Global Warming - Why the panic?

As you can see the situation not just human, but the planet are evolving, the matter are: we human are the trigger causing the rapid evolution of the planet so the effect are massproduction, we can avoid the disaster but, I'm still looking for the clue to save this planet but I'm alone nobody care the planet are in danger limit.....that's why. ( PS: I'm not joking.)

 

Global warming is in effect in my country. Example: It should be summer here but it's raining hard today.

 

As you say Lechonbaboy
here in Canada, its supposed to be around 10~15 degrees at the end of April and start of May, but for this week-end we got a whooping 25 degrees

 

Here's a foreword from the book "Jurassic Park" that might interest some of you:

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity.

Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multi-cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval.

Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.

If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.

Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened?

Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being, a hundred years is a long time.

A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try.

We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

-And sorry Mr.Bloodvayne for dropping out of existence in our discussion. My PC went dead, then I got busy with school, then I got lazy and lost interest, as is the way of Americans.

 

damn this summer rain. when i bring an umbrella, it doesnt rain, and when i forgot to bring one, there will be flash floods and super rainfall... is the weather testing me? or just having a good time on my life?

 

Hmm, Michael Crichton is as well known for his bestselling books as his views on global warming :/ .
Anyways, it still provides more reason for us to do something about it. Unless you're an environmentalist as much as Crichton is an anti-environmentalist, we can still find a common cause in preserving ourselves as a species. As I said before, "do nothing and everything will take care of itself" is not a viable option.

 

I'd like to be a little more Chrichton and pull our heads out of our asses about the environment and hope that the extreme environmentalist and animal rights people who blow up buses full of scientists just calm down a bit. Daniel Quinn has it right I feel. We need to stop acting like the big boss of the planet and step back a bit. We aren't here to "fix" anything, we aren't here to claim the entire planet as our own, and we need to stop deciding who and what deserves to live and die. That is in an incredibly small nutshell of what his large expanse of literature covers.

 

I don't know where you live, but "Summer" and "Raining" are not mutually exclusive. It rains periodically throughout the summer in MANY places across the globe.

 

No, moonsoon rains are raining hard now when it's summer. Summer inhere (the phillipines) is usually very hot, and now we experience rain every single friggin day.

 

i think he mean monsoon, and i notice it been raining alot this year compare to last year...... btw isnt it good for a rain in summer time? i love it since it cool the temperature down.

 

well, its not a good thing that it rains during summer time. so it cools down the summer, but when it is hot, then rains, there is a quick change in the temperature, when that happens,the body cannot adapt that quick, and in the end, what happens is the plague of diseases starts to act up.

 

I think the weather are change by something we call WAVE ( radioactive wave signal and such identical same matter ) came from manmade that cause the climax change without warning...well the >warning singal< are float, tsunami earthquake and such other disaster than human error.....let's try our best as human..........

Maybe we can change to anew kind of energy without (bad) effected the world..you know it don't you!

 

WHY do you keep reviving threads that are like month old?

 

At least, it was a little relevant, but not in a good way, I think.

 

I agree with what databank says... this is just a natural occurrence, and the Earth will eventually cool down on it's own in several thousand/million years. Stop freaking out, like those videos in sex-ed say, "it's only natural"

 

You may not have read Loony's posts in the first page. It's true that this process are speeding up so fast that creatures of the earth may not have developed the capability of surviving the changes. The changes could affect some of the earth's biome to the point that it's irreversible.
I don't really care about the year in the next millenium or two, by then we should have the technology to move to other planet to live. The problem is, will our civilization survive until the next millenium?

Of course not, but the farming does, especially cows - they release methane gases that significantly contribute to global warming. Consuming vegetables is also more energy efficient than meats. To help slowing down the global warming, you don't have to be a vegan though, just reduce the consumption of animal products.

 

That's why we eat the cows... the more cows we eat, the less methane they can produce

 

It's not because of global warming that the planet is getting hotter. It's actually because of our very own sun. That thing is slowly getting hotter until it just stops. Nothing we can do about that.

 

*sighs*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

I really hope people would bother to do some small research first before they post. In debates, Wikipedia is your best buddy.

 

wouldnt really consider wikipedia as research
humans do play a big part in the cause of global warming but not even close to the biggest
1 huge volcano goes off and there is 5 years worth of warming that we cause as humans
and timmy you breed more cows so you can eat them, if you breed less cows there would be less methane gas
i think it was in my PE book where i read something like we spend 8 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat (around those lines)

Even though this global warming is over hyped by media and corporations for $$
it has been helpful in helping the environment and animal life (dont have proof too lazy to look)