If anyone ever says that to me again, dude, i will be totally pissed off.
I guess Wisdom didn’t want to reply to his comment.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
global warming is effecting everything.
man made this problem,man is mad that there is not a whole lot to do t fix is.
there were signs a long time ago about global warming not alot of people did things to help.
im a young girl global warming isn’t going to effect the people that made this problem it is going to effect me and my children.
as if this world isn’t bad enough.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
yes we can alter it assbite but you are doing nothing but bashing on people because they 5thiunk differently than you!and on the grennland thing it was coverd in ice when we discoverd it and that must mean… that global warming is real!!get a brain dofus!!!!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
all of this is falling on deaf ears.It will take something out of the movies to get the attention of enough people to make a difference. It’s unfortunate that such a huge effort has been spent on a needed project that will never be completed. All the talk about how global warming is going to effect the people of this fine planet in 100-200-300 years with these words all you will get is a who cares response. theres to much going on in the world today to worry about events that may take place hundreds of years from now..And so we shall fall on our own blade…………
May 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
the government doesnt do anything because the government is corrupt and twisted look what they did about the levies in new orleans when they knew that was inevitably going to happen… we cant depend on the government WE need to make change becuase theyre taking their sweet ass time. THIS EFFECTS US NOW!!
GO GREEN!!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I don’t mean to burst your bubble but i thought you might just like to know that its not easy for the government to just suddenly for example take out all gas cars and replace them with cars that run on water because many companies will complain and will not just let the government shut them down that easy.
Its a shame because just changing one of the biggest issues could make a huge difference.
I wish they would have just at least on day a month to like not use any cars and stay at home and have a good time with your family. It won’t hurt to do so.
The government can’t to everything, and they possibly have other issues in their hands but just because the won’t take serious action yet it doesn’t mean that we have to follow their footsteps.
We can already start making a change to everything no matter how small you think it is, it still makes a huge difference to the world.
If Global Warming isn’t or wasn’t true (and i am not saying it is or its not) but I really hope people will start to realize that just whether its not true or whether it is true, I really hope people will realize that it doesn’t matter, the earth, the planet we live in is still suffering from what we are doing to it. It’s probably not going to last forever but we can make it last longer so that solutions will be made.
From 13 year old girl.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Why is no one writing back to us please just say hello to us we are so board and need someone to make us laugh PLEASEEEE write back to us. Stop the bordem to help stop global warming. Together we can make a difference the possibilities are endless :D
Three Girls in ICT class xxx
May 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
we did this project on Global Warming and i had n idea it was this bad thank you for opening my eyes
May 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I better be dead by the time the world comes to an endddd
bulit reflectors all over the world this will help by reflecting heat and reduce temperture and addition it will give us solar power during the day so we dont have to use power plants during the morning till evening
Plant more stinkin trees i cant do it all myself !!!!
hey you lawnmowers stop cutting the damn grass you idiot
and you. stinkin people that built new cars like every 2 days how about you built more cars that requires something else other then gassss hey like water or trash hurry up
put that money to good use im not paying taxes for no reason dorksssssssssss
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:12 am
i had to do an ecology project on the effect of global warming… i used this site in my bibliography…thanks a lot for the info!
May 25th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Again with the bashing? I thought we covered this. OK listen this time, you don’t have to curse just to get your opinion heard, OK? And have you even taken a look at his evidence? Think before you talk (or type in this case) I’ll be waiting for your reply
May 25th, 2008 at 4:18 am
If your three girls, shoudn’t it be Ms. X? Just asking.
Bye…
May 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I believe that global warming is hapening but it is not caused by humans though i do believe that we can effect the earth and its atmosphere. look at history, scientists believe that before the little ice age about1250-1850 the climate was close to ours thefore is the earth warming above a natural state or is it just coming out of an ice age. also how are we now experencing global warming when before the 1980s the media and some of the scientific comunity were preaching about global cooling and a coming ice age. look at the facts and history before you believe media hype
May 27th, 2008 at 2:48 am
as for the third item concerning the melting of polar ice caps, as the oceans are desalinized they will be easier to freeze. It is a basic principle of chemistry that as less substance is dissociated in water the freezing point increases so it can be frozen at higher tempertures.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Have you ever thought “global warming” was just something that was going to happen. Like the ice ages that happened. I think we probably did speed up the process but i doubt we are to blame for “global warming.” I agree it is good to be more efficient when using products and fuel but the world isnt going to end over it. The paranoia everyone has is getting quite old. People are dying from hunger and treatable diseases. Starvation and other basic needs aren’t just being met in other countries but also in the US. Some people in New Orleans still don’t have homes from Katrina.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
very very very interesting.
i cant really believe this is happening so quikly.
i really want to do some for the earth.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:32 am
You guys…
Look,
It doesn’t really matter whether it is real or not, whether it is a cyclic or not.
All that really matters is that our earth, our environment we are living is, is what is keeping us alive.
I know some of you are probably thinking ” Ive got better things to worry about like my computer, cellphone, food, family. (I am not saying your family cant come first..) All I mean is that without our environment and earth, well, none of those things you absolutely love would be real.
All we need to do is make the most little changes. No matter how small difference you think you are making you are still impacting our environment and helping the process slow down no matter how little. There are at least 3 sides to Global Warming but it doesn’t matter what side you take. You just have to know that everything you are doing is affecting your most loves ones, your most precious things etc.
Please consider this.
Just help reduce our carbon footprint.
June 8th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Dear Writers and Readers,
It is very fearfull to read the predictions and the will be happenings. Wer must stop first the Plastic world which has simply swallowing the living kingdom. This high time that we have knowingly ingnored as we are also using the same with out which we think that we are helpless. Through eletronic appliences tonned of nonbiodegradable materials are used.That should also be taken care of.Even the latest furnitures,doors, rooftops, portabkle houses all these should be first banned. On top priority should be given to plant provenance saplings to reclaim the natural process. I am sorry I have many to pen. But please highlite these to every country people or to the woerld at a glance. Let every body raise voice against these to stop reaching catastrophs, disasters.
mallikarjun
June 10th, 2008 at 3:22 am
that sounds like something from Star Wars like “join the dark side and the possibilities are endless!MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!”
June 10th, 2008 at 11:31 am
June 10th, 2008 at 11:42 am
heloooooooooo ppl=]
our earth is our life and our life is our priority,now, we can not live our priority if we must worry about global warming,polotitions an all that other shit that we should be able to leave up to the government to deal with.
which means that,WE MUST TAKE ACTION NOT LATER BUT NOW!!!
the worlds future depends on the people living in it not the people who think that they can run it. coz those people are way behind us.
we are those 10 steps ahead but we dont realise this which is why nothing is being brought to concentration.
if we just sit here on our computers typing about global warming and we should do this and we should do that…WE SHOULD GET UP OFF OUR ASS AND MAKE A MOVE!!
COZ I KONW I AM
June 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Yay!!! We are glad to see that someone is writing back to us. We have only 8 lessons left please people write to us, read comment 110 and 120. We are happy to see we are being recognised in the global warming scene and would like to be invited to your conferences.
Many thanks
Mr and Mrs X
xx
June 13th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I don’t have lessons but I can tell you this summer is going to be so freaking hot due to global warming already it’s already in the 100’s in New Mexico I can’t even think about it!come on people, we should not use oil and gas but Hydrogen and other options like biking and motercycles and to you who are thinking “but don’t motercycles use gas to?” yes they do but they get at 75-100 miles to the gallon wich is mind blowing!really!!!!!!! bye
June 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hey Crazy kid thanks for the update but we are running out of time with only 4 lessons left.
I have recently lost a companion her realising we only had 4 lessons left made her turn her head back to the computer and do some work.
But yeah keep the comments coming.
we like hearing from you all.
i guess i should do some work now.
so yeah CYA LATER ALIGATOR.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
If global warming is taking a serious effect or not, in my opinion, is irrelivent as we still need to reduce our carbon footprint because if global warming is not currently in affect, we know that producing this much carbon dioside is not good for the environment anyway. Therefore anyway to make people reduce there carbon footprint is good even if it is by scaring people into thinking they will die in a few years due to global warming.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
i think more peeps shud wori bout global warming!!! peeps shud think hrd bout wot thay do, i try my best uvas shud 2!!!
July 9th, 2008 at 8:59 am
The Earth’s atmosphere contains roughly (by molar content/volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts of other gases, and a variable amount (average around 1%) of water vapor.
N2 = two molecules of Nitrogen has an molecular weight of 28.0134
O2 = two molecules of Oxygen with an molecular weight of 31.9988
Ar = one molecule of Argon has an molecular weight of 39.948
CO2 = two molecules of Oxygen and one molecule of Carbon has an molecular weight of 44.0095
Those are the top four chemicals that make up earth’s atmosphere in order of most abundant to least as well as lightest to heaviest. Insurance companies will tell you that the most dangerous time to drive is in the city at the beginning of rainstorm. Explanation: The carbon on the streets starts to combine with the water. It is the accumulation and drainage of rain water within those first five minutes that cleans the streets of carbon build up. That should about wrap things up here. But it won’t so I’ll continue.
A scientist in Denmark has pretty well made the case that CO2 variation on earth is directly linked to, and follows, solar flare activity. His theories explain why MMDC is bunk and explains what truly is behind the rise in global temperature. The more solar flares, the less cloud formation, the more heat is trapped.
It is also fairly well known that a solid will alter the temperature of a liquid quicker than will a gas. This is why you can put a beer in a bucket of ice and it will cool faster than if you just put it in to the freezer. This is common sense folks.
One of the arguments that the pro-MMGW crowd loves so much is that the oceans are warming and can’t hold as much CO2. True enough but this is being caused by increased tectonic activity, not a rise in atmospheric temperature. The recent Christmas Sumatra Tsunami of 2004, and everything since then demonstrates that this trend has only accelerated.
In fact, magma movements under the ocean has increased many fold in the last few years. Data shows that under water volcanoes and magma movements have steadily increased in the last five years and now it is simply going through the roof.
Lastly, the source of all life, that big bright yellow circle in the sky has more to do with the this process than heat/radiation emission. Until the last solar cycle, x class flares were only ranked to 20. Solar Cycle 23, which ended in 2006 and peaked in 2001 caused scientist to raise the bar to 40. Sunspot 486, in 2003, ranked in at a record setting 28. Now, in the second year of Cycle 24, we should see at least some activity, but the is untypically quite placid.
The point is that activity on the sun is not only electromagnetic but is gravitational as well. Gravity is one of those funny areas of science that we actually know very little about.
So it is more than likely that the changing Sun is actually to blame for global warming, not man.
The only thing Carbon taxes will reduce is the amount of money in your wallet.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:22 am
well….global warming…kinda abstract….but we can feel it closely now…
for those who don’t care bout it….please move from this earth….
global warming can be solved….really….i believe it….
the big question is….when will you stop it??????
up yours…
you can make it longer or shorter…
suffer more by doing nothing….
suffer less by acting sunfing….
juz chew it dudes……
sleep with it…
GBU
July 17th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This is our last lesson and we will be back in 6 weeks time wohoooo, thankyou for all your comments made in the last month and we will see you fellow global warming pals soon Love You xxx
July 18th, 2008 at 3:19 am
i know this might sound bad, but they predict that the world will end December 21, 2012. I am suppose to graduate in the year 2012. think of all of the young children that will not live through the spread of diseases, or the hurricanes. I am making a youtube video, that might change people’s minds about how they treat the world. honestly, i hope the predictions are wrong, and the world lives to be about 50,000 years more. http://www.youtube.com/fallenangel397 i hope you watch the video titled “Save the World” I hope it will change the minds of everyone.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:31 am
dis post is really gud n helpful
i have my self not focused on such a topic ever
but after reading dis i will take evey possible step to save earth!
wtf
i mean the others may not care to c their children live long
but i do care
July 18th, 2008 at 8:52 am
True, it will evaporate, but it will rain again as so much evaporates.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Too bad we really can’t do anything. Signs are obvious we are warming… no denying that! But can we really change what has been going on for the past 100 or so years. We will never see our planet return to 1800 life. We can’t blame anyone. It’s the way it is and will always be. No one said I’m going to destroy the planet today. It just happened. Yes, people did this to the earth, but we have no control to stop it. Yes, I’ll do my part, but will the people selling drugs that don’t even care about theirselves change? Will the rich oil countries around the world change. Will the multi-million corporations put up with less money… Will neclear power just go away. Will goverments give up their weapons of mass destruction? (Just to name a few!) No they won’t! Everyone gets excited about all the fuss and destruction that will happen. Good. Because it’s coming. Just make sure your livin right!!
August 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Global Warming-There is a lot of hype about the issue of Global Warming,in stead of acting towards it people are questioning the very facts that the scientists put forward.It seems as we are spending a lot of time trying to justify our own particular stands.I know we are in an era where everybody wants to be superior,superior in the sense of thoughts,ideas etc. i.e.what one says that is right others all are wrong.This debate can go a long way but in this process we are denying the attention our environment much deserves.
I guess everybody can be scientists in their own way possible,analyse what was the situation like some years ago and compare the situation right now we would see that their is indeed a depletion of our environment,I can give you a hundred examples,but see for yourself.
We will realise that in stead of spending time on discussions and debates about the effects of Global Warming it is now time to act in a more unified manner.
