Fearful to hear the truth? Global warming is man-made
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I am not trying to instill fear but I want you to hear the truth. I hope my post can change the view of many Singaporeans about global warming.
I have just watched the documentary called The Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. It is about global warming and how it is rapidly changing our environment and climate. It is a wake-up call for me. I think most Singapore citizens are not very well-informed of the impact of global warming. Without the wake-up call, Singaporeans would just think that global warming is just a baseless notion and that its effects are purely exaggerated.
This needs to be changed. Every Singaporean need to know the reason behind the unusual temperature change in many countries - global warming. Some parts of poor countries like China, India and South Africa are getting hotter in summer and having droughts as their rivers are dried up, drought results in famine and starvation. The damages of the Tsunami in Asia in 2004 will be dwarfed by what global warming will do to the coastlines. The Tsunami might not have effected Singapore greatly. But the effects of global warming will, over the time, be more obvious in Singapore, since so much of our country is only a few meters above the sea level.
More Singaporeans need to take action and responsibilty to end the global warming crisis. I know that there has been enormous efforts of recycling in Singapore. Recycling waste and garbage is not a mean to end all the environment problems. We Singaporeans are just so spoilt. We need to change the old habits of consuming energy and resources. We need to cut down the fuel consumption and cut down the CO2 in our environment and commute less on private cars, use fuel-efficient public transport instead of driving a car from Jurong to Changi, to get to work. The air-conditioning is always at full blast in the shopping mall. I always need to bring a sweater or jacket to go shopping in Taskimaya or Golden Village Cinema.
Singaporeans really need to rethink the scenario 40-50 years ahead when the oil depletes. Singapore's current economy depends heavily on international trade. How are we going to get imports when shipping cost keeps going up? Where are we going to get our resources/raw materials to manufacture goods for export? The Port of Singapore is the world's busiest, in terms of shipping tonnage. We have the biggest oil refinery in SouthEast Asia. But all this will change with the energy crisis and it will deeply affect us and the future generation.
We need to be more far sighted, less selfish and be more active in reducing global warming. We can't just rely on our government to do the part. We need to spread the words to everyone including our neighbour countries as well - forest fires in Indonesia are speeding up global warming.
Global warming might sound like a big term for you. I urge you all to start taking small steps to fight it. You can use less fuel (drive a smaller or hybrid car, carpooling , take public transport, ride a bike or even better, walk), plant more trees or plants, use less electricity (use energy saving light bulbs), use less hot water, recyle, support environmental friendly companies, be Anti-Bush(Geoge Bush would not support/sign the Kyoto Protocol and the United States is as of 2005 the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels) and spread the words to your family, friends, school, relatives and colleagues.
I am proud that Singapore has signed the Kyoto Protocol in April 2006. This signifies the importance of the treaty to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases and its commitment to slow down global warming.
This might be cliche but I will say it. " Save the planet Earth, and ourselves."
StopGlobalWarming.org
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I am not trying to instill fear but I want you to hear the truth. I hope my post can change the view of many Singaporeans about global warming.
I have just watched the documentary called Inconvenience Truth by Al Gore. It is about global warming and how it is rapidly changing our environment and climate. It is a wakeup call for me. I think most Singapore citizens are not very well-informed of the impact of global warming. Without the wakeup call, Singaporeans would just think that global warming is just a baseless notion and that its effects are purely exaggerated.
This needs to be changed. Every Singaporeans need to know the reason behind the unusual temperature change in many countries - global warming. Some part of poor countries like China, India and South Africa are getting hotter in summer and having droughts as their rivers are dried up, drought results in famine and starvation. The damages of the Tsunami in Asia in 2004 will be dwarfed by what global warming will do to the coastlines. The Tsunami might not have effected Singapore greatly. But the effects of global warming will, over the time, be more obvious in Singapore.
