by Jan G.

Created on: November 08, 2009   Last Updated: November 09, 2009

Global Warming is a term that is over-used in summing up all that has gone wrong with this only known habitable planet, it being the cause of catastrophic chain of events and at the same time the result of human's destructive actions through the years.

Since the question is on how serious the issue is, it assumes that you are not in denial or outright oblivious and that you do recognize the works of Global Warming and you need no further empirical data and news clips on natural catastrophes, and as it is already you would have felt or experienced it to different extents and that you are capable of assessing levels of seriousness with reasonable logic, not simply based on how much it has directly affected you, but in view of the bigger picture.

You would also consider this matter with an understanding that its influence on you and your dependents are probably by a matter of time and the magnitude and form could not be foreseen. Hence the question is really on the level of seriousness that is deemed and conceived.

At the first sight of this question title, I contemplated rattling on in the line of Global Warming being extremely serious, by mere fact that it is arguable, which is how this question comes about and not be ridiculed. And if there are those among us who are undermining its seriousness, the same person could be vetoing and campaigning against a state going green, starting the next budget airline or keeping the air conditioning on the whole day.

If we are still at a stage of arguing whether Global Warming is seriously a matter that requires attention and action, then this in itself makes the issue extremely serious.

Being a term that is linked to all bad things that could happen at majestic magnitudes beyond our control and predictions, it takes a lot of ignorance to think Global Warming is anything less than extremely serious, even if it has yet to wash away your shores or dry your fields. The effects of our actions through decades of industrialization, deforestation, nuclear tests and the list goes on, have set off something that is possibly irreversible and spiraling out of hands.

With El Nino hitting shores at extreme ends with equally extreme consequences, seasons going chaotic and missing its seasonal schedules, ice cap melting, Earth's temper swinging from droughts to flash floods of typhoon. I would simply dismiss anyone who feels that Global Warming is anything less than extremely serious and require our attention and action in small ways that might matter as a whole.

I need no further scientific analysis on the correlation of a 1 degree increase in atmospheric temperature to the melting away of the North Pole, if seals and polar bears could talk, they would tell you it's getting hot.

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