Should I(we) be worried? 2.......Global Warming

[Tom B]

Is it worth trying to do anything, or is it too late? - have we passed the tipping point?

If you could persuade others to individually or collectively do one thing to try and slow or reverse global warming, what would it be?

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Quit breathing?

[Stone Cold aka Doags Bs]

It's too late.

[4th gen Suthen']

I am sure it is too late..........we are past the tipping point.....just a matter of how long it will all take.

"nature gave us all these toys to play with, but we've abused them, each and every one"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4720536.stm

[jdcarra]

I am sure it is too late..........we are past the tipping point.....just a matter of how long it will all take.

"nature gave us all these toys to play with, but we've abused them, each and every one"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4720536.stm

"Frightening statistics, just image how much of the world could be reclaimed back to sea again". The old saying, it won't happen in our life time, but then we forget the up and coming generations, our kids, our grandchildren, their kids and so on.
But then, we'll never know!!!!!!!!

[dgraves]

Thanks for that 4th Gen. There was a similar one on msnbc today on Greenland.

Here is an older article on the Antarctic Ice Shelf, breaking away.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3313340/

[Thewetman]

Tom, for goodness sake man! Asking a question like that on a Kintyre Forum is like asking a turkey how he’s going to spend Christmas.

The tipping theory is a nice one for global capitalists - "oh we'd love to do something, but looks like its too late" -anyone for a cola?

What do you do when the office gets too stuffy? - You open a window - The answer to global warming is to do something that make things change! Not to do nothing - the children of you guys sitting at home saying it’s too late deserve better.

People can change the world but first they must believe they have the power too. Next month smoking enclosed public places will be banned. Who'd have thought it 100, 50 or even 25 years ago.

If in fifty years time we can change the way we manage the planet then there is hope. 50 years is not a long time, but only if people today believing that change for the better is possible, rather than for the worse, inevitable.

So what do we need to do? anyone want to add to the list.

1. stop making guns

2. start making friends

3. stop subsidising farming

4. start global patronage

5. stop using fossil fuel

6. start ---

[peenkles21]

Think almost everyone agrees its too late, we can do our bit but unless you can get the usa, china and india onside its hardly worth the hassle.

[Tom B]

...a bit surprised, and terrified that the overwhelming view is that its too late to do anything....

Assuming its not too late, I'd like to add to Thewetmans list with a link to the energy saving trust website [url] http://www.est.org.uk/myhome

[GarySutherland]

I agree it's too late to do anything that will avert the impending climate change. I'm of the opinion that it's basically a natural phenomenon that as a species we've perhaps accelerated.

What we can do, of course, is prepare for the changes that are going to affect where we live in the world. To this ends we need to think whether the style and fabric of the houses we build will be suitable for conditions in, say, 50 yrs and what we can do to conserve the amount of energy we use. For many of us we'll be dead and buried before the worst of it affects us but what about our children and grand children?

If, as has been suggested, global warming brings about a shutdown or retreat of the North Atlantic Conveyor then we can colder, dryer winters which would suggest we ought to be looking towards the Scandinavian countries for examples of how they cope with conditions.

Changing our building styles isn't going to be easy, however, unless the council planning departments become substantially less insistent upon employing 'traditional west coast construction methods' at every opportunity.

Cheers
Gary

[jaywalker]

I wish I could join in with the Private Fraser style..... we're all doomed... but I've just came in the door and it is f^%*g freezing out there.... Could be the theory is wrong.

[GarySutherland]

Had any snow yet? We used to live near Kettering.

Cheers
Gary

[jaywalker]

No snow so far other than the odd flurry.... But it has been cold enough for weeks