Global warming, fact or Pseudo-Science?

Answer 1

It's absolutely indisputable that average temperatures over the past ten years or so are higher than they have ever been in recorded history. Whether that means that there's a catastrophe headed our way or not is open to a lot of debate. Whether the observable warming that has occurred over the past decades is caused by human activity or not is also open to tremendous debate.

What is vastly more important, though, and what all the screeching neocon demogoguery detracts from is the very simple fact that whether or not global warming is caused by humans, or whether or not it is happening at all doesn't matter. Either way, it's a smart idea to start cleaning up after ourselves.

Cleaning up - and adopting cleaner industrial practices is a part of that - is perhaps the single greatest business opportunity of the 21st century. Whenever massive innovation has been required or simply come about organically, the result has been the spectacular expansion of commerce and economies. If you think that there's a conflict between economic progress and environmental preservation, you're a troglodyte.

Global warming is a dodge issue.

Answer 2

It is real and its effects are happening as we speak. This first obivious signs are the effect it is having on the weather. Its affects started in the 20s during the industrial revolution. We were and I say were gifted with a 2 mile layer of insulation at that time. By the 60s, this has been reduced by 45%. At that time the hippies did bring up the issue but of course noone took them seriously. The only ones that spout about it being a myth are those that may have something to lose if the proper measure are taken to lessen the immediateness of this problem. Unfortunately there is no turning it back just the possibility of holding it back. But this will take world wide cooperation and we all know this will not happen. So we can just look forward to more disasters like Katrina and Tsunamis like in Indonesia. In fact there was just another one the other day in that same area as a result of a 7.7 earthquake.

Answer 3

Fact, or as much of a fact as there can be for something like this.

The climate went through a 500 year period where the overall global climate cooled precipitously; this was called the little ice age and it ended around the mid 1800s. At that point the climate began warming. There is evidence that these centuries long warming and cooling cycles are regular occurances on our planet.

If the climate is warming in general as part of the normal cycle the planet goes through, who is to say that what we're calling global warming is man-made?

My view is that whatever "natural" warming cycle we're going through is being exaggerated by manmade warming. Thus is global is increasing "naturally" by one degree per century, manmade factors might be causing this to double or triple.

Strangely enough, long-term climate trends seem to work off of feedback loops. When the temperature gets too far in one extreme or the other, mechanisms kick in that bring it back the other way. For example, the gulf stream (which keeps northern europe relatively temperate) begins to dissipate as a warming climate melts northern ice caps and dilutes the salinity of the northern oceans. When this happens, temperatures start to go down again. Because of this, one affect of manmade global warming might be to accelerate this warming-cooling cycle; we might experience another mini-ice age sooner than we think.

Answer 4

It really just depends on your source, what the American scientists say may be true cause they are far from stupid, but then there are a lot of scientists in US and the majority of world that believe it is human influenced.

I personally think it borders on the ignorant side if people can believe human induced global warming is a hoax, industrialization has made us spew an enormous amounts of toxic gas from beneath the earth and into the atmosphere, To be able to radically change the situation of the ozone layer yet not to dent the amount of heat reflected back to earth is a bit far fetched in my opinion.

Answer 5

Politically-motivated Junk Science.



Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray, in a recent interview with Discover Magazine (which has advocated the theory of human-induced global warming), says: "This human-induced global-warming thing ... is grossly exaggerated. ... I'm not disputing there has been global warming. There was a lot of global warming in the 1930s and '40s, and then there was global cooling in the middle '40s to the early '70s. Nearly all of my colleagues who have been around 40 or 50 years are skeptical ... about this global-warming thing. But no one asks us." (Gray was described by Discover Magazine's editors as one of "the world's most famous hurricane experts.")

Commenting on the misuse of science to support political agendas, Harvard's Dr. Malcolm Ross concludes of such folly, "Freeze or fry, the problem is always industrial capitalism, and the solution is always international socialism."

Dr. Roy Spencer, former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, has issued "Questions for Al Gore" based on what he calls "Gore's Inconvenient Truth." NASA scientist James Hansen, director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, argues, "The natural fluctuations of climate are still large -- at least, the natural fluctuations of weather compared to long-term climate change." (Hansen, it should be noted, is a liberal who publicly endorsed the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry.)

Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center, is a bit less nuanced about Gore's claims: "[Global warming] is a hoax."

Answer 6

Global warming, in that the world's average temperature is one degree higher than it was 20 years ago, is fact.

But human-caused global warming is a sick, sick joke. It's not even pseudo-science. It's evil, purposeful lies. Al Gore knows he's completely fabricating the whole thing, but he doesn't care. He's just desperate for attention. The way he twisted video snippets and said they portrayed things they didn't is just despicable.

Answer 7

a tremendous kind of the statements above by using "Baccheus" are incorrect. certain we are shifting right into a image voltaic minima meaning few sunspots and a lot less radiant warmth -- yet no the earth isn't nonetheless warming. international floor temperatures - -measured by using both the outdoors monitoring community and the satellite tv for pc community -- - coach a similar component -- the land and ocean surfaces were at strong or perhaps cooling for the reason that 1997 (i.e., the only accurate 12 years). pretty a lot honestly the IPCC kind which claims an anthropogenic reason (i.e., eco-friendly abode gases) for the international warming of 20 years in the past is inaccurate. regrettably the IPCC went from a technological understanding organization to a political one -- notwithstanding the fraud changed into uncovered interior the launch of emails from the united kingdom climate middle. The IPCC and the UN were mendacity and evidently. Al Gore is only a dunce and can't help himself -- no man or woman might want to base their determination on his ranting.

Answer 8

I can't believe that this could be once again thrown to the "liberal loosers" and their evil desire to conquer and impregnate all the Conservatives women.. The fact that the planet is heating up is just that ...fact.. that we are contributing to it greatly by dumping millions of tons of carbon and other particulates into the atmosphere daily is also fact.. the only people debating the cause of this are corporate funded junk scientists.. 99% of the science community are compelled regardless of their political affiliation to conquer .. but there's that good ol 1% that controls everything screwing it up so that they might make another million in the next ten minutes, it's hopeless, see you all in the funny papers.

Answer 9

fact-- global warming is happening .WHAT is causing it is still some-what of a mystery .to be completely blind to the fact that we may be contributing to it is arrogance pure and simple. you sure do like to ruin a good thing .war ,famine hate and a complete lack of conscience must make you popular in your circle of friends .WHAT do you do for fun .HIRE a minortity and two years later fire him and watch to see how long it takes for him to be arrested and bet on it .MAYBE you just like to drop guns off in fields and then see how long til someone is killed with one .I heard a story about a couple of crime lab guys that made this bet and dumped 12 guns on the streets of miami's little havanah and in three months four of the guns had been used in crimes around the area .rumor maybe but some times the truth is stranger then fiction .YOU must of been one of those kids that tore the wings off fly's and burned ant's with a magnifing glass .

Answer 10

The scientific debate is about how much warming and if humans are causing it.

It is a fact however.