Does anyone really believe in Global Warming?

Question

Does anyone really believe in Global Warming? Despite the inconclusive evidence and the debunking of the half-truths and outright lies that the more radical environmentalists are throwing out as fast as they can?
And if you do, I'd like to know why. Maybe I haven't fully seen "the light" yet, but I'm still curious to know what believers of this theory think.

Answer 1

Well, I don't know how old you are, but I have actually experienced the climate changes throughout the years. I remember drastically colder winters, hotter summers than before. I remember a strict demarcation zone between the four seasons, now, it seems that summer turns directly into winter. I live in the Northeast.

Let's look at the animals and how THEY react to this phenomenon! These changes seriously threaten animals such as polar bears, which live and hunt on the sea ice. The bears have already suffered a 15 percent decrease in their number of offspring and a similar decline in weight over the past 25 years. If the Arctic sea ice disappears altogether during the summer months, as some researchers expect it will by the end of the century, polar bears have little chance of survival. They are encroaching the Southern areas of Canada like Churchill seeking food as a result of the polar ice disintegrating.

Inuit hunters in Canada and Saami reindeer herders in Finland have detected shifts in the migratory behavior of animals. In some cases, people whose elders taught them decades ago how to forecast storms from wind patterns and cloud formations have lost their predictive abilities to new weather patterns.

Don't take my word for it, look at the animals - they don't lie - they are just trying to survive what WE are doing to THEIR planet.

Yes, I believe in the Global Warming theory.

Answer 2

of course there is global warming. its been comming on for decades naturally. we are in that cycle. it just doesnt need the help weve been giving it. the polar caps are melting causing the water tables to rise. i moved to north dakota in 1981. during that time you could count on at least 3 days in the winter where you would look out the window and get right back in bed. there was so much snow that you wernt going anywhere. the last couple of years i lived there you didnt have to shovel your sidewalks. fossil fuel emissions have to go somewhere. how could any thinking person not believe that its doing damage? theres only 1 source that can screw up the balance of nature, and that would be human beings. when your in a large city, look up at the sky and cant see the sun because of the haze, that should be an indication of a problem. facts are distorted all the time to prove a point, but common sense should tell you that we cant go on this way. green plants produce oxygen. they are going by the wayside at an alarming rate. why do you think that is? if lies and distorted facts are what it takes for people to take notice, i hope they are kept up. the reason the evidence is inconclusive is because we all arnt fried yet.

Answer 3

I honestly do NOT believe that Global Warming is real. Why don't people know that these are just NORMAL weather changes that take place? Temperatures go back and forth to both extremes over thousands of years. During the time of the dinosaurs temperatures were VERY warm. After that there was an Ice Age. Do people think dinosaurs contibuted to the higher temperatures by producing carbon dioxide?? Of course they don't. We are just in the early stages of a warmer period on Earth. DON'T think for a second that humans can change Carbon Dioxide levels in the air. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If everyone devoted all their time to trying to put Carbon Dioxide in the air by any means they could, we still couldn't change those levels.

Answer 4

Yup, I believe it. Insolation (short-wave radiation) comes to earth, CO2 holds it back and prevents the Earth from re-emitting it back into space as long-wave radiation. Makes sense to me.
Not just that, but there's gotta be *some reason* to explain why wildlife are migrating later and later, which can be a bad thing because they miss the reproductive cycles of the prey items they depend on, meaning they have trouble feeding *their* young.

Then there's range expansion. Presumably as the arctic warms, the hardy red fox has invaded arctic fox territory, out-competing the latter species.

But even if global warming is debateable, its not something I'm willing to risk. I'd feel crappy if I polluted to my heart's content and then, given time, looked around at the mess I helped made and had to say, "Oh man! What'd I do that for?!"

P.S.--Maybe you're not enironmentalist, but (seriously) thanks for phrasing your question politely. I wish other people on these boards had such etiquette.

Answer 5

Wow! I'd really like to now why you'd NOT think it infinitely more desirable to "err on the side of caution," rather than continue, pall mall, in our laissez faire mentality about it all... even if we are not the chief contributors (for me, it's hard to believe we are not) we certainly needn't aid the process through our negligence and defiant arrogance. We are relative newcomers on the world scene... and while we have gathered a lot of insight as to the workings of the world, we are by no means able to clearly see our degrees of impact and culpability in the eco-sphere's degredations. There is much too much formidible evidence that suggests that our cumulative impact is bringing us to this trend we call "global warming;" and it would appear to be one of the most disconcerting "cusps of catastrophe" that humanity now faces...

Natural catastrophes are one thing... Yellowstone's caldera blowing, a killer asteroid, the Sun going nova, etc., are things out of our control (presently)... but the things over which we may have some degree of control should not be summarily discarded, or should not be seen as the shrill crys of lunatics... if we fail to act for the interests of humanity, then we may be in for a dismal future indeed!

Answer 6

Wow... one person posted a blog and one person posted a series of pictures... I think you have quite a bit of evidence in those two links to convert you to the "light". If you are still in doubt, check some from below.

I really like the link to the pictures. It clearly shows you how, over 100 years or so the climate has drastically changed. It's amazing to think that the world is so near total colossal meltdown. Just think, if only we could look at pictures taken when humans first walked this earth 250,000 years ago. The Earth is on track to be the hottest its ever been in 4.57 billion years! Obviously.

Answer 7

I completely believe in the theory of global warming. All around the world we are seeing the average temperatures going up by several degrees a year. More and more crops are failing due to heat and the polar ice caps are melting because the air around them is too hot to keep them solid. Look at the Midwest in America. Ten years ago, in December, you would see feet of snow on the ground, now all you see are snow flurries and dead grass. The world is changing and we arent ready for it.

Answer 8

If you are serious, do the research. The Bush administration has heavy ties to the oil industries and other heavy polluters. They have tremendous financial incentives to debunk serious scientific studies. They have gone so far as to change the wording on scintific reports concerning this topic in order to make the scientists' claims less urgent/ Do the research. You will see for yourself

Answer 9

Obviously you don't care what anyone thinks because you have clearly made up your mind on the matter so what's the point of even asking this question? Do you just want to hear yourself talk? Or maybe you just want to be validated. I'm sure you will only give best answer to someone who agrees with you so why bother asking the opinions of people who dont?

Answer 10

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