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Post by thesneaky on Dec 26, 2006 12:13:13 GMT
I know some people may not think of this as a serious issue, but lately it's really started to affect Australia. So it's summer here right? This time of year we usually get temperatures of about 30 - 40 degrees C. Bushfires are common and often get really out of hand. This year it's been mainly in Victoria and Tasmania. But, yesterday, Christmas Day, its started SNOWING in the places near where the bushfires were quite bad. It's ridiculous, we don't get much snow at the best of times and here it is snowing in the middle of summer! This is a prime example of the effects of global warming - extreme variations in temperature. So everyone REALLY NEEDS TO DO THEIR BIT TO COOL THE GLOBE. OK kids? It's serious now. Global warming and hence, climate change, is the greatest threat we currently face and we should be doing all we can to help. Everywhere in the world people are seeing signs of climate change - droughts, flooding, storms of increasing intensity, heatwaves, you know how it is... cooltheglobe.com/
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Post by Lulu on Dec 26, 2006 23:36:13 GMT
Yeah Here in Wales all houses get one red and one blue box, in which you put paper/card and bottles. So many people just don't bother, though! I even take paper home from school because there aren't any recycling facilities there :/
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Post by ~♥Alexa♥~ on Dec 26, 2006 23:59:49 GMT
We;ve just covered global warming at sixth form and apparently there's no proof Global Warming even exists, for every point made for global warming there's one against.
1. The Earth may just been in a cycle, it cooled dramatically in the Ice Age and it could just be heating up to it's normal temperature again, and seeing as there are no temperature/climate records beyond 120 years ago, nobody knows for certain.
2. The satellites used to show Global Warming have been proved to be out of line and the technology is out of date.
3. On land, most of the equipment used to show Global Warming are located in urban areas which are naturally hotter anyway.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, nor am I saying it does. It's upto you to make your own mind up but, don't always believe what the media etc are telling you.
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Post by Lulu on Dec 29, 2006 0:06:22 GMT
But isn't it better to be safe than sorry?
I mean, anyone with common sense would realise that letting millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere can't be doing any good...
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Post by honeybunny on Jan 2, 2007 19:57:49 GMT
Well, I have to say I'm pretty selfish on this subject. As long as the worlds ok for now, it doesn't matter to me what happens hundreds of years in the future to the planet. Apparently this year has been the hottest ever for England, nd it's been partly blamed on global warming, but I'm not complaining cause we had a nice hot summer and a warmer winter than usual out of it.
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Post by Lulu on Jan 2, 2007 23:46:19 GMT
Okay, so it might not matter much right now, but how would you feel in hundreds' of years time, and you were the one who had to suffer the effect of global warming? You'd blame the selfishness of people years ago who didn't try and help.
I live on Anglesey (the little island in North Wales). Research suggests that within 100 years' time, it'll all be flooded.
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Post by thesneaky on Jan 6, 2007 5:59:36 GMT
But isn't it better to be safe than sorry? I mean, anyone with common sense would realise that letting millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere can't be doing any good... Exactly. I know it's not for certain but I'd like to see this lovely little planet stay safe. LoL I'm like a recyclying nazi at home and at school. We're lucky, at school we recyle heaps. And in homes there are yellow bins we put cardboard, paper and glass in. It's cool. You're right, that is selfish. Maybe you should re-evaluate.
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Post by cutekitty on Jan 23, 2007 11:44:55 GMT
That's not right though! You can't say 'oh it doesn't matter, I won't be alive anyways' because the point is, we don't know! The effects of global warming could happen at any time. It could happen tomorror, ten years from now, 30 years from now...We just don't know. If things continue the way they're going now and we keep on selfishly pumping chemicals into the atmosphere then it's bloody likely that we will have to pay the price for it in our lifetime.
