What is your opinion on Global Warming?

Question

i personally think it needs to be stopped if it can be.

Answer 1

As an educator of Physics and Earth Science (Geology) I know global warming is real.
You simply cannot discount the damage that chloroflorocarbons and other greenhouse gases have done to the Oxygen8 (ozone) in Earth's atmosphere. When you factor in how many people are getting cancer of the skin and of the lungs, you know that global warming is true.

The world needs to do whatver it can to reduce the outut of greenhouse gases whenever it can. If that means car makers need to focus on hybrids and eventually electric cars, then thet is what we have to do.

What people don't seem to recognize is that Global warming doesnt destroy the Earth.
Earth is an adapter to whatever paradigm it is suspect to.
Earth has come a long way since its begginings when the oceans were acidic and the air was cyanide rich.
What global warming WILL DO, is make the Earth uninhabital for humans and most mammals.
That is something we cannot afford to overlook because we are destroying our enviornment that our posterity will be forced to live in merely so we can enjoy luxuries such as SUV's, and Air Conditioning.

All those who say that Global Warming is "JUNK SCIENCE" are UNEDUCATED FOOLS - people who don't even understand science and most likely dropped out of high school.

The oil companies and arab oil barons who lobby in our congress want us to forget Global Warming exists merely so we will keep financing their ways of life and making sultans rich. If the world suddenly adopts clean vehicles, those people in the middle east are screwed - and they know it.

What those in the lesser-political knowledged hear is twisting of temperature records and twisting of facts about the melting of the polar ice caps. The last such spin I heard was that
"They aren't melting, they are expanding"

LOL - have you ever watched an ice cube melt on the floor? It expands too! - and floods that part of the floor.

The Neo-Cons would love to make up excuses about "why sea level is rising" and "why we are having record heat waves and hurricanes". Unfortunately people in the red states just aren't smart enough to discern Bullsh!t from fact.


America needs to gain energy independence.
Ethanol fuels are a good start but we desperatly need fusion cells and fucion nuclear reactors.

Energy independence in The Americas will put a dramatic reduction on Islamic terrorism since it is oil sales that FUND arab islamic terrorism.
BTW - if the world could build fusion reactors, they would not be able to make nuclear weapons since nukes are made from fission instead.

I feel that Global Warming is real, dangerous and is avoidable if we start acting on it now.

Answer 2

Everybody is gonna tell you on here that it's not happening, or if it is, it's a natural cycle.
It is happening. That's been well documented and we're losing ice on both poles. Anybody that doesn't understand that watches too much Fox network news.
Global climate change does cycle naturally. But we jumped off the natural trend line and we're in a human-induced global warming. We CAN, by the way, determine past CO2 levels studying isotopes, peat bogs, tree rings, etc. That's going to have some negative effects for US. The world will cycle on with or without us, but we will pay the price. New Orleans probably was part of the price.
It'd be nice if we could stop it. But we've known about global warming since 1982 and we haven't done anything yet. It's caused mostly by us burning petroleum. We WON'T get around to doing anything about it, but before long there will be no more petroleum left to burn and then we'll finally turn the corner.

Answer 3

I don't know how representative the people who take part in Yahoo!Answers are of the entire population which I assume is mostly Americans but if the majority of the responses to this question do represent how Americans feel I'm scared.

Global Warming is real, I say so because up here in Calgary Alberta, winter doesn't exist anymore, the pine beetle is destroying our forests because winter aren't cold enough to kill them every year, record breaking temperatures in the last few consecutive years and in the United States insurance companies have released a report saying the amount of claims caused by natural diasters that they have had to pay has increased by twenty percent compared with records dating back for more than a hundred years. Whether that has any connection to global warming, I think it does, I can't see it happening with my eyes but I can't see tobacco smoke causing lung cancer either.

For every action their is an equal and opposite reaction, if global warming isn't the reaction to expelling trillions of tons of waste into the atmostphere what is?