It is indeed a GLOBAL WARNING.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
1. Global warming is natural; our planet has been undergoing global warming and cooling (ice age) for millenia, but humans are greatly speeding up the process
2. I’m not sure about the “The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area!” but if anything, that’s all it will do, slow down the effects of global warming.
3. Maybe it won’t happen for a while, but you can’t deny the record high temperatures, the increased number of droughts, or the consequences of a warmer climate. Maybe you don’t care about the world we leave for future generations…
and i don’t think our government is taking this issue as seriously as they should because they have more pressing matters on their hands. I mean, would you rather give your tax dollars to save the earth? or to fund a war which is quickly losing american support, is not even wanted by the inhabitants in the middle east, and costing americans their lives?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
i think that all of this information it´s so vitaly for the humanity because any people know what are all the effects for this ernormous problem.
we need to promouve the deadliest effects or somethings like this……
we love green pease!!!!!!!!!!!
n we love all the darkness people?
September 16th, 2008 at 2:50 am
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE AND GO CRAZY BECAUSE OF GLOBGAL WARMING
September 18th, 2008 at 2:13 am
its so sad that i read this article. but like here im living in a province there so many people are naive of happening here on earth.. like there burning bush and burning plastic and others… then when im explaining to them bout global warming as if they dont care and dont understand what im saying…….
September 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I think that melting of ice caps & glaciers further lead to th scaricity of fresh water. water can be known as an exhaustible resource as amount of freshwater is less on earth. and using it not judicialy will certainly affect th future.&glaciers r th freshwater reserve for future .Thus,melting of glacirs do not only results in flood , but also in freshwater scaricity. also, large no. of oil reserves has been found in artic . that also can be th 3rd world war venue.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
nice comment jagwire
September 24th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
this is a rockin wedsite !!!
September 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
we’d better get to work with the solutions..i cant take it..here in the philippines during -ber months,we usually experience cold weather..but now it comes along with typhoons!!!ugh!!we can do this!!help pray for our mother earth!!there can be miracles when you believe,,let’s also try to step forward and make the right actions towards this global warming..
October 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
i like cookies man. i’m so high right now. hahahahahaha…
October 31st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
If the ice caps do melt its because the climate is getting warmer and if the the ice caps do melt then there will be no cool air it will hot all the time and the planet will eventually burn…god did say that he will not flod the earth the next time will be thourgh fire…i rest my case.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Fuck all of you freaks. Global warmings a myth, Santa on the other hand is real.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
global warming will stop if we all just die=]
November 5th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
This sucks
November 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
This is horrible. Except that Utah becomes tropical! YAYAYAYAY
November 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
PEACENESS YO!!!!!
November 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
i am not going to have a future
November 9th, 2008 at 8:47 am
we should be always aware of what is happening to our environment and what it could possibly contribute to us.but most of the people take action only when it is affecting us now.we should move and let it start from ourselves.let us not wait for the coming future.let join hands together to fight the crises we are facing and save the world our God has created for us. – 15,an ordinary student of Talipapa high school
November 12th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Who cares? we all gna die sometime anywaiiz ! lol
Hi mohamed :D
November 12th, 2008 at 3:43 am
instead of talking about how we are all going to die, let us talk about happy things. like bunnys!
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(=’.'=)
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November 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
THIS SUCKS!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Listen, i have a few things to say.
1) The increase in temperature is natural, as was the Ice Age, and the increase in temperature starting in the Dark Ages. The Earth’s temperature has been, will be, and is constantly in flux. While the process takes a while, the overall temperature of the Earth increases and decreases as a part of a perfectly natural cycle.
2) I am not disproving this whole Global Warming theory either. Imagine a hill, sloping downward, then upwards, representing the change of temperature of the Earth over large periods of time. Imagine the Earth being a rock on that hill, constantly rolling up or down, pushed by the forces of Nature. Right now we are on a slope down, indicating the rise in temperature. While nature is naturally rolling the Earth down, soon to come back up, Man has helped it on its way, and pushed it harder, causing the temperature to rise (slightly).
November 18th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Hi AlL yOu pEoPlE i LiK CoTtAn CaNdY, yO!!!!!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am
ONG! I NEVA EVA NEW DAT! TNX 4 D INFO!
November 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
This isn’t a joke guys, this could very well kill 2 – 3 billion people over the course of 20 years!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
omg were all gonna die !!!!!!!!!!!
Aarah
November 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
hey thz article really helped me in my geography project!!!! nice info!!!
November 26th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
this is a fantastic site for schools
November 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
HELLO!
Most Of you newbies wont know us, but those who do (Ralph, Crazy Kid, Endangered Species 4) WERE BACK! We returned from the summer holidays and completely forgot about the global warming crisi at hand. Sorry.
But We have now returned and will once again be wasting lesson after lesson talking to You Guys.
Its Been TOO long.
So Give Us The Gossip!
Lots Of Love,
Mr And Mrs X.
(we got married in the half tem)
DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURES!?!?!?!?!
LOL.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 am
ok, so a lot of people are saying that there just isnt enough evidence to support the idea of climate change (i prefer the term climate change, its more accurate than global warming) and what i have to say to that is, would it kill you to just recycle anyway? so you dont think its that big of a threat…ok…thats nice, but you cant deny that littering isnt a good idea, and its always a good idea to reuse things that we can, so all we ( “we” being the enviornmentalsits) really want from civilians is for people to just throw away what MUST be thrown away and recycle what CAN be recycled just because that stuff is good no matter what your opinion on global warming is. that way, if you are wrong and global warming is a problem, then you just helped, wether you believed or not, and if “we” were wrong then we helped out the planet anyway. it doesnt have to be as controversal as people make it.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 am
This is towards the sea levels rising,
if you have ever filled a glass up with water and just let the water melt(sit out at room temperature), you will notice that the water level is LOWER than when it was originally filled with ice.
Try it, its simple.
And Water is the only thing that expands when frozen.
Some of these scientists need to go back to 2nd grade, in my opinion.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
I still do not understand people that are so ignorant they will not accept the facts. If u compare this past ice age to other ice age u will see a big gap between the numbers. And honestly take a look at how much cars that run and burns gas everyday, look at all the factories that pollute the air everyday, or the oil reserves, or even planes. Everyday millions of tons of CO2 is released into the air. I have not even mention natural causes of global warming such as volcanoes and fires.
Its beyond me how are planet can even keep up with us, even if its only to a certain degree. It is not affecting everywhere yet, but in other places it has been. Its a slow and steady affect and even slower to undo. As much as I want to say “I told u so”, I would really prefer it doesn’t happen.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Im not a scientist. I’m not into politics. I couldn’t tell you the weather records from 10 years ago, i couldn’t even tell you the weather predictions from last week. I have never felt that what happens outside my own life is my problem, honestly I never really thought about how are actions are effecting the very planet we live on. But the older I get, the more I notice. The school I sit in was once a farm, Toronto, a forest or field, an old saw mill close to where I live is now a plastic factory. That’s only over a couple years. and every time I look back, are societies are getting bigger and are air is getting more tainted. I look at my parents house and think, “hmmm, will I have a generation fallowing me who will live here?”. I don’t want to screw the world up for the future human beings to pay the price.
There will always be hunger, poverty, sickness, death in this world.
We create antidotes, vaccines, medicines, cures, anything to eliminate disease and sickness and prolong life. We spend millions of dollars, what ever it takes to keep us alive. But that will never be enough. Look back to 1941. penicillin is created. we use antibiotics to cure almost anything. Over using these wonderdrugs till “wow, what do you know, its not working any more”. Antibiotic resistance people! we will always be creating drugs to cure disease, and we will always have to re-create more when bacteria finds a way around. So I don’t see why is it such a problem for are money to go towards the earth as well.
Hunger is an upsetting issue in the world today and a lot is being done. I didn’t say enough is being done, but there are so many different organizations working to help. BUT, think for a second.
Warmer waters and more hurricanes
Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves
Economic consequences
even Polar Ice Caps Melting
All of these could effect are sources of food in some way. Infected insects could harm us, but also bring over diseases which could effect any species of animal could it not? we could loose farms of livestock, or species of animals. Insects not native to are countries could migrate there because the climate has shifted to the point that they can no longer live within there own ecosystems. We could loose fields of corn, orchards of apples, anything we plant and grow could be lost to a species of insect we have no idea about. What then? how much food would we have? maybe they would resort back to rationing everything. I guarantee there will be more starvation in the world and hunger would effect everyone.
Wether are planet is coming out of an ice age…Or Global Warming is bringing us back into one. The effects that are occurring now are effecting the world.& what we DO or DONT DO are effecting the world to. We cant rely on the idea that this is natural. Wether you agree that Global Warming is occurring or you agree that It Isn’t, You should still do a part to help out this world. Its not hard. It wont kill you. So Why make a big deal.
Choose clean energy
Recycle
Wash cloths in cold or warm water
avoid idling
Keep your damn tired filled
use an energy star refrigerator for god sakes.
Is that really so hard? Don’t gotta be a “tree hugger” to throw a bottle in the bin instead of the bag.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:40 am
54321 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
THATS WHAT GLOBAL WARMING WILL DO
December 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I don’t think all of this that is wrote is right. There is more things that need to be worried about. Yes some of it is true.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
None of these effects are proven to be caused by mankind. It is all based on ‘junk’ science!
December 5th, 2008 at 2:14 am
That was really good. Its so amazing how you have many facts. And really good reasons that explain your facts completely. With no confusion. Your research was really good. I should know that since I am a teacher that teaches advanced students only. This was the best report ever created in my life of reason and fact exercise reports. What a job well done. Especially since you did it for no reason at all not counting the warning signs there for our country.But still,bravo.
~ Audrina Dela Casino
December 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
we dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
December 8th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
i think that JAI ORTIZ makes an amazing point. i also think that global warming is real, EARTH PRO. this really helpeed my project!!! thx!!!
December 9th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Hey guys i get why you think the government should just fix everything, what you don’t know is that the government isn’t willing to pay that much money to fix what they think isn’t happening, and you know what a teeny tiny part of global warming is your faullt too, soo why don’t you do something about it?
December 12th, 2008 at 1:32 am
i think global warming is a very serious situation! i dont know why people are making a joke out of it. if global warming doesnt stop, we could all die. but if people were smart enough to help it stop… we could make it stop and live much better lives.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
gloal worming must stop!!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
the effect of climate change is a very dangerous phenomena that affects our planet due to the excessive needs of humans. Since the industrial revolution which begun in the 18th century, people begun burning more fossil fuels for homes, factories and transportation which caused earth to warm very quickly and climate begun to change unnaturally
December 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hey you know, Kimberly, I think I heard something about issues with POLAR bears as well…
December 14th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
we are all going to die !! Uhuh
December 15th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Hey-
Global Warming doesn’t exist!Global Warming is simply a theory by Democrats to ruin and devastate the Republicans. Drill, baby, drill! Global warming is just a fiasco for Al Gore to get an Oscar in. All we have to do is wait for Earth to cool down. Chill out, man, no one (humans) will die from polar bear extinction and some glaciers melting. The glaciers will just cause some rocks to kill millions of people, but that won’t kill us, right?
December 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
December 16th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
i feel soooooooooooooooo bad for the lil polar bears poor lil things :(
December 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I think these issues are devastating and we should try to inform people about them, these type of rpoblems shoud be taken care of because we have caused them and they are not going away..
December 17th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
As I read the other comments almost all of you forgot that rainforest deforestation is causing all of this global warming and I think that we should think before we all destroy our own economy.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
As I read the other comments almost all of you forgot to mention about rainforest deforestation who’s causing almost all of this global warming. I think we shoul start thinkimh before we all destroy our own econemy.
December 18th, 2008 at 8:09 am
This really helped me with my paper. Thanks for posting!
December 21st, 2008 at 5:32 am
Screw u all!!!!!!!!!!!Go die before this happens. >= (
December 21st, 2008 at 5:42 am
Global Warming is now a religion and is totally disconnected from science as all religions are. Global Warming heretics are being almost being burned at the stake. Rational discussion about climate issues has descended into a black hole of ignorance where there is no room for alternative viewpoints. Global Warming is a religion dressed up as a science. Pretty soon the high priests of the religion will be calling on us for human sacrifices.
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
i think the government know that the irish see would be the best source or hydro/wind power but they will not use these methods as it will create an abundance of power and they would not be able to charge high prices for the use of any energy that was being produced so readily and that would never run out, the government can do this but WHY wont they?
December 24th, 2008 at 7:19 am
well global warming is sumthing that really scares me.. im 18 and have a 8 months old babygirl. will we live to see our daughter grow up and have kids of her own? how do we know when this will all come 2 an end?
December 28th, 2008 at 9:51 am
thank you so much for your articles!
hope to see more about this!
thank you once again!
love.–silver
December 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Global warming isn’t a hoax! It’s reality and we have to do something about it now! Otherwise we’re all gonna die!!! Global Warming is the REAL DEAL!
P.S. Al Gore isn’t a stupid politician, he actually cares unlike other idiotic politicians!!!
December 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Global warming is happening. so STOP being idiots and do something about it !! Or we’re all gonna dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I would like to ask an expert on the subject of Global Warming about more deadly effects of Global Warming. Does any one know of an expert.
