why arnt we putting all of our power into this situation i mean countries r going to be under waterrr...and mostly in europe i am really worried and our tempratures are hanging in many parts of earth and we are having alot of hurricanes and such...so we arnt we putting all our mind into this..i am really worried
i am really interested in this topic ,,,,and thwere are many comercials on t.v that r telling us not to use alot of electricity and water...but why dont some people actually do so ..i mean do they want this worl to end and knowing it was our falt??
cant we close all factories and big indutries for about 7 years when our air clears up a little..i kno we would go into a crisis of money and companies would colaps but it is for a really good cause i mean think..cant people walk or use bikes instead of using all these cars?..we need to start being healthy again.

Capuchin

There is a lot of dirty stuff going on by petrol companies. You'll notice in my first post to this topic i stated that "The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is the only scientific society that rejects these conclusions."

Do you think it is coincidence that the only scientific society to deny that global warming is happening due to human causes are the people who are funded by petroleum companies, a group that would surely lose money if it is shown that it is indeed the case? I think not

Emland

The earth has gone through warming and cooling periods before and will continue to do so. There was a medieval warming period and a little ice age only several hundred years ago. I am 40 years old and can remember when the politicians and ennvironmentalists got all excited that we were going to experience global cooling.

We should be good stewards of our environment and alternative fuels will have to be developed sooner or later because oil is a finite commodity. Getting that underway and taking away the oil nations power over us would be a win-win, IMO.

I heard something on the tv or radio that had me laughing. I wish I could remember who said it, but it goes something like this: "Our scientists can not accurately forecast next weeks weather, but you are going to take it as fact that our temperature is going to rise in 100 years?"

Capuchin

How much computer time do they have to model each day's weather? probably a day's worth, because the next day they have to model the next day's weather etc. etc.

Global warming has had a LOT more modelling time applied to it.

Also, local weather is much more dependant upon chaos theory than a global warming effect. Of course there are cycles. Scientists try to take that into account and analyse how much the temperature is changing on top of natural cycles. It's folly to assume that they have not taken something like that into account.

Capuchin

By the way, I'm not a great believer in global warming either. Maybe it is a bit of hope in me that it isn't due to us. But I do trust scientific method. We ignore it at our peril.

cal823

oh the irony! the weather used to be a cliche small talk subject! now its a cliche social issue end of the world subject to discuss!
lol lol lol lol