Answer: As scam.
2.) When did it become a serious issue?
Answer: When Al Gore, Maurice Strong, Paul Ehrlich and James Hansen along with others decided to create a crises. Back in the 70s they were trying to scare us with an Ice Age.
3.) What can we as a country do to prevent or slow it down?
Answer: Control the weather? Control Earth's temperature? Are you out of your mind?
4.) What can we do as individuals to prevent or slow it down?
Answer: Control the weather? Control Earth's temperature? Are you out of your mind?
5.) What does it do to the climate?
Answer: Nothing proven yet. It does enhance the political climate for unscrupulous people.
6.) Which animals are in danger of extinction due to global warming?
Answer: None that anyone can prove.
7.) Which animals will flourish due to global warming?
Answer: Since there is no AGW everything is natural.
Also, (8.) What are some causes of global warming?
Answer: Greed, corruption, propaganda, wanting power, gaining control over the masses, evil desires of all sorts.
It is OK to ask a question over again. Some people on here are rude, themselves. Ignore them!
1) Global warming is the belief, and now evidence, that the overall temperature of earth's atmosphere is warming.
2) It became a serious issue in the late 1990's
3) Because we don't yet know how man's activities affect the climate, we don't yet know how we can solve the problem
4) If you want to know how to stop or slow it down, the best thing you could do is look at your "Carbon footprint" and try to minimize it; the question of whether that will have an effect or not is not yet known.
5) Since we have not ever experienced global warming and had the chance to record what happened, we have no idea how global warming will affect the climate
6) The last time the earth warmed up, about 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, two thirds of large mammals in North America went extinct. Depending on if our climate is changing drastically again, we could face a similar extinction. Humans would likely survive because we survived similar changes 10,000 years ago, but other species may not be so lucky.
7) Assuming that sea levels rise, the earth warms, more vegetation grows; animals that are small, and animals that are cold blooded will benefit from a warmer climate. Snakes, spiders, and insects will have longer growing seasons and could have the potential to grow larger. Not too much larger, but bigger than what you see now. If nothing else, these animals would have an easier time living and have a larger area to inhabit.
8) We don't yet know what is causing global warming. Human civilization has only developed in the last 7,000 years, and modern humans have only been outside of Africa for about 750,000 years. The Dinosaurs lived for 120 million years before extinction, we've barely been around for a million, and our ancestors have only been around for about 8 million years after splitting from most other primates.
Therefore, it is impossible for us to predict or understand what is happening and what will happen in the future. If I were to put my finger on it, my bet that "global warming" is apart of a natural cycle for the time period which we live in. Man could be affecting it, but man is never above mother nature, and never will be. The Earth will adjust, and we must adjust with it or face extinction. It's been that way for every species that has ever lived, and will be the same for every species that rises in the future.
The answers to your questions are:
1) Global warming is a slow steady rise in Earth's surface temperature
2)If the Earth's temperature becomes hotter the sea level will also become higher. The sea level rise may cause coastal areas to flood. Weather patterns, including where and how much rain or snow there is, will change. Deserts will probably increase in size. Colder areas will warm up faster than warm areas. Strong storms may become more likely and farming may not make as much food.
3)You can start afforestation.
Treatment of smoke and water before letting out to the environment
4) Reduce the consumption of petrol
Use CNG or clean fuel
Instead of burning litter, make manure out of it
Plant more trees
7) killer whales, wandering albatross, trumpeter swans, jellyfish. For more information go to :http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059960197
8)Greenhouse gases
Particulates and soot
Solar activity
Feedback
For more info go to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
The answers to 3 and 4 are nothing, as scientists claim an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is needed. Your country has at most 25% of emissions, if you live in China, or less than 15% anywhere else. So you cannot achieve an 80% cut.
What global warming? It's been cooling for at least 12 years.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut...
Top climate scientists say there is no man-made Global Warming.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global Warming is a money spinner for proven frauds, all other questions are spurious once you recognise this.
Proven science is undeniable the mere fact GW is questioned so vigorously tells you what voodoo it is - it is a belief similar to religion based on assumptions and guesswork unfortunately in recent years it's developed into a cult.
People who believe it without question are sheep or have their snouts firmly in the trough.
C is right. There is no reason to ask exactly the same question twice with a few hours of each other.
Read the answers here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
Since you apparently already asked this, I'll throw some canned answers and links at you.
Things people do--burning fossil fuels and deforestation, mostly--increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We're also adding methane (mostly by growing rice and raising cows), nitrous oxide (by over-using nitrogen fertilizer), and other trace greenhouse gasses. And, the warming we cause is leading to increased water vapor (also a greenhouse gas), in feedback effects. The amount of water vapor in the air is almost purely a function of temperature.
Once the greenhouse gasses (CO2, water vapor, N2O, methane, and various trace gasses) are in the air, they enhance the greenhouse effect. Though it's often described as being "like a blanket", it isn't, quite. Basically, the deal with greenhouse gasses is that they're clear to visible and UV light (that is, that kind of light passes right through them), but they aren't clear to infrared light. Light coming from the sun is mostly UV and visible light. But when it hits the planet and is absorbed, it is re-emitted as infrared light. So, light (and thus energy) that passed right through the air on the way in is stopped on the way out, when it hits all the greenhouse gasses. This outbound infrared light bounces around, warming up the air. The more greenhouse gasses there are, the more that light bounces around, and the more the air warms.
Things you can do to help:
1. Reduce waste. Anything you use took energy to make or process, and energy to transport it to you, and at least some of that energy was probably from fossil fuels like coal and oil. So, the less you waste, and thus the less you use, the less energy is used on your behalf
2. Drive less. Walk, take a bus, or ride your bike when you can to visit friends or go to work or school, instead of driving or having someone drive you. When you do have to drive somewhere, see if you can arrange a carpool so that fewer cars are needed, and/or arrange to do all your driving in one trip.
3. Buy environmentally friendly things. Buy recycled, buy local, buy "green". Not every "green" thing really is better for the environment (sometimes it's just a marketing gimmick), but if you're intelligent and careful, you can reduce your environmental impact by buying things that were made from re-used materials, or didn't have to be transported as far, or that are made with readily renewable resources like most plant fibers. Doing any of those things will tend to reduce the environmental impact of your purchases.
4. Learn more, and share with others. You may not be able to do the "big" things yourself (like set government policy, or switch the power company to renewable energy sources), but you can learn about them. And once you have learned about them, you can write letters, and get your friends to write letters, urging the relevant people (your government representatives, the power company, and so forth) to take appropriate action.
http://skepticalscience.com/global-warmi... has a nice list of the positive and negative (mostly negative) effects of global warming.
If you want more information, try here:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (a while back, I asked people to post links to sources at various experience levels)
This is the second time you asked this question. very rude!!!!! Plus climate realist gave you a very good answer. What is your problem. Maybe you should get an adult to help you learn to search the web
1.) What exactly is global warming?
2.) When did it become a serious issue?
3.) What can we as a country do to prevent or slow it down? (specific action we can take)
4.) What can we do as individuals to prevent or slow it down? (specific action we can take
5.) What does it do to the climate?
6.) Which animals are in danger of extinction due to global warming?
7.) Which animals will flourish due to global warming?
8.) What are the causes of global warming?