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I love this!! Global warming is happening and most people are just sitting around doing nothing, this will-should-get people to listen.It also helped me with my essay :p.
@ Kmberly: well yeah its killing the koala bears its killing everything-and its our fault! iIf i were you i would be a little morre concernedabout the five deadliest effects (the ones listed above)
@aesculapius: i ToTaLLY aGRee WiTH You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm
this helped a lot on my environmental pollution assingment
January 5th, 2009 at 12:52 am
So many people are worried about GLOBAL WARMING – but what about the latest news being released about global cooling? i would like to hear Simmons opinion on this? Global cooling could be the next issue – or is it the real one?
January 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
95% of global warming is from natural water vapor the other 5% is us cows and gas and something else i think
think about that ya all
January 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Global warming is fake!
January 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Can you post some more pictures. I hate global warming. It kills little baby animals who only want their mommy’s. Thats why we need to help. Donate some money. Think if you were taken away from your mom. Never see her again. Half those animals end up dying because they need their parents. PLEASE! Just donate some money each mounth.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I really don’t agree or disagree with Global Warming. I think that their definitely are positive effects, for example, when we were trying to fill the ozone layer, it’s lucky that we left some holes in there because the gas emissions are now escaping through the holes, if those holes weren’t there, we would die. I think that mother nature will fix herself, if we go dormant for a year, mother nature will correct the wrongs our ignorant society has crested.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
thank you so much this is so beneficial for everyone who really wants to know what will happen in the world
January 14th, 2009 at 11:33 am
i did not like the web site
January 14th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
hello im javi and i dont like global warming i think were all going to die anyways so there is no poing in having that party your throwing tommorow
January 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
who cares our generation is going to live so are my kids
maybe not the people born in year 2100
but i will live so who cares
January 15th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Hi I am working a prototipe tower that will clean the pollution to reduce global worming we all need to work togheter in a project like this one so that way our kid & the kis of our kids will have a planet to live on it….
January 16th, 2009 at 3:56 am
ok, angryrat, you’re an idiot. the people in australia DON’T need to be glued, it’s called GRAVITY! gravity pulls from the CENTRE of the ROUND Earth! ok? oh, and global warming’s real, and we need to do something about it so the future generations don’t die. ok? thanx. i know i’m only 15, but that means i’ll be alive when the entire world goes up in flames, probably. this means, that i care more than those old guys who’ve been talking and don’t care since they’re going to die soon anyways. ok? so, do something about global warming! i can’t, since i can’t vote! so i have no power! ok? so those who DO have power need to help out those of us who DON’T have power!
January 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
WOW This we need to start recyclig FAST! lol……x Amazing..?!
January 19th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Dear Website of Deadly Diseases,
Have you seen my mother lately? She has grown quite plump, and escaped from the African Lion Safari recently. She is on the loose, and we can’t take any chances. Any second now, we will receive news of people a-eaten. Hopefully the spider monkeys will get you first. Consider yourselves warned.
Be aware, or BEWARE.
Sincerely,
The Association of Escaped Mothers from the Round Table
January 21st, 2009 at 5:05 am
dear mr and mrs X
it is good to have you back in the battle for the planet.altho I was missing you help here, we still have much to do.i to forgot to visit here and am glad to be back.
p.s. have you heard form endangerd speices 4 latly???
p.p.s. you got married?congrats
your frind crazy kid
January 21st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Global Warming is known to be factual. The question is if humans are the cause of global warming. I have viewed the facts and I feel that we are causing this global catastrophe.
green – house gases cause global warming(fact)
Polar ice caps are melting(fact)
Melting of the ice that was on land but flows into the ocean increases sea level(fact)
The melted water helps earth to stay cool… at first.
What happens when there is no more ice to cool our earth?
Imagine if you will you have a cup filled with ice and water. If you put the cup in the microwave for a short amount of time (before all the ice melts) the water will remain cold. However, if you leave it in to long the ice will melt and the water will warm and eventually boil.
Microwave = Green house gases
Water and Ice = Our earth
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
people are not aware of what they are doing. they are totally spoiling our fragile planet. even though we know this shows that we are noy caring for our earth we live in.. what is now we need is the solution for this………
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
OH ! THIS INFORMATION HAS REALLY HELPED ME WITH MY FREAKING PROJECT
THANX
January 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 pm
this planet is in periland all the economies worldwode can think about is their personal interests.This is so unbelievable.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
where is this information from?
is it reliable?
January 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Hiii
SAVE THE GODDAMN POLAR BEARS YOU JERKSSS :P
January 28th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Listen here we are not going to die GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE. All through are planets existance it has changed. If species of animals and plants are dying then there is really nothing we can do. Even if we do stop driving non- fuel efficient cars, that will not stop our planet and the solar system. I am only in grade eight so dont tell me crap cause I know what is happening.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
hey i may not be old enough to vote but i think people should carpool, conserve water, save energy, and do your part in the world!!!help out where you can. it doesn’t matter if you can vote, it matters that you care about the enviroment.you care and do your part and you have done a lot in the world.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
toooooooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodddddddddd
January 29th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
you.
there is no possible way for the ice caps to malt and cove land.
think of a nice glass of water that you just put a ice cube in.
next let the ice cube melt…
hmm, what seems to happen?
ohh, looks like the ice water is at the same height.
global warming is stupid.
i have figured that out… and i am only 13.
so.. haha.
:P
January 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
BELIEVE IT!
… dattebayo
January 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
we are not going to die we just need to keep our city clean.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
402 686 8110 if you want is clean help the city people are dieing because of people who dont care
January 30th, 2009 at 10:05 am
that is truly right!
January 30th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I say that even if the land in barren of promises, nothing shall forstall my return…
February 1st, 2009 at 2:46 am
Its really scary to think about what might happen in the future.The animals in antrtica,im doing a project in school about global warming and im starting to think twice about it what if i scare the kids???? WOW i mean really one day our earth will be that water planet that those astronots siad they found and humans will be exteinked.THE END WILL SHOW UP ONE DAY!!!god stay with us and help this earth stay strong….RECYCLE PEOPLE U DONT WANT TO DIE BY DROWNING DO YOU?????
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
it is caused by sunlight and a pluck of a pony’s hair
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am
The gulfstream is slowing down signifficantly.
The Guardian wrote that since 1979 till now the gulfstream has slowed down to one fourth of it’s speed.
If the gulfstream stops we have an iceage
the solution are windmills which produce not only electricity but also steam
.The windturbine generates electricity wich goes to an electric boiler that produces steam wich goes thru a steamturbine that produces again electricity.
These windmills have to be placed above the cold part of the gulfstream where the exess salt produced by evapporating seawater from the boiler gets dropped in the cold stream .
The steam coming from the steamturbine gets partially condensated to have clean water to produce hydrogen ,with the electricity so you can stock your energy to take where needed with tankers.
Where the ocean is too deep you can use floating windmills.
If enough windmills are placed they will salten the gulfstream enough to stop the effect of the extra downfall of snow and the meltingwater wich slows down the gulfstream
by not being so heavy as the salt oceanwater.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I believe that we know how to stop global warming.Well actually we know all the key elements to stop global warming.The problem is that reality hasn’t hit us hard enough to react.The sad part about this is it’s simple, we must stop using products that we don’t need!Hear are examples of how easy it could be to stop global warming.Stop using hair spray ecspecially airsol,charcoal,cigarettes,cigars,garbage,stop litering,gas,certain chemicals,etc.If little by little we would try to stop these terrible habits of using products that will eventually kill us.Then the world would be a better place.The reason we know global warming will happen ahead of time, is so we can stop it.Imagine living in the 1700’s when we were not smart enough,or we didn’t have the technology to know what will occur ahead of time.WE WOULD”NT SURVIVE…So let’s use the knowledge that God gave us to stop what were capable of.If we don’t you should right a suicide letter,because that’s what we will be doing if we don’t stop global warming….SO WAKE UP AND CARE
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
kat kepler is a fucking hoe
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions. I’m sure many of you put a lot of thought into your comments; however, other failed to impress me. I believe that there is a way to express your opinion without offending others. When peoples comments are full of swears and attacks on other people, the little information that they included loses all of its credability. After all…would you want to agree with someone who only calls you names.
But regarless of what others think, this site is about facts, and the fact is that climate change WILL effect our futures. Whether you believe in the ideas of global warming or not, it is obvious that our planet is changing due to both human activity and natural causes. It is essential to take action NOW! Even if you don’t think that it will effect you now, think about your childen, your grandchildren, and the children of generations to come. They should not be responsible for cleaning up the mess that we made!
February 4th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
If insects that live in the north migrate north just exactly where are they going??
February 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I don’t like malaria
February 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Before the age of fossil fuels, the earth could only sustain enough food for 1 billion humans. But now, due to fossil fuel abuse and futuristic technology, the earth’s population rose to a staggering 6 billion people. Unfortunately, fossil fuels can only go so far…so now we are reaping the “great rewards” of global warming. Global warming is not a myth, it is fact. The more we use fossil fuels, the closer we are to “judgement day”. The time shall come where only the most adaptable shall live, and the weaker shall die. This is the way the earth shall keep life here at a balance. This is the way overpopulation shall end. The exponential growth of a single species shall end in disaster. Judgement day has come, now we must leave. Permanantly.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
holy shit
February 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
COMMENT ON JAGWIRE:
You say that it is inaccurate that icecap melting will only effect is the ocean, darker colors absorb sunlight, further wariming the earth. i dont really understand what you are saying, that the icecap melting will only be to our benefit ? What about the polar bears ? without the ice to walk on, they might not survive.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:48 am
man some buddy stop global warming
February 11th, 2009 at 2:55 am
People should be doing more things to help stop global warming. instead, they are
doing the opposite. People are showering too long, leaving the lights on even if they are not in the room for a long time. Lot’s of people don’t short out their garbage. People should be recycling more. Deforestation and factories are casing most of the global warming. But if everyone uses less electricity as possible,use less water,and recycle more then everyone can make a difference.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:58 am
In the end, we will all die. It just depends on when and how we speed up the process of death.
February 12th, 2009 at 3:57 am
thankx for the information it was great
it realy helped me with my aciment
February 12th, 2009 at 6:17 am
this is great i was a always curious about other effects of global warming and i am really tryin got save the Earth. I try to do everything i can within my own reach but can you give me some more ideas on how to stop global warming
February 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I really dont like all this global warming stuff… plus whats the point of having all this carbon dioxide annyways..
♥ Nicole
February 16th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Globa warming is somerhing which will lead the extinction of human being,because of the people they do not take thius problem as a seruous problem,i feel shame for the future generation cause they are innocent,i mean guys lets get hold on this for us and for the future,don’t believe by seeing but believe by being tought….. and suggestion is that every department have to contribute on solving the problem of global warming coz i don’t wanna die young!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
thanks. used this for a report.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
What if eventually the heat wave on earth evaporated all the water?
February 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
the photo’s are cool.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
booooooooo hooooooooooo im goooooonaaaaaa diiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 19th, 2009 at 1:56 am
I totally agree that global warming is very bad and needs to be stopped, we need to convert to eco-friendly resources! People we need to stop this now!!
February 19th, 2009 at 1:58 am
by the way: thanks for the info. it helped me finish a L.A. paper that is due tomorrow :D
February 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Thatut it all in perspective. I am doing a project on the effects on the oceans for global warming, and this has helped a lot. If anyone could suggest some other links for more information about this, it would be greatly appreciated.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
look on the bright side most of you will be dead wen the real effects start to take place.also increased c02 levels in the atmosphere will be absorbed by the extra water so no real worries for now. oh yeah the bees are gonna die pretty soon so prepare to see less crops expensive prices and fewer flowers
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
This is a good article. However, the spread of deadly diseases strikes me as odd. I completely agree that that more diseases will spread, but can you really blame global warming for not being able to stop malaria in some countries. I mean the people are more the reason for not stopping malaria than global warming. I was curious as to where you recieved your information because I am not aware of what countries you are referring too.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Everyone has their own opinion about Global Warming and climate change, but despite this one fact remains clear…
The worst thing we can do (to our planet) is have kids.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:43 am
well i heard that if we stop the co2 emissions and whatever causes global warming from humans we would only be helping 10% because the volcanoes’ ashes and such.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
well tbh i think that global warming is ruining the plante and it needs sorting am only 15 years old and nt that very goood at science but i know tht there is something wrong when it comes to this and someone needs it sorring cos loads of poor little animals are dieing :( thanks xxx
February 24th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
This is excactly what we need to tell the Government!
February 25th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Personally, taking into account all of what I’ve heard from both sides of the argument, I cannot say I honestly believe completely in either. So as someone who is neutral on the subject, perhaps some facts may help?
The process of the Earth is, I’m pretty sure, a natural process, in which the Earth’s temperature increases gradually, then freezes over, resulting in a ice age. But, of course, that’s not really the issue with global warming, is it? The issue, as far as I know, is that it’s happening quicker than it should. Therefore, early ice age and early apocalypse. Owie.
Whether or not humans are to blame, I’m not entirely sure. But considering that, apparently, one of the main contributors of evil gas is the cow, emitting methane, as everything does, is there that much we can actually do to stop it? How do we stop cows farting? Plug their arse holes with corks until the world cools down a bit?
