As Global Warming Continues

I'm sure you all know what Global Warming is so I don't think there is any need for explaination.

What do you think will happen with Global Warming? Will it speed up and get worse faster and faster, will it stay the same, or will it gradually slow down and come to a stop? What's your opinion?

I think that it would be near impossible to turn it around now. Perhaps stop it from getting worse, but I don't think we can revert Earth to it's original state, by any means.

Perhaps it will stop, but i believe it is within the constraints of theoretical science to reverse the effects we have done to the earth? Certainly not with the current technologies, and remember, it is theoretical science, it may or may not ever be done, or it may be incredibly difficult.

At the current pace, with the drive to stop carbon emmisions, I think it will stop, but there are always going to be people who don't care and continue trying to live the most comfortably and unchanged that they can.

That's a good point.

One of my teachers, a long time ago, said that Global Warming may not actually be real. It most likely is but there is a slight chance that this is just one of those phases in between Ice Ages where the world heats up. I doubt that's it but it's a possibility.

Actually its most likely IS a phase of the earth warming up before an ice age. if you look at earth's timeline an iceage SHOULD have occurred by now, we are running late.

Global Warming is real even if we are in a "warm phase" of earth's climate at the same time. In my opinnion there will always be atleast small amounts of pollutions, even if we manage to lessen it alot now. And Boomwolf, I'd like to actually see where you got that thing about a Ice Age that should have already happened.

I mean, if we were to believe every prediction there would have most likely been thousands of ice ages and billions of doomsdays by now.

Just because I know what it is doesn't mean I believe it's real :P

Global Warming, in its present state, is a myth. It's basically cooked up my Al Gore (The guy claimed to have invented the internet) for media attention. The media just latched on to this, and now it's the latest trend, even the government is all about global warming.

My point? WHO CARES? Everyone thinks that if we don't do something NOW, the world is going to be doomed. I don't think so. The solution can come 300 years down the road, and it will be just fine. Why does this generation have to end global warming? Why not the next? Or the one after that? I just don't see why I should give a damn.

Do you at least recycle?

Of course I recycle. Just because I don't believe that Global Warming will be the end of the world, doesn't mean I think that huamnity should treat the Earth like a global garbage dump.

Very true. There's no absolute proof that Global Warming is the true reason. And your right about that Al Gore crap. It was just a way for him to make money, not to save the world. He said that by 2050, or something, that Global Warming would take ful-effect. I highly doubt that. Either way everyone should contribute in keeping the world clean whether Global Warming is real or not.

Originally Posted by Gespenst

At the current pace, with the drive to stop carbon emmisions, I think it will stop, but there are always going to be people who don't care and continue trying to live the most comfortably and unchanged that they can.

You do not account for generational change.

Originally Posted by boomwolf

Actually its most likely IS a phase of the earth warming up before an ice age. if you look at earth's timeline an iceage SHOULD have occurred by now, we are running late.

Do you presume to say that the average time between ice ages is a definite measure to know when the next one will be?

Originally Posted by brad.dude03

My point? WHO CARES? Everyone thinks that if we don't do something NOW, the world is going to be doomed. I don't think so. The solution can come 300 years down the road, and it will be just fine. Why does this generation have to end global warming? Why not the next? Or the one after that? I just don't see why I should give a damn.

Because we have the potential to affect the environment beyond nature.

Yes, we do. Need I cite city air, the list of endangered or extinct animals, and how it is initially believable, if not true, that every organism alive today has some DDT in it?

There have only been two Ice Ages, as far as I know (lol), and to depict the arrival of the next Ice Age on the time between two is kinda dumb.

Originally Posted by Hakeem

You do not account for generational change.

You're statement is quite vague in my opinion, please forgive me if I am getting the wrong idea.

What kind of change is there to account for? Generational change is merely the introduction of new group of intellectually active people. People change, the generation means little. As the facts change, so does the general people's opinion. When a new generation comes along, it is not unthinkable for someone of an older generation to change as well, according to the facts. Some things can only be learned by experience, e.g., a second generation of nuclear attack survivors.

Although it is plausible that a third known ice age to occur, it may or may not be affected by our current carbon emissions.

TBH I'm so fucking sick of hearing about global warming. It's just... ugh. All these little efforts seem so pointless, especially when people bitch if you don't make them.

Originally Posted by Hawkwing

There have only been two Ice Ages, as far as I know (lol), and to depict the arrival of the next Ice Age on the time between two is kinda dumb.

There were two that affected HUMANS, the others were simply before them.

But generally there were quite alot. about every 40000 years if I recall. last was 60000 years ago.

Was on national geographic, on one of them "doomsday scenario" movies, they said that multiple top-tier nation-destroyer natural disasters are late by their timing so far. (super volcano, ice ages, major meteors, massive storms, etc...)

I think if we are going to stop global warming, we are going to need to stop focusing on the little efforts like turning off lights and carpooling. It's too late to slowly and gradually get rid of it. It's only temporary relief, which basically makes you worse off in the end*. We need to stop focusing on "global warming" but simply the environmental issues we have at hand now, which is the deforestation, fossil fuels, and China. The only problem with that is that the USA and other world powers base 90% of their economies on those three elements. If Brazil made deforestation of the Amazon illegal, their economy would drop because they would lose their main export. If the US government stopped drilling oil and only allowed solar, fuel cell and electric (and others like that) for fuels, they would lose the support of the oil companies along with a lot of money. If the US stopped importing things from China, well, think about what would happen. That would be a fucking crisis. Companies would go out of business, people would be angry because there would be no little gadgets to buy, and just about everyone within 100 miles of Wall Street would jump out their windows.

So basically, we are screwed over unless we stop materialism, which will never happen, because it's human survival instinct. Although it's completely useless to us now...

And that comes to the conclusion that we will either die to a shit load of natural disasters or stop shopping

Huh. I wonder which one the rest of the world will choose?