That's not the issue!!!!! Don't you all get it?? If the polar ice caps are melting, the ocean is going to rise up to something like twenty feet higher, meaning that all the beaches, coastal towns, or anywhere at, below, or just above sea level, that's not surrounded by mountains will turn into ATLANTIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not that we're all going to be "fried" as you say, but that climates will change, causing the death of plants and animals who only survive in certain temperatures! If their wold is gone, and millions of things go extinct, what is everyone supposed to do. And this doesn't only concern the animals and wildlife, but it concerns US too. Nature has it's circle, you know, each thing has a purpose, that purpose being to keep something else alive. Well, what happens it something from that circle ceases to exist? The whole thing has to be refigured, and those things take time, a LOT of time. Which is one thing we don't have much of.

When things start dying, our resources are GONE. Forget the rest of the world, if you want, this concerns you. Think about it. We rely on everything else to supply us with food, clothing, warmth, comfort, etc. And when the places that supply us with our lives start to dissipate, because their resources are going, what are we supposed to do? Some people out there don't even know that MILK comes from COWS. How bad is that? How are we supposed to survive on a planet that is changing rapidly when we know PRACTICALLY NOTHING about how to take care of our selves. YES, some of us do, but BILLIONS don't. And we need to make sure they don't have to before they even realize it's happening.

You know, I don't even know why I'm trying so hard. I'm not going to change you minds. But when things really do start to get bad, you might just want to think about what I said.

Wow, Charlotte said what I was going to say, but I'm going to repeat it anyway.

Global warming is nothing new. What is new is the levels of greenhouse gases (like carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere. We know what the composition of the atmosphere has been for the last couple million years because of ice cores from the Antarctic, and the current levels of CO2 are higher than ever. Now, how this will affect global warming remains to be seen.

What we simply cannot afford to do, global warming or not, is to stand by and do nothing. Something has to give. Either we will cease our wasteful lifestyle, or there will be nothing left of the Earth. And no divine power will "save the world" for us. We have to do it ourselves.

Yeah, I know that's maybe a little over-emphatic. Sorry, I believe strongly in respecting nature etc. because 1)it was here first 2)we owe it our lives 3)I follow a pantheistic (look it up) religion.

*claps for Megan's P.S. note* Yes, I totally agree.

YAY Megan!

I, too, belong to no religious group!

Way to put it, Megan. Why DOES religion have to have ANYTHING to do with your beliefs?! I'll go at this from a Christian perspective. Sure, you may use God as an excuse, saying that he will protect us. And He will, true. But you have to do SOME things for yourself! If you just sat in the rain without eating expecting God to save you, would he? He helps us to help ourselves and do good work. He also created us without electricity, and without the knowledge of how to burn fossil fuels! So why can't you cut back on polluting, even if you don't believe in Global Warming! I myself am a Christian, mostly, but I can identify with other religions. And I can believe in science. 

And I believe in Global Warming!  

Now if anybuggy would like to tell me why being light on the environment is bad, regardless of whether you believe in Global Warming! Please! (Actually I wrote some of this in all caps, but then remembered Ladybug's reminder about yelling.) :)