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[Poll] Climate change
September 2, 2005 - 05:22 AM
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there are suggestions that not only are we rising the tempurature of the world, but we are also to blame for increasing extreme weather events like hurricane katrina.
is it is our fault?
How worried are you about climate change?
I'm very worried. The earth is trying to tell us something and if we don't do something about it right away we will all be regretting it.
(33 votes for 68.75%)
I'm a little worried. We are having some effect and should try to stop/reverse it.
(10 votes for 20.83%)
I'm not worried at all. Tempurature rising/falling has been happening for 1000s of years and so have hurricanes.
(5 votes for 10.42%)
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Re: Climate change
December 12, 2005 - 10:42 AM
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How are you going to stop something that has been happening for 100,000 years.Who are we going to blame for the next ice age.
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KYOTO !!!!!
December 12, 2005 - 10:47 AM
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its not your fault...its our fault..if only our generation could stick together and make our leaders sign the Kyoto protocol, then definitely we all have some chance to see our great grand children;-).
otherwise this generation should better come out with ways to live under water like the mer-people in the lost city of atlantis.
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Re: Climate change
December 15, 2005 - 07:43 AM
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it's not our entire fault....but..we are somehow responsible for what's happening to our environment...like global warming... though we can't stop it .. there are some things that we can do to minimize the production of chemicals that contribute to ozone depletion...
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Re: Climate change
December 15, 2005 - 08:34 AM
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I totally go for what eurcah mentioned:
plus; I do belibe in particpatory climat change:
to know more what's meant by that: lately there was an event gathered young people And coalition of environmental youth groups headed by ENvironnement JEUnesse, in association with Environment Canada's Biosphere and the United Nations Association of Canada, is holding an international youth summit that brought round 50 Canadian and 40 International young people, and other stakholders together to engage the next generation in working to fight climate change.
(actually i was looking to attend but coz of my limitation of x-work in that feild ; i didn't attend)
the event was the 11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (aka COP11) and the First Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (aka COP/MOP1) which tooke place in Montreal from November 28 to December 9. This was the first international climate meeting since the Kyoto Protocol came into force on February 16.
so may be it could be a great chance to invite anyone particpated there..to share us more about the outcomes..
YES IT S NOTHING COMPARE BEING THERE..but @ least we could try to implement to be there next time -even by our message of action - 
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Re: Climate change
February 21, 2006 - 05:13 AM
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Dear American(/ EU, and other) Administrator,
This is open letter regarding climate change.Personally I think that Economic Growth and Better-Environment can't be heightened together. But eco-friendly sustainable development(backbone of economic growth programmes can be introduced. Regarding your countries you are the stronger nations in economic growthy. You can also learn the lesson form Hurricanes and the sayings of scientists..do learn on time.. otherwise........................plus population, development, socio-economic, and environment dynamics is advanced.. go and learn from expert. If you have only Dollars/ Euros/ Pounds on your mind social-, environmental-unrest hits your country at first.. don't be on rush see quietly and rethink...
Your Well Wisher
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Re: Climate change
February 28, 2006 - 04:28 AM
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We have to think what we are doing with our environment together. We often don’t think when we pollute air with carbon dioxide . We often don’t think about future because want to get a quick profits today. But even today we have mentioned climate changes – it’s influence on our life - for instance, in our warm Asian climate we don’t have such rich harvest of fruits and vegetables like several years ago.
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Re: Climate change
February 28, 2006 - 04:40 AM
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What about hurricanes and other disasters I thi it's partcularry a fault of people who don't care of the Earth.
Earth feels our bad attitude to it's nature and resources and response people the same.
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Re: Climate change
March 2, 2006 - 12:11 PM
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Yes global warming is mostly our fault, it was rising before but after humans came along there was a dramatic increase. Global warming is already affecting us, many of our problems are caused by the green house effect, since the winters arn't cold enough, the mountain pine beatle dosn't die so it's killing all our pine trees, and the polar ice caps are melting causing the polar bares to starve since they can't get out on to ice to hunt seals.
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'Absolutely our fault'
May 19, 2006 - 01:42 PM
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Its absolutely mankind's fault.
man emits so many harmful substances into the atmosphere which has inturned let to the depletion of the ozone layer and thus the subsequent change in climatic conditions round the globe.
