What about those in the northern climates when Global Warming is reversed
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
October 26, 2007 6:05pm CST
There has been so much talk about Global Warming and pictures of the people in Africa and Asia who are now being threatened by floods and droughts, of species dying, floods and disasters, storms in various places. But did you realize that with Global Warming, we here in the Prairies are having longer growing seasons and warmer weather. True we still get minus 40 degree weather in January but the snow comes later and there is snow in Calgary, but that is near the mountains.
So when global warming has been reversed, we will start getting the early snow that starts in October and there may be minus 40 degrees in December and we will have longer cold spell, not to mention a shorter growing season. And since much of the land between the cities is not inhabited as much, there is a danger of someone starting out and freezing to death before they arrive.
YOu can also think of Siberia which has the same climate.
Now considering this, will the same concern be towards those of the Northern Climates who will have colder weather and shorter growing seasons more blizzards, etc. once Global Warming has been reversed or will you care?
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@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
Right now it seems we are headed for Global warming. It is a slow process over hundreds or thousands of years but we humans seem to speed it up by pollution and C02 emissions from vehicles and smokestacks. So I think global warming is going to march on for many years and generations to come. It is hard to say when it will reverse at least according to what I have read and I don't know what our great-great-great grand-children and generations beyond them will experience in Northern climates. Ten thousand years ago most of Canada was covered in ice and the first Inuit people came over the land bridge from Russia about 5000 years ago and inhabited the land again. It is a wonder they survived in such a harsh climate.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
27 Oct 07
The CO2 premise is still in dispute Linda. With other periods in time CO2 increases came after the warming, not before. There are instances of climate changes but unfortunately it seems like facts got lost, and any questioning of what's being said is not welcome.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
I am all for being thrifty and not wasteful, but it seems that much of the global warming being caused by man, makes man out to be the villain and I do hope we will not get rid of one problem and then get a worse. The global warmers opposers forget that if you go too far in solving this, then it creates global cooling and the Canadian prairies is where much of the wheat is grown. Think what would happen if we do not have so long a season and think how high our oil and gas bills will be in the long cold winters. They will not convert every house to using geo thermal energy in time and there are no wind windmills around here in Winnipeg.
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
I am not a scientist but I do not believe global cooling will occur any time soon, at least not in our lifetime. Just my personal opinion.
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@kimthedane (945)
• Denmark
31 Oct 07
That is a quiet interesting thought and I wonder how many of the scientist and politicians actually think of global warming in this way. I don't know the arguments or how much global warming is on the agenda in the USA, but it sure is high on the agenda in Europe and especially here in Denmark, where we are to hold a huge international climate conference in 2009.
But sure reversed Global Warming is not a subject I heard discussed before, probably because it's not the main problem to us. I sure hope some high profile person/scientist/organisation etc. will be able to get this issue included in the coming conference, as you cannot look at the climate in a narrow minded way, you have to include all possible aspects of the issue, to come up with a solution to the best of all living creatures, no matter where in the world you live.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
1 Nov 07
I do not think they thought of the impact on people other than those who lived around the Equator and I suspect their views are racist based, i.e. the poor people with those pathetic looking brown eyes, who do not look European, so we have to feel sorry for them. We have to make sure that every nation and every peoples do not suffer. I am not in favor of favoritism, if you know what I mean.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
2 Nov 07
I think the sea level will not rise that much. Much of what they say is sensationalism. But they should be concerned about those in the Northern Hemisphere, not say that the ones near the Equator should be favored. I live in Manitoba and we had the Flood of the Century, and much of the land was flooded. People have now rebuilt their homes and raised them up more and we have fixed the floodways so the next flood will not be as bad.
@kimthedane (945)
• Denmark
2 Nov 07
As I said Susp, I do not know the arguments of other countries or their motivations for these. All I know is that we in Denmark take this issue very very serious, as we are a very flat country, nost of it no more than a couple of meters above sea level. All the bigger cities lay by the water and scientist predict that will change as up to a 10th of the country will be permanently underwater in year 2030.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
27 Oct 07
Weather forecasting with latest technologies is becoming unreliable due to global warming. I have no idea what will be climate at northern parts, but in Asia, particularly south East Asia where I live (India), everything is in extreme. Too much rainfall, and in summer the climate is more warmer, floods not heard for decades have created havocs in peoples lives.
It is high time, poeples of the world and the government should stick their heads together to chalk out programmes on warfooting to reduce the onslaught of effects of global warming.
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@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
1 Nov 07
You have made some good points. I don't really want to see global warming turned completely around either. I live in North Dakota, and I've heard lots of stories about how 20 years ago the snow would be so high that you could stick your hand out an upstairs window and touch it. Also how you could pour a cup of boiling water out and it would be ice before it ever hit the ground. I don't really want to go through that.
