I am polling for a class project, please answer all questions and if you dont mind, age and party.? 1. Do you think our government is doing enough about global warming?
2. What is the most important enviromental problem we are facing today?
3. Will you base your vote on a candidates enviromental issues, and if so which ones?
4. What can we do to reduce global warming?
5. Do you use green products, and if so which ones and why?
6. What do you feel is our most polluted areas?
7. What do you feel we are most likely to lose due to the global warming over the next 100 years?
8. Which companies need to be held responsible for our pollution?
9. State an disaster that you feel has effected our world.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news...
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/dec...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/16...
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/2007050...

Most recent steep decline in Arctic ice caused by wind, changes in ice composition:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/looking...
%26quot;.... The winds causing this trend in ice reduction were set up by an unusual pattern of atmospheric pressure that began at the beginning of this century..%26quot;

Reputable climatologists have said soot is responsible for:
25% of past global warming from Arctic ice loss
50% of warming over Indian Ocean %26amp; SE Asia
40% of warming over Pacific %26amp; Western America
Much glacier loss in sub-polar mountains (along w/ deforestation)

Global warming, if it persists, will prove a marginal blip in human history b/c CO2%26#039;s effect as a greenhouse gas is not linear (it has a maximum saturation effect). So even with water vapor feedbacks CO2 can%26#039;t warm the air much more past 400 ppm. The near-term effects of soot are for more threatening than CO2, and most of the long-term forecasts of CO2-driven warming have been based on a misunderstanding of soot%26#039;s net heating effect (see V. Ramanathan, Scripps Oceangraphic Inst.). 0% 0 Votes

1. No, they aren%26#039;t doing enough
2. Climate instability
3. No comment
4. Reduce energy useage basically. Recycle, reuse, don%26#039;t use electric heaters, get double glazing/cavity walls, avoid short car journeys, use more public transport.
5. No specific products, but i reuse whatever I can.
6. Well, our largest cities ;) Where we have industry and stationary or slow-moving cars. Mostly in the developing world. (3rd world)
7. We%26#039;re not sure how long the warming will continue, but we will suffer floods, droughts, some severe winters, disease, severe food shortages, among many other things.
8. Lots of people are reponsible, including the majority of us. The most resonsible companies are the oil companies who are not part of the USCAP.
9. Famine? 0% 0 Votes

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  26 - Green Party
  1) Not even close.
  2) Global warming.
  3) Yes, mostly global warming.
  4) Reduce carbon emissions. First step - introduce a carbon cap and trade system.
  5) Yes, many to reduce my environmental impact.
  6) Big cities and areas which use a lot of coal power plants.
  7) Our comfortable lifestyles.
  8) Oil companies.
  9) Biggest in US was Hurricane Katrina. 0% 0 Votes