WE MUST REMEMBER THAT, THIS EARTH. OUR EARTH. AND WE MUST TAKE CARE OF IT. THOUGH I AM A CHILD OF 12 BUT I RELLY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING.

I AM NOT REPLY TO ANYONE. I AM JUST EXPLAINING MY FELLINGS.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun (its next to the sun) and I think it would be safe to say its basicly RIGHT next to it. How come its still there? For some reason it hasn’t desinagrated in all that HEAT and how many million degrees do you think it is there?

But wait I forgot because EARTHS temperature is rising that means are children and are childrens children is going to die along with the earth? Bye bye earth we really miss you…

Oh yah its so HOT GUYS thats why the land parts int he earth are surrounded by freezing water!

Hi Jonny, I’ll take your question at face value and offer what I think “Greenies” are. I live on Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada where the forests have evolved over the 10,000 years since the last ice age retreated. About 90% of these forests have been logged over the last 150 years. Greenies here are people who believe it is important not to log the last 10%. When you look at the island using Google Earth, you can see the thin strip of old growth forest on the coast…that’s all that’s left. There are lots of trees on the land, but a second growth forest is very different that an old growth forest in terms of how it contributes to the balance of nature.

For example the forests generate oxygen, which we need to live. Forests moderate evaporation and filter water so water flows clean longer into the summer.

Logging damage to spawning beds and over fishing have reduced the natural salmon stock. Logged hillsides cause flooding and erosion. There are concerns that lice from fish farming are damaging the natural fish stock. Drag net fishing scrapes the bottom of the sea, damaging the foundation of sea life. Industrial pollution can be found in all parts of the vast oceans.

One need not be a scientist to make a simple observation…if we keep damaging elements of the system, it becomes less productive and may destroy the system.

Looking at our “progress” in the last 200 years, how far can we go before the systems that sustain us start breaking down?

Republicans (conservatives) and Democrats (liberals) all eat, drink and breath. Who will protect the source of our essential nutrients. The greenies are. Pull away the rhetoric and I hear people from all sides of the political spectrum caring about their families and communities. Clean air, fresh water and healthy food is the best we can do for them.

I think one of the most powerful action each of us can take is to manage our own behaviour….and that includes listening to each other. Through dialogue we can find a common truth that is more rewarding than defensive bickering. Whatever your colour green, red or blue, Wise Democracy is one useful, non-political tool that is making a difference in our community.

No matter what one politician says to bend the truth, we must never ignore the fact that this is our one and only home. We haven’t got a spare lying around somewhere out in the solar system that we could just fly to. We can’t say “Earth sucks.” and then pack up and move to Uranus. We’re pretty much stuck here.

This is not politics. This the common decency and respect that we ought to show our fellow human beings that share this piece of round flying rock with us. There is no side to choose here – we’re in this together. Let’s think about that a while.

And as for Greenies, I thought it was a brand of dog treats… ;)

Lest we be fooled, an increase of even 1 degree Celcius (33.8F), which is the kind of temperature increase we’re looking at over the next few years, can have repercussions on our environment. Already, the ice caps on both ends of our planet are melting. While 1 degree(C) may seem like nothing, micro-ecosystems could be wiped out with just that change. If you understand the butterfly effect, or even the domino effect, this translates to pretty extreme changes at the other end of the scale.

While we may not be able to control nature’s course, we still have the power to control our contribution to global warming. We might be able to control it to the point which could contain the effects of this phenomenon to where it would still be bearable and less destructive than pictured. It really doesn’t take a ridiculous amount of effort on our parts. The simple act of switching off lights and electrical appliances when not in use, helps. Or switching to hybrid cars and alternative fuels. Recycling. Like I said, butterfly effect – every little thing that we can do the help, will aid the bigger picture.

Fair enough that you live only for yourself, I’m not here to judge. What kind o legacy you choose to leave behind for your family and the human race is entirely up to you. It’s a little different for me – just because I may be dead before I see the drastic effects global warming might have on this planet doesn’t mean that I can bear to see my kids and grandkids pay the price simply because I was too selfish to care about what kind of world I leave behind for them.

Greenhouse gas emissions, the burning of fossil fuels, the depletion of of our natural resources, over-fishing, completely unnecessary V-12 6l engines… Who, in the face of all that, can boldly say that humans do not have an adverse effect on our environment? How can we be so irresponsible as to not own up to the gradual destruction of our own home?