But at the same time, with global warming comes ice caps melting. That can lead to devastation for Northern climates, ans well as all the devastation that is already going on in other parts of the world. So preventing global warming isn't all that bad of a thing as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not going to the extreme to stop it from happening either, though. Sure I'm frugal and not overly wasteful. But my heat is on right now, and set at 74.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
2 Nov 07
Sure they are concerned about the North West Territories, after all the Iniut and Eskimos live there, and it seems that if the people who will suffer have black hair, brown eyes, and brown skin, that everyone worries. But farther south where the population is a mixture of all types, they are not concerned. So when global cooling comes, guess where most of the Tv cameras will be? Not in Southern Canada and not in North Dakota.
We have our thermostat set high as well. I get bronchitis and I do not want to start coughing all winter.
@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
27 Oct 07
this is a good discussion you had started suspenseful. i am from the philippines, and the only season we have here is the wet and dry season. we are used to summer and rain only. just imagine if we will have snow in here. my goodness. first our houses are not build for a weather or a season like that. second our bodies are also not use to extreme cold. thrird we have no clothes in the philippines that will protect us from that cold. at the same time we dont also have an appliances such as heater to prevent us from feeling so cold. maybe some of the people here can afford to buy things that can make them warm but that can be affordable only for those who are rich. i think if the climates will really change a lot of people will dei all around the world. lets pray this wont happen.
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
31 Oct 07
I think I'm the only one who is really panic about global warming here. I came from tropical country so I surely welcome warmer weather here, but I also know that we are so close to North pole which has been melting little by little. I'm aware that we will be the first people affected by the melting of north pole, that is of course if we haven't found a way to escape.
If it's reversed, I'll die frozen instead. so that's worse. It's not that I don't care about those who live where I came from, but at least they have more time to save themselves, than we do when the ice melts.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
1 Nov 07
I live where it is fairly flat and we will get floods, but I do not like the idea of well freezing my butt off anymore than normal.
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@littlefranciscan (18327)
• United States
27 Oct 07
Thinking about the weather over here..it's hard to believe that the Global warming has been reversed. The weather here has been rather warm..Usually by this time we start seeing some frost but temperatures have been in the 70 fahrenheight.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
It has not. But I read an article that they were thinking of an idea of shooting some stuff in the atmosphere or letting it down from the Space Station, (I do not know what the stuff was, some chemical or gas or pellets) that would lower the temperature and be the same as if a volcano blew up and I remember how the temperatures fell when Mount St. Helen erupted and that was for years later. I remember the short summers we had in the Prairies and the longer than usual winters. Now it is very mild --even though it is Indian Summer, and usually by this time of year, we have our first permanent snow.
@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
27 Oct 07
Hey good point friend. I have heard people point out that there may be positive changes to global warming. I have also heard it said that there will be a pendulum like swing in the climate, first one way and then the other. It is the way it is. I find the weather much different than when I was a child, or even when my kids were little, but I am not sure how much of this is just the natural order of things.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
I think it is all in Gods's hands and we don't know HIS purpose. For all we know, these extremes of temperatures may be a warning and it also may be a way to show the selfishness of man. Because if man decides to reverse global warming, and makes the climate oh so lovely and pleasant for those in Southern Asia, and much of Africa, and lets people who live in Siberia, Russia, Scandinavia, England, and Canada and the Northern States live with a shorter growing season, and below freezing temperatures for longer periods of time, that is being selfish and favoring one group over the other.
@rickyrich (149)
• India
27 Oct 07
I am agree with your concern. Day by day uncertainty in weather...disturbs all living habitats. Due to disturbance in weather , there is decrease in growing season which affects production essential thing require to living beings.
Its my request to human beings and scientist....to look forward to this issue. There should be a common law to protect earth.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Oct 07
What we should do is not to blame global warming on human activity because then the solution would be horrid - who should we get rid of? We should punish the countries where they have more gas just because they live in colder climates. We should concentrate more on geothermo energy, build more of those wind windmills, use solar panels, hybrid cars, insulate our houses better, and not make people have to choose between protecting themselves from the excess heat or cold, and the necessities of life.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Oct 07
Santa is a myth. It is the parents who buy the children presents for Christmas. You probably live in a nice place where it does not get to 40 below in winter and where it does not start to snow in October and have wind chills that make skin freeze in five minutes in January, I do. Forget about global warming, it is not right to make the climate nice for the people around the Equator and make the climate worse for us up here in Canada, as well as the ones in Russia and Siberia, and the Northern United States.
