Please help global warming!

by Magenta Dolezal
(England/Brighton)

Do it for us.

Do it for us.

Hi, I am only 13 but I am extremely concerned about the causes of global warming!

I am sure that some people do not give a damn about the issues. I think they are so selfish because they don't think about all the other people in the world who have to suffer all because of them.

Barry's Response - Magenta, it's your world too.
You and your generation have rights to a decent one as well.

More from Magenta - Thank you for providing this website so people of the world can say what they want to say about their
opinion of global warming. I just wish that people would stop dropping litter and reduce the causes of global warming

Barry's Response - Right. We all have reason to be concerned. Thanks for your contribution.

Magenta's Response - Do you think that you could possibly send me some devastating pictures of what could happen if Global Warming occurred because I am making my own website on Global Warming and I would be really grateful if you could send me some pictures.

Even though I am only 13 I still matter about Global Warming. Thank you for your time.

Barry's Response - It's best to grab a digital camera and take your own. Type "global warming" into the search box at Google or Wikipedia and scan the photos for ideas and inspiration. Have fun with it.

Here's a few things to Think about

Now let's zoom out...upwards. Way up there.

Water vapor rises, molecules bump shoulders, and solar energy dances in the troposphere. There's more to climate than bad news. There's patterns, processes, and politics. How about global warming? From solar radiation to aerosols, ocean oscillations to carbon chemistry, it's not a cartoon villain.

Could some of this heat not be human-made? Meteorology loves uncertainty. Warming is caused by natural solar cycles (the 11-year sunspot cycle), ocean-atmosphere interactions, and orbital wobbles called Milankovitch cycles. What's the speed of today's warming? Not all scientists worry about that.

There's a shocker

Not all CO2 comes from tailpipes. Termites belch it, but we've added so much so fast, the system stutters. Earth's atmosphere is like a guitar string-we plucked it hard, and now it hums.

Rather than screaming, The planet is melting! Ask: Where, what, and why is it warming?

A counter-narrative that sparks Curiosity

Skeptic of climate models? Models are like old maps - useful, imperfect, and always changing. Some overestimate warming, some don't account for feedback loops. Is that it? It's like refusing to use a compass because it points south.

Challenge your ideas. What's up with some charts stopping at 1880? Here's why IPCC summaries downplay uncertainty ranges. Conservatives raise a valid point, why tax Saskatchewan farmers while funding green tech in China? It's all about scale.

Gardening is humanity's duty. It's stewardship, not exploitation. Integrity people ask: What legacy do we leave? You don't have to be an activist to care about the environment.

Weird and amazing

During the Eocene, the Earth once froze over completely (Snowball Earth). Not the planet, but our story.

A few Other Notes

It's not just about rain or shine in meteorology. It's about how heat moves, where moisture lingers, and how air quality changes can affect health outcomes. The slow reshaping of climate normals is what global warming is. Normals matter for everything: food production, species migration, economic stability, and TikTok-worthy snow days.

From seedling to Steward - I want to tell everyone here, especially the younger voices: you're not "the future." You're already shaping it. You're the first whisper before the storm breaks, the reason grown-ups are finally Googling "carbon offsets vs. trees."

💬 How do you feel about it? What's your wild idea to fight global warming? Feel free to drop it below, no judgement, just curious. Talk about climate in a weird, wise, and worthwhile way.Search this site for more information now.

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by: Garin

Global warming is such a serious issue that are really hard to explain and the major changes that we see here are due to the enhancement in such a change.

From Barry - Yes, Garin, it's tricky. Trying to explain how a soufflé collapses when the door slams. It's a mix of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, solar flux, and chaos. Like a giant, slow-moving mood ring, Earth's climate reacts to what we do, but it's also got deep internal rhythms we're still learning about, like El Niño and solar minima.

What's the big deal? CO2, methane, and black carbon are all being tweaked at once. Changes like stronger storms, hotter hots, stranger seasonal shifts aren't caused by one thing. It's measured by meteorologists, interpreted by climatologists, and tracked by air quality scientists.
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by: Magenta Dolezla

I have learnt so much over the 2 years since i wrote that comment; about what we can do to prevent global warming from happening and what will happen to this world if we do not try to help it soon.

I just really hope that people are aware of the causes and how we can help it, so they can make a difference.

If people want to contact me, please feel free

monkey-w@hotmail.co.uk

xx

From Barry - Thank you. There you have it, folks.
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by: Magenta Dolezal

i wrote the comment above ^^ haha i can't believe that was like 2 years ago and it felt like only last week writting it :L still though, i am extremly concerned about the effects of global warming and how they will effect the world around us. can guys please comment on this site so we can show people that we do care about the environment and other people should care about it aswell. thankyouu xx

Barry's Response - It would be even more interesting to find out what you've learned over the two years.

You're our resident eco-hero, Magenta. From "OMG, I wrote that?" to "Here's my updated take" is what real climate education looks like. You've evolved. That's more than some national climate plans can say.

In science, we love to see that: growing understanding of positive feedbacks (like melting sea ice lowering albedo), or the realization that planting trees helps-but only if we protect them. Planting trees won't solve global warming on its own (hello, photosynthesis saturation), but it's a start. Bystanders become stewards. Feels good and does good. You're awesome.

What about the email? It's so 2000-something. Maybe "monkey-w" is now your brand. Keep it wild.
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by: Anonymous

I think that it is great that the young generation are concerned about the environment. If you get every generation concerned about the environment then we can make changes. Until then the ones who do care should keep on letting others know about global warming.

From Barry - Don't be shy! It's important to pass the baton across generations. Remember in The Lorax when the Once-ler gave the last seed to the kid? That's the thread. Teenagers who are concerned become voters, educators, and-let's be honest-meme lords with climate content on TikTok.

Also, when youth lead, adults have to confront their own inertia. It's not guilt-tripping, it's intergenerational thermodynamics. (Okay, not a real term, but let's use it.)
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by: Anonymous

The word global warming itself makes us to indulge ourselves we have to do something to save our environment from this problem first of all we have to make everyone know the consequences of this and then start to save our environment - first step is to plant trees as much as possible to save the greenaries this as to be done first by planting trees near the road side so that we can get cool air, then we have to start to plant trees inside the house if we have gardens at our place or otherwise you can do it by planting it in our neighbourhood parks etc. We have to start this from our young generations who r at the age of 14 so that they can develop this form their earlier age. By doing lie this at least 50 percent we can try to save our environment little.

From Barry - That's right! Your comment has a poetic urgency. More biodiversity, cooler streets, and air that smells like life = roadside trees. Planting strategically scrubs carbon dioxide (modestly) and reduces PM2.5, those nasty fine particles that make air quality scientists crazy.

Just a note: young trees need love-watering, space, and protection from "death by weed-whacker." And indoor plants won't change global CO2 levels-but they'll change your climate. I mean, literally. Sleep next to a peace lily during a heatwave. Like hugging a damp sponge.

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