Global Warming......

[VtEC]

have you watched the movie "the day after tomorrow?"the movie is related to global warming.Sooner or later the glaziers/icebergs will melt and some countries will soon be like bangladesh or worst.In germany and in switzerland, they covered their glaziers with protective sheet so as to slow down the melting.this may not be new to you but if you are a hardware owner or related to construction business, incandescent bulbs will be phased out to lessen heat being produced which is one factor causing the global warming.The catch is, dispose off all the bulbs.Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_bulb#Canada
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.e...g/climate.html

[oldblue]

i believe it's inevitable naman even if the entire world unites to lessen the man-made effects of global warming. it's a cycle naman ata eh.

the "fictional" story of Noah's Ark will happen again. it's a phase wherein our earth cleanses herself.

so the best thing to do right now, dont take too much resources from nature, like eating to the max, being fat, being greedy like earning more than enough, being too thrifty/kuripot to the point of being selfish to other fellowmen and hoarding money in the banks.

perhaps nature will spare us if D-day comes

[niky]

While "Global Warming" is real, the effects of human greenhouse gas production on global temperature rise is still under debate. It's not a debate of whether we're causing it, though, but on how big of an effect we have on global temperatures and whether the measures we are taking to curb warming will actually have any noticeable effect.

"The Day After Tomorrow", though, is entirely Hollywood in its treatment of the subject, and is an implausible scenario.

We've had a previous Warm Period, about a thousand years ago. Back then Greenland was actually green and not covered with glaciers, but New York wasn't actually underwater.

[mazdamazda]

i believe it's inevitable naman even if the entire world unites to lessen the man-made effects of global warming. it's a cycle naman ata eh.

the "fictional" story of Noah's Ark will happen again. it's a phase wherein our earth cleanses herself.

Yup... it's a cycle actually alternating between the earth warming up and cooling again. See the historical increase of CO2 & temperature in the artics even without the intervention of thousands of years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V...core-petit.png

While some of man's activities have disrupted the ecosystem (like the CFCs released to the ozone layer) nature in one blink of an eye do more "damage" than what man has been doing for hundreds of years. For example, a typical hurricane contains more energy than all of the nuclear weapons combined.

The more pressing problem is not greenhouse gases but rather toxic pollutants being released into the environment by developing countries. Some people always say that the biggest polluter in the planet is the US just because they produce the most carbon emission but that's just the tip of the iceberg. What about the numerous dead water bodies in many developing countries? The CFCs still being released into the air unchecked by developing countries? The corals destroyed & marine life being over fished?

While developed countries already have safeguards in place to prevent such environmental disasters - this practices still goes unchecked in developing countries.

[oldblue]

back in the older days, swamp lands daw ang plains natin like Laguna, Cavite, pampanga. sa malamang baka bumalik lang ang tubig

[oldblue]

While some of man's activities have disrupted the ecosystem (like the CFCs released to the ozone layer) nature in one blink of an eye do more "damage" than what man has been doing for hundreds of years. For example, a typical hurricane contains more energy than all of the nuclear weapons combined.

true. it's like what happened in the Asian Tsunami. with the Indian Ocean being a favorite tourist destination, sobra dami nag-invest sa coast lines, tumira at nag-construct sa coast lines. siguro nagkaron ng imbalance sa ecosystem sa lugar na yun.

so what nature did was to send water ina a spread out direction to clean the coasts, and to have balance ulit.

kaya ingat kayo sa Boracay once nature finds out na andami na hotels dyan and the waste management is uncontrollable. hindi na kelangan ang green peace warning. nature will just shake the mountains of aklan, create a a monstrous landslide on to the bora sea side, and the water will do a clean splurge on station 1 to 3.

[Eismann]

The threat associated with the cycle of global warming is real, what we can do in our own little way is to reduce use of cars when necessary....take the shuttle bus to work, fix defective evaporators of our cars and convert to ozone friendly refrigerants(for older cars) once our budget permits. We can also plant trees in our yards and join the similar eco projects like the la mesa dam ecozone, ocean cleaners inc, etc

[uls]

We are earth's cancer.

Be very afraid when earth decides to proceed with radiation and chemo.

[VtEC]

Its a cycle indeed but the thing is, the ozone layer still has a hole and it still pose a big threat to our temperature...We may not really reverse the effect man has done to mother nature but its not yet too late to reciprocate.

