Is global warming a serious problem? Would you be willing to make personal sacrifices to address the issue?
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Is global warming a serious problem? Would you be willing to make personal sacrifices to address the issue? California has taken the lead in addressing the problem of global warming. Should Texas follow suit?
Jacob
Is global warming a serious problem? Would you be willing to make personal sacrifices to address the issue? California has taken the lead in addressing the problem of global warming. Should Texas follow suit?
Jacob
July 10th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Tony
First off, global warming doesn’t exist. It’s a natural climate change. I submit this link.
California is only pandering to the Hollywood elite. Hollywood takes stances on issues such as this to drag people into their orbit to further their career. It puts food in their mouth. It’s self advertisement. At the very least it’s tasteless entertainment. Hollywood needs to stay the ‘f’ out of politics. If Hollywood is interested in change, they should concentrate on changing Hollywood. Don’t mess with Texas.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Stephanie
Global climate change is a potential catastrophe in the making. Since learning up on the situation, I have become acutely aware of my ecological/carbon footprint, and am striving to reduce it across the board. Most certainly I am willing to make sacrifices, if needed — and I’m not sure they are, really — to ensure that my children and grandson can enjoy the same kind of world I did.
I’m a Californian and am proud that the staff has taken a leadership role on this. If you haven’t checked out the state’s Climate Change Portal, I encourage you to do so. It’s incredible! Most certainly Texas should follow suit, if for no other reason than it has a fair amount of coastline and is a big oil producer.
This venue is in the Flintstone era where the issue is concerned, but worldwide, nations are tackling the problem, universities have entire programs devoted to it, and the issue has already united many countries and other entities via treaties designed to mitigate the sources and help us cope with what comes.
I empowered myself by learning as much as possible about what’s going on. I’m still learning, but no longer succumb to the doom and gloom crowd. As a Californian, I am seeing more and more what can be done to keep the economy strong while at the same time becoming more sustainable and improving the quality of life for humans and other species. Future generations will reap the benefits of actions being taken today, and tomorrow.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Alma
Yes global warming is a very serious problem. Those who deny it are those with self serving interests.
It has been shown conclusively, many many times, that global warming is happening and that the cause is anthropogenic.
Millions of people have already died as an indirect result of the warming. Coral reefs are now reduced by about 30% from what they were just over a decade ago. This has resulted in reduced fish stocks for the very poor people (many fish need the reefs to breed), especially in the Indian Ocean rim countries and has lead to malnourishment which results in people dying from disease and illness that the wouldn’t normally die from if they were healthy.
We need to make changes now or we will have to make much much greater changes later on. Those who won’t make changes now are the leeches who will wait for everyone else to do so and benefit from their sacrifices!
July 17th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Suzanne
Yes, there is a disturbing unanimity of good science (atmospheric chemistry, marine science, climatology, glaciology, wildlife biology) that indicates we are in a slow motion catastrophe scenario now unless we alter the “forcing” in the atmospheric system that’s coming from CO2 and methane emissions that humans are putting out. It could shortly be an irreversible pattern relevant to the human time frame… Texas and every state/community need to invest in energy alternatives. Yes I am willing to prevent catastrophe if you are still wondering. : )
July 19th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Vicki
Global warming is a serious problem, but it isn’t as some here seem to think the end of the world. The major effect on the human race will most likely be coastal flooding and economic effects, the last being one of the main excuses used by deniers as a reason to do nothing, in the long run it will cost far more if nothing is done now.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 am
Viola
Personally, I think Global Warming is BS. Maybe it isn’t… but that’s just my view. I see it more as a political deal than anything else… and it’s certainly worked to whip people into a frenzy. It seems more plausible that it’s the sun that is causing all this than anything else… seeing as how it’s the god damn sun. But I could be wrong.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Herman
Lots of places have undertaken the task of battling man-made global warming, but that should prove to be a harder task than originally thought since it isn’t real. The money spent will be wasted on fighting natural process.
We have no influence on climate, and I am against spending even a cent to support those who say we have. So you know, of course, that I wouldn’t personally sacrifice a thing to address the issue either.
Don’t confuse this with my feelings on pollution though. Global warming and pollution are two very separate, different things. I believe it’s important to improve things a bit to create less pollution but we’ve come a long way in that over the past twenty years so we are achieving what we need to do. Standards are much better than they used to be and we are seeing some pretty good results from our efforts!
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Nancy
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July 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
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