Regardless, doing something to use less energy will be beneficial either way you look at it. If you don’t believe it’ll save the planet, at least it’ll save you some extra money.
And hey, guess what, I’m 13 too. Maybe I don’t know anything. Doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to an opinion. Tiddlers ought to have the right to say a simple yea or nay.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
…and thus, I am forced to check over my post AFTER I’ve posted it, being the renowned genius that I am.
I meant to say, the process of global warming, rather than of the Earth. There is no such process. Please do not use that particular piece of information in your Geography essay.
And, of course, I meant most animals, as opposed to everything. Silly me.
We should also remember: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” I find it’s a pretty good way of summing up feelings on global warming.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Does anyone know around when the real hard effects of Global warming will hit us and what will they be. I’m only 14 and it’s kinda worrying.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
i can not believe that kangaroo jack is going to die cry cry take this seriously please please
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:37 am
i carnt believe global warming has ming in it haha
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 am
Wow. I know people always talk about helping this situation, but I wish they really would do something about it. I know it would be hard to find a healthy way to do things like driving, but everyone needs to start taking part if we want to save our Earth.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
ahha thanks let me finish a paper due today =p
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
this is great because of this article i got a 100 on my mid term essay in science and was entered into the writing competition for my parish
thank you
March 4th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Drastic measures need 2 b taken
March 4th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
i’m going a exam in science and i was wondering if you could help with this. what is the evidence for global warming? and what are the Arugument against it?
March 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
this is so scary. I want to help reduce things. I want my chlidren to live in a nice clean world like what I had. PLease to others, help if you do care about the world you children’s children is going to have to live and clean in. T__T
March 5th, 2009 at 2:21 am
This helped me a lot on my civics assignment!
:D
March 5th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I love the Earth and the people that destroy it can SUCK MY BALLS!!!!!!!!!!11
March 6th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I am working on a talk for English on global warming and found this information very helpful. Thank you.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
The point on insects really helped me. I needed something like that for my geography homework. Thanks
March 11th, 2009 at 1:04 am
OMG reading this SO helped me pn my report!!!
March 11th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
>:[ Global warming is ruining our earth! Sure im only 13 but im doing research on this stuff, i find it cool but, very sad. Many animals are ding every day. We need to inprove this place… Our planet, we need to stop polutting. :)
March 12th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
i think global warming is wonderful since all the ice will melt and i will get to drink all the water which will be GREAT fun along with my polar bear buddies.
GO GLOBAL WARMING :)
March 12th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I love global warming email me at tigerpaws11 at aol to tell me how global warming helped you!
March 12th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
What the Fuck
March 12th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
ANYONE WHO DENIES THE INEVITABLE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING SHOULD BE EXECUTED IMMEDIATELY. MY FATE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE INTERTWINED WITH PEOPLE WHO WOULD CONTINUALLY AND IGNORANTLY DESTROY OUR ONLY HABITAT.
People, the FACT is that over the last 650,000 years, we have NEVER seen a temperature spike this severe, or atmospheric C02 levels this high. We face the serious possibility of releasing trapped CO2 under the tundra, as well as releasing frozen methane from beneath the ocean floor. If this occurs WE WILL FACE A MASS EXTINCTION COMPARABLE TO THE PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION. Honestly, I don’t give a damn about you. But for our childrens’ sakes, please, stop driving SUV’s, producing a bunch of garbage, wasting electricity, etc. etc. etc. Some days I think humans were meant to die out, it seems to be our nature to destroy everything we come into contact with, but we could at least try, after all we are pretty interesting, and I enjoy the beauty and wonder of the earth and all it’s creatures and landscapes. IF YOU FUCK THAT UP I HOPE YOU DIE A MISERABLE, LONELY, PAINFUL DEATH, AND YOU CERTAINLY WILL.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
We are at last at the final frontier:The BEGINNING OF THE END OF ICE AGE,SO FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS !!!!!There are many signs to prove that we are in a world of spectaculare climate changing,for instance the carribean island of Curacao ,next to Aruba and Venezsuela has never experienced 80mmof rain on one day in february the 20th of 2009.never at least in 50 years time. For the first time in many years at least in 30 years period of time we have never seen so much rain the last 3 years,and it is still increasing .Curacao and the rest of aruba and bonaire is known bytheir long dry period with much wind and season long dry temperture,,we now experiencing much heavy cloud of ,moisture and vapor month in and month out. The hurricane season is becoming a great issue of worry,because every year from at least the last three years the concern is growing wether it will hit the so called ABC island. For a period of more than 100 years we were out of the hurricane belt ,now adays the people is becoming more more worrysome ,because of the growing threat every year.hurricane Omar was last year in november 2008 a warning sign that this year 2009 we will be very close to hurricane . mr guido da costa gomez of the island of curacao n.a.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
heloo i am a suicide bomber i KIll all of u before global warming
March 17th, 2009 at 6:40 am
if this is all true, why dosent the world know about it all? also, why did you put the most important bit, the sea levels rising, first?
March 17th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I hate when people try to convince themselves that global warming doesn’t exist! There is proof all around us; you just have to open your eyes. My friends say that this is just part of the warming and cooling cycle that our planet is continuously riding on. But this is so much worse than all the others before. As Al Gore says is his book, An Inconvenient Truth, “We have everything we need to begin solving this crisis, with the possible exception of the will to act. But in America, our will to take action itself is a renewable resource.” But people have to believe that there is a crisis before they will act to solve it.
Why can’t people who see this list and others like them realize that this is something that we caused, and that we will be the ones to suffer the consequences?
March 21st, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Thanks, this really helped on my GW PROJECT
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Global Warming is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Know no one wants to die, unless they are freaks and hate the world!!!!!!!!
If the ice melts the world will just be water and nothing else!!!!!
Please god help us to understand and be true to everyone around us Amen!!!!!!
I want to live I’ve done some things in the world that aren’t good but I didn’t mean it!!!!
I’ve never hurt someone or bullied someone ever in my whole life!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t like I’m like that!!!!!!!
Love the world Mimixxxxx
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
the ocean warming will further help some species.Such as the manatee who is currently going extinct due to lack of an environment. The warming ocean climate will just help this poor creature that is dying off due to human stupidity. Now that global warming is occuring now we are the stupid species killing the earth but at least we are helping an animal that we were killing off!!!
March 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
the earth is round. its on fire because of global warming
– we are all going to die it was in the simpsons
goodbye
March 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
every one worried about the global warming but only few are taking their responcibility intthis serious matter. Today I’ve seen so many peoples are give role to make our world in polluted & taking the world on the next ICE AGE. There are so many ways to distroy our planet but the only cheapest way to save it is “PLANT TREES”.
March 24th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
global warming makes me cut myself
March 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Dont worry guys :P i can save u all!!!!
March 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
glodal warmming has both positive and negative effect for the growth and development of a country.it reduces flood in a country
March 26th, 2009 at 2:03 am
this is the best it helped alot with my project on global warming thanks alot–cici
March 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Well… everyone dies.. so its gonna be fine, at least i get to see if Hell or heaven exists.. :D cant wait!! :P
Peace, :D
March 26th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
people in my class think it is a false fact by i think it is a true priblem that is afecting all of us and we need to do something about it so i have changed ever light bulb in my house with energy afisionant ones i am doing any thing i can do to help stop and hopefully provent this problem from getting worse. We all need to do our part to help provent it.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I LIKE MUDKIPS, GO GLOBAL WARMING!
March 27th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
i think that all of us need to help out because not one person can move mountains but if everyone helps maybe we can fix the problem before it gets worse!
March 31st, 2009 at 12:51 am
I am doing an independent study in global warming and I would like to thank you for how much this imformation has helped me . thank you so much and it will be even better if you posted more stuff about it .thanks!
April 4th, 2009 at 12:28 am
It seems to me that one of the deadliest effects of global warming listed in the top 5 should have been hydrogen sulphide gas. The situation is potentially unstable. Some experts predict that this would only happen in the far distant future. I do not have much confidence in that opinion. Once warming becomes a self-sustaining process, all our predictions of the time to human extinction could become obsolete.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:26 am
The only thing we do, is to believe in your heart and trust in the Lord,he is the only one who have the answer for you and me. PRAY!!!
April 8th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Earth Pro you are definitly wrong! If you were right why would all the ice be melting in the arctic and why has it been getting hotter and why have there been WAY more floods and droughts???????
April 9th, 2009 at 2:05 am
So, I’ve only looked through a few comments on this websites, and I kind of got irritated. For everyone who thinks that teenagers are completely stupid, we are the youth of the nation. Hello people, it’s our generation who is responsible for coming up with ways to solve the ever-growing problems that our world is facing. I think that instead of disputing the facts that you’re presented with, you should do something about it. natural or man-made, it doesn’t make a bit of difference. The fact of the matter is that there is SOMETHING happening that’s causing our temperatures to rise. I know a lot of immature people are going to say a lot of things to put this post down and to degrade it, but i think you should seriously consider everything that has happened over the past decade or so. Yes, I am a Christian. I do believe that God has a plan for everything, but at the same time, isn’t it our responsibility to take care of the world that He has created for us? It’s your choice as to what you believe, I just as that you consider all of the evidence before you so quickly dismiss it.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
cool website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
April 14th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Whether it’s a problem or not is one debate. What percentage humans are causing is another percentage.
But as far as it goes, people in this comment section are acting like children.
Secondly, until people can solve problems amidst themselves, how are they going to solve problems on a much larger scale?
I don’t side with either side, as there is proof backing both. I more or less believe in the fact of heating and cooling sprees.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Logically:
The polar ice caps will melt as in previous cycles, increasing water levels and area of water. The oceans are what mainly absorb carbon dioxide (about 330 gigatons/year). Increased area of oceans will, therefore, absorb more carbon dioxide. We will then be on our way back to an ice age. Mother nature is pretty amazing!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:15 am
OMG! im doing a report on global warming for science and mi dad doesnt believe in global warming! i’m trying to convice him w/ this cite, but he isn’t buying it. hopefully, mi project does. thanks SOOOO MUCH!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:33 am
What a steaming load. I worked for the EPA in the 1970’s. And then for NOAA for 25 years until retirement. We used to all share a collective laugh whenever anyone mentioned “global warming”. We called it “global walleting”, as it’s just a money making scam. In 20 years, you will all see what fools you’ve been.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I believe most of these effects on global warming. This actually helped me a lot on my 7th grade exit project. And no, you are not too negative! :)
April 21st, 2009 at 10:52 am
Hi
My Name is Shashi and im from India we are already seeing the changes here there is only one solution instead we spend billions and trillions of dollars towards defence systems why cant the governments of the world take a stance and spend that amount of money to build eco friendly cars and eco friendly products which wont harm the atmosphere why dont we increase the plantation and get bann on porching of wild animals if we coould implement this we still have chance to save our Mother Earth
April 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
the government is so ignorant when it comes to all facts on global warming
April 21st, 2009 at 2:21 pm
when is congress going to do somthing about this
April 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
i wonder how much more the earth can take befor we acctualy do something about this?!……..
i guess there’s not enough people that care about the earth, even though they live on it…….
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Friends Global Warming is really a biggest issue for today’s generation now its time to take an effective step otherwise we will face lot of problems in our future , this may convert our living planet to other non-living planets of this galaxy
So, friends lets join our hands and come together to stop this Global Warming and forget all the discrimination’s making only one aim to finish our enemy
April 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Hello,
Thanks.
YOu did my homework.
I think u r very SMART.
Hahahahas=]
April 25th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Just making these type of articles with scary pictures will not do anything. The only thing which can help to overcome this problem is to make individual efforts and not depend on the government.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:11 am
this is all so stupid i dont get why people actually listen to this sh*t…
April 27th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
this is all a big scam for the money of all of us Americans!! NO1 BELIEVES IN THIS CRAP THEY SELLIN US!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:26 am
ALI IS GAYYY!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
OMG thats insane we shuld change
April 30th, 2009 at 9:06 am
here seriously everyone stop fightin..
i dont know if this is goin to sound stupid or not but.. could they not filter sea water and people drink that?? would that not solve the ice capsules problem..
laugh all you want.. im jus really high right now lol..
please.. just save the polar bears….
and….penguins….
May 1st, 2009 at 3:14 am
WOW!!! THIS ARTICLE GIVES LOTS OF INFORMATION, AND IS VERY SPECIFIC ON THE 5 DEADLIEST AFFECTS ON GLOBAL WARMING. GREAT ARTICLE!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:16 am
WPW THIS WEBSIGHT HAS LOTS OF INFORMATION ON GLOBAL WARMING. IT’S JUST WHAT I NEEDED FOR REASEARCH! IT’S REALLY GREAT HOW THIS ARTICLE IS DOWN RIGHT SPECIFIC ON THE 5 DEADLIEST EFFECTS ON GLOBAL WARMING!
May 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Each happy endings a brand new beginning. LALALa
I LOVE Eggs!!! Thats hatt!
