whatsup with global warming, is it really happening?

Answer 1

Yes.

But everyone keeps getting surprised at how fast it is progressing.

Sell your beachfront property and either find a very steep ocean side cliff to keep your view or move inland till you are about 100ft above sea level (maybe more - but I keep hearing 60ft... or is it meters?

D'Oh!

Answer 2

The Earth goes through temperature cycles. However, the overall temperature has risen 1 degree Celsius in the past 100 years. That has never happened so quickly before. The ice caps are melting and the gulf stream is slowing down. When it stops, the atmosphere on the coasts and in the Arctic will change. So, there is global warming, but its a cyclical thing. Warm then ice age, warm then ice age. But not for a long time yet.

Answer 3

of course GLOBAL WARMING is happening! i'm surprised that any one would still doubt that global warming is happening. newsflash its not The Earth goes through a temperature cycle, those take thousands of years to progress as much as what already happened and will continue to.

the computer models are not lies and the inconvient truth of the computer models aren't the only evidence out there proving global warming. there are many satellite pictures showing the ice caps melting at an alarming rate. i think recently a chunk the size of Rhode island broke off the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Thousand of glaciers that have been around for thousands of years are disappearing at an alarming rate. (to the skeptics) come on, how else can you attriubte the loss of glaciers, polar ice caps, and the general rise in global temperature to anything else but global warming. also, you can't blame anybody else but human activitiy. since the industrial revoultion (yeah that first model T) millions of tons of the greenhouse gas of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere
almost, the entire scientific community acknowledge that there is a direct link beteween the increase in the release of carbon dioxide and increase in global temperature.

the usa and other contries can slow global warming down before the extreame effects of global warming happen. the use of alternate forms of fuel (brasil already did it by useing ethanol and almost stoped their dependance on oil), use of energy effecient cars (hybrids), the USA administration joining the Kyoto Treaty ( which commits industrialised nations to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, principally Carbon Dioxide, by around 5.2% over the next decade), recycling more material, use of sustainable wood (trees are cut and then replanted), and incresed use of public transpertation, ect. These are just steps the USA could do easily and is already done in many countries around the world.

The alternative of not acknowledging and continue to be collectively blind to the facts of global warming means higher ocean levels because of the loss of ice(good by costal cities like New York, London, washington DC), increased and unpridictable weather patterns (the whole 2005 hurricane season), massive climate change (places that were covered with vegitation becoming a desert), increased droughts and wildfires, and heat waves will be more frequent and more intense. And not to mention the more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.

global warming is one of the biggest issues facing the world today. There is a moral obligation for the world to dig its head from the sand and do something about it.

Answer 4

There is broad scientific consensus on these points:

1. The earth is definitely getting warmer.
2. This warming is greater than at any time during human history.
3. Humans are one of the main causes of global warming.

Answer 5

This is a measured phenomenon. The measurements say no. Everyone who says different points to computer models that pull numbers out of their ***. That's an imporant thing to understand about global warming. We have plenty of actual measurements to decide if this happens or not directly and they show conslusively that it doesn't....so much so that the idea of global warming is ridiculous. The computer models people come up with are basically lies. They assume patterns and correlations that do not exist....at all.

Answer 6

Of course it's true. The state of Michigan was under ~10,000 feet of ice as recently as 10,000 years ago. The middle East was cooler and rainier during the time of Jesus than it is today. Papyrus , the stuff they first made paper from, used to grow all over the middle east at that time, but now it's too hot and too dry for it to grow there any more. Most coastal towns of the ancient world are now submerged under many feet of sea due to sea level rise during the last few thousand years.
The real question is whether mankind caused any of this by burning fossil fuels. Who knows?

Answer 7

I think that it is happening! Because know day are even hotter than ever. It is hotter than last summer I don't even think that is going to snow this winter.And global warming is a big problem because in the south pole there is ice and if the ice melts the water is going to go higher an then is going to make a big wave of of water. And then we are going to be under water.That's why is a big dil!And that's why it's hotter!

Answer 8

In 1975 this is what "scientists" said.
http://tinyurl.com/h9kg7

They actually proposed dumping ash on the ice caps.
In another 30 years we'll prolly laughing at what the are saying now.

Answer 9

No. The earth has always had periods of heating and cooling and it's been hotter than this in the past.

Answer 10

Yes. It is a very serious threat. We have proof that the polar ice cap is melting.