We emit harmful substances CFC, CO2, S, and other harmsul oxides.
in bids to know more, we destroy more than the advantage we bring to our people and the vye to do more is always within our precarious heart and so we wont stop at nothing to achieve all our disastrous heart seeks and vye for.
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Re: [Poll] Climate change
July 29, 2006 - 11:34 AM
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Climate Change is entirely the fault of our human race. It is not even questionable.
It has been concluded that 99% of scientists agree to this, and the graphs i have seen show trends that are astounding.
Don't take the propaganda from the "skeptics",
They just want youto buy their damn Hummer.
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Erick Ochieng Otieno
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Re: [Poll] Climate change
October 8, 2006 - 06:14 AM
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I believe that if we do not change very soon, then the environment will change us, and we should always remember that when the environment do change us, it would not be a very good experience for all of us.
If I may qoute one of my most admired environmental activist, The nobel winner, Hon. Proffesor Wangari Mathai, who said that nature can be so good, but if left unlook after, then it can be so cruel.
In my country we have already experienced the effects of the climate change by the drying up of most rivers that were draining Mau forest.
So let us take care that we dont face the wrath of the mother nature.
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John R. Whitman
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Re: [Poll] Climate change
December 12, 2006 - 04:49 PM
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Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's leading scientists tracking climate change, has said on 21 November 2006:
"The best hope for saving the planet, for preserving creation, resis with the younger generation, I believe. They are the ones who will be most affected by climate change. My advice to them is that it may be time to act up, not in a destructive way, but to forcefully and effectively make their concerns known."
See his complete speech at: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
Nov. 2006: The Threat to the Planet: How Can We Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Climate Change? (1.1 MB PDF).
Pass it on, and then, DO SOMETHING!!! Please?
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West's Failure over Climate Change 'Will Kill 182m Africans'
January 17, 2007 - 11:16 AM
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May 17, 2006
West's Failure over Climate Change 'Will Kill 182m Africans'
The Independent (UK)
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The poorest people in the world will be the chief victims of the West's failure to tackle global warning, with millions of Africans forecast to die by the end of the century, Christian Aid says in a report out today.
The potential ravages of climate change are so severe that they could nullify the efforts to end the legacy of poverty and disease across developing countries, the charity says.
The report highlights the fact that, despite hand-wringing in the West about the threat to its coastlines from rising temperatures, it is the poorest who are likely to suffer most. It estimates that a "staggering" 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by 2100. Many millions more face death and devastation from climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict.
While 40 nations are committed to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Kyoto protocol, the US and leading developing countries such as China have refused to sign.
The summit of the leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations chaired by Tony Blair in Gleneagles last July agreed to develop markets for clean energy technologies, increase their availability in developing countries, and help vulnerable communities adapt to the impact of climate change.
Last week the head of environment at the World Bank said the world needed to do more to protect the poor from global warming. "As a development institution we have to focus on the fact that millions of people will suffer from climate change," Warren Evans said. "The last G8 pushed African development but didn't focus on the impact of climate change on Africa. We need to catch up on our understanding of that."
The warnings
* 182 million people in sub-Saharan African could die of disease by 2100.
* Average global temperatures could rise by between 1.5C and 6C by 2100; sea levels are set to rise by between 15cm and 95cm.
* The number of people affected by storms and floods has increased from 740 million to 2.5 billion people since the 1970s.
* Up to 3 million people die of malaria each year. Warmer, wetter weather will help the disease to spread.
* Climate change could reduce Africa's crop yields by 10 per cent.
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Re: [Poll] Climate change
January 19, 2007 - 04:22 AM
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I think that one of the major challenges in the climate change debate is to get the average citizen involved in making more environmentally sustainable choices in his/her everyday life. Whilst initiatives to the likes of the Kyoto Protocol and the Seventh Millenium Development Goal might be fundamental to securing political commitment to environmental issues, ultimately these sorts of top-down initiatives rely on state-centric goodwill- which, as we know all too well, has proved less than ideal in the past.
Here is a link to the website of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth,' which proposes small changes to our daily routine that can add up to big changes in helping to stop global warming. I know that here at TIG, we may sometimes be preached to the already converted, so pass on the link and lets get as many people on board as possible!
URL: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/
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