Some people believe in global warming and some people do not believe in global warming. If we believe?

Question

in global warming and try to stop it by controlling output of greenhouse gases, who benefits? If we don't believe in global warming and do nothing to stop it, who benefits?

Answer 1

It's warming, just a question of what is causing it; is it part of a regular millennias old cycle which will reach a peak and go back down, or have the gases you mentioned contributed significantly enough to cause the spike. No doubt air pollution should be controlled for quality of life. Industries/corporations benefit in the short term, but everyone loses if we don't use more environmental friendly methods.

Answer 2

"Global Warming" is real. The Community of Scientists
believe it. Most thinking people are concerned that if
this is so, what will be the consequences?

The book. and the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"
explains the problem and the Dire Consequences if
nothing is done. NOW.

Yes we have had wide temperature swings on our earth,
but this has generally averaged out to a tolerable level.
Because Loggers all over the earth are "Clear Cutting"
forests and burning them too, the chemical balance of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere is very
different than before, when Selective Cutting, and replanting of trees in our forests maintained the balance.
Worldwide, forests need to be replanted with trees. NOW.

Yes, auto exhaust, and industry polution must be cleaned up, but that doesn't solve the problem because it doesn't put any oxygen back into our atmosphere. Trees do.
Trees absorb Carbon Dioxide and emit Oxygen. This
maintains the chemical balance in our atmosphere.

Answer 3

A few years ago they blamed the enlarging of the hole in the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere over Antarctica on green house gases, I read today that the ozone has now nearly returned to normal. I suspect the Global warming thing, although it's fun to blame it on human activity, is probably not caused by just one thing. I have read that forest fires, decomposing plants and bovine excrement ( cow manure ) contributes many times more green house gases than all of man's activities. Man could change the climate of the earth via war, particularly nuclear war, but then so could one big asteroid of super volcano. We need to know way more than we or Al Gore know about this stuff before we scare everyone or despair about the end of the world.

Answer 4

It's not a matter of belief. The climate is getting warmer. The main thing people need to do is stop arguing over the causes and deal with the change in the climate, whether it's a natural or human-caused change. Even if we stopped ALL polution today and all the warming was human-caused, it would still continued to get warmer for years before things started to level off and get better. Let's stop bickering and deal with the effects.