Is "global warming" really happening and scientifically proven or is it a bunch of hoopla?

Answer 1

Global warming (and cooling) are natural events. Clever measures of gas content in Antarctica ice/snow have shown this to be true for hundreds of thousands of years.

What is unnatural about this latest warming phase is the extent and speed at which it is coming. Plotted out to 2050, the temperature Earth will average out at will be "off the charts," which means it will reach a level that never before existed on Earth since life began.

Further, the slope of the average temperatures over the years, is steeper than ever before. This means the current warming phase is coming on faster as well as stronger than anytime on Earth while life existed here. [See source.]

The data are there, this is not hoopla. Those who deny the data have agendas, which are usually political or economic. But there are also those who would deny the data simply because they cannot face the "inconvenient truth."

Answer 2

Believe it, it is happening! And I'd challenge anyone to find anybody in the scientific community who would deny it.
Problem is that it's not like 9/11, the outbreak of war or AIDS that hit you in the face. By the time people begin to really feel it, it will be too late.
The global energy industry has a capital input of $129 trillion and a turn around time of 30 to 40 years. Can you be optimistic that appropriate action will be taken on a timely basis?

Answer 3

The majority of scientists and environmentalists says that it is more likely to be true, but still there is some skeptical environmentalists who says that there is no solid proof or evidence that can assure that assumption, they say that the rise in temp. which has been recorded the last 2 centuries are normal in the life of Earth and that it happened before and Earth recovered by itself and stuff like that...
what they both agree upon is that these gases cause the global warming due to the green house effect, but the significance of the alteration of the global warming is the issue disputable.

Answer 4

Global warming is happening. In the last 25,000 years the Earth's temp has gone up, the glaciers have melted and the sea level has risen, how much more it will warm is anybody's guess. Those that blame all global warming on man's activities are bonkers, the sun is getting hotter, sea currents change, there have not been any real major volcanos erupting, (Mount St Helens was a firecracker compared to Toba or Yellowstone) so the Earth is getting warmer. In the future the Sun will get even hotter and fry all life on Earth, I'd like to see those tree hugging liberal freaks try and negotiate with that.

Answer 5

1. it is definitely happening and there is lots of evidence to show it which has been printed over and over in scientific journals, and even printed many times in the lay press -- the vast majority of climate scientists have endorsed this concept and the faculty of many US Environmental Science departments and Schools have strongly endorsed The "Inconvenient Truth" movie.

2. the hoopla comes from ignorant semi-educated amateurs and spokespeople for the energy industry and other vested interests who simply lie about the situation since it is no longer possible in the face of existing evidence to maintain a legitimate scientific objection.

Answer 6

attempt checking geological stuff.. the international has warmed and cooled and so its warming back. It did it without us and if all of us left the planet it might proceed on and not in any respect even care we were round. about 40 years in the past a set of Marin/Berkeley-ites determined they could administration the inhabitants in the adventure that they made an quite huge deal about a organic phenom.. with money from stupid actors who want motives to teach how unselfish they are and millionaires who want to take a tax correct off.. they have confident by technique of foyer, Congress and everyone who likes to experience bandwagons, it is a terrible unnatural adventure that became completely led to by technique of mankind. Natual activities are gonna take position even if we stay the following or not yet everyone is so naive about geology they'll run round like fowl little crying the international is warming.. and recycling will not 'make it more effective perfect' and that is going to not take position in our lifetime or our large large grandkids lifetime.. They predicted all kinds of undesirable stuff 50 years and none of it got here to be which might want to sensible more effective human beings up.. yet they don't pay interest to old predictions in basic terms the present ones.

Answer 7

Yes, but many scientists believe it is a naturally occurring phenomenon. While we may be contributing slightly to the effect, our part is relatively small in the scheme of things. For instance, in Earth's not-too-distant history there have been volcanoes that have released more 'greenhouse' gasses in one eruption than all of humanity in the past 100 years. Google Crackatoa, and pass the word along to Gore. lol!
The Earth has an amazing power of regeneration, and these warming and cooling trends may very well be a part of its natural cycles. We know there have been several ice ages, so a 'warm' age would not be that far fetched.

Answer 8

Evidence does suggest it's happening - as for causes I believe the human race is too young to prove if it is a cycle that happens within time (over millions of years)or whether we are really damaging the atmosphere with pollutants which would cause such a large catastrophe.

Answer 9

It cannot be proven. The earth is reaching record temperatures, but as history shows, it does that anyway throughout the planets history. So nobody can really prove if its us or not. It's hard to imagine that we are not effecting the warming in some way though.

Answer 10

the only thing that is a sure thing the population will keep growing until the inevitable ww3 and maybe a famine or two, wait, disease has a big say in the matter also. if there were one half of the people on earth , well you get my drift. it's the worlds resources that's being tapped out and sooner or later mother earth will destroy us.Mankind will literally eat himself out of house and home. amen