what is your opinion on global warming?

Answer 1

CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.

Look at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest, and 2006 is shaping up to maybe break that record.
(see links below)

How's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.

There has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.

Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.

Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.

HI CO2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
HOCKEY STICK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm
General climate stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm

Answer 2

Global warming! To me it sounds the most disputed term in the Environmental Studies. It is always surprising to me that the so called “warming” is always explained “locally” but never globally.

The average change in global ambient temperature is insignificant and not enough to demonstrate any affect. The examples generally quoted to favour global warming are actually the localized issues may be because of the well known greenhouse gases; more or less like island effect.

If “Global warming” is the only term to discuss the effect of pollution on climatic changes then it may be accepted but never for the increase in ambient temperature.

Answer 3

My opinion is that it is real, it is partially man made and partially natural, that there has not yet been any measurable temperature rise, that there will probably, but not definitely, be a measurable temperature rise in the next 50 years, and that the consequences will not be as bad as Al Gore says, but probably there will be consequences.

I favor reducing our dependence oil primarily because of the political problems of importing it from the middle east and only secondarily because of global warming.

Reducing our use of coal will have a bigger impact on global warming because coal contains more carbon than oil. When considering reduced coal usage, my opinion is about equally divided between global warming and other environmental problems, like habitat damage from strip mining and acid rain.

Answer 4

The environmentalist base most of that CO2 has increaseed 30% which is not true. WE the world burns huge amounts of fuel this should produce a large increas in CO2 but where is it , I cant find it with an instrument that will measure 1 part per million. Well I found it the CO2 has been captured by the green plants and they took in all the CO2 and put out oxygen. So in reality there has been no increase in CO2 there is also no Global warming.

Answer 5

My first response, I think its been warming since the last ice age....I am still unconvinced that it is not a natural occurring event. I think the Earth has gone into periods of warming and rapid cooling (ice ages). Will the Earth warm and possibly go into another ice age, yes, I think so. So is my driving my car every day really going to make a difference? Doesn't seem likely. Would putting tighter controls on developing economies using low tech manufacturing methods make more sense, yes. I find Al Gore and his propaganda sounding speeches to lack credibility.

Answer 6

My opinion is very convuluted and best makes sense to an eviromentalist. But awareness helps the problem, so basically...

Global warming is the general name given to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a repetitive cycle of carbon dioxide and water vapor clogging the atmosphere. Then light comes into the atmosphere from the sun, is absorbed by many things, but is also reflected by many things. When light is reflected it is trapped in the atmosphere by the aforementioned gases.

The trapped energy is transmuted into all of the enviroment as heat. Someone said that the temperature won't change for fifty years. Well students and professors and other professionals project that the temperature will rise by as many as five to ten degrees fahrenheit in twenty years. And the average temperature on Earth has risen, five degrees fahrenheit in the last fifty years.

That might not seem like much, but glaciers that formed in the last Interglacial Period over twenty five thousand years ago, have melted in those fifty years. Hundreds of feet of ice that existed as little as one hundreds years ago (there are photos around of them) are gone now. Places that have been snowbound since time out of mind are suddenly grassy plains.

Also, this rise in heat will affect the availability of fresh water, and will cause to go extinct many species which rely on the cold weather for food, water, or just their general niche in the enviroment. Then, too, tropical mosquitos and midges will migrate north and spread diseases like EEE (Equine Encephalitis) and West Nile. Storms will increase in intensity and frequency, and weather patterns the like of which have never been recorded will begin to emerge.

Now of course this is all opinion, but there are many irrefutable evidences for this. I might point out the drowning polar bears, losing their lives because their ancestral ice has melted. I might also point out that EEE and West Nile have recently been recorded as far north as Canada, in Mid-October.

But nomatter what politicians tell you that it's a worry for in fifty years, and what big business that are paying off the government say that we'll be fine for another hundred years, it is a major problem. And everyone can help.

List of Things that Help:
-turn of lights when not in use
-unplug appliances with permanent displays
(ie stereos)
-use less fresh water by running water less, and
using efficient filtration systems
-look into alternate sources of fuel for home
heating and car fuel (solar power, wind,
hydrogen for cars look good)

Little things help, so everyone do your part. Because it's certainly going to affect you, in a major way.

Answer 7

I think that all of the chemicals released into our atmosphere have changed our planet, and created global warming.

Pictures of Antarica were released showing that it was nothing but an icy continent, and now it has parts where ice has melted and is revealing dirt.

Also, when I was a kid, the sky was a deep blue and when you go outside today..its very pale.

This just shows how we have harmed our environment.

Answer 8

It's bad and it's eventually going to cause major problems for us if we don't do anything about it. We already have major problems from it. Some people don't believe in global warming because it'll endanger their businesses.

Answer 9

There's only 1 opinion. It's bad.

Answer 10

it sucks and people need to do stuff about it or else it will effect the places we live in!