Global Warming...yea or nay?

Question

Ok, it sounds sensible enough to say that cars, hairspray and others have made a hole in the ozone but what about the old evolution factor.Do you think that this is just the earths cycle....we have had iceages before....something had to melt it(was not cars that did it).Global Warming come on...next it will be the Big global Freeze.Thats next right!

Answer 1

In Glacier Park the park rangers like to give you their slide shows showing all the glaciers that are getting smaller and smaller. But what they fail to show you is that many are getting larger and larger. They only tell the doom and gloom side of it. It is a trend. Someday, I predict, we will look back and laugh at our paranoia about "global warming".

Answer 2

Actually, evolution, nor global warming have been proven. i belive in creation, but that hasn't been proven either, it's what I believe. Just like people believe in evolution or global warming or any of that other stuff.
Anyway, the best advice is, if you are truly interested, research it. For example, if you want to learn why evolution is such a hot topic, start with learning about the scientfic process. In order to be a theory, a question has to go through a very lengthy process, and the theory must be 100% dead on 100% of the time, or you don't have a scientific theory.
Same thing applies with global warming. Check out the research. And I am old enough to remember the big freeze warning a couple of decades ago that someone else mentioned.
Just sift through the drama, hon, look at the facts, compare it with standard operating procedure, and you'll figure it all out.

Answer 3

If you have actually read any of the science, you would know exactly what is going on.

Here's a nice basic primer for you:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/global-warming2.htm

Now, if you can supply scientific evidence to refute these claims and prove that the supplied evidence is paid for by a coal or oil corporation (nearly all studies that disagree with global warming are paid for by business interests whose bottom line would be negatively effected if we made corrections).

It wasn't that long ago that some scientists didn't believe in the "greenhouse effect" at all. Now all scientists take that as fact.

That's the way science works. As facts are discovered and theories are proven and the science is peer-reviewed, the common knowledge expands.

When you were in school, did they tell you that birds were descendents of dinosaurs? No. Because they didn't know that then. Now they do.

Read up, and if you still don't believe it, fine. But your argument doesn't imply that you have any significant knowledge of the facts surrounding this issue.

And to all of you who say "it's just a theory" - please read this:

"In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it often does in other contexts. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from and/or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations that is predictive, logical and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections or inclusion in a yet wider theory. Commonly, a large number of more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a general rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory."

'Kay? Get it?

Answer 4

We are no longer in a natural cycle for a number of reasons...the biggest being mankind. We are creating CO2 & other greenhouse gasses at unnatural rates. We are also destroying the forests that gobble up CO2 on top of that. Hence, we are no longer part of a "natural" cycle. We are now part of a very unbalanced, unnatural cycle.

The ice core records clearly shows this. This ice-core record goes back 650,000 years. For a long period of this time, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was "channeling"; never going below a lower and upper band. This was the natural cycle. Starting around 1970 the CO2 level of the earth's atmosphere broke out of the upper bound of the channel and has never come down, but is cycling upwards.

The proponents of the "natural cycle" model can't explain this. Even their misguided orbital theories can't explain the rise of CO2. The orbital theory can only address the warming. In the ---> absence <--- of any deviation in the CO2 levels from a natural cycle, the orbital theory would be more plausbile, but it's not because the CO2 level is NOT natural!

Answer 5

The man-made global warming, which is currently being propagated by many, is in fact false. A study of astrophysics and planetary history clearly demonstrates that this is a natural cycle, caused by a "wobble" of the earth on its axis, the poles are constantly moving, the glaciers come and go, the surface temperature rises and lowers, alarmists as well as those with good intentions are spreading this concept, but the alarmists goal are generally speaking to increase the power of global government to "deal with the impending global catastrophe", climatologists tend to advocate it because their science is fairly short sighted dealing with only recent empirical data.

Answer 6

Well, they say that due to the hole in the atmosphere because of chlorofluorocarbons (hairspray in aerosol cans, as an example), the earth's protection from the sun has been diminished. This in turn causes a warming in the temperatures of the oceans. This is partly what causes tsunamis, hurricanes, etc., because when the ocean's temp rises, it causes big waves and such.

The hole in the atmosphere has also apparently caused the melting of big glaciers, etc. in the arctic regions. This can have huge consequences.

Answer 7

global warming is false, the earth is going through a cycle that the polar ice caps melt a little then get bigger. but there is global dimming happening from all the pollution thats makeing less and less sunlight every day just not noticable, and the myth of oil is running out, a big fat lie, they just want more money. and everyone knows money is the source of all evil

Answer 8

Just to address a tiny part of your question:

Do you know where the "ozone hole" (an area of reduced percentage of ozone in the upper atmosphere) is? Antarctica.

Do you know how ozone is formed in the upper atmosphere? Energy from the sun.

Do you know what Antarctica gets less of than the rest of the world? Sunlight.

2+2 = Hairspray?

Answer 9

Learn more about what global warming is and what the ice age was before you try to act intelligent and create a debate, little girl.

Answer 10

Global Warming= No. What you've just said is my exact theory on it. It's so arrogant of people to think they can destroy something they cannot create.

Answer 11

Actually in the 80's it was global cooling, we were all warned that another ice age was about to happen.