Global Warming

3DM asked:


We are hearing numbers of 150K dying every year because of global warming? How is that number reached? Since individual weather phenomena are not to be confused with climate, then how can the deaths these phenomena cause be attributed to global warming?

Are these only heat-related deaths, or does that include other extreme conditions?

Is this based on IPCC findings/models that do NOT show a correlation of daytime highs to AGW?

Is this net or gross? How many lives are spared by cooler or wetter weather?
Byderule - since you have blocked me from answering or even viewing your questions, I think it only fair that you not participate in mine.

And Bob, I think I’ll create a separate AR4 question to adequately address your points. Thanks for bringing it up, though.
Thanks, Trevor, for at least attempting to provide a quantitative view, but it’s going to be a little tough without seeing the actual study.

It still seems speculative, The one quantitative example cited, the SE Asia dengue outbreak was tied to weather, NOT climate - unless a study shows conclusively that this area’s weather phenomena correlate to global warming.
One paradox at work that might be masked is that while modernization decreases infant/maternal mortality rates and increases life span, it also increases the rate of disease as well as the death rate. Anybody who doesn’t understand this paradox, we can discuss it in another question, later…I have to rush to the ER…

Zoe

Cacaoatl asked:


Remembering that the word hoax implies a deliberate falsehood — Where and when did the “global warming hoax” begin? Did the world’s climatologists, environmental scientists, environmental activists, liberal politicians, and other proponents of the man made global warming argument meet in some backroom somewhere and plan it all out?

Are these same scientists, politicians, and celebraties deliberatly surpressing research that counters man made global warming? Are the dozens of peer reviewed journals that publish global warming research in on this vast conspiracy?

How is the vast conspiracy maintained? Is such a hoax conspiracy likely?

Or is it more likely that dozens or hundreds of scientists with diverse backgrounds, working in various fields, came to similar conclusions?
News reports that man may be making the Earth warmer go back at least to the 1940s…

http://www.globalwarmingarchive.com/viewer.aspx?img=19705748&search=Callendar
The concept of global warming was introduced in the 1840s…

So if it is a hoax, as some have claimed, it is a far reaching hoax involving figures in
science, the media, and politics on every continent for 160 years. Does that seem plausible?

One of the famous scientific hoaxes in the world, the so-called Piltdown Man, was exposed 40 year after its conception. The Piltdown Man hoax only involved a few people and was undone through advancements in anthropology. Do you honestly believe that global warming is a hoax that has been carried on for 4 times as long as Piltdown Man and would have involved hundreds, perhaps thousands of people?

Cooper

Hank M asked:


Methane is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) thought to be abundant in the deep ocean and in permafrost. Compare the global warming potential of methane to other GHG’s. What are the potential feedback implications of global warming with respect to these methane sources?

Nathan

Tedel asked:


Hi there,

Surfing the Internet, there are way too many websites talking about stopping global warming and fighting its causes and consequences. Few of them list specific campaigns to achieve this, though, so I wanted to make a list —not of organizations— of initiatives towards the reduction of pollution or stopping the global warming threat. Which do you know? Can you help me build a list?

Diego

Sara! asked:


sorry i know its wrong to ask homework questions on yahoo but yeahh, im really having trouble with this.

soo why is it a good reason to get rid of global warming? other than like, making some animals like, exctint.

Jack

Prynce asked:


If global warming is already causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados and other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors already what else can come next?

Ashley