Global warