Do you think global warming is a fraud?
I have seen quite a lot of debate about this recently
Yes, 100% | 7 | |
In some ways, yes | 5 | |
No, but it's exaggerated | 24 | |
No, absolutly not | 45 |
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I have seen quite a lot of debate about this recently
Yes, 100% | 7 | |
In some ways, yes | 5 | |
No, but it's exaggerated | 24 | |
No, absolutly not | 45 |
it is an actual thing, that may make things much harder for us as years go by
Well all I know is that I live in a pretty cold climate country with long winters and the last 2 years we've had tropical heat in the summer, even now in September it's abnormally hot. 30C degree heat is not normal here, at most we get 25C and it's become a real problem. Last summer had tons of forest fires and you weren't allowed to barbecue. This spring no one was allowed to barbecue due to the heat and dryness.
But yeah that's just a coincidence right...
Global warming is definitely a problem, but a lot of politicians at least here in America, I don't know about other countries, make it seem like the world is going to end in the next ten or so years if we don't reduce pollution to a net zero amount now.
Relatively easy way to lower emissions is to use nuclear power until we can figure out something better.
With the reflective ice on the Arctic Ocean melting, the sun is now cooking our oceans, and we have already gone past the tipping point. Burning sulphur in the stratosphere (equally in both hemispheres, of course) is just a band-aid response. What we need to do is shut down the gulf steam ocean currents. The disruption to European agriculture would be enormous. It isn't clear that with our higher atmospheric CO₂, that even this would cause the Arctic Ocean winter ice to return to its original extent.
A 14°C warm up is where we're headed in the 22nd century. We should put as many species of tropical coral, fish, and associated microbes in cool water sanctuaries before they are lost forever.
If u get caught up into something and join any kind of group, u kinda exaggerate everything
But yeah we should stop all those emissions like....
I mean just look at New Delhi and Peking. That’s an extreme case, but eh
How do you suggest the waste from nuclear power plants should be transported and stored safely?
"Something better"? Wind? Solar? Tides? Rivers?
Thorium as a nuclear fuel source isn't nearly as bad as uranium and would be better since thorium is a lot more stable, more abundant, and the byproducts are less harmful. People hear nuclear and all they think about is bombs are bad. The only reason we still use Uranium is because during the cold war era the only nuclear power that received major funding from the government were ones that created plutonium as a byproduct.
Wind and solar farms aren't good for the environment since they take up a lot of land and are subject to weather conditions as well as being expensive. Creating a dam to get power from a river can be just as bad by flooding the local habitat. Tidal we don't really know about how much it can effect the environment, but it can raise EMF in the surrounding area which may effect certain types of fish and tidal energy can be very costly.
I'm not saying we should give up on other forms of energy, but we should wait to try to implement them at large scale till we can at least figure out ways to minimize their effect on the local environments after all it doesn't make sense to save the environment by destroy environments. Nuclear is a good step to at least curbing emissions in the short term if not a viable alternative considering there are only 60 nuclear power plants in the US that make up about 20% of the US's power.
Thorium is good stuff. The problem is that all Thorium reactors are breeder reactors. You can also put Uranium in breeder reactors. They can then be tuned to create weapons grade materials making nuclear proliferation almost impossible to stop.
India has the world's largest Thorium reserves and is actively working on development of commercial Thorium power. Look to India for future developments.
http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/india.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme
When I took the SAT last year, I had to respond to an entire prompt about how solar farms were devastating nocturnal flying creatures, specifically bats. Anything implemented will always have a negative side-effect.
They aren't great for the environment since they require so much land. Still better than burning fossil fuels, but so is nuclear.
I think China and India cancel out any piddling efforts we make to curbing fossil fuels etc. Slowing population and economic growth are just not addressed seriously enough. We may as well go out with a bang and all have big bonfires and burn rubber.
al gore said the ice caps will melt in the distant future of 2014. Also aocunt said we have 12 years before tHE WORLD ENDS.
How can you not believe this?
its likely real and theres lotsa proof
problem is that some people are treatin it as a freeferall cash grab or powerplay by proposin feelgood bullshit 'solutions' at a tidy profit
it irks me that more cant see this distinction and just wholesale deny the whole thing or think everyone should ruin theys lives and finances
bonus points for the people proposin ruinin everyones lives & finances who are themselves ultra rich & exempt from the rules theys demandin on everyone else
Global warming is just a term people use to put it in a box. The fact is, it's called climate change and it's literally just a cycle the earth has been going thru since it first existed. Hence the "ice age".
I wish there was something I could do to help the cause, but all my personal levels of being eco friendly backfire at the hands of other people.
Burden of proof is on you buddy. Also concern is relative. Compared to other issues in politics, it's not really important.
It kinda is, nature is the basics of our survival....Were just destroying our home and taking that right by force. We’re really turning it into a black ball of mud now
Basically the weather in Europe is going all crazy like it shouldn’t do, at least where I live. Which might be due to changing warmth of air and water streams that collide with cold ones. I can’t say personally how it has been everywhere else, but we might trigger some nasty storms or unpredictable weather. And have u Never heard of the greenhouse effect?
Also I don’t wanna have em insects and mosquitos from Africa up here, we’re not used to them, but africans actually living in those areas, due to being more used to em, have developed a better resistance against them and their diseases
What Im really concerned about though are the emissions into the air, that extremely affect the health of their surroundings with all their lil micro dust particles
And how those weather changes are affecting our environment. I think it’s concerning when we destroy ecosystems. And when we don’t feel bad about that, it’s even more concerning what great beings we try to show off as, but in the end we’re not further than the animals we kill and many despise
Though yes, the change itself doesn’t concern me as much as other environmental issues, but it’s still the whole thing about the environment that stands on top
In a few years well have greater effects, we need to start doing something, for the sake of the one who actually feeds us. Like in that one video. I am Mother Nature, I don’t need humans, but humans need me.
I think though Europe is the furthest there, we’ve got so much renewable energy and stuff
Soooo the first vid about the thing I mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVLcj-XKnM
U asked why it should be concerning and I did say a few things bout that
You See when many people think like this, changing will take a lot longer. I dunno at least do small stuff like buying products from somewhere clean, take the train or bike and leave plastic bags out of ur business. Even if u don’t care, u can still do good with that even without getting into it politically
No the world wont die in the next decade. I dont support most green energy ideas because they end up doing more damage then the old standard.
It's my viewpoint that I'm just going to let the market dictate when we will shift into green energy. We will all use coal and oil until we figure out a more complex battery design and get fusion generators up and running.
I remember when we thought thermo-nuclear war would bring about the end of the world. Now people think it's cow farts.
Might I ask then if you were around in the 80's (and old enough to remember much of it) when they thought WW3 was going to start any moment? You never see THAT on 80's nostalgia stuff.
They only like to remember the good, fun stuff (Hair, music, fashion). The threat was always there throughout the Cold War. We fought proxy wars against The Soviets in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan (We supplied the Mujahideen who fought against the Russians). There was always the tension and knowledge that it could happen.
I recommend watching a 1988 movie called The Miracle Mile. Starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. Today it doesn't have the impact it once had because the threat has mostly been forgotten. But in 1988 it was a very plausible scenario.
Theres always the possibility of war and always has been
We can still focus on those things that really matter and get our shit together politically. People need to get off their high horses
Wars yes, but not like when you have the two greatest super powers of the era armed to the gills with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over and they get along with less trust and respect than cats & dogs. You had the constant knowledge a squabble between some a-hole in Washington and another in Moscow could result in catastrophe that you wouldn't have time to prepare for and would lead to millions dead in a flash. There are homes in the neighborhood I grew up in that were built in the 60's that had bomb shelters in the basements. That fear lasted until the end of the cold war. Then people started freaking out that now all those nuclear weapons from the former Soviets would get into the hands of terrorists or some other rogue nation.
Well they still have anyways
Yeah it was tense at that time, but u can’t compare what’s happened with what’s happening now because yours is in the past. Once one prob is gone the next appears. And now with taking it seriously we have a chance of saving and preparing