Global Warming: Are You Doing Your Part?

[TomboyishFF]

Cows are one of the main sources for methane gas. My dad told me this.

I couldn't help but lol.

In other, kinda off-topic-maybe news. This reminds me of another thing he told me; the people cutting down the trees in the rain forest? They used to do it to make room for more cattle and livestock, but now they're doing it for soy farms.

That also made me lol. In the that's-horrible-but-you-have-to-laugh-at-its-irony sort of way.

I'm horrible, harhar.  

[DreamerSpirit]

TomboyishFF

Cows are one of the main sources for methane gas. My dad told me this.

I couldn't help but lol.

In other, kinda off-topic-maybe news. This reminds me of another thing he told me; the people cutting down the trees in the rain forest? They used to do it to make room for more cattle and livestock, but now they're doing it for soy farms.

That also made me lol. In the that's-horrible-but-you-have-to-laugh-at-its-irony sort of way.

I'm horrible, harhar.

Sure, we veg*ns eat plenty of soy (or at least a good percentage of us do), but most soybeans and corn are raised not for human consumption, but for livestock; aka to satisfy the diets of meat-eaters.  

[Catherine teh Vegan]

DreamerSpirit

TomboyishFF

Cows are one of the main sources for methane gas. My dad told me this.

I couldn't help but lol.

In other, kinda off-topic-maybe news. This reminds me of another thing he told me; the people cutting down the trees in the rain forest? They used to do it to make room for more cattle and livestock, but now they're doing it for soy farms.

That also made me lol. In the that's-horrible-but-you-have-to-laugh-at-its-irony sort of way.

I'm horrible, harhar.

Sure, we veg*ns eat plenty of soy (or at least a good percentage of us do), but most soybeans and corn are raised not for human consumption, but for livestock; aka to satisfy the diets of meat-eaters.

 

[sora987]

I'm doing my part for global warming from my diet to my clothes. I try to make sure most of the products I buy (especially cleaning fluids) are organic, I avoid leather as much as possible, and I've gone to great lengths to cut down my energy use, recycle far more items, and reuse containers and whatnot. Also, I walk a lot more now and try my best to avoid using a car.
I've tried to convince my family to do the same but unfortunately they mostly ignore me. It truly bothers me that people know the environments going to crap but won't do anything to slow the process down or reverse it. I've found this kind of attitude many times with people who's hobbies rely on a healthy environment like hunters, fisherman, campers, birdwatchers, etc.  

[DreamerSpirit]

I just posted an article I wrote for an English class. It's available in my new blog, here: http://battleofcompassion.blogspot.com/2007/12/argument-against-livestock.html

It's about all of the negative effects livestock has on the environment. It's part of a series of essays on awareness that I've begun work on. heart  

[592499]

TomboyishFF

Cows are one of the main sources for methane gas. My dad told me this.

I couldn't help but lol.

In other, kinda off-topic-maybe news. This reminds me of another thing he told me; the people cutting down the trees in the rain forest? They used to do it to make room for more cattle and livestock, but now they're doing it for soy farms.

That also made me lol. In the that's-horrible-but-you-have-to-laugh-at-its-irony sort of way.

I'm horrible, harhar.

I try and avoid soy products, but most soy is used to feed cattle.

I am a huge environmentalist. I started and run my high school environmental club-- we do a bunch of stuff. Recycling, buying locally when possible, driving like an old fogie by riding the hills down and going slow up smile , walk/run/bike sometimes. What I need to work on is limiting the products I buy especially ones over-packaged or shipped to me.

I find it controversial whether or not ordering online is doing anything because they aren't making any extra trips for me... they just pack it in with everyone else's stuff. Certainly if the world cut down on the online store craze there would be less of an impact.  

[Mortification]

Alternative view on the global warming issue.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7299668110171032533&q=the+great+global+warming+swindle&total=117&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/908

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_7671058

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nclimate118.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=481613&in_page_id=1811

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010615071248.htm

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/gore.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age  

[DreamerSpirit]

@Mortification:

I'm well aware that there have been vairous periods of heating and cooling throughout earths history. Statistically, these periods of heat and cold have always corresponded with the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, if you look at today's CO2 levels, they are not anywhere near what the CO2 levels have been ever (at least not in the period which we can track.... which goes mack many thousands of years, covering many periods of heat and cold). Seeing this correspondence, people have right to be alarmed, becuase today's CO2 levels are definately leading us into a period of heat. Though this means longer growing seasons, it also means that sue to polar ice caps melting, a lot of costal areas are threatened. Also, weather patterns are shifting, causing intensified hurricanes among other things.  

[momomuki]

Hey Dreamer,

It doesn't sound like you've watched the first link that Mort sent out. Scientific data seem to show that a rise in CO2 levels follows temperature increase. Therefore it cannot be the cause of that increase. Rather, if there is a correlation either the temperature increase is the cause or some third variable is at work.

Also, temperature increases in history have been accompanied a decrease in catastrophic weather events.

While it may be noble to be on the "cautious side," we should think of the possible consequences thereof.

I highly encourage everybody to check out the first video Mort posted:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7299668110171032533&q=the+great+global+warming+swindle&total=117&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Despite its scathing (and biased) review at wikipedia, this film is quite informative.

Much better to give the alternative viewpoint a chance than continue to drink our own bathwater.

- momo  

[Electrically]

That link doesn't work... <<  

[pinkcatminht]

i don't know if i believe all the hype about global warming,
but i definitely try to save energy && recycle && whatnot.

 

[superpuffermonkey]

The Great Global Warming Swindle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-1B0rO6ciU  

[Lidaby]

Aii, global warming is real and it's happening, my dad is a leading scientist who works with ecosystem modelling and simulation, they have figures going back ages ago... it's funny how when people try to prove it wrong they often leave out chunks of information. = BIAS. Misleading. Yes the earth has gone through cycles like this before... though the causes were all NATURAL. This is being caused by US. So how will it be reversed??

I think Al Gore wouldn't have mentioned livestock, because we can actually DO something about transportation and factories etc. People would hate him if he told people to stop eating meat. People like meat! They're not going to just stop it because it's getting a little hot.  

[Kecitich]

yeah sometimes people say I am not enviromental friendly enough. I then explains these and they says it's just my excuses of saying I care better than them. lol It's never a comparison it's more like want to let them know I have been doing my parts for over 2 years now

Yeah I am doing my part like most of all smile we know it ourselves, it's the most important and matters most  

[Johnny Thermo]

Glabal warming is fake
I mean its not only global and humans didnt make it.
they try to blame us for everything
BUt they cant just say that its fake now
Do u kno how many ppl would lose theire jobs if they say that its fake.
ppl like Lidaby's father for example, his job is to say that global warming is real :p
Soon will get to the point when theyll say ( lotta politics and scientists already are )
that we gotta reduce the human population to save earth !
reduce it to like 5 mln ppl talk2hand