Global Warming/Climate Change

[The Adfeng]

I was wondering what everyone's view on climate change and global warming was. I believe it's because people are using cars a lot more, and we have more people on the earth. If everyone carpooled, at least twice a week, we could cut down our outputs of pollution by a lot. The fact of the matter is, I think people are either lazy, or just don't wanna' do it.

[Zangetsu]

You know, it is caused by cars and pollution. No news there. And again the car pool thing allready thought about. And yes this is America more than half our poulation is lazy.

[ismavatar]

Here's an interesting fact. Refrigerators release chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) into the atmosphere, causing ozone depletion. If every single refrigerator on the earth just went away, the ozone would not only repair itself, but it would block out enough sunlight that we'd all freeze to death.

On the bright side, we'd have natural refrigeration.

[The Adfeng]

Lol, that's not good. I think that we should all just preserve the ozone as much as we can, because, eventually, there will be a climate change, and that might accaully be bad. Scientists say that it's the hottest it has ever been in like a million years because of pollution.

[meep]

ismavatar said:

Here's an interesting fact. Refrigerators release chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) into the atmosphere, causing ozone depletion. If every single refrigerator on the earth just went away, the ozone would not only repair itself, but it would block out enough sunlight that we'd all freeze to death.

On the bright side, we'd have natural refrigeration.

A looong time ago, they had CFCs in them. And loads of other things as well, including insect repellant, and deodrant.
They don't sell them any more of them as they used to, which is good
I don't know about America, but in Australia,e.g. if you buy insect repellant, it says 'friendly for Ozone' =D (yayness!)

Oh and this whole thing started in the Industrial Revolution =)

[sam]

Why does everyone look at this climate change as a bad thing. You never know, it could lead to be a good thing.

[lilmoe15]

Global Warming is normal.If it was all because of humans then why is Mars and Venus getting hotter?

Also in the 80's we had people like to day screaming about a deadly global cooling.So its just people taking things to far.

[The Adfeng]

That's because they used a lot of CFC's, from the hairspray, and they thought if they stopped they would make global cooling. I know global warming is normal, but we are speeding up the process a lot.

[Dumplins]

Global warming oh god its getting so hot and killing polar bears they have no ice to stay on when swimming

[Zangetsu]

Electronic trash is more damaging to the ozone than normal. That's why G4 made the Gcycle thing.

[neopsychic]

fullmetal said:

You know, it is caused by cars and pollution. No news there. And again the car pool thing allready thought about. And yes this is America more than half our poulation is lazy.

I thought that too but the truth a little different. In bigger cities like london and tokyo, public transportation is more convenient and cheap as well as less time consuming. In the US, the public transportation is crappy in smaller towns. In smaller cities, it would be very stupid to try to get places by bike or public transportation. My father knew a guy that traveled the city I live on bike. It took him 1 -2 hours to get from place to place just because of the large distances alone. It would have taken the same amount of time by bus, because bus routes in the place I live in, have large time gaps. Although I live an a small city, imagine, not big cities but smaller ones like Minnesota or Montana. Few people + lots o land and slow transportation.

In the bigger cities I would say, yes, americans are lazy.

[fehoru]

jj said:

I was wondering what everyone's view on climate change and global warming was. I believe it's because people are using cars a lot more, and we have more people on the earth. If everyone carpooled, at least twice a week, we could cut down our outputs of pollution by a lot. The fact of the matter is, I think people are either lazy, or just don't wanna' do it.

natural phenominon and nothing to be sweated... umm err... you know what I mean.

Tropical age, ice age, tropical age ice age... it's a cycle.

the stuff we put out in twenty years the earth was naturally putting out in volcanoes in a week, at one point in time.

when water freezes it expands, so when the ice caps at the poles finish melting, the oceans will have a lower water level... maby we might find atlantis, be we don't have to worry about flooding.

[The Adfeng]

I know, but it's part of us too. We keep on using more things to pollute the atmosphere, and we may accually have a severe climate change. Everything seeks balance, so we'll probably freeze to death, and a couple will survive, and we will have to get back to our normal cycle again. Kinda like The Day After Tomorrow.

[ismavatar]

when water freezes it expands, so when the ice caps at the poles finish melting, the oceans will have a lower water level... maby we might find atlantis, be we don't have to worry about flooding.

It's not the Ice Caps scientists are worried about. They're already floating and displacing water, so when they melt, the water level will be about the same. The thing that's concerning scientists is grounded ice, like Greenland, norther Canada, and Northern Russia. This ice is seated on land, and is not displacing water right now. If it melted, it would all run into the seas and raise the water level. Al Gore is pretty famous for his pictures of a big slab of ice 10 years ago and the nothingness that is there now - this was not an ice cap, this was somewhere in Greenland. This is concerning.

You never know, it could lead to be a good thing.

Hope you can breathe under water.

[lilmoe15]

ismavatar said:

when water freezes it expands, so when the ice caps at the poles finish melting, the oceans will have a lower water level... maby we might find atlantis, be we don't have to worry about flooding.

It's not the Ice Caps scientists are worried about. They're already floating and displacing water, so when they melt, the water level will be about the same. The thing that's concerning scientists is grounded ice, like Greenland, norther Canada, and Northern Russia. This ice is seated on land, and is not displacing water right now. If it melted, it would all run into the seas and raise the water level. Al Gore is pretty famous for his pictures of a big slab of ice 10 years ago and the nothingness that is there now - this was not an ice cap, this was somewhere in Greenland. This is concerning.

You never know, it could lead to be a good thing.

Hope you can breathe under water.

Why should he since in twenty years nothing will have changed?