Does anyone actually believe in this global warming hype?

Answer 1

I don't believe in global warming. This plant was here before us and will be here after we're long gone.

Answer 2

I believe that we should be responsible in how we treat the planet, after all its the only one we have. However ultimately scientists can not possibly know the effect we might have on the way our weather works.

All they can work on is a theory that they can fit to the facts, and depending on who is paying the researchers will ultimately determine the conclusions that they draw from their data sets, and it would be naive to think otherwise.

Basically there are many factors which will drive the public perception of our impact on the environment, but what is paramount is a consensus on how to proceed is reached, we should proceed with activity that will best secure our continued existence on this world. the issue of should we believe all of this speculation/prediction is up to a personal choice, and an open mind.

The fact remains that we all have a responsibility for the future what needs to be remembered by all is that we have to live with the consequences of our actions today, tomorrow.

Answer 3

A lot of these answers miss the point. Just because winters are less cold now than they were when you were a child, or July 2006 was the hottest July on record (in the UK) doesn't mean a thing.

Weather patterns have to be considered on a global basis over periods of tens of thousands of years at a time. If the coming winter happens to be the coldest on record would that suddenly mean global warming wasn't happening ? Of course not. Our limited personal perspective tells us nothing.

That said some things are undeniable. The increase of greenhouse gas emissions over the last 200-300 years of industrialised activity in the western world has occurred at roughly the same time that the Earth has significantly warmed up. Is this really a coincidence ?

And can anyone who is not convinced of global warming tell me that the millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that we pump into the atmosphere every year will have either a beneficial effect on the planet or no effect at all ?

Answer 4

When my grandparents were growing up everyone had coal fires and the trains were steam, throwing up loads of pollution, the fog was so thick they called it 'pea soup fog' that is where the saying 'the smoke' comes from meaning down south. The same was when my parents were growing up. Surely if there is any truth in this 'global warming thing' then the worst was done then and not now! we live in a much cleaner society than they did and who's to say that the change in the environment doesn't take 50-100 years to take effect in which case what we are seeing now was caused from the turn of the 1900's -1960's. I bet if we wait, we'll see the tide change the other way in 20 or 30 years time when the changes brought in in the 1960's begin to take effect. This is just another example of the government trying to bleed us all dry and line their own pockets with our money! I mean, it's not like they're going to spent it on reversing climate change is it!! Their track record of spending our hard earned cash is not good

Answer 5

I hate to interupt to party but I thought that someone who has studied this topic should chime in.....

I do believe in global warming but.... and this is a big but.... there is no proof that humans are the direct cause to global warming. On top of that global warming is not happening as fast as advertised. Also global warming is the reason that there is life on this planet.

The people who believe in it and are posting here are also posting horrible reasons to believe in global warming. Most of these reasons can be refuted with simple climate science not global warming.... weather also tends to act in patterens... There are studies that say the earth is in a warmer portion of the pattern. There are so many variables that affect the weather... Some we know, some we know and understand, some we are discovering, and some we may not know. Meteorology and Climatology are "new" sciences.

All I am tring to get across here is that weather and climate, right now, are unpredictable. I can give you a forecast for the next week but after a day there is noticable error in that forecast. And after a day the error in forecasts increases exponentially. And I can give you a climatic outlook for the next month or two. But these are based on current weather patterns and the what has happened at that time in the past. So there is no one who knows for sure the temperatures 1,5,10, or even 50 years from now. If they can they are lying.

Answer 6

It's not hype at all, it's definitely true. For the first time ever this year my roses have budded again in October, they shouldn't do that til spring. Also the temperature in general has been a lot milder than previous years. I remember when I was a child, this time of year would be bitterly cold, we're lucky if we even get snow at all now. All the storms and flooding round the world is down to global warming and soon it will become more obvious.

Answer 7

After reading reports from 98% of the scientific community, my vegetables having a longer growing season then yes it is simply not hype.

What an obscure question - In years to come when the gulf stream dissapears and sea levels rise it will be similar to asking if anyone believes the earth is flat.

I know that people distrust science and even more so politicians but face facts the earth is hotting up an alarming rate and we do need to do something about it. It seems that we would like to give a legacy of 70% less wildlife and an ice age to our children.

Answer 8

I don't know if I believe it or not. I used to watch a comedy programme called Rising Damp when it started about 30 years ago. Climate change was mentioned in one of the programmes (regarding spray deodorant). My thinking is this: if climate change was known about then, why the panic now. Why have successive Governments not taken action before? What has been done to stop America and China pumping muck into the atmosphere? And if people are going to be taxed more to stop them from using too much gas, electricity etc., what about the people living on the poverty line? My suspicions are that it is just another way of getting money out of Joe Public.

Answer 9

I take it you don't.......because you have some esoteric special knowledge that it isn't going to happen????

I would make a quick guess that you are american...the reason being that I find most people who want to dismiss global warming belong to the USA, the country that uses the greatest proportion of the earths resources.

global warming is real and it's likely that it is too late to prevent major climate change..the best we can do is limit it's effects.

Answer 10

Yes.
I do.
Because of all the pollution we make and all the gases that we use up(if other harmful stuff, i wouldn't know it).
Creating the greenhouse effect.
So.
Do the 3 R's to help the enviroment.

Answer 11

A lot of people do. The evidence is persuasive that temperatures are increasing; as for the theory that this is due to human CO2 emissions, I consider the case unproven -- and unproveable, as the thesis necessarily relies on computer simulations, which anyone who has tried predicting the weather with a computer is well aware of the problems in doing so. It is clear that the ameliorative measures proposed would be vastly expensive.