Comments on: Earth Day 2007: Why The Enviromental Movement is Slowly Losing Me

By: gregg

gregg — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:33:07 +0000

i came four years late to this page; the link to ‘green’ pesticides goes to ‘does not exist’.

i really hope that was intentional. either way, great stuff.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:08:17 +0000

Hanna you really are blathering on. Didn’t you read the last paragraph that says the trend is continuing to higher temperatures? Now have a look at this year, 2010.

As for saying that you are finished with environmentalists because some government agency arrests a woman for not watering her lawn — where’s the connection? You’re right, she is in a desert, water is short, and it is outrageous that anyone waters their lawn at all. but that’s me as an environmentalist speaking. Why blame me and those who think and act like me for anti-environmental good sense actions by government agencies?

Finally, environmentalists haven’t been overstating threats. What’s happened is that the threats were and are real but people are taking action to respond to them. Not enough to turn the ship around, but enough to ameliorate things a little. Climate change is happening and all the evidence is that it is gathering speed in its negative impact on the environment which supports us.

There is no argument that climate change is happening. There is some argument (and very poor argument in my view) that it is not helped along by humankind’s actions and therefore there is nothing we can do to stop it. Looks like there is something less than a one in 20 chance that that’s right. You want ot take that one in 20 bet? Wold you cross a street if there was only a one in 20 chance you would get to the other side unhurt and alive? I don’t think so.

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:59:53 +0000

Here’s a cool water quiz; question 2 has significane for gardeners.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sc3.html

I’m going to brag; I got 9 out 10 right!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:57:21 +0000

Hanna:

you’re absolutely right.

I would like to know what is considered “significant” in terms of heating or cooling, as mentioned here in the article:

“There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant,” Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus.

Also:
“Sea level rises when the oceans get warm because warmer water expands.”

I thought water was the only known substance that expanded when frozen. Perhaps it contracts when warm, then expands. It’s also possible that the salinity (salt content) of the ocean changes how it responds to temperature differences.
I’ll have to bug one of the forecasters at work with the water question.

I don’t get a bonus for this, but you might like to see “our” web pages on the topic, meant to be informative and neutral on the issue of warming.

http://www.accuweather.com/global-warming/