More Singaporeans need to take action and responsibilty to end the global warming crisis. I know that there has been enormous efforts of recycling in Singapore. Recycling waste and garbage is not a mean to end all the environment problem. We Singaporeans are just so spoilt. We need to change the old habits of consuming energy and resources. We need to cut down the fuel consumption and cut down the CO2 in our environment and commute less on private cars, use fuel efficient public transport instead of driving a car from Jurong to Changi, to get to work. The air-conditioning is always at full blast in the shopping mall. I always need to bring a sweater or jacket to go shopping in Taskimaya or Golden Village Cinema.
Singaporeans really need to rethink the scenario 40-50 years ahead when the oil depletes. Singapore's current economy depends heavily on international trade. How are we going to get imports when shipping cost keeps going up? Where are we going to get our resources/raw materials to manufacture goods for export? The Port of Singapore is the world's busiest, in terms of shipping tonnage. We have the biggest oil refinery in SouthEast Asia. But all this will change with the energy crisis and it will deeply affect us and the future generation.
We need to be more far sighted, less selfish and be more active in reducing global warming. We can't just rely on our government to do the part. We need to spread the words to everyone including our neighbour countries as well - forest fires in Indonesia are speeding up global warming.
Global warming might sound like a big term for you. I urge you all to start taking small steps to fight it. You can use less fuel( drive a smaller or hybrid car, carpooling , take public transport, ride a bike or even better, walk), plant more trees or plants, use less electricity(use energy saving light bulbs), use less hot water, recyle, support environmental friendly companies, be Anti-Bush( Geoge Bush would not support/sign the Kyoto Protocol and the United States is as of 2005 the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels) and spread the words to your family, friends, school, relatives and colleagues.
I am proud that Singapore has signed the Kyoto Protocol in April 2006. This signifies the importance of the treaty to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases and its commitment to slow down global warming.
This might be cliche but I will say it. " Save the planet Earth, and ourselves."
StopGlobalWarming.org -
u know.. i think most dudes already know global warming is man made.. even way before the movies documentary was released.. tats why kyoto protocol was suggested..
unless man discovers a true form of clean energy for commercial use, there is no stopping global warming.. WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!
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Global Warming is not an entirely man-made construct. Certainly, human activity is partly responsible for accelerating the process, but it has been noted that Global warming is part and parcel of the Earth. It has been noted that temperatures some 2000 over years ago are less than what they are and the average global temperature has risen and fallen (including the occasional megatonnage or gigatonnage volcanic eruption) over the last thousands of years.
And ..er.. Tsunami 2006 is a product of Global Warming??? Jeezz... The Tsunami will still be pretty bad even if the sea level were a tad lower. Energy of the Tsunami will be pretty unchanged. If Lake Toba goes kapow, then we will start thinking of underground shelters for heat!
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no im not scared to hear this truth..
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i heard this truth since young leh.
u now den noe ar? -
Don't worry.
Things like nuclear war, bird flu and SARS will wipe us out long before global warming destroys us.
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Greed and selfish thoughts will destroy everything.
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Man do many things to kill themselves. How can we stop this?
Think of this gives me a headache. -
Dude, geo student only student global warming at O Level standard in secondary education. history student didn't know anything about global warming. scold the history student instead
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thinking 2 much 4 wat!!!!Originally posted by dave101:Man do many things to kill themselves. How can we stop this?
Think of this gives me a headache.
enjoying while we can!!!! -
I concur to what you have just said
This is quite well-written..and I hope this will inspire singaporeans to help stop Global warming from coming early..
However,we are unable to predict the future and there are many other harmful factors that can destory singapore .
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Global warming also got good things happen one mah.Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:Dude, geo student only student global warming at O Level standard in secondary education. history student didn't know anything about global warming. scold the history student instead
In the 16th century, Earth's average temperature rise by 4-5 degrees Celsius. What does this bring? A more bountiful havest for the farmers.
Then Renaissance happened.
What did Renaissance bring? It brought the end to the darkness of Middle Ages and at the same time, advancement in technology, beautiful artwork and literature were created. The biology knowledge you know of today were created in ancient Greece but resurrected in the Renaissance period. All convience of the modern world originated from Renaissance period.