May 5th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Hi, I’m Lakshantha Karunarathna From Sri Lanka The Global Warming thing is getting warse and now in SL we are experiancing it.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Global warming is hurting the environment and we need to suspend it before it is to late.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
We can’t stop global warming. Volcanoes will still release natural gases into the air
May 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
To be honest – some of it is OTT but this is a serious issue!
oh
and
i agree with jagwire – that quote is not right!
x
May 7th, 2009 at 11:17 am
last point….last para….2nd line….
its– reflected and not relected
May 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
to a comment left somewhere here,minjun Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 12:08 am
why doesn’t the melted ice evaporate??
like…
it has to evaporate in a few days because of the sun you know…
so like…
yeah…
it won’t be like 230 ft. of water
maybe 229.9
it doesnt matter if it evaporates, it will come back down anyway.
people need to think a little, global warming is serious.
i dont understand how people still dont think its real.
research this stuff.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
scary pictures……. my friend and i r scared now da pic r scary!!!!!!! luv ya <333
May 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
What if the icecaps and antarctica are actually remaining pieces of the last ice age? What if them melting actually means that Earth is finally recovering from the last ice age?
May 8th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
What events lead up to past ice ages?
May 9th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Hey I am only a high school student and I am appalled by the stupidity on these comments. One man said that they called Greenland “green” because it was green when they first found it. This is not true. Erik The Red named it this because no one would move there if they called it Iceland. The Norse descovered it in the early 10th century. Are you saying that the large glaciers on Greenland formed after that time into what they are today? Global Warming is true. It is a natural process that has taken place since life first formed. What we have done is speed it up in the wrong direction. It should be getting cooler but instead it is getting warmer. Also we started affecting the climate years before the industrial revolution. As this article gives proof too, http://edweb.tusd1.org/pihouse/Glenn/RuddimanArticle.pdf. For you people saying it is political science, why did the bush administration never really acknoledge global warming was a fact. They avoided it at all costs. For the person with the NASA blimp idea, how would that blimp cover all the earth well maintaining the same altitude in the stratosphere? Also humans have a large effect on the climate. We have changed ecosystems before. We are changing the climate now. Open up your eyes you idiots and look at the chunks of is the size of Manhattan breaking off the Antartic ice shelf and for the person who said that the oceans wont rise because the mass of the ice was already in the ocean. You are partly right. If it is sea ice then if it melts it will not do anything to the sea level but if it is land ice, like the Antartica ice or the Greenland ice, then it will raise the sea level up by quite a large amount. The Greenland ice alone has the potential of raising the sea level by 16 feet if im not mistaken.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
This is great it helped me so much in my geography homework thank youuuuuuuu :)
May 12th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
UMMM 1st of all we are just people who where brought into this world to live our lifes and then die. nobody said anything about taking care of the all this B$@&^T!!! we didnt cause global warming and we didnt make no nerds invent stupit things iether! so quit F*@$& putting us down! y wont yall just spend all that F*@$& money on building eco friendly cars or things like that and quit selling faggot ass things that are stupit! quit getting mad at us cause yall r tha fuking stupit asses that created everything like factories and nuclear plants!! face it! yall dont care about the earth at all, yall are just trying to make us buy those stupit little smart cars just so yall can get rich of our money!! y wont yall just quit wining and do something yallselfs!!
May 12th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
i wanted to ask that how does it affect the humans in what ways and how?
May 13th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
why isn’t the government doing anything about this??????
nature is more important than money people!!!!!!!
wake up!!!! don’t let the next generations pay the consequences….
please….
May 14th, 2009 at 9:25 am
all i have to say is i feel a lot of hatred between our 2 groups.
i dont understand why people have to go mad and SHOUT to make others understand their opinion.
some of you will reply to this and say that these are not opinions but facts.
thats fine believe what u like.
facts or no facts humans homosapiens are the most complex and clever species on the face of the earth it only makes sense to help and protect other species and animals that cannot do themselves.
global warming wheter real or not is an issue that will affect each and every organism on earth from the ameoba to the zebra.
sure there are many arguments against and for it and like others before me have metioned a lot of facts may depend on whos doing the research.
but it seems illogical not to take a threat such as global warming not seriously. why is it so hard for us to just make a small change in our lives to slow a disaster that might otherwise occur. if it is false it is false we all go home in the night content and happy that when mother earth, the planet needed us we were there to help protect it. but what would happen if it was ccorrect and we didnt do anything to contain it surely the changes that global warming might bring are horrific enough not to ignore. what is worng in changing our ways to fight this global problem we all face till it is proven either correct or false. we have nothing to lose.
im not askin anyone to go and buy $200000 car to reduce their carbon footprint, or stop using electricity all together, all i am asking is to make small changes like use energy saving lightbulbs these blubs use a quater of the energy a normal bulb uses and produces 120 % of the light a normal bulb does they last about 10 times longer to and as for their cost only a few dollars costlier, a pack of somes will get you two of these bulbs. also something like installing 2 or 3 solar panels on your roof to reduce energy input from the national grid this option though slightly costlier in the future provides saving that one does not expect.
small things such as these options help the world.
and as for the eco friendlies would it hurt not to make predictions where the earth alwasy ends up dyin a horible death y not mention the amount of people that would have to move if water levels rised, the fact that mosquitoes and other disease contracting organisms will be able to go to places where they were never able to before due to warming temperatures. why do yall have to go nuts and come up with apocalyptic theories that only end up scaring people into denial and distrust.
i mean if i told u i found 10 dollars on the floor rather than i found 2 billion dollars on the floor. which one would u more likely trust. i am not suggesting candy coating facts just suggesting to state the smaller end of the scale effects.
plz love each other and be at peace everyone arguing and fighting will never lead anywhere a good debate is where no one loses.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am
i know someone mentioned before that mosquitoes prefer cooler climates let me plz corect you as i come from a developing country myself and have contracted malaria at a young age.
it is not preety it ended up stuffing up my teeth because when i contracted it i was young and on a moving train that was going to be continuously moving for two days.
my parents at the time had to consult the only docter on board a adult docter the dose that i ended up taking was for adults and not for children who still had their milk teeth
it killed enamel on my teeth and has now lead to me creating 5 rots
i am not a candy loving person and trust me when i say this i take care of my teeth very well the only link here is the meds that doc gave me
i have consulted a few dentists all agree the damage was caused by the dose the doc provided.
anyways i think what u really meant was that mosquitoes prefer a high moisture content they like the warmth in fact they cant survive where the temp is too cold
May 15th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Just WOW. Really? Do all you people not have anything better to do than sit at your PC and type a bunch of shit only high school kids will read just because they have a damn report for science and need some BS to type up about global warming? In my opinion, idc about global warming, because ill die before the earth dies. So wtf do I care? Oh and for all you bible hugging pansies: Fuck your “god”, and fuck your “lord”, cant you make your own damn decisions in life? Wouldnt it be nice to rely on yourself instead of some “all powerful” no-named mofo whos fat ass is supposidely sitting on a cloud somewhere in the fuckin sky? Think on my words all you friggin christians, you may yet have ten cents worth of a brain to save from that book of lies.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
This is annoying and i no im doin it but its to tell u that its stupid to write comments and that u shud find something better to do with ur life not lookin at these websithes im lookin at this website because of my homework but its a crap website
May 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Mkay well I do belive in Global Warming but that doesnt make me a f*** off. Even if this was false, trees are a neccesity therefore we die without them. I am of the teen generation and I hope to have a family one day and that may not be optional if you people dont stop screwin up the earth. Polution is high, animals are closer to extinction and its not the our generations fault this is happenin. Yeah some stupid young teen may illeagly drink and throw there beer can/bottle out the window, but a lot of us disaprove of this. Therefore it isnt mainly our faults YET we have to suffer. Dont be selfish and make life easier for you and impossible for us. Give us a chance to fix things, not make them worse. I know im probably talkin to brick walls out there but most of you will listen and I hope if you dont dissagre them youll leave your comments behind.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
The Atheist does have a point you people
May 15th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
ok, um aithest dude, i know youve had a screwed up childhood but thats no need to blame the christians. when your mom is beating you remember if you had god you’d have a chance. oh and you are supposed to type ur opinion u tard. oh yeah and um, bite me.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
you have just seriously just pissed off the wrong girl you may not know this but you may die before the earth dies but that only means God gets to deal with you so much sooner you bettter hope and pray that idku because i would put you into a Conventfor what you did ah you should learn to respect your elders because God is DEFINILEY YOUR ELDER
May 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
hey uh..athest dude you need to get saved im a high skooler and i love that i have a piont in my life you are probably so loser living in your mommys basement.without a job or a girlfriend.but ill pray for you ill pray that you get of you ass and do something with your life and hopfully along the way you might want to find jesus and repent your sinz before its to late ….and not only high skoolers look at this kids in the 5 and4 grade as well.you are in seriouse need of help and guidence you can call 1-800-273-TALK….and get some help.remember watch wut you do cuz jesus is always watching,and he can pull you from any situation.im sorry you havent found crist yet but ,if you dont put inj any effort youll DIE<and BURN-IN-HELL!!!
May 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Global warming is nothing, beautiful people. I mean, it’s not the immediate danger.
THe immediate danger is air pollution.
Air, beautiful people. Air.
Global warming is nothing compared to global air pollution.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:39 am
First of all my mom is dead, retards, my sister found her face down in the fucking pool, and guess what? Yes i loved her very much, but i didnt shed a single fucking tear. She was and alcoholic too. Now that I got that out of the way I can actually tell you ,’the christian’, wtf is up: If there was a hell, id burn in it in every single religion. So pity me all you want but your beliefs arent mine and theres not a damn thing you can do about it. Oh, but maybe your good buddy “god” can help you with that. And for ‘Rose’: your damn “god” is not my elder, he is nothing to me- NOTHING, and I pity your poisoned mind. And for ‘the young’: where do I bite? haha. And finally to finish off ‘the christian’: I am perfectly sane and dont need “saving” by “christ”, so dont judge me.
May 17th, 2009 at 2:02 am
And uh ‘the christian’- dude, learn to spell before you try to insult me, and Im in high school too, a senior.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:32 am
global warming is bad :(((( . HELP STOP IT PEOPLE. no good no good.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Man, I have to do a report on GW too. But I find these comments and petty arguments hillarious! Keep them coming :P I don’t care if you have a religion or not, or your stance on GW, but you ALL need to get lives. Also, I couldn’t spell to save my life, so don’t pick on those in my boat.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
ok athiest dude, im not judging you. I am not saying anything bad about them. It sounds l8ike your life has been screwed up and i can see how you r mad, but what you need to get is that a lot of people have this religion. Im not sayin that you wrong or i am but i stand on my faith and id like you to just chill with the comments. Dont love god, k? thats not my fault but even though my fience was killed in an accident we both believed in this and im gonna stand on it still. Once again i understand where your comin from and im sorry for insulting you. I truely understand but im askin in a mature(not to p.o u) manner just to chill. If we are wrong then when were dead have fun laughin at us.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
you cant make someone believe in something they dont wont to believe in i tryed its almost imposible
May 19th, 2009 at 8:22 am
“The Atheist” – I will be praying for you, because I do, in fact, believe in the Man upstairs.
And in relation to your first post – You DO realize you were reading and posting these too, yes?
And don’t try to change our opinions. We have been warned of false prophets, and no matter what you say, no matter how raw you think you are – You are one. You won’t change us. Pixels on a site will not change our religion. Your slanderous words do nothing but anger a few people. Try not to be such an internet tough guy.
You need the most prayer out of anyone I’ve seen in a long time. May God help you.
Oh, and by the way, God taught us to turn the other cheek, kthnx.
May 19th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
“The Rebuttal” thank you.
We arent bein mean, just stop though.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I think you guys may just be wasting your time. He’s probably gone, never to return and read your posts. And if he does, your words will fall on deaf ears.
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
dis part has helped me in ma project..thanx for uploadin dis page…
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
ya i think he did leave owell ill just have to do something else in my free time not that there is much to do really
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Well it doesnt hurt to try. And me just gettin out of the hospital i thank god for my life and it just makes me irritated listen to ppl talk like that.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 am
Glad you’re all right.
May 25th, 2009 at 12:51 am
To all those people who don’t really care about Global Warming and our planet, and think everything is just going to be magically fine….well it’s not. THE EARTH IS OUR ONLY HOME – WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT AND BE HOMELESS!!!!!
May 25th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I cant believe people dont do stuff bout this… global warming is important… GAWD!!! tits people WAKE UP!!
May 27th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
okay, i hate global warming
!
fix it or were all going to die!!! >:(
May 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
# Baylee Robinson Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Can you post some more pictures. I hate global warming. It kills little baby animals who only want their mommy’s. Thats why we need to help. Donate some money. Think if you were taken away from your mom. Never see her again. Half those animals end up dying because they need their parents. PLEASE! Just donate some money each mounth.
