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Global warming could be a serious problem, but the media far overblows the issue.

I'm not too well informed on the topic myself, but I deeply desire to be. It IS a matter that directly affects us all. I mean we all live on the planet. All I know is what I see. I visited a pond the other day that I used to skate on when I was a kid. It was at about this time of year too. I remember it being a popular place to go skating. Now the pond has only a pathetic thin sheet of ice, that probably wouldn't support a bug. That was less than ten years ago. I beleive that this is an immediate problem, and that if nothing is done, the earth may become uninhabitable before my lifetime would otherwise have ended.

Also, I'd like to point out that as the earth gets hotter and hotter, we won't see more sunny warm days, but rather less. We will see, and in fact are already seeing, an increased amount of rainy days. The rate of evaporation is speeding up because of the higher temperatures, so I guess, eventually, the whole surface of the earth will probably be covered in steam. And that's not very good for the lungs...

So should we care more? There are things that can be done. Some require money and reaserchers, for example, I know that there are people at Dalhousie university reaserching a way to take CO2 mix it with other stuff and put it back into the ground as rocks and other things that are harmless to the earth. Then there are things I don't know how to go about doing, like taking down the oil giants. We have many wonderful clean energy sources, but they are not thriving because our society and way of life are built on fossil fuels.

(Not that Denmark is much different from England, heat-wise)

I learned a lot about it and how it's covered up, or processed in a way to confuse or disinterest people, in my enviromental sociology class. There are many ways that the government and common folk could use better knowledge to try and fix the enviroment instead of constantly fighting over the problem and it's source, but no one really takes the time to listen or get the actual facts. A shame since global warming affects everyone and everything but many don't seem to care and try to help out.

ok to better inform all of you global warming isn't some theory or anything it is an observed and measured FACT. everyone should care about it even though it might not greatly affect you at this moment it will, and by that time you won't be able to do anything about it.

certain chemicals in the atmosphere aborb heat coming into the earth or let it pass and hit it. however the heat must go back out because we'd all burn up if it didn't. if the density of these types of chemicals in the atmosphere is a lot more (more molecules per square inch or something) then the heat will be absorbed and realeased until it reaches the space. which takes longer than it normally would. so it keeps more heat in the earth longer (which tends to happen in summer) and gets rid of it (beleive it or not winter) which means more extreme weather. hotter summers and colder winters.

ok now for some of the affects

1) there are lots of glaciers in and around Greenland. excuse me there WAS a lot of glaciers in Greenland. anyways, well, they're cold and they put cold water into the Atlantic. thats not a good thing. in the Atlantic Ocean there is like a river sort of that carries water from the tip of South America to up to Greenland and then down around Africa to circle the other oceans.
we call this The Great Conveyer Belt. the ocean absorbs heat from the sun and by the time it gets to Greenland it rises and then the heat and energy is carried by the jet stream into Europe, Africa and Asia.
but cold water is being dumped into this area disrupting the Conveyer
Belt, some scientists fear that it will affect it so much that it will completely alter its path and not even go into the north Atlantic at all. thus not carrying energy to the north. this is why Europe isn't as cold as it should be. no heat/energy=ice age starting with Europe.
think of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. of course it wont be that quick but it is happening alot quicker than predicted.
oh yeah and if i'm not mistaken, didn't Russia just have one of the coldest winters on record last year?

2) ocean levels rising of course. pretty important to those that live below sea level or near it. small islands, New Orleans (US), Miami (US), "The Low Countries" Belgium and The Netherlands. there are many more but i can't think of them right now.

3) warmer oceans feed hurricanes/typhoons and make them stronger and last longer. Atlantic absorbs heat from the sun. you may've noticed this from hurricane Katrina and the other above average storms. not good for America and Latin America.

4) coral reef are VERY sensitive to the slightest change it temperature. when they stress out they bleach or something i'm not really sure about that process but too much of it poisons fish. very important to countries and islands that who's main diet consists of sea food.

im sorry if i didnt mention effects on the part of the world that you live in i'm not really sure about the Pacifc and Indian Ocean areas.

ok i'm tired of writing and can't think of many more things but if i do i'll add them later.

oh yeah and if you don't care about the planet you LIVE and DEPEND on the you're an idiot! you might not see drastic affects while your alive but your children definetely will, and if you are young now you probably will.

i'm sorry, ignorance annoys me but, stupidity just pisses me off.