Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

I am researching the Zenn electric car and how it effects the environment for a school project on Climate Change. I need some pros and cons on the car, but the company website for it does not share anything. It would also be great if you would give your own personal thoughts on the Zenn as well. Thanks.

Does anyone feel that we are gettin’ too worried about environment and climate change? Aren’t environmentalists scaring us too much? Shouldn’t we look at the benefits of cutting trees and forests?

God the creator will take care of everything. He created earth for us and he must know how to mend it and with the help of science and technology we can save environment.

Are there are advantages of climate change/global warming in poorer countries ? Bangladesh, for example.

"Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world’s politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.

Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows "disturbing" studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than expected.

Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month’s event, said: "This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/09/scientists-summit-climate-change

Now for all you conspiracy theorists out there, scientists have nothing to gain monetarily from such a summit. They already have no trouble getting research grants to study climate change, and influencing political policy at this point does not benefit them in any way.

What are your thoughts on this emergency summit?

Let’s be realistic here. Climate Change/Global Warming has a huge economic factor. Someone stands to rake in the money. So who are those people and are their motivations suspect because of their financial gains?

General questions to consider:

What are the glacial evidence of contemporary climate change?

How will sea level and weather changes relate to possible weather change?

How will the rise in sea level impact humans in the future?

How ill the melting of glaciers impact our ocean, ocean life, and human life?

Will the melting ice trigger a ice age? how are ice cores used to measure historical climate change?

What are some solutions to global warming (in a prospective of a hydrometerologist)

please include statistics, facts, and sources. THANKS!

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc. The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Im not quite sure what game thoery exactly means but if it based on an individual’s success in making choices depends on the choices of others. How can you relate this in the actions of human kind to climate change and reducing GHG.

What best represents the fingerprints of human-induced climate change to you? The harbingers?

I don’t mean this in any flippant or cheeky way, but what is the risk(s) posed by climate change to the developing world?

I ask because virtually every single time I hear the word "climate change", I also hear "developing world" in the same sentence.

P.S: I’d like answers to the question asked, not arguments of whether climate change is a hoax, conspiracy, etc.