Re: Baylee-San I had that bitter of a past. I am a child of divorce since I was 5. My mom dumped my dad 4 another rich guy. Then, she won’t admit that I’m her daughter. Then after the child from the rich guy died she told everyone I’m her daughter. I’m with my dad and now I felt friggin’ hate towards mom but now I’m trying to avoid hell by exterminating the hate. Just wanna share. Bye peace
May 30th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Considering that the earth is in a cooling phase, and CO2 emissions are rising, global warming is looking like a lot of hot air. CO2 emissions don’t match and can’t even be force fit into warming trends, but solar maxima certainly can. Imagine that: The sun is controlling the warming! Novel idea, but it might be true. The point about diseases is complete rubbish. Some of the worst outbreaks of disease, including malaria and bubonic plague, have happened during sharp cooling periods. There is no science behind global warming, just some computer models that have no predictive ability and can’t account for clouds. So why do you environmentalist sheeple cling to a hypothesis with no evidence? Faith.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I never thought that global warming would have an effect on just more than heat ireally needed this information for my project
May 31st, 2009 at 7:34 am
Stop the WARM MONGERING! This is like a cult. Who’s your god? Al Gore? The #1 deadliest effect are idiot believers who think they can change cyclic patterns of weather. I have tracked the local weather prediction for my city from 10 days out for a month–just 10 days out. How accurate were the predictions? 10% right. And that’s only 10 days out. These global warming models predict the temperature some 50 to 100 years out, gimme a break. What’s next big crisis where government steps in? Aging?
May 31st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
The Atheist-San, PLEASE! U need a God. B4 I changed & knew God, my life is so screwed up. When I was in the 5th grade when I’m too lazy I didn’t even take a bath and look, now I’m a normal girl with only some little addictions. C’mon! Miracles happen. You’ll be sorry 4 life if you’re in Hell. C’mon man, stop acting like a tough guy and turn around!
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
there is no evidence that humans are causing global warming and these are the definite effects. its the cows fault! all the blooming methane they are producing with their poo. gross
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
i am so scared of global warming i am scared if we do not act soon the wold will come to a end
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm
The melting of the ice will not cause sea levels to rise. Most of sea level rise is going to come from the water in the ocean expanding in an increased temperature.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:19 am
very informative and there is alot of scope for improvement.graphics are excellent
June 6th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
So do all you “global warming/cooling/climate change” morons feel good now, reading this utterly insubstantial and anti-science crap? THERE IS NO MAN CAUSED GLOBAL CHANGE, period. Jesus, you fools just need to “feel” so important, don’t you? Sweet Jesus, grow up
June 8th, 2009 at 2:42 am
global w is terrible
June 10th, 2009 at 5:45 am
we must stop cutting trees and stop using pencils and use mechanicals pencils instead using pencils and use the green bag stop using plastic bag.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Thanks for this is really helped me with my report
June 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
What a bunch of sissies. This crap is the same as libs v. neocons, Democraps v. Republicraps. Al Gore would be very proud/utterly ashamed of you all. I hope the world really does implode/dry up/gets bashed by giant meteor/gets nuked by Li’l Kim/freezes over/rots/gets burned up by sun/is bought by Chinese and turned into one huge Super WalMart.
But don’t fret, my little sheepies…the Mighty O will save you all. Remember? Chaaaange you can beleeeve in? You’re all getting just what…you…deserve.
Now…deal with it.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Its getting hot in here so take off all your clothes………yeehaw….
June 20th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
The ice caps will melt no matter what.
How else did the ice age end? The ice and snow melted.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:26 am
come on people!! It does not matter if global warming is real or not, we just need to do something!I mean do you really have to prove that your right and another person is wrong???Whats done is done and now we have to try to stop/slow global warming dowm
June 25th, 2009 at 4:37 am
wow atheist!! what a bitch, jeez CHILL OUT MAN!!!!!! don’t bring your belifes into this, do you see anyone talking about their gods(besides the christian), no!! why? Because global warming dosent have a religion!! relax man
p.s. don’t your dead family into the argument none of us want to hear that or anything else
June 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
One very important fact that you missed out on is the thermal expansion of water. As the temperature of the air increases, that energy is diffused into the water. Sea level has been shown to rise 1 meter for every degree Centigrade that the average of all of the world’s oceans changes.
Number 2 is kinda redundant. IMHO
June 30th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Awesome piece!
This totally helped with my geography essay!
Thanks~
July 4th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I am sorry, but there is no such thing as global warming and there is nothing that MAN can do to change the weather – this is scam for the control of American Citizen’s lives by the government by imposing energy tax on what you use and to tell you what you can and can not do. Follow the money – what good does buying carbon credits do, only my filling the pockets with millions of dollars to Al Gore’s company. Think about it, do not be so gullible.
To man to believe he can cause changes in the weather is astounding to me and very foolish.
Global Warming and/or Climate Change (which is the catch all phase) is nothing more than a guise to push socialized and Communists agenda in America and throughout the world. To be Communism in any form is EVIL!!!
July 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
The photo of the tanker headed into the storm is a proven Photoshop fake that has widely circulated on the net for years lol.
Might there be any other fake content here?
July 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
so right now we need to act which is what we should of done ages ago – but because the effects aren’t radical it will blow up not in our faces but others so do what you can to stop it alllllllll !!! plzzzzzzz
July 11th, 2009 at 3:08 am
thats scary, we want to some preventive measures..
July 14th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
hey…all plzz start doin a “bit” from your side to stop this and suggest your ideas to all people u know…n that doin a “bit” can change this..we can save our future..thanks
July 20th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Thanks a lot..!! it’s a great help on my essay..!!
yeah…we should start helping out even in small way..
but…
why did God have to included in your topic..?
It’s bad to use His name for something like that…
and dude…what does your sister and mother have to do with global warming..?
we’re talking about the effects of global warming here and don’t you dare insult us Christians especially God..
uhmm…those Americans that said that this is a scam,..
no it isn’t…global warming is REALLY taking an effect especially in our county, in the countries in Asia and also northern countries near the poles…we feel the changes in the atmosphere because we are near the equator and large bodies of water surrounds our country. actually, the months of June/July-October, typhoons ‘attack’/come to our country but afterward, rain starts at the middle of summer..i can’t really prove that it is an effect of global warming but the climate during December-February can…It is always as cold as Autumn here when those months come but later, we always feel hot even in the coldest months..and it’s really annoying…plants die because of change in the weather…it may not snow here but in our weather, rain comes then the weather will be as hot as summer that’s why some people easily get sick..
the ice in Alaska thickened during summer..
Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.
Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by abnormally chilly temperatures in June, July and August.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
This is an admittedly loooong piece, but if you take the time to read it I think you’re going to be very surprised. Although it specifically addresses Gore’s film, the topics debunked are pertinent to the “global warming” scam.
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In 2007 the High Court in London (UK) determined that Al Gore’s propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth presented nine demonstrable errors of fact as evidenced by mainstream scientific position. The remaining 26 errors [included below] are just as inaccurate or exaggerated. The British government sent a corrected guidance note to every secondary school in England making those nine points clear. The judge in the case noted that without the correcting notes, distribution of the film [to schools in the UK] would have been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.
Each of the 35 errors listed below misstates the conclusions of the scientific literature, or states that there is a threat where there is none, or exaggerates the threat where there may be one. All of the errors point in one direction – towards undue alarmism. Not one of the errors falls in the direction of underestimating the degree of concern in the scientific community. The likelihood that all 35 of the errors listed below could have fallen in one direction purely by inadvertence is less than 1 in 34 billion.
ERROR 1
Sea level “rising 6 m”
Gore says that a sea-level rise of up to 6 m (20 ft) will be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland. Though Gore does not say that the sea-level rise will
occur in the near future, …it was clear that this is what he had meant. In the next 100 years, according to calculations based on figures in the IPCC’s 2007 report, these two ice sheets between them will add a little over 6 centimeters (2.5 inches) to sea level, not 6 meters (this figure of 6 cm is 15% of the IPCC’s total central estimate of a 43 cm or 1 ft 5 in sea-level rise over the next century).
Gore has accordingly exaggerated the official sea-level estimate by approaching 10,000 per cent. IPCC’s 2007 report estimates that the likelihood that humankind is having
any influence on sea level at all is little better than 50:50. …Gore’s presentation of the imagined imminent threat of a 6 m (20 ft) sea-level rise, with his account of the supposed impact on the present-day populations of Manhattan, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, etc., etc, was not a correct statement of the mainstream science on this question.
ERROR 2
Pacific islands “drowning”
Gore says low-lying inhabited Pacific coral atolls are already being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming, leading to the evacuation of several island populations to New Zealand. However, the atolls are not being inundated, except where dynamiting of reefs or over-extraction of fresh water by local populations has caused damage.There have been no mass evacuations of populations of islanders as suggested by Gore, though some residents of Tuvalu have asked to be moved to New Zealand, even though the tide-gauges maintained until recently by the National Tidal Facility of Australia show a mean annual sea-level rise over the past half-century equivalent to the thickness of a human hair.
A well-established tree very close to the Maldivian shoreline and only inches above sea level was recently uprooted by Australian environmentalists anxious to destroy this visible proof that sea level cannot have risen very far.
ERROR 3
Thermohaline circulation “stopping”
Gore says “global warming” may shut down the thermohaline circulation in the oceans, which he calls the “ocean conveyor,” plunging Europe into an ice age. It will not. Indications of a sustained thermohaline circulation weakening are not seen during the last few decades. Instead, a strengthening since the 1980s is observed. It is now near-universally accepted that the thermohaline circulation cannot be and will not be shut down by “global warming,”
ERROR 4
CO2 “driving temperature”
Gore says that in each of the last four interglacial warm periods it was changes in carbon dioxide concentration that caused changes in temperature. It was the other way about. Gore… very clearly implied that it was changes in carbon dioxide concentration that had led to changes in temperature in the palaeoclimate, when the scientific literature is unanimous (save only for a single paper by James Hansen, whom Gore trusts) to the effect that the relationship was in fact the other way about…
ERROR 5
Snows of Kilimanjaro “melting”
Gore says “global warming” has been melting the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. It has not. The melting of the Furtwangler Glacier at the summit of the mountain began 125 years ago. More of the glacier had melted before Hemingway wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1936 than afterward.
ERROR 6
Lake Chad “drying up”
Gore says “global warming” dried up Lake Chad in Africa. It did not. Over-extraction of water and changing agricultural patterns dried the lake, which was also dry in 8500 BC, 5500 BC, 1000 BC and 100 BC.
ERROR 7
Hurricane Katrina “manmade”
Gore says Hurricane Katrina, that devastated New Orleans in 2005, was caused by “global warming.” It was not. It was caused by the failure of Gore’s party, in the
administration of New Orleans, to heed 30 years of warnings by the Corps of Engineers that the levees – dams that kept New Orleans dry – could not stand a direct hit by a
hurricane. Katrina was only Category 3 when it struck the levees. They failed, as the Engineers had said they would.
ERROR 8
Polar bears “dying”
Gore says a scientific study shows that polar bears are being killed swimming long distances to find ice that has melted away because of “global warming.” They are not.
The study, by Monnett & Gleason (2005), mentioned just four dead bears. They had died in an exceptional storm, with high winds and waves in the Beaufort Sea. The amount of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea has grown over the past 30 years. The real threat to polar bears is not “global warming” but hunting. In 1940, there were just 5,000 polar bears worldwide. Now that hunting is controlled, there are 25,000.
ERROR 9
Coral reefs “bleaching”
Gore says coral reefs are “bleaching” because of “global warming.” They are not. There was some bleaching in 1998, but this was caused by the exceptional El Nino Southern Oscillation that year. Two similarly severe El Ninos over the past 250 years also caused extensive bleaching. “Global warming” has nothing to do with it.
ERROR 10
100 ppmv of CO2 “melting mile-thick ice”
Gore implies that the difference of just 100 parts per million by volume in CO2 concentration between an interglacial temperature maximum and an ice-age temperature
minimum causes “the difference between a nice day and having a mile of ice above your head.” It does not. Gore’s implication has the effect of overstating the mainstream
consensus estimate of the effect of CO2 on temperature at least tenfold. Temperature changes by up to 12 degrees C between glacial minima and interglacial maxima, but CO2 concentration changes by no more than 100 ppmv. Gore is accordingly implying that 100 ppmv can cause a temperature increase of up to 12 degrees C. However, the consensus as expressed by the IPCC is that 100 ppmv of increased CO2 concentration, from 180 to 280 ppmv, would increase radiant energy flux in the atmosphere by 2.33 watts per square meter, or less than 1.2 degrees Celsius including the effect of temperature feedbacks.
ERROR 11
Hurricane Caterina “manmade”
Gore says that Hurricane Caterina, the only hurricane ever to strike the coast of Brazil, was caused by “global warming.” It was not. In 2004, Brazil’s summer sea surface
temperatures were cooler than normal, not warmer. But air temperatures were the coldest in 25 years. The air was so much colder than the water that it caused a heat flux from the water to the air similar to that which fuels hurricanes in warm seas.
ERROR 12
Japanese typhoons “a new record”
Gore says that 2004 set a new record for the number of typhoons striking Japan. It did not. The trend in the number of typhoons, and of tropical cyclones, has fallen throughout the past 50 years. The trend in rainfall from cyclones has also fallen, and there has been no trend in monsoon rainfall.
ERROR 13
Hurricanes “getting stronger”
Gore says scientists had been giving warnings that hurricanes will get stronger because of “global warming.” They will not. Over the past 60 years there has been no change in the strength of hurricanes, even though hydrocarbon use went up six-fold in the same period.
ERROR 14
Big storm insurance losses “increasing”
Gore says insurance losses arising from large storms and other extreme weather events are increasing, by implication because of “global warming.” They are not. Insured
losses, as a percentage of the population of coastal areas in the path of hurricanes, were lower even in 2005 than they had been in 1925.
