Do you believe in Global Warming?

Question

It seems as though many people who hear about the threat of global warming laugh it off, complaining that evironmentalists are the new hippies of tomorrow. Well, then im a new hippie of tomorrow because, unlike many, i am neither ignorant nor myopic.
In the US our society is fast paced and full of short attention spans, however, nature is not and will never be like this and the process of global warming has been gradual. Just look at The Day After Tomorrow. Hollywood found a way to market global warming in putting all of the worst case scenarios and cramming them in weeks. It obviously does not happen like this which is why our society and its short attention span would rather read People than protect the very place that those same People require to live.

So i guess my question would be: What do you think about this obvious problem? and if you do not think this is a threat, why?

while it is true that this is happening whether we believe it or not, the first step in fighting it is believing. if you chose not to, then you chose not to prevent it as you choose the path of ignorance. thats what i believe anyways.

Answer 1

There is a trend of temperature increase, this is measured reality. But the relation between temperature increase and greenhouse gasses is not well established. There is no science to support a hypothesis that greenhouse gasses are the primary cause of global warming. There is no validated data to support the prediction that future temperatures will increase drastically.

The fear of global warming comes from predictions that future temperatures will increase drastically. This prediction is bases upon computer models. The models have three problems:

1 - There is no long term temperature data from the past two millenia. Accurate global temperature is available only for the past 140 years or so. Temperatures before that, used for input into computer models, are estimates based upon geographic measurements. There are no methods to validat these estimates. In other words, there is no way to know if the temperatures put into models are correct.

2 - Global climate models use mathematical formulas to predict what future temperatures might be. This is where the real fear of global warming comes from. Users of the Global Climat Models predict that, in the future, very drastic global warming will occur. The trouble with this prediction is, that even if *RANDOM* data are input for past history (see the description in 1. above), then the models predict drastic future warming. More simply, the models predict drastic future warming because the equations force it to make that prediction.

3 - *NO ONE* has any data...at all...to determine what part of current warming is caused by either greenhouse gasses, or by natural fluctuation of the sun.



From the site below: "The majority of climatologists agree that important climate processes are imperfectly accounted for by the climate models."

Answer 2

Only for George Bush and an invisible and anonymous segment of the scientific community believe that "the verdict is still out of global warming." Ocean temperatures are increasing, and barrier islands are disappearing. The Atlantic hurricane season has seen more and larger storms than ever in recent years. Global warming is coming.

As an aside, some say that global warming has a companion phenomenon called global dimming which is actually cooling the planet, or at least not allowing us to experience the full onslaught of global warming. It is caused by all the particulate matter that we put in the air, and by things like the vapor trails of airplanes. After 9/11 scientists had the opportunity to measure the atmosphere without the tens of thousands of vapor trails that blanket the atmosphere daily. The results were that the temperature jumped significantly in North America after 9/11. They were the warmest days for that week in September ever recorded.

Answer 3

Most scientists agree that the climate is warming, and most reasonable people who look at the evidence would agree. You cannot draw this conclusion because you noticed it was really hot last summer or because Al Gore told you so. However, when scientists look at the global picture over a century or more, the evidence becomes compelling.

A warmer climate has some benefits, such as milder winters in the Northern Hemisphere and the ability for ships to cut thousands of miles of travel by sailing over the melted Arctic for a few months per year.

The biggest danger in global warming is that all of the melting ice could shut down the Mid-Atlantic Current (really a worldwide ocean current). This current keeps our climate consistent. When it has been shut down in the past, our climate would swing wildly and rapidly between heat and cold waves. This would greatly harm agriculture and generally make life much more difficult for us humans.

The U.S. is currently the biggest contributor to the problem and must take steps to reduce its carbon and sulfur emissions. Part of our objection to the Kyoto Protocol is that it unfairly favored developing countries such as China and India. However, we should not wait to cut our pollution just because China and India are not.

We should all understant that cutting green house gas emissions and air pollution in general will mean higher costs and fewer jobs, at least in the short term. We should embrace nuclear energy and clean coal technology. We should harvest wind and water power where we can. We should also have more efficient standards for new homes and cars.

One area most people do not talk about is the way this problem crosses national borders. Even if the U.S. cuts its pollution in half, it does little good if we purchase our goods from dirty factories in China, India and Third World countries. We must require cleaner manufacturing standards and not purchase goods from any country that created excessive pollution in the process.

I believe that we will eventually overcome this problem before a scenario like "The Day After Tomorrow" unfolds. There is a lot of exciting new technology and sentiment toward dealing with this. SUV sales are down and hybrid sales are up. More people than ever are installing solar systems in their homes. A new wave of nuclear power plant production is starting.

Will it be too little too late? Yes. We will end up paying a higher cost by dealing with this problem later than sooner, but it will eventually be solved.

Answer 4

Global Warming is happening and could lead to the extinction of the human race.

Here in the southern part of the rain patterns have changed due to global warming. We do experience perpetual draughts and at time very heavy rains associated with flooding and all this never used to be the case.

I am now 43, and when I was about 15 my local township had three popular rivers where I used to go and fish (Rumphi District - Malawi). Due to deforestation two of these rivers have dried up and the remaining river has very little water and no fish at all.

Kids who are born now would look at this situation as normal but I am failing to accept the fact that rivers where I used to enjoy swimming and fishing could dissappear just like that. My kids will have no chance of ever fishing or swimming in their home township. I have to take them either to swimming pools for swimming.

GLOBAL WARMING IS A REAL THREAT TO HUMAN RACE AND MUST BE FOUGHT BY ALL OF US WITH UNITED SPIRIT.

The younger generation needs to be educated about the past in order to protect the future.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The denial of global warming is the obvious problem....when a majority of people in our government calls global warming a myth most people believe them but they have no proof. Tons of scientist have proof that global warming not only exist but can tell us the exact impact it will have...
when everyone acknowledges global warming exist then we will be able to start fixing the problem

Answer 7

This is certainly a threat to humanity. Just look at how many glaciers melting each year in Arctic. So, I really don't know why the cowardly president and his party recline to sign the Kyoto Protocal. Kyoto Protocal will help to reduce greenhouse gases

Answer 8

"Global warming" is a modern term for a natural event.

It happens. No one causes it and certainly no one stops it.

Go worry about river-water pollution and energy conservation; these you can personally affect.

Best wishes,

pup

Answer 9

Read more on this topic. My science teacher says that all the horrible gases that go into out atomosphere also cause a global cooling.

Answer 10

I believe there is a shifting. In Okla. we have been experiencing colder that average and earlier in the season, I hear similar reports in other areas.