World has Gone Crazy? Global Warming?
@wondericequeen (7876)
Hong Kong
August 7, 2007 11:50pm CST
Last night I finished watching Al Gore's The Inconvenient Truth, it talks about Global Warming and how it affects our daily life. How does it affect you and the environment of your country so far? I have been hearing world news and I think the world's weather has gone pretty crazy. And from where I live, the scientists say we wouldn't have winter anymore in the next 50 years. What do you think? Have you been experiencing crazy weathers so far in your place?
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@dreamjapan (409)
• Japan
8 Aug 07
We watched The Inconvenient Truth the other week. Rather scary stuff.
My hubby was saying that when he was a kid, about 30 years ago typhoons would start in late August until mid September (I'm in Japan), this year has already seen two big typhoons roar through here, and the 6th one of the season is now heading toward China. Also I was talking to one older lady who said when she was in school (maybe 50 or 60 years ago), they charted the tempreture and it never went over 30C. The past few weeks at least 5 days a week we have tempretures up 35C and over!! So I can see a big difference in just a lifetime. I know the past 16 years I have lived here the summers are longer, and hotter. The problem is what to do about it. I try to cut down on the length of time that I run the air conditioners, try to find other ways to cool off, the kids have a splash pool that is lovely to sit in in the afternoon to cool off. I think we need a lot more education to be able to find a way to combat glob
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@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
8 Aug 07
Yes very scary stuff indeed! Oh you are in Japan, there was one typhoon going there like last week? And the storms are getting stronger too! After I watched The Inconvenient Truth, I was really amazed and scared by the fact. Everything we are taking for granted now might not be around in 50/60 years. In our life-time, we seem to create more burden to the earth than people in their life time a hundred years ago! I wish more people would take action in cutting down energy and giving burden to the Earth (but I still hear that in the States, there are still ignorant people who think Al Gore is lying?! I don't think that matters, the thing is we do experience the difference in the weather before and now).
@Eskimo (2315)
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8 Aug 07
The weather has been changing for thousands (even millions) of years it will continue to change. Climate change is a fact, the causes of it however are disputed by scientists.
Carbon Dioxide is continually being blamed for climate change (usually by governments to try and extract as much money in carbon taxes as they can from gullible people), however if you look at the chemical and physical properties of Carbon Dioxide then it may not be much of the cause at all. Carbon Dioxide is a gas that is heavier than air, so it will tend to float downwards to the earth's surface(indeed there have been discussions started in MyLot about CO2 being concentrated in underground wells). Carbon Dioxide is also soluble in water, which means that when it rains the rain water will help to bring dissolved Carbon Dioxide to the ground. Carbon Dioxide is converted by plants to oxygen, and experiments with Carbon Dioxide show that when the concentration of Carbon Dioxide increase then the efficiancy of the plants to convert to oxygen also increases.
That is not to say we should be complacent and ignore Carbon Dioxide, we should try and cut the amount we produce and also ensure that rain forests (the main converter of Carbon Dioxide to Oxygen) are increased, not decreased as at present.
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@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
9 Aug 07
The thing is most of us are not really chemists and we don't understand perfectly how everything works on the Earth. But the documentary brings to my attention that the climate is changing "rapidly" over the years and then I start to wonder if we are really a part of the "contributors" to what is happening around us. In the biological chain system, things are related, things happened according to something and therefore I keep thinking these days if the technology around us brings more convenience or distruction to the environment.
@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
9 Aug 07
I wanted to see that documentary too, I don't know where I could buy one or rent one. I heard Leonardo di Caprio did one documentary too about our environment.
I guees it's all true, here in my place, we are having a dry spell, and it's really affecting peoples'life..farmers cannot plant crops, there is a reduce of water supply..
I hope everyone of us should be aware of what's happening and let's do our share.
@Neriz69 (1093)
• Philippines
8 Aug 07
What I've noticed is that morning aren't as cold as before, like 10 years ago. I used to see fog early in the morning and the grass are always wet even though it did not rain. Now a days I don't see wild grass anymore. The electric fan is turned on 24 hours a day.
During weekends I feel so restless and dirty because of the heat at home. It makes me want to go to the office and work because it's airconditioned or go to the malls where I end up buying something I don't need.
Schools are getting more and more expensive because they feel the need to put up airconditioned rooms.
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@procezx (76)
• India
8 Aug 07
Global warming is best joke the scientific community is playing over the years. Reasons are quiet evident that Global warming as they relate to the excessive CO2 emissions are something a childish speak.
Let me tell you Al Gore has systematically wombed the idea of being a an Environmental President as the economy is now a bad idea to bet upon. Next the Environmental agencies are much of worried about their existence and low knowledge base that they work with.
Global Warming is a natural phenomena neither humans have capability to control it to restricted system nor it can be reverted back to happy climate.