Global Warming

Look, I don't care what you think about "An Inconvenient Truth" (though the top climate scientists gave it 5 stars for accuracy)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-27-gore-science-truth_x.htm

I don't care if you think Gore is a fat hypocritical idiot. Al Gore is completely irrelevant to global warming, except that he and "An Inconvenient Truth" have attracted attention to the issue.

In that film Gore simply presented some of the scientific evidence that humans are the primary cause of global warming. He did not invent GW - heck, he's never even researched it! Criticizing Gore is irrelevant to the issue.

People need to stop obsessing about Gore and examine the scientific evidence

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

Gore is right about one thing - any reasonable person who examines all the evidence with an open mind should conclude that humans are almost certainly the primary cause of GW.

Why are global warming skeptics obsessed with Al Irrelevant Gore?

2007-06-16 12:18:58 · 14 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

Im totally not convinced by global warming. I;ve seen the evidence and its clear that climate change is 1: not driven by human activity and 2: not going to be a catastrophe.

Anyway, how much CO2 did Gore put into the atmosphere promoting that stupid film?

Who's with me?

2007-06-16 11:46:21 · 25 answers · asked by graeme b 3

2007-06-16 11:33:21 · 22 answers · asked by Blackfire 6

2007-06-16 11:05:33 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

In regards to the disappearance of "The City of Atlantis" do you think it was "Global Warming" that was responsible for it's demise?
And if so, what else do you think Global Warming could be responsible for?
After all, in this crazy world anythings possible....

2007-06-16 10:34:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-16 10:23:42 · 6 answers · asked by jason w 1

I have a really wacky idea to help scale back global warming and I want to know if it's possible or not.
What about genetically engineered bacteria or plants or something that would eat the CO2 in the air? I know we could just replant a lot of normal plants, but that might take time we don't have. Instead, what about Super-Trees that suck up 10 times more CO2?
Another even crazier sounding idea I had is this: What about giant air purifiers the size of buildings?

2007-06-16 06:43:03 · 7 answers · asked by The Doctor 3

Are scientists actually going to be able to stop global warming in seventeen or eighteen years??? It was a big rumor in the neighborhood.

2007-06-16 05:47:29 · 18 answers · asked by Walter 5

Its odd that folks blame Global warming on earth on man-kind.Even though at least one other planet is going through the same cycle.In the vast Universe is it possible to destroy the weather pattern in 100 years of Industrial out put?If so explain where on Mars is there proof of Industry.

2007-06-16 05:45:01 · 14 answers · asked by john 2

2007-06-16 05:16:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-16 05:00:08 · 9 answers · asked by billnzan 4

2007-06-16 04:51:09 · 10 answers · asked by dennis h 2

2007-06-16 04:49:31 · 8 answers · asked by Ovidiu 2

our north and south polls have flipped, (for about a year each time) time and again. this is a fact, look it up..it's about to happen again, perhaps in our lifetime...it wreaks havoc on the weather norms. after this happens and we see what power the earth can unleash regardless of man, will we then see the light and come to the conclusion there is no way in heaven or earth that would could possibly have any meaningful affect on the planet?

2007-06-16 03:52:36 · 10 answers · asked by federalistcapers 2

2007-06-16 03:20:49 · 6 answers · asked by Mark S 2

StarTribune.com
Kilimanjaro's snows melting, but ...

Yes, the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting, but global warming isn't to blame, some scientists say.

By Sandi Doughton, McClatchy News Service

Last update: June 12, 2007 – 11:22 PM
SEATTLE

The shrinking snow cap atop Mount Kilimanjaro has become an icon of global warming. Pictures of the African peak, which has lost 90 percent of its ice cover, were featured in Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Greenpeace activists once held a satellite news conference on the summit to sway participants in an international climate conference.

But most scientists who study Kilimanjaro's glaciers have long been uneasy with the volcano's poster-child status. Yes, ice cover has shrunk by 90 percent, they say.

But no, the buildup of greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and factories is not to blame.

"Kilimanjaro is a grossly overused mis-example of the effects of climate change," said University of Washington climate scientist Philip Mote, co-author of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine.

Mote is concerned that critics will try to use the article to debunk broader climate-change trends.

He hastens to add that global warming is, indeed, responsible for the fact that nearly every other glacier around the globe is melting away. Kilimanjaro just happens to be the worst possible case study.