So, does history students still don't know anything about global warming? -
Al Gore is now known as Al Crap due to his nonsense in biology about frogs being unfeeling.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Global warming is a global phenomenon, so there will be particular countries that will benefit from it. Most likely countries with large expanses of frozen and barren land will become fertile grounds, Canada and Siberia for example. But one thing is for sure, no tropical or equatorial regions will benefit from it.
Here are the main changes that will disrupt people lives all over the world.
When Greenland and Antarctica glaciers start to break into the sea, the water level will raise between 8 and 16m, while it sounds like a moderate increase, that means that millions of square kilometres of land will be underwater. Moreover, most of this coastal land is extremely fertile and home of hundreds of millions of people.
These people will have to be displaced, creating insurmountable geopolitical problems and wars.
Other consequences of global warming are the disparition of glaciers in the Himalayas. The glaciers are providing a large source of fresh water for India and China, these populations will face serious shortages.
Increased temperatures will increase evaporation of moisture contained in the soil, increasing the size of the deserts, they will also increase rainfall and hurricanes, as seen with Katrina. -
noone will probably understand the effects of global warming in singapore, so here's the tokyo perspective.
it is january. this is the winter season. it should be snowing. but afternoon temperatures are a shocking 16 degrees celsius, equivalent to spring and autumn temperatures.
there has only been 2 hours of snow in tokyo since winter started, and it only snowed inland, far away from central tokyo, away from all the buildings and skyscrapers with internal heating.
this is the very real effect of global warming. -
I'd rather money be spent on other things than debatable propositions that "Global warming is due to man".
Move on move on, there is nothing to see here.
(except for politicians jumping on the issue of the hour and scientists trying to pay their kids college education). -
Let's put it in another way. Greenhouse gases are pretty much a fact of manufacturing. No single industrial process doesn't emit some form of greenhouse gas directly and indirectly. Indirectly meaning power plants.
If you want to reduce power plant greenhouse emission, then you have to resort to nuclear power because that is the only power generation technique that allows for high density power generation.
However, there's a trade off. High power density means you have higher heat emission instead and that does have an influence on the weather to an extent though not incredibly noticeable. I wonder if anyone did a study on how much power generation influences the weather since concrete does especially in a city like Singapore. In fact, you could say the mere existence of cities itself influences the weather. Given the increasing urbanisation of the world, that average global temps increase should be no surprise.
That being said, a lot of scientists haven't really come up with conclusive models and have them shown on the newspapers to give their claims indisputable doubt. They can go blabber all they want but until they suggest solutions, I am going to have to be a skeptic on what can be done to reverse the trend. What can be done to slow the trend is to start using more power efficient products and attempt to decrease greenhouse gas emission. -
for posts like this maybe u wanna make it short and sharp for a start??
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What's new? We hear this ample of times, whether is it through edcation or through news. The problem is man is not fearful of it until it really strike them, thus nothing is changed.
Yea true, we will perish soon before global warming even strike us. -
no they dont.Originally posted by Hogzilla:Global warming also got good things happen one mah.
In the 16th century, Earth's average temperature rise by 4-5 degrees Celsius. What does this bring? A more bountiful havest for the farmers.
Then Renaissance happened.
What did Renaissance bring? It brought the end to the darkness of Middle Ages and at the same time, advancement in technology, beautiful artwork and literature were created. The biology knowledge you know of today were created in ancient Greece but resurrected in the Renaissance period. All convience of the modern world originated from Renaissance period.
So, does history students still don't know anything about global warming? -
I rather spent all my allowance for "Global warming is due to man, and a solution for it" debate than anyhow spent.Originally posted by scabstermooch:I'd rather money be spent on other things than debatable propositions that "Global warming is due to man". -
On one hand LKY warn us of Global warming...On the other hands...Transport ministers allowed lowering of COE ''due to market force''
and Bank loans for COE resulted more cars on the roads.
Our GOD is concerned with Earth environment.....and yet he did nothing for growing of vechicles population.
So...what you guys see here? -
strangely, the way to go is to go Nuclear...
it negates carbon emissions