The earth may be getting warmer due to a variety of reasons, some of which are due to our own doing, some of which may be due to just the way Nature behaves. We’re not all right but we’re not all wrong either.

What we can do is acknowledge that this is our home – our goddam one and only home – and that we’re damaging it to an extent. Rather than sit here and point fingers, we should do what we can to preserve it. Is this what we want our children to grow up with? Do we want to make our problems theirs as well?

This is just disgusting.

I mean have u not been out side in our summers in the past 10 years?
seems tons hotter right? Wonder why?
O yea and then poeple say “O the world gets hotter and colder thourghout the years” as in like the past when we have heat waves and ice ages and etc.

but i mean lets say it only gets soo hot then starts getting real cold…..
If the temp raise 20 degrees what will happen if it lowers 20 from the normal winter degree?
Crops gonna die? preety sure…….
So if morons like you would start now and get everone to join in and help our dam environment…..then maybe we can save our childrens kids from all this mayham….

The point is, there is a lot of research and science behind this environmental phenomenon, and you don’t have to listen to me. The information is all over the place for you to educate yourself with. So far, besides rightwingers and politicans saying that it’s a vast leftwing conspiracy, I have not seen or heard anything to dissuade me from believing that it is a problem, whether it’s an imminent catastrophe or a gradual problem.

Besides having another good reason so bash on liberals, I really don’t understand what the point is of denying the existence of this issue because it does and should matter to everyone.

I will listen to an intelligent conversation about the subject but so far you have failed to present one. The only reason I brought up my truck is because you insinuated that I perpetuate the global warming problem, and I assumed since I wrote about my gas guzzling truck, that you were making a comparison. Evidently, your statement was just a blanket response having nothing to do with what I wrote.

So far your acquaintances with scientists who study global warming are hardly an inspriration for me to take you or this subject seriously on the scope that Gore and his lemmings harrangue. I do my part to conserve and recycle. But a movie by Al Gore has as much influence on my ideas of global warming as does A Michael Moore movie on September 11.

You go first.

(Sorry – of course a joke – I couldn’t resist)

The only solution is to become hunter gatherers again…wait, didn’t native Americans hunt the wooly mammoth to extinction, and the aboribgnes do the same for the Australian egret? Damn. We should all kill ourselves then.

You didn’t cite any facts above. Do you deny that there is damage to the environment? Do you deny that global warming exists? Or, do you just deny that humans did it? Was it cats? Are scientists just making this stuff up for fun? Are they being paid to say things by Al Gore?

I personally believe that Osama and his buddies in Iran and Iraq are to blame for all of this. It’s most likely that all their production of nuclear weapons and WMD’s has released a lot of nasty chemicals and poisonous gasses which are destroying the environment. The solution? I say we nuke ‘em.

I don’t know why you keep freaking out about your damn truck. I never said you were an evil person for having one, that I thought it was bad – I’ve never said anything about you owning a truck! The point is, people like you are basically demonstrating that you will not listen to anyone who is trying to educate you about global warming if they are liberals. I’ll bet that if a conservative tried to talk with you about it, you would accuse him or her of being a closet liberal.

Pollution is an negative externality of our petro driven economy. Given enough facts, we could calculate the shifted-cost of each individuals emissions if we had some set price for the environment. The perfect market solution for the environment is not that “noth’in” is done, but that the generator of emission is charged for his emissions.

The value of the environment is subjective and so we get conflicted values. The anti-environmentalist don’t want the earth to be swamped and for everyone to die, nor do they really believe that there is NO EFFECT from pollution. They just value their own current economic safety, at the moment, more than any threat to the enviroment with the current scientific evidence. Reasonable people can disagree on our impact on the environment and the relative value of the temperature.

Al Gore is on Letterman and Syriana just came in Netflicts. Good Lord. Al Gore, claiming the end is near, is not a good eco-marketing strategy. He said verbatim, “The scientific debate is over.” Really? Global warming is an empirical fact? That is bullshit. Why doesn’t he just say, “The scientific debate continues, but if I’m right and the anti-environmentalist is wrong — it means humanity is doomed.” Doesn’t the prospect of doomed humanity (along with significant supporting evidence) carry the day over polly-anna-ism (supported by lesser evidence)? If is he so certain of his position, why doesn’t he encourage the continued debate — obviously there are scientists with conflicting theories on the effect of the floating cloud of acid-laced fecal dust.