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It's getting hot wherever I live. In the summertime, going to the triple-digit temperatures was very common, but the winters are also starting to be as hot as summer, even in the North (Midwest and Northeast). I like cold weather more. I hear all these stories about what Global Warming can cause, and news are recording the signs of it: 1. Permafrost is thawing 2. Arctic is melting 3. More tornadoes and hurricanes 4. Warmer winters and hotter summers in the North 5. Oceans are rising 6. Animals dying out 7. Glaciers are shrinking 8. Wildfires getting more intense I hope all these things aren't effects of global warming. Global Warming may be a form of mythology, but the threat is real. I even read this, saying "Don't be fooled by the cooler weather. It's coming from the moisture of the poles." or whatever thay say. Does that mean we are moving into the hot age again? I do not want to live in a grim future.

2012-07-07 18:32:00 Author: Apple2012 Posts: 1408

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I believe only 5% of the Earth's rainforests are in existence today, we're told that's the effect of global warming - other things are factored in there like deforestation, but apparently that's one of the main signs of its existence.

2012-07-07 18:43:00 Author: Ironface Posts: 432

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I thought climate change had replaced global warming.

2012-07-07 18:50:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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I thought climate change had replaced global warming. Global Warming could be a slow process. If there was a quick climate change, it could be El nino or La nina. Every time it gets to an El nino year or La nina year, people are always bring up global warming. Maybe the North could suffer a heat wave in the winter while the South (Texas, Florida etc.) would freeze up. California could dry out as the mountain west will face more floods.

2012-07-07 18:55:00 Author: Apple2012 Posts: 1408

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I'm sure the terminology was changed because people were dismissing global warming when the local effect on their weather was crap and not rising temperatures.

2012-07-07 19:02:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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Summers are definitely getting cooler and wetter in the UK. For the last decade or so we haven't really had a long, hot summer. It just rains, rains and then rains some more all the way through the year. I hate it....it's depressing. Shame I'm too old to emigrate...

2012-07-07 19:14:00 Author: Ungreth Posts: 2130

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Summers are definitely getting cooler and wetter in the UK. For the last decade or so we haven't really had a long, hot summer. It just rains, rains and then rains some more all the way through the year. I hate it....it's depressing. Shame I'm too old to emigrate... Same in France. It actually hasn't rained for several weeks, but the summer is definitely cooler than it used to be. On the other hand, the end of the autumn (fall) is always very warm. It looks like the world's weather is going haywire! I wish it would snow in Christmas, as it did in all those good old-fashioned novels that Charles Dickens wrote, just like in A Christmas Carol.

2012-07-07 20:53:00 Author: Oddmania Posts: 1305

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well I'm not exactly an expert but i'm fairly certain they're both exactly the same. anyway, we can be pretty sure that climate change is more extreme weather and global warming is just the planet heating up. in short, it's not too hard to figure out why- everything around us is a constant cycle and everything made is used by something else and so on and so forth until it comes all the way back around. our race doesn't do this- as we pump out more CO2 we should be planting more trees to counter this, rather than cutting them all down (population and the likes do not help either). i'm sorry, also, because this species is pretty much doomed to a grim future- or at least "grim" by some standards. the ways of making it more happy, I believe,would involve methods that cause outcry from people who are satisfied (such as quelling population growth by reducing the maximum number of kids, for instance- or by having none at all for a few years).

2012-07-07 20:54:00 Author: Gavin Posts: 338

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Back in 2007 (when I was in the 8th Grade and 9th Grade), I was all about Global Warming and the environment. The tips of saving the environment are: 1. Ride trains and buses. A whole bunch of cars can seat less people than one bus can, but can also create more CO2 pollution. 2. Use solar and wind energy and stay away from coal and oil when it comes to power. 3. Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle. 4. If you cut down a tree, grow a new one. Any other suggestions on saving the environment?

2012-07-09 22:05:00 Author: Apple2012 Posts: 1408

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Any other suggestions on saving the environment? Use your hand and a bucket of water to wash your bum after you take a poo. That way you will save paper. Save paper and you save the trees. Save the trees and you save the rainforests. Hold your farts in and never let them go. Farts create methane and corrode the ozone layer It is in fact your uncontrolled flatulence and wasteful defaecation rituals that are destroying the earth's atmosphere

2012-07-10 01:33:00 Author: Ungreth Posts: 2130

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Any other suggestions on saving the environment? Kill a few billion people.

2012-07-10 01:38:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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Rising global temperatures create extreme weather - both cold and hot.

2012-07-10 01:43:00 Author: flamingemu Posts: 1872

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To be honest, I'm bought on how ridiculous it is, that cities like Las Vegas use up more than hundreds of tonnes of electricity on pneumatics and water fountains, golf park sprinklers and lights which can be seen from space, or spending ?20,000 to light up an 100 feet tall christmas tree and other leisurely rubbish, and yet us doing these itty bitty things like switching off the moniter on our screens or switching toilet papers will affectively prevent global warming. I agree, it will if we all do this at once, but I doubt that will be happening any time soon. It could be easier to persuade goverments or councils to shut a few things down. :colossus:

2012-07-13 18:25:00 Author: Denim360 Posts: 482

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The problem with explaining what is going on with climate change is that there are so many short term factors and long term processes still not fully understood that even the experts don't fully agree what is going to happen to our environment. For starters, depending on which scientists you find more credible... every day the sun gets incrementally hotter. If readings are accurate, the sun will make it too hot to live on Earth in about a billion (thousand million, for you Brits) years. Then you have the ice ages. Some geologists say we're coming out of an ice age while others say we are interupting the processes of the next one. As for planting trees ...while a noble cause and astheticly pleasing, EVERY plant takes in CO2 and puts out O2, from trees to ever increasing crop production to the grass on your lawn. Not to mention all the algae and seaweed in/on the oceans that cover 70% of the planet. And while people target cars for greenhouse gasses, people forget that there are over six billion (again, thousand million, you readers from across the pond) people as well as all the animals it takes to feed us breathing in O2 and exhaling CO2. If you truely want to cut down on auto emissions, don't be that jerk who gets over at the last second, taking cuts in the merging traffic, because that guy and all his clones are responsible for most traffic gridlock.

2012-07-13 23:29:00 Author: DreadRandal Posts: 434

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