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Add to FavoritesThe air in my family is generally blue and that has not contributed to climate change unless the steaming rage created heat emissions that fed the global climate change is happening all over the world. That question is like asking an Eskimo if the ice is hot. How utterly ridiculous.
First of all climate change is a myth. We are experiencing changes not due to emissions as all the fear mongers and the money grubbing people who make a living off their books want us to believe. This is the biggest hoax since the great train robbery.
The fact is if one starts to study the rotation of the earth and the way the earth oscillates on it's axis and also the way the earth circles the sun you will see that over hundreds of years there have also been climate changes and it is due to the habits of the circulation of the earth around the sun and nothing to do with omissions.
I believe that we can go back at least 150 years and do research on climate changes and find that we have repeated this historic change other times in history. Is this forever? NO! Are we all going to die? NO! Are some people going to die" YES? but not necessarity due to climate changes. People have always been subject to heat stroke and other heat related illness. If you sit in a hot tub or a steam bath and have heart disease you may die due to over exposure to heat. This could happen to a 7 year old as easily as a 70 year old.
The earth's orbit is creating a certain change in our climate and you will find that probably over the next 50 years we will experience extremes in winter and in summer much like the 30's and 40's and part of the 50's did. As most of you were not around how could you compare with our doing a study of weather patterns and temperature. But I believe that we are terrified for absolutely nothing and we are not to fear this. We are to live through this.
In summation enjoy your family where ever they are, wear a hat in the sun, stay cool and keep the arms and face covered and stay out of the direct sun during the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. That isn't rocket science the Mexicans have been having a siesta all their life. It is just common sense. After the Gore, Bush election Al Gore had to make a comeback and climate change was his venue. So What! A lot of people believe him but the intelligent people don't. People use to think the world was flat and if you sailed too far you would fall off the edge. Well that didn't happen. Henny Penny got hit on the head with an acorn and said the "the world is falling in" but it didn't. One wolf on the edge of town doesn't make an infestation of wild animals. George Bush says there are weapons of mass destruction. If people are weapons of mass destruction then maybe he has a point. Turn off the television and don't talk on the phone and I bet that all this fear will dissipate into the atmosphere will that cause climate change. Get real!
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Are climate changes due to extended family breakdowns?
By definition, the extended family includes parents, children and other close relatives that live in close proximity. (American Heritage Dictionary)
Climate is the meteorological conditions like temperature, precipitation and wind that characteristically prevail in a particular region. (American Heritage Dictionary)
Are changes taking place? The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988. It is made up of 600 scientists and government representatives from 40 countries (including the U.S.) to study the effect humans have on climate change. (http://zfacts.com from Google)
Studies are ongoing and measurements have been taken about every 5 years since 1990. According to the IPCC report on "Climate Change, 2007," representatives from 113 countries did a line-by-line review and agreed on many important findings.
Three of their major conclusions: 1) "Warming of the climate is unequivocal." 2) "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (more than 90% confidence) due to observed increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gasses."
And 3) "Average North American temperatures during the last 50-year period were very likely (more than 90% confidence) higher than during any other period in the last 500 years and likely (more than 66% confidence) the highest in at least the last 1300 years." (Google zfacts.com)
This informative report goes on to list the "marked" increases in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1750. Measurements taken in 2005 show a greater increase in shorter time spans in these gases in recent years - due to human activities - as compared to the "natural range" of numbers over the last 650,000 years.
Now we'll discuss whether breaking down extended families into multiple homes of their own increases greenhouse gases, which contributes to climate change.
Obviously, if all of those groups of 8 to 12 extended family members once lived together, and they now live in 3 or 4 separate homes, they will have to use separate sources of energy. Each will use its own water for cooking, dishwashers, clothes washers, watering lawns, etc. Each sub-family will have its own heat and air conditioning.
Think of one simplified example: a divorced couple who live in separate residences. Of course, they both probably have cars and run a household.
In fact, a Michigan State University study found that "Americans consume an extra $10.5 billion worth of energy and water each year as a result of the additional households created by divorce." (Reported by MSNBC.com in "The Week," Dec., 2007)
Now, extrapolate that data to extended families separated into multiple individual homes, and I don't think there can be any argument about the exponential use of energy and water usage.
So, yes, by breaking down the extended family into separate households, we are obviously using much more fuel and resources, which ultimately must affect the quantity of greenhouse gases, which ultimately affects the world's climate.
Never fear. Human ingenuity is working to salvage our comfortable lifestyles with minimal discomfort to us by creating new fuel sources with fewer emissions.
So we don't need to worry too much. But neither should we live in denial of the human factor affecting climate change.
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