[oldblue]

best way siguro instead of planting trees is to build a machine that will suck all the carbon in the atmosphere.

for example, if the amazon jungle can suck all carbon emissions of the world. create a machine that can duplicate the function of the amazon.

pwede kaya hehehe

[VtEC]

best way siguro instead of planting trees is to build a machine that will suck all the carbon in the atmosphere.

for example, if the amazon jungle can suck all carbon emissions of the world. create a machine that can duplicate the function of the amazon.

pwede kaya hehehe

Bro baka naman pati carbon dioxide masuck he he he he he (tama ba yon?)

[CVT]

Accordingly, the issue with the advocates of global warming is that their data is of recent history. It also has not considered that the sun, which is mainly responsible for the temperature in our planet, is variable.

Pero, let's do our own share....

2701:bye:

[uls]

Let's not even talk about catastrophic climate change.

Let's just talk about weather. Weather that we are happy with.

How many days in 1 year are we really happy about the weather?

Kung hindi sobra init, umuulan.

Buti pa ang mga ibang creatures sa mundo, kahit anong weather, life goes on.

Tayo, pag bumagyo, everything stops. Pag wala power, pag wala telephones, pag wala internet, things grind to a halt and life becomes totally unbearable.

We live in a comfort zone that is sustained by very fragile infrastructure. That infrastructure works best in perfect weather. We dont need climate change or global warming to screw that up. Just a few more typhoons a year.

We experienced a typhoon last year called Milenyo. It was hell.

A minor shift in ocean temp can give us more of those.

We dont need doomsday type scenarios to screw up our lives. Just a little more rain and a little more wind.

[Hanren]

I was able to catch a news at CNN about an airline's fight against global warming (airplanes contribute a lot of CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere) wherein part of the proceeds they get from their customers goes to a foundation which will help in the fight against global warming. Its a noble move (considering that they are not the only airline in the world) on their part but isn't prevention better than the cure?

[uls]

Anything that burns contributes to greenhouse gases that causes global warming. Even lighting up a cigarette.

We will always be burning stuff and we cant live without burning stuff.

[VtEC]

Just an update............
please find time to read this link.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...r/hazards.html

[pup2]

AFAIK there is a natural amount of carbon (CO2 included) in the atmosphere. The problem is that fossil fuels weren't IN the atmosphere to begin with -- they were underground. Yes, kung may maimbentong machine to suck out carbon and put it underground that'll solve the problem -- pero mahirap yata yun. :-)Regarding trees, I read the book and strangely enough only young trees/forests have a positive contribution to carbon reduction such as those that grew after all the clearing done by the US pioneer settlers. Older trees DAW are carbon neutral since what carbon they consume they also 'shed'. Trees have more benefits than just carbon reduction though kaya having more trees is better.The biggest 'consumer' of carbon is the ocean. The only problem is hindi na niya kayang sipsipin lahat ng carbon na prino-produce natin. Perhaps, global warming will produce more ocean surface which combined with the depletion of fossil fuel resources, can restore the balance (masakit ito pero medyo self-limiting pa din). Ang problema, ano na energy source natin?

[oldblue]

hmmm. didnt know that. the ocean sucks carbon from the atmosphere.

so that'll only mean mother earth will just create more ocean. eh yun na nga talaga ang solution, melt the polar ice caps, to have more water.

hay it's inevitable talaga. I just wish this does not happen in a 100 years pa.

[Asus700]

as oldblue said it's inevitable. consider this...

the rotting trees in the jungles of amazon contributes more to global warming than the combined emissions of all cars in the united states, according to a recent study.

the explosion of mount pinatubo affected the environment around the world for the last 15 years than all the industrial emmissions generated for the last 15 years.

climate has changed for the past thousands of years without man having anything to do with it. there was the ice age, with no vehicle running at the time before it happened.

there are those who believe that man contributes so little to global warming. and countries are spending so much on it, money that could have been used to develop future technologies.

that is why they are still debating whether man's role is significant or whether there is something we can do in the first place.

[bayonic]

another good movie to watch is Al Gore's documentary " An Inconvenient Truth " ....

and yes , there are factories now that are spending extra on technology which will pull the carbon coming out of their smokestacks and burying it below ground.

... and since this is a motoring site ; available na ba ang hybrid cars dito sa pinas ? sana naman magkaroon ng tax incentives