Al Gore has made a documentery that says global warming exists, it is filled with facts and he cites dozens of sources from credible backgrounds and sources. I've seen no such piece of work of the same cailber from the opposite end of the spectrum so what am I supposed to believe? On one end I have scientific facts and data, Nobel prize winners and a Vice President or one of the best administrations in the US. On the other side I have conspiracy theorists, man's natural resisitence to change that has far more often then not been proven wrong throughout history, a handful of scientists with questionable motives, and Geroge W. Bush.

Answer 4

They is proof to help either side of the worldwide warming argument. The elaborate aspect is that individuals often think essentially the most standard opinion i.e., Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. The hindrance with that's that many primary tips are overlooked and unnoticed altogether. For example, Al Gore's documentary did not even point out the end result of volcanic exercise and the atmosphere. Volcanic eruptions give a contribution extra to worldwide warming than every other earthly variable, adding us. The different hindrance with the worldwide warming argument is how individuals like Al Gore use emotional ploys (akin to dieing animals and shrinking ecosystems)to get individuals to pay concentration. This isn't reasonable to someone. Yes, it'll good be precise that animals die and their habitats diminish however, is that this contributed via worldwide warming by myself? What approximately city sprawl, farm animals farming within the rainforests, and an ever growing human populace? Global warming is a elaborate predicament to rather get to the backside of when you consider that of all the rubbish like this that surrounds it. I wish this is helping a little bit. Good good fortune.

Answer 5

I personally don't believe it exists. NASA keeps measuring the planet's temperatue, and year after year, report the average temp hasn't changed at all. What has happened, it is getting colder at the South Pole, and warmer elsewhere.

This is another mass panic caused by people who look at one or two years, but certainly not as long as 50 years or 1700 years, and assume the end is nigh. This same meaningless panic happened over the ozone layer, which is not a problem.

The hottest temps ever recorded in the eastern US was some years ago, I think it was weeks above 100 degrees. One such time was 1930. I heard it last night on the radio.

And, one scientist has looked at long term trends, and found there is a 1700 year cycle, and we are not even near the hottest part of that cycle.

National Geographic in the early 1900's reported that fast glacier melt-off in the late 1890's had finally reversed and the glaciers came back.

I am amazed that with all our wonderful science and computers the general public is just as easily led astray by panic or political agenda as illiterates in the Middle Ages.

Answer 6

First, scientists thought we were headed for a new ice age. Then they invented Global Warming because volcanoes put enough gases into the air to warm things up for awhile. Then they extrapolate the hell out of it and blame people for what the Sun is really doing. Then when the weather cools down, they say that's part of global warming.

Wolf! Wolf! WOLF!!!!!

Yeah, right.

Answer 7

Well the scientist who thinks this exist also support the Theory of Evolution..So if Earth is getting just a little hotter each year wont our Bodies adapt?


(I think Global Warming and Evolution are both total BS)

Answer 8

I believe that global weather naturally fluctuates over time, and that there is nothing we can do to stop that natural fluctuation. However, I do believe that human activity, such as carbon emissions, can serve to AMPLIFY the natural fluctuations. An increased average ocean temperature in the Atlantic, for example, does not CAUSE a hurricane to form, but the increased temperature can serve to make any hurricane that forms more powerful and therefore more destructive than it would otherwise have been.

If human activity is amplifying the natural fluctuations and making them more destructive, then we need to address and remediate our contribution to the effects.

Answer 9

It definately needs to be stopped or else we'll be in a lot of trouble. Unfortunately, most people and the governments do not really care about it since money is today's god. Doesn't matter that the world is falling apart, that animals are dying, the most important thing is to have money, because money can solve everything. I wonder what they will do with all their money when they've kicked the bucket...Quite sad. Since most govermnents and people do not care about it I doubt that we can stop it before it's too late. But nature will have its revenge, most certainly.

Answer 10

An aberration recently brought up by Al Gore to foster a new Presidential campaign.