Was just done today (from man and the environment) watching a movie made by Al Gore... formerly was the other choice to being president except Bush was chosen instead. In any case that is not my subject here. >> After Al Gore didn't make it he changed his whole life into the scientific direction and made some tests on Global Warming today.

Members, from the film i saw today, and those are very recent results... the changes are enormous in which i think every human being should take into accord. It is a very recent film and the uni was lucky enough to bring it here.

statistics that've been shown according to the test results:

-at the length of around 60 000 years the temperature scale of global warming has never exceeded over 300 except twice and by little. During our last decade the result of the graph went far beyond that way over 500... last year shown was 2005.

-another cause for more demands is the population rising from only 2 billion in the world to 6 billion in a very short time... it is concluded that by 50 years time the population will rise upto 9 billion. (that includes higher demands of food and more pressure on the earth's resources)

-Carbon dioxide levels are growing exceedingly higher during these decades more than ever before... and it is trapping more sun rays causing further global warming.

-though some scientists before denied that this was actually happening to that extent... out of a number over 900 scientists now a days... no one denies it anymore. The changes are clear... according to the movie>>
Glaciers have been melting in Alaska, some polar bears were found to have drowned due to not finding glaciers or Ice to hop onto... and it is again concluded that parts of America will be flooded in a matter of a few decades.

- the movie mentioned something regarding politics vs. science. Due to political issues... some believed that "people do not want to believe scientists because their salaries depends on them not believing it"

Since I don't remember the names of accurate examples of places where glaciers have melted, will bring in resources soon enough.
But this is just as an alert... that things are getting serious.

>>almost makes me wonder why that indian claims to have predicted there'll be a flood in Oman :XD: ... perhaps the weather forcast might've mentioned it.

oh well... your views on this.

Yeah its the thing now all over the world ... And it has been there for the past few years where this issue was raised and no one really took it serious or maybe the measures were not that tight !!

Many have warned against higher incidence of skin cancer & other infections that thrive on a warmer environment

But I would say it's a rather hysteric state

I am not concerned, what are the positive outcomes of global warming?

nothing when it goes up to the extent mentioned above :os...
it's doing a lot more harm than good...
the movie showed pictures of HUGE glaciers melting down... and when water falls on it it doesn't freeze back but gets absorbed into the ice and acts like termites...
it is baaad ... now scientists say there'll be huge floods in the coming years and cities will be under water...
I forgot where but the something world trade center will drown...
anyone would think such things are exaggerated but when you see pictures of now and before... major differences show there.

oh well...

Global warming is cyclic, as you probably noticed when he was showing graphs of the temperature and co2 levels, so it is unavoidable. But having said that this cycle will be a lot worse because of the amount of co2 that we are contributing to the atmosphere.

Also not all glaciers are melting, some are growing like in the Himalayas. Which scientists believe is a different response to global warming.

^^I really hope that is true...

Global warming , we could not stop it and will not be able to stop it ..
Human beings are greedy to a way they will destroy the environment God gave them just for their Own pleasure ..

We have to start on thinking of the coming generations, those who might be our children!!
We should do something to avoid global warming and therefore the climate change, or at least to slow it down.

I advice you all to watch a movie called "The Day After Tomorrow".
This movie is all about a an American scientist who was searching on these issues and nobody believed him and suddenly the disasters begun to happen. It did really inspire me :cry: kinda scaring to see how the world is going to be in few decades!

That's what really is happening nowadays..Nobody can imagine that the world is going to re-generate and that the "ice age" could be back again!!

my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-gran-grand-children can take care of themselves ! :)

Here is a documentry on Global Warming... ok it is scientist who are not on the global warming bandwagon or sitting on the fence (like the co-founder of Greenpeace and the former editor of New Scientist amongst others who are top in their field), but it is very interesting..
Pretty much it is saying that the global temperature is generating the CO2 not the CO2 generating the higher temps, shown by a graph which says there is an 800 year lag of CO2 rising levels after the temperatures rise.
Along with political agendas, government funding into Global Warming to stopping developing countries from developing.
The science is spot on, from what I remember of my climatology classes.
It is long (1h14m) but worth a watch if you have the time

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170

Kara

Thanks for sharing..interesting :)