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Post by honeybunny on Jan 23, 2007 13:20:06 GMT
Okay, so it might not matter much right now, but how would you feel in hundreds' of years time, and you were the one who had to suffer the effect of global warming? You'd blame the selfishness of people years ago who didn't try and help. The people in hundreds of years time are going to blame us anyway. You're right, that is selfish. Maybe you should re-evaluate. No I shouldn't because that's my view and opinion. I don't care who disagrees with it, that's how I feel and I'm not going to change my opinion on something cause someone disagrees. That's not right though! You can't say 'oh it doesn't matter, I won't be alive anyways' because the point is, we don't know! The effects of global warming could happen at any time. It could happen tomorror, ten years from now, 30 years from now...We just don't know. If things continue the way they're going now and we keep on selfishly pumping chemicals into the atmosphere then it's bloody likely that we will have to pay the price for it in our lifetime. In all honesty, we are all going to die anyway and the whole earth will probably die out at some point, so what does it matter when it happens? Us lot on here all more likely to get killed in out lifetimes through a war or nuking by terrorists than by pollution and global warming. Plus these chemicals we're pumping into the air are giving us all the luxurious lifestyles we have, I'm sure a lot of people in this world wouldn't be prepared to lose all of their finer things in life for the sake of keeping the atmosphere clean for the people in years and years time.
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Post by cutekitty on Jan 23, 2007 14:13:49 GMT
You're right. We all are going to die eventually. Earth probably will die out at some point. But why the heck would anyone want to do something that's likely to speed the process up? A lot of the crap that gets pumped into the atmosphere is unnessary anyways. We don't need to leave our computers and TVs on standby. We don't need to have every light in the house on when there blaintly isn't anyone in every room of the house. That switch you press to turn the light on, the same switch turns it off kids. The crap that gets pumped into the atmosphere may let us live in luxury, but surely there's a limit to how far we take it.
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Post by honeybunny on Jan 23, 2007 14:35:04 GMT
You're right. We all are going to die eventually. Earth probably will die out at some point. But why the heck would anyone want to do something that's likely to speed the process up? A lot of the crap that gets pumped into the atmosphere is unnessary anyways. We don't need to leave our computers and TVs on standby. We don't need to have every light in the house on when there blaintly isn't anyone in every room of the house. That switch you press to turn the light on, the same switch turns it off kids. The crap that gets pumped into the atmosphere may let us live in luxury, but surely there's a limit to how far we take it. Oh yea you're right that we should do them kind of smaller things to help. But it's the bigger changes that I disagree with, like how they're planning to put up plane flight surcharges to try and stop people using planes, but then they also moan about people using petrol fueled cars. I mean how are we supposed to get to places like Spain for a holiday or to Germany for a business trip if they don't want us travelling either way? There are some things that can be done without any problems, but things like plane pollution charges are going to get in the way of people's careers and lives cause people won't be able to afford it. Global warming aside, it amazes me that people do leave all their PCs and TV and stuff on standby, their electric bills must be sky high. They're stupid.
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Post by ~♥Alexa♥~ on Jan 23, 2007 22:01:20 GMT
One solution:- Renewable resources.
Perhaps it's time the government spent money researching into these rather than taxing inicitives (sp?) that are hardly like to work. Take Canada for example, 50% of their energy is produced through HEP rather than fossil fuels as a result they're not burning as many and are getting close to their quotas set out by the Kyota agreement
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Post by corydaze on Feb 7, 2007 22:43:00 GMT
Sadly the way things are going I'd say the effects of global warming are going to happen in a lot less than a 100 years Sad but true and we're all to blame for it. The planet is heating up, climate changes are taking hold, it's happening right here now.
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Post by danny on Mar 10, 2007 1:03:36 GMT
Like it or not, we are losing those ice caps one way or another. The question is when are we going to lose them. The problem is they are melting too fast and we are partly to blame for it. We cannot deny that we won't be able to prevent it from happening completley but we can help slow it down.
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Post by ~♥Alexa♥~ on Mar 14, 2007 20:35:42 GMT
According to scientists we've got 50 years if the Global Warming theory even exists. The problem's not our fault, the chain was started during Industrial Revolutions which China is going through at the moment. Nothing's going to work either way if America and China don't get involved and they won't do it because as the biggest economies (and also biggest CO2 producers), their focus is on the damage it will do to their businesses rather than the environment.
Everyone really should watch Inconvient Truth which is out now and has been made by Al Gore, the guy who would have been president instead of George Bush if a few thousands votes went his way,.
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