Rising nearly 4 miles from the plains of eastern Tanzania, the 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro has seen its glaciers decline steadily for well over a century -- since long before humans began pumping large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Mote points out.

Most of the world's glaciers didn't begin their precipitous declines until the 1970s, when measurable global warming first appeared.

Also, recent data show temperatures on the volcano never dip below freezing. So melting triggered by a warmer atmosphere can't be the reason the small summit ice sheet is retreating about 3 feet a year, said Georg Kaser, co-author of the article and a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Most glaciers in temperate zones, like those on Mount Rainier, extend to lower elevations where their terminus is warmed to the melting point in summer.

On Kilimanjaro, ice loss seems to be driven by two factors: a lack of snowfall and sublimation, the same process that causes freezer burn by sucking moisture out of food.

Researchers believe Kilimanjaro's glaciers formed about 11,000 years ago, when the region was undergoing a period of wet weather that allowed snow to accumulate. But even before the first Europeans reached the summit in 1889, the weather has been dry in Eastern Africa. There simply hasn't been enough snowfall to keep up with the loss of ice due to sublimation, Kaser explained.

Sublimation, caused by exposure to sunlight and dry air, occurs when ice essentially skips the melting step and evaporates.

Kaser, who climbs Kilimanjaro twice a year to gather data, says the ice topography shows little evidence that melting is anything but a minor force. Jagged spires and cliffs made of ice up to 120 feet tall are not softened around the edges.

Even though the mountain presents an interesting scientific puzzle, it's an anomaly compared with what's happening with other glaciers, said Douglas Hardy, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Massachusetts. The new article will be seized on by "global warming naysayers" and could give people the mistaken impression that it calls global warming into question, Hardy predicted.

"What value to society does that serve?" he asked.

© 2007 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

2007-06-16 03:04:40 · 4 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

Any comments?

Oh, Al Gore and David Suzuki are both hypocrits by the way. Lead by example or just shut up.

Any comments on that?

2007-06-16 03:02:17 · 7 answers · asked by Mark S 2

2007-06-16 01:07:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

the temprature of the earth is increasing day by day. the glatiars are melting very fast. and sea level is going up. so what should we do to protect our planet

2007-06-15 22:29:41 · 27 answers · asked by friend 1

I recently had a forum competition which was among schools at state’s level. Our main topic was Global Warming. As far as I know, forum is a discussion among people who have knowledge on the topic and to talk about it. Usually, in the TV, there are forums about global issues and the people who are there are usually professionals such as professors or scientists or any other people who have a wide understanding on the topic. So I took up the role as a professor from a university and my partner as an environmentalist to discuss about the global warming in the competition, and our topic was the causes of global warming.
Our opponents’ topic was what the public can do to tackle global warming.
My question is, can a housewife and another ordinary people be actually in a forum? I think that is more towards to TV talk and interview. And can a forum be as informal as you can actually giggle here and there throughout a forum? Isn’t forum supposed to be formal? Please enlighten me. Thanks.

2007-06-15 21:38:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

does anyone else think global warming is a natural phemonimum and not man made? the world as always been up and down as far as tempratures are concerned

2007-06-15 20:47:22 · 17 answers · asked by pfc123darkknight 5

2007-06-15 19:29:02 · 5 answers · asked by billnzan 4

http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=23875

This guy really seems to have a point, but I want to hear other's opinions on it.

2007-06-15 19:22:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

and cools off naturally. Isn't it true just 20 years ago we were in a mini ice age? Come on people, state of fear.

2007-06-15 19:03:48 · 19 answers · asked by billybobcowboy 2

If, as many are saying, Al Gore is lying about Global Warming, what would be motivating him to do so?

And/or why would conservatives believe Global Warming is a lie?

2007-06-15 18:57:29 · 6 answers · asked by Todd R 2

why do some christains think global warming is just a political strategy? if you are a christain (or not), do you believe in the global climate crisis or is it just an illusion?

2007-06-15 12:06:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because of global cooling no less. We were going to stave to death because we wouldn't be able to grow crops. Do your research you global warming sheep. ;-)

2007-06-15 11:59:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i believe this is accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming also, i have believed this since before the gore movie and b4 i read this article

2007-06-15 10:50:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-15 09:51:58 · 6 answers · asked by Oma Lea 1

Lobby for world governments to kill off their human population. Humans are the problem less humans is the answer

2007-06-15 09:31:13 · 9 answers · asked by martywdx 4