ERROR 15
Mumbai “flooding”
Gore says flooding in Mumbai is increasing, by implication because of “global warming.” It is not. Rainfall trends at the two major weather stations in Mumbai show no increase in heavy rainfall over the past 48 years.
ERROR 16
Severe tornadoes “more frequent”
Gore says that 2004 set an all-time record for tornadoes in the US. More tornadoes are being reported because detection systems are better than they were. But the
number of severe tornadoes has been falling for more than 50 years.
ERROR 17
The sun “heats the Arctic ocean”
Gore says that ice-melt allows the Sun to heat the Arctic Ocean, and a diagram shows the Sun’s rays heating it directly. It does not. The ocean emits radiant energy at the moment of absorption, and would freeze if there were no atmosphere. It is the atmosphere, not the Sun, that warms the ocean.
ERROR 18
Arctic “warming fastest”
Gore says the Arctic has been warming faster than the rest of the planet. It is not. While it is in general true that during periods of warming (whether natural or anthropogenic) the Arctic will warm faster than other regions, Gore does not mention that the Arctic has been cooling over the past 60 years, and is now one degree
Celsius cooler than it was in the 1940s. There was a record amount of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere in 2001. Several vessels were icebound in the Arctic in the Spring of 2007, but few newspapers reported this. The newspapers reported that the North-West Passage was free of ice in 2007, and said that this was for the first time since records began: but the records, taken by satellites, had only begun 29 years previously. The North-West Passage had also been open for shipping in 1945, and, in 1903, the great Norwegian explorer Amundsen had passed through it in a sailing ship.
ERROR 19
Greenland ice sheet “unstable”
Gore says “global warming” is making the Greenland ice sheet unstable. It is not. Greenland ice grows 2 inches a year. It last melted 850,000 years ago, when humankind did not exist and could not have caused the melting. The IPCC (2001) says that to melt even half the Greenland ice sheet would require temperature to rise by 5.5 degrees C and remain that high for several thousand years.
ERROR 20
Himalayan glacial melt waters “failing”
Gore says 40% of the world’s population get their water supply from Himalayan glacial melt waters that are failing because of “global warming.” They don’t and they are not. The water comes almost entirely from snow-melt, not from ice-melt. Over the past 40 years there has been no decline in the amount of snow-melt in Eurasia.
ERROR 21
Peruvian glaciers “disappearing”
Gore says that a Peruvian glacier is less extensive now than it was in the 1940s, implying that “global warming” is the cause. It is not. Except for the very highest peaks, the
normal state of the Peruvian cordilleras has been ice-free throughout most of the past 10,000 years.
ERROR 22
Mountain glaciers worldwide “disappearing”
Gore says that “the ice has a story to tell, and it is worldwide.” He shows several before-and-after pictures of glaciers disappearing. However, the glacial melt began in the 1820s, long before humankind could have had any effect, and has continued at a uniform rate since, showing no acceleration since humankind began increasing the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere. Total ice volumes in three of the last four Ice Ages were lower than they are today, and “global warming” had nothing to do with that.
ERROR 23
Sahara desert “drying”
Gore says terrible tragedies are occurring in the southern Sahara because of drought which he blames on “global warming.” There is no drought caused by “global warming.” In 2007 there were record rains across the whole of the southern Sahara. In the past 25 years the Sahara has shrunk by some 300,000 square kilometers because of additional rainfall. Likewise, the US has had more rainfall since the 1950s than it had in the earlier part of the 20th Century. South African rainfall was also more stable in the second half of the 20th Century, when human effect on climate is said to have become significant, than in the first half…
ERROR 24
West Antarctic ice sheet “unstable”
Gore says disturbing changes have been measured under the West Antarctic ice sheet, implicitly because of “global warming.” In most of Antarctica, the ice is in fact growing thicker. Mean Antarctic temperature has actually fallen throughout the past half-century. Antarctic sea-ice spread to a 30-year record extent in late 2007.
ERROR 25
Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves “breaking up”
Gore says half a dozen ice shelves each “larger than Rhode Island” have broken up and vanished from the Antarctic Peninsula recently, implicitly because of “global warming.” Global warming is unlikely to have been the cause. Gore does not explain that the ice shelves have melted before, as studies of seabed sediments have shown. The Antarctic Peninsula accounts for about 2% of the continent, in most of which the ice is growing thicker. All the recently-melted shelves, added together, amount to an area less than one fifty-fifth the size of Texas.
ERROR 26
Larsen B Ice Shelf “broke up because of ‘global warming’”
Gore focuses on the Larsen B ice shelf, saying that it completely disappeared in 35 days. Yet there has been extensive ice-shelf break-up throughout the past 10,000 years, and the maximum ice-shelf extent may have been in the Little Ice Age in the late 15th century.
ERROR 27
Mosquitoes “climbing to higher altitudes”
Gore says that, because of “global warming”, mosquitoes are climbing to higher altitudes. They are not. He says that Nairobi was founded 1000 m above sea level so as to be above the mosquito line. It was not. Malaria is not a tropical disease. Mosquitoes do not need tropical temperatures: they need no more than 15 degrees Celsius to breed. The largest malaria outbreak of modern times was in Siberia in the 1920s and 1930s, when 13 million were infected, 600,000 died and 30,000 died as far north as Arkhangelsk, on the Arctic Circle. There is no reason to suppose that malaria will spread even if the climate continues to become warmer.
ERROR 28
Many tropical diseases “spreading through ‘global warming’”
Gore says that, as well as malaria, “global warming” is spreading dengue fever, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, arena virus, avian flu, Ebola virus, E. Coli 0157:H7, Hanta virus, legionella, leptospirosis, multi-drug-resistant TB, Nipah virus, SARS and Vibrio Cholerae 0139. It is doing no such thing. Of the other diseases named by Gore either in his film or in the accompanying book, not one is sensitive to increasing temperature. They are spread not by warmer weather but by rats, chickens, primates, pigs, poor hygiene, ill-maintained air conditioning, or cold weather.
ERROR 29
West Nile virus in the US “spread through ‘global warming’”
Gore says that West Nile virus spread throughout the US in just two years, implicitly because of “global warming.” It did not. The climate in the US ranges from some of the world’s hottest deserts to some of its iciest tundra. West Nile virus flourishes in any climate. Warming of the climate, however caused, does not affect its incidence or
prevalence.
ERROR 30
Carbon dioxide is “pollution”
Gore describes carbon dioxide as “global warming pollution.” It is not. It is food for plants and trees. Tests have shown that even at concentrations 30 times those of the
present day even the most delicate plants flourish. Well-managed forests, such as those of the United States, are growing at record rates because the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is feeding the trees. Carbon dioxide, in geological timescale, is at a very low concentration at present. Half a billion years ago it was at 7000 parts per million by volume, about 18 times today’s concentration.
ERROR 31
The European heat wave of 2003 “killed 35,000”
Gore says, “A couple of years ago in Europe they had that heat wave that killed 35,000.” Though some scientists agree with Gore, the scientific consensus is that extreme warm anomalies more unusual than the 2003 heat wave occur regularly… El Niño and volcanism appear to be of much greater importance than any general warming trend… A cold snap in the winter following the European heat wave killed 20,000 in the UK alone. Though the IPCC says 150,000 people a year are being killed worldwide by “global warming,” it reaches this figure only by deliberately excluding the number of people who are not being killed because there is less cold weather. In the US alone, it has been estimated that 174,000 fewer people are being killed each year because there are fewer episodes of extreme cold.
ERROR 32
Pied flycatchers “cannot feed their young”
Gore says “The peak arrival date for migratory birds 25 years ago was April 25. Their chicks hatched on June 3, just at the time when the caterpillars were coming out: Nature’s plan. But 20 years of warming later the caterpillars peaked two weeks earlier. The chicks tried to catch up with it, but they couldn’t. So they are in trouble.” Yet adaptation is easy for the flycatchers: they merely fly a few tens of kilometers further north and they will find caterpillars hatching at the appropriate time. Besides, though Gore does not say so, what is bad news for the pied flycatchers is good news for the caterpillars, and for the butterflies they will become.
ERROR 33
Gore’s bogus pictures and film footage
In the book accompanying Gore’s film, the story of the pied flycatchers and the caterpillars is accompanied by a picture of a bird feeding her hungry chicks. However,
closer inspection shows that the bird is not a pied flycatcher but a black tern; and that she is not carrying a caterpillar in her beak, but a small fish. Gore similarly misuses
spectacular footage of a glacier apparently calving off enormous slabs of ice into the sea …the glacier in question is one that is known to be advancing – and to be doing
so more rapidly and more often than previously. It is in southern Argentina, where its snout crosses – and eventually dams — Lake Argentino. Water builds up behind the ice
dam and eventually bursts it, causing the spectacular collapse of ice into the lake that is so misleadingly used as the iconic image of the effect of “global warming” on glaciers.
ERROR 34
The Thames Barrier “closing more frequently”
Gore says that rising sea levels are compelling the operators of the Thames Barrier to close it more frequently than when it was first built. They are not. The barrier is indeed closed more frequently than when it was built, but the reason has nothing to do with “global warming” or rising sea levels. The reason is a change of policy by which the barrier is closed during exceptionally low tides, so as to retain water in the tidal Thames rather than keeping it out. Yet even the present leader of the official Opposition in the UK Parliament recently used a major speech as the opportunity to mention today’s more frequent closing of the Thames Barrier as though it were a matter of grave concern.
ERROR 35
“No fact…in dispute by anybody.”
Gore says that his prediction that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide will rise to more than 600 parts per million by volume as soon as 2050 is “not controversial in any way or in dispute by anybody.” However, not one of the half-dozen official projections of growth in CO2 concentration made by the IPCC shows as much as 600 parts per million by 2050.
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I condensed the original Monckton Response to Gore Errors report, the source of all this info, and even at that it’s a long piece. If you’d like to see/read the original, go to
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/press_releases/monckton-response-to-gore-errors.pdf
August 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I’m 30, I’ve seen radical changes in just the places I’ve lived. Google maps is a great way to see how much a footprint we have just scanning at a mile or two up. All the parcels of land become visible.
Since we are media driven, I might recommend watching an “old” spaghetti western epic(circa 1963)….although 4 hours attention is a lot ask nowadays.
Catch the Wild Bunch, beyond a great story, you can actually see the majesty that the Rio Grande once had. This is back when it poured relentlessly into the ocean. Its been so irrigated now, you can walk across it in most parts for that last hundred fifty miles.
With all the information sharing and lack of nature surrounding those that grew up in suburbs, experience with the outdoors has changed radically.
Honda, back in the seventies used to have little stickers on their motorcycles by the gas tank that stated:
Preserve Nature
Always wear a helmet
Think safety
If you desire a little more modern action, try Deliverence. Squealing like a pig was a very small part of that movie…but always seems to stick out. This film can churn stomachs, because of the realism for the time. However, what the movie was really telling us about is the impact we have on our surroundings. Again, with amazing shots of Tennessee that are jut not there anymore.
[this text has more pixels than the video games I grew up playing]
August 8th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
im fed up with all these people…who only comment..will anyone bring this in to reality???????????????????
by the way this information helped me in my project!!
August 19th, 2009 at 5:00 am
ryan worms is gay
August 19th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
i really wanted to use this information for my my projest but i dont know weather its correct or not!!!!!
August 21st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
And all of this global warming is caused by Al gore’s flatuance.
August 24th, 2009 at 2:47 am
I certainly agree these are likely and serious consequences of Global Warming due to CO2 and the greenhouse effect. I would prefer to say there are primary effects and secondary amplifying effects that in turn result in catastrophic consequences approaching an extinction event. Some of the effects have trip point mechanisms (positive feedback) that can result in runaway that is virtually unstoppable. Many of these are very close or even in early feedback transition periods with slow time constants measured in years or decades. Once a trip point is approached, reached or triggered, only aggressive geo-engineering ( reducing Earth’s heat input/retention or drawing down CO2 in artificial ways ) has any chance of stopping or slowing the effect and secondary effects.
The serious effects might be roughly in order of severity
1) Melting Greenland will raise the ocean about 25 feet while Antarctica another 275 feet. Both are catastrophic because society has chosen to build many centers of life and commerce in coastal regions and even 25 feet from Greenland is enough to displace 100’s of major capital cities and 1000’s of smaller cities and even regions. Greenland is already nearing a tipping point where it may become impossible to stop its melt even with aggressive Geo-engineering. The economic consequences are immeasurable as only 8 feet did over $50 billion in damage to New Orleans when Katrinas’ surge came onshore. It retreated while melting Greenland is permanent when measured in human terms. This alone could be 1000’s of times more severe to the economy than the recent collapse and very well could put the world into chaos and possible war. Antarctica will take longer, maybe a few hundred years but by then it may not matter. Both Greenland and Antarctica have melted and frozen many times in Geological history but human society will be the first to be severely suffer and have the honor of being the cause. The disruption by 25 feet will put human society into a freefall while 300 feet is unthinkable.
2) Glacial melting in major population watershed areas. As Earth warms, not only is Greenland melting but the high mountain glaciers are also melting. In places such as the Indian/Asian Himalayas or North American Sierra’s/Rockies, the loss of glaciers will also severely reduce water availability to billions of people. Society has also built cities and population areas based on water availability since it underlies so many aspects of life. The loss of the Sierra and Rockies glaciers would send the American Southwest SO CA, Arizona, New Mexico etc.. into chaos. The Colorado River and Hoover Dam system is already at 50% capacity due to a myriad of causes. Losing all winter glacial runoff when combined with reduced rainfall predicted by Global Warming climate simulations plus the lower Ogallala aquifer in the central US and the inability to recharge it will result in severe US water shortages with many secondary effects ( remember the Dust Bowl) and the consequences will send the US economy into freefall as water a food become scarce. Besides the obvious human displacement in LA, Las Vegas, Phoenix thru the midwest, wildfires, agriculture, livestock, and a myriad of systems will simply fail
3) The warmer temperatures will spread slowly north allowing hostile species in every category to spread into areas unprepared to control them. Forests will dies as is seen now in British Columbia, crops will fail due to southern pests, diseases of man and all species will move away from equatorial regions leaving man and many species of animals to insects to viruses and bacteria in a failed immune system runaway chaos. This is one of the most difficult to analyze and predict but also one of the scariest and deadly effects.
4) Ocean Acidification due to Carbonic Acid from CO2 will soon undermine all the Calcium based life in the ocean’s on which all ocean life depends for food and life. This alone will leave the oceans and their food source and other human commerce dead like the Great Salt Lake but due to acidity rather than salt. This has already begun slipping into a tipping zone as the coral reefs are dying quickly setting the domino’s falling. The fish and other life in the ocean’s are 10 25 years from complete death.
5) As the planet warms and Greenland and arctic ice melts, the fresh waters are beginning to lower the salinity of the North Atlantic where the Thermohaline ocean heat pump circulates from surface to deep water slowing the pump. Once the pump stops as it has many times in Earth’s history, Europe will lose its mild climate from the heat drawn north by this system and become similar to its Canadian and Siberian counterparts leaving Europe and Great Britain unlivable by normal society. Given Europe is a major and crucial part of the Global economy, its collapse will bring the world’s economy down.
6) As the Gulf of Mexico and other ocean shelves are exposed to warmer ocean water and Tundras of the north experience warmer temperatures, eventually the huge store of Methane Hydrate will defrost releasing more Methane into the atmosphere in energy terms than all the fossil fuels we have used. Not only is the energy source lost but it is a far better greenhouse gas than CO2. This release will accelerate Global Warming due to Methane’s potency which in will result in more frozen Methane Hydrate turning to free Methane and so forth. This could and will result in defeating many if not most geo-engineering strategies to slow the problem while we bring CO2 under control. This runaway will cause all the other effects to simply explode as the Earth Warming accelerates. This could be the positive feedback mechanism which sets a full blown extinction event into an unstoppable process and we will be seen by future geologists in the same light as the dinosaurs. This assumes somebody survives.
Ok so the sea level displaces 1/4 of human society, water shortages impact billions of people in China, India and the US. Diseases and all sorts impact life at all levels, the oceans die and Europe becomes Siberia. At this point, the nuclear powers in a panic unleash all the nuclear arsenals, Nuclear winter falls on the planet cooling it some but its a little late and setting off 1000’s of thermonuclear devices is a pretty sad form of geo engineering.
We join the dinosaurs as one of the now 6 major extinction events. We also are first to hold the dubious title of creating our own. Trying to analyze the economic impact is bordering on silly since mankind will be set back 75,000 years just after Toba’s mess cleared. That is not good for us but the Earth doesn’t care and likes to reset things now and again.
The Gaia Hypothesis is interesting reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
August 24th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
all i have to say is: IM GLAD ILL BE DEAD IN THE NEXT 60 YEARS…
August 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am
will this be suitable for class ages 9 to 11
August 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
far out look at everyone how u all are now act up gosh
if u ever read the bible on the last part revelations about the seas levels will rise and there would be fires and brimstones and so on
and how i see all man stuffed this earth up and it isnt the same as jesus had in the old BC days and honeslty i think its to late to save anything only people
should just repent and give there life over to jesus before the end time comes
and i really want to thank those scientists how the did that experiment in the middle of the earth i think ever since they did that everythin is going crazy there are so many sinkholes i mean huge ones weather going crazy etc i mean what u all goin to do when mother nature gets really bad run to the moutains and yell out fall on us all im saying it is really to late look at the signs and wonders
August 26th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Dave Erickson Says: Each of the 35 errors listed below misstates the conclusions of the scientific literature, or states that there is a threat where there is none, or exaggerates the threat where there may be one. All of the errors point in one direction – towards undue alarmism. Not one of the errors falls in the direction of underestimating the degree of concern in the scientific community. The likelihood that all 35 of the errors listed below could have fallen in one direction purely by inadvertence is less than 1 in 34 billion.
This person is a great example of what is wrong with our world. Any intelligent person without bias who is studied in the Earth and Physical sciences and has studied the Earth’s geological history can see Global Warming is in a similar category as Evolution. Its not a theory, rather a fact with details being refined. The Religious zealots and conspiracy nuts are doing the same thing as before but this time, our lovely planet which is so rare in the Universe will move away from the “sweet spot” of climate and mankind will not be able to adapt. That is fact. Just because Al Gore is a spokesman without much training and made some mistakes, doesn’t disprove Global Warming. It only reflects on the quality of his presentation. His overall message is correct even if there are “errors”. Only an idiot would conclude some errors disproves the theory. Just look at Evolutions history if you want a good example.
It is unclear how quickly the various mechanisms will move and when they might hit trip points. Does it matter if its 25 or 50 years. I guess to young people and parents it does plus those who simply care. Only a fool would believe that somehow by magic, the CO2 and then Methane won’t slowly raise the Earth’s average temperature. That is easily tested by 10 year old kids in science classes. It will happen and Greenland will melt period!. There will be water at the steps of congress in Washington DC and Manhattan will be flooded. The San Francisco Bay area will extend to Sacramento which is at 25 feet of elevation. London will be underwater along with half the worlds capitals. When Antarctica melts somewhat later, 300 feet will eliminate most of Florida.
The Religious zealots who cite the bible and conspiracy fools like DAVE are just plain wrong. Its SIMPLE. Add lots of CO2 and Methane to our mostly Nitrogen and Oxygen atmosphere and the re-radiated infrared heat will be trapped and not escape into space. That heats the atmosphere. Duh! The cutting of the forests has severely limited plants ability to absorb CO2 and the oceans are saturated and creating carbonic acid destroying calcium based life in the ocean. And that’s just the CO2 shortfall. Methane from Methane Hydrate is another story. A scary one. We are releasing enormous amounts of CO2 daily and the problem worsens daily. I’m afraid only Geo-engineering will be able to stop this runaway train — maybe. Geo-engineering — http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoengineering — works by either leveraging some other global level CO2 absorbing mechanism such as ocean fertilization or somehow limits the suns energy reaching the Earth to slow the warming. One either slows the Sun energy input to slow the effect or absorbs the CO2 safely and both must be done before its too late.
If you are in your 40’s or older and have no kids and don’t care, it doesn’t matter. If you have kids, just care or are in your teens, watch out, your parents world and yours will be VERY different. One can see from the recent mortgage backed security debacle how fragile the world’s economy can be, well just imagine flooding half the world’s capitals essentially forever, water supplies being cut to 50% of the worlds population, Europe becoming Siberia, pestilences going crazy etc.. and watch not only the economy collapse but society, governments, resources and its more or less 10,000BC but there are 6 billion people competing for survival. Its not pretty.
The Earth has been in a very unusual climate period very conducive to man for about 10,000 years. If we don’t mess with the major Earth systems, it could stay that way another 10,000. Its sad we have the knowledge and ability to stop the problem but its people like good old Dave that will seal our fate. I certainly hope he is around and says whoops!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS
August 29th, 2009 at 9:08 am
How do you know that the effects of a warmer earth won’t be good? I think you guys are just making this stuff up.
September 4th, 2009 at 7:59 am
wtf we going to die on 2012 iam to young iam only 11 years old well i love my family my mom and my grandmother who has cancer bye bye every 1
September 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thanks a bunch 4 all d GR8 info! Helped a lot on my Science Project.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
must stop global warming
September 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
nice photo works
September 25th, 2009 at 4:10 am
wow i had no idea it was this bad the sad thing is that we are the main causes for all of this and i just feel terrible
September 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
can anything be done to prevent it. i mean the poor animals are dying minute by minute.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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October 1st, 2009 at 6:48 am
pls. donate in our country .. philipines .. has been destroyed by typhoon “ONDOY”
especially for Marikina, Pasig, & Rizal .. we are now suffering .. pls. help us we’re now experiencing Flashfloods,Landslides .. NO More HOUSE !
Thank You !
October 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I m making a website on “Stop Global Warming”
i got good information from this article.
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Thank You
October 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 10:23 am
The effects of global warming is really terrible!but we can’t blame God becuase we abuse the nature.We had to admit that most of the people nowadays are selfish!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Jesus is coming soon
October 13th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
let the scientists findout a new way to make use of the sunlight to prepare food like plants by impregnating chloroplasts into human cells or otherwise as their intelligence dig it out devising a way so that man need not sweat for his livelyhood.then everything is ok. let us wait for the scientists to cme up with a cheerful invention.
cyril
October 13th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
support alternative energy-clean energy sources- and promote technologies making maximum use of clean energy sources
cyril
October 14th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Although is a bit late to fi what we have done so far is important lo learn and take responsability about this topyc and give back to the earth what she has provided to us(…reclycling, changes habbits of consumption, teaching our kids healthy manners to preserve our environtment…)
Good day for al of u
October 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
these info are awsome.effects are mond blowing.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
omg we are all died ppl do anything.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
it doesnt matter lets party and have fun with the end of our lives and die to waste eltricity woot lol rock on noobs. =) die or live a good life
October 19th, 2009 at 7:53 am
Global warming is reallly a threat for the world. But its the people only who has been spooiling the earth .
October 20th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Very informative…its too good for my project..thank you for your help and care for our nature…..
keep it up…!!!!!
October 21st, 2009 at 5:57 am
Do you have sources for this article? Especially for the Polar Ice Caps melting part? I could use them.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:28 am
Jagwire- regarding the fourth item about icecaps melting, you are right. There are things that need to be added though.
The thing that was missed in the arctical, is the problem of the land ice melting. That will be the cause of flooding water, and that will cause lower saline concentration of the oceans.
I am sorry to everyone who may be offended, sure, maybe you do not think we know all the facts about global warming; and even if it is a cycle, it is our kids who will be effected. I do not want to put my future child up for randsom. Yes, I am an adolescent seventeen year old, and I do make mistakes, we all do. But, I do not believe we have the right to choose our childrens future. It is important to do all you can do, even if you do not believe in the crisis. It is science that is telling us the facts, last time I checked, most people believe what they learn in chemistry, and physics… Maybe we should start lisening to our biology, by the environmental warnings that are occuring. Ever heard of water wars and food wars; its called Darfur. Ofcourse there are other things related, but this is just the start.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am
it helped me in my project
so its coolio
October 26th, 2009 at 3:08 am
I think the pictures look awesome
October 29th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Staying here and talking obout this on this website wont help as much as we need it to.. we need to go out into the world and let the people know face to face whats going on and not leave these decisions only to these big corrperation cause it efects every one. and our future generation.. we need to bring aware ness.. just as i am trying to do Please for the sake of ur family friends and love ones try your hardest to spread the word..
Thank You
October 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Wow… i love this part. this has helped my geo project alot..
Jagwire, i have done other reserch and many scientists are behinnd your theory… and i think your right on that also
October 30th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I’d say mass starvation is likely to be the deadliest effect of global warming…
October 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Johnny Smith Says:
“….To man to believe he can cause changes in the weather is astounding to me and very foolish.
Global Warming and/or Climate Change (which is the catch all phase) is nothing more than a guise to push socialized and Communists agenda in America and throughout the world. To be Communism in any form is EVIL!!!”
hahahahaahhaha, classic!
October 31st, 2009 at 11:01 pm
man, this really helped me on my science report lol
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
hi.
this is selena gomez and i just want to write that i think that global warmimg is horrible because we can die from it.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I think wre have to use echo friendly things
November 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
will global warming bring the end of the world?.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
This is really helping me with my biology report.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
global warming is going to kill every last one of us, because of connor spragg.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
it is connor spragg causing global warming, he
November 10th, 2009 at 5:55 am
if these are the deadliest effects of global warming.. why are some of us are not afraid of this. why some of us are have no discipline.? we should no that. we need to be responsible people. if we keep being like that,, what will happen in our future. as a teenager, i am concern about this. so please lets keep our environment safe.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:22 am
i no they are :p
November 10th, 2009 at 11:25 am
SHUT UP!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thank you… this is a big help to my speech for our school.. thank you very much…
November 16th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
okay first off you guys cant do shit about global warming ight deal with it. its part of life ight and all you guys scared of death are pussy’s fuck dont be scared if its your time go dont be scared and try to hide from it gosh how dumb and all of you think we can do something about it well newsflash we cant.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
it was good
November 18th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Global warming is a myth, the earth constantly warms up and it happens years before, it follows a sin graph. warms up and cools down in millions of years ever changing. And scientifically proven!!!