Is global warming really a important problem of today or?
Is global warming really a important problem of today or not. Although global warming may be a problem, Most of us will never know. Should we not leave this for future generations to come. Our problems of today are much more important .We will never get to solve global warming if we do not take the problems of today first. Today your freedom is the most important problem. Without it ,Your input means nothing. Which is more important today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw
Global warming is a hoax, is it because you watched Al Gore’s videos?
All of us are not aware that the earth has been changing temperature since the dawn of time
There doing this so they can frighten you and rise taxes: more money
Don’t always take the media as 100% right.
So I am not putting input to global warming
Of course people are going to give me thumbs down because they don’t like a different opionen.
Oh well not me problem mate
of course we should be worrying about global warming! everyday we release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which is a main contribute to climate change. Some scientists do not believe in climate change and blame it on inaccurate recording equipment but should we listen to them? come on! would you rather be sorry than safe? of course not! so do your best into saving our planet earth!
no it is not a problem it is a scam even if it was real it is said to increase 1 degree every thousand years but remember about 30 years ago people thought the earth was gonna freeze and go into an ice age
I think it’s getting kinda obvious that global warming is real. Hasn’t anyone else, but me, noticed that there’s more severe weather conditions?
yes..indeed
The problems of today seem more important only because average temperatures aren’t up 20 degrees yet.
Global warming is a big problem….
But the sad thing about that is,
We can’t stop it.
Once it starts it can’t stop…
We can reduce it but we can’t stop it…
Even if we get to millions of years from now…
It will still be a problem…
But anyways…
People are saying it’s a hoax…
But I’ve had some pretty weird weather…
It’s causing the earth to warm up sure but that doesn’t necessarily mean
that other bad things will happen to the earth…
But why are you asking others when it’s your opinion that matters to you…
when the Interstate highway system was first proposed, and construction started it wasn’t needed. but we couldn’t get along without it today.
When the Calif Water project was first started it wasn’t needed. Today, it produces 50% of the fruits and vegetables in the country.
When the internet was first started it wasn’t needed. Today the world economy depends on it.
This generation has received an immeasurable inheritance from those that came before us.
It is now our responsibility to increase that, and pass it on to those that come along after us.
We are not the end recipient of everything our parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents created.
We are merely the stewards.
SO, is global warming important? These folks think it is:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/darfur-climate/2
so do these folks:
http://itotd.com/articles/499/disappearing-island-nations/
Keep in mind, it’s more than temperature.
it’s rainfall.
calif has, on average, seen a decline in rain over some decades.
there’s plenty this year, but last year and the year before that there was not.
and calif produces 50% of the nation’s fruit and vegetables.
yes, it a really important problem today.
Maybe not your generation, but it will probably be a problem as time passes by. But we should definitely look into it and study it, so hopefully we can do something about it. I’m not saying it’s real or it’s not, but as I said before, it is definitely something to look into. Hopefully this answer helped
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I’m not so sure that I’d go along with your idea of leaving it for future generations. Many of the people alive today are only here because past generations decided to deal with the problems they were faced with, most notably perhaps with diseases such as smallpox.
Ignoring the problem is like seeing your house is on fire then waiting an hour to call the fire department. The longer we leave the problem the worse it gets, the more damage is done and the harder it becomes to control.
We’ve faced potential environmental disasters in the past which were dealt with at the time – air pollution, ozone depletion and global cooling are three examples. Had they not been dealt, with then today’s world could be considerably different from what it is.
The most thorough report into the economics of global warming (The Stern Report) found that each year global warming is costing us $600 billion. In 40 years time the cost will have risen to $4 trillion a year – that would be the same as going through the current economic crisis once every 6 months.
We’ve already witnessed the effects of climate change in the form of increased flooding, more frequent and intense storms, more droughts etc. In parts of Asia and Africa millions of people have had to leave their homes because the land has been permanently flooded, lost to the sea or has turned to desert. Each year these effects get worse but fortunately the western world has, so far, been spared many of the worst effects.
This topic is getting too political isn’t it? What I think of global warming is that it is just a cycle that the Earth goes through, yet we are just increasing its rate. If you think about it, how far back is the known recorded history of human civilization? I’d say about 3000 years. And when did mankind discover that the Earth was round? About 600 years ago during the Age of Discovery. Then we landed on the moon 40 years ago. They said that the last Ice Age was about 20,000 years ago. Could it be possible that our polar ice caps and whatever cool places we have remaining are just remnants of the last Ice Age and that when they’re all gone, a new Ice Age starts again? With the Earth being millions of years old, it’s possible that there have been multiple ice ages in the past. What is really needed is more information about the Earth’s climate thousands and thousands of years ago before a real conclusion can be made. It would be really nice that everyone would make it a habit of taking care of our environment, but it would be unwise to let our government spend so much money on something that can’t be truly fixed if it is a natural behavior of our planet.
im from the philippines
for me it is important that we control global warming as early as today… but controlling global warming is a task that is so expensive that here in the philippines it is not practical.
Solar technology,wind turbine technology,other research technology is so expensive that i think we here in the philippines rather tackle more upfront problems like poverty and corruption.
yes i think we should contribute but i think all we can do here is to minimize waste and acts with global warming on our minds.
it is somewhat laughable to me that some politician here push for global warming technology when thousand of Filipinos are starving and uneducated.
if i were a politician i would rather focus on education and welfare first but also promote simple habits that could help the cause " global warming " like
1. Not using paperbags or plastics on grocery stores ( they should have a permanent bag for it )
2. banning straw in cups ( only using straw when sipping thru a bottle )
3. charging people for using plastic cups or paper cups ( encourage to bring own non disposable cups plus the extra charge will be good for other projects )
4. requiring companies to recycle their own products ( Milk carton , Cell phones parts etc )
5. more tax on companies that recycle less than 40% ( plastic companies ,paper companies Cellphone companies etc etc)
6. more tax again for companies that use plastic or paper ( i can call it global warming tax )
that is just some of the solution that i think is within reason here in the Philippines
if the philippines do this not only that the budget will not be hurt by green technology but also we can use the extra tax for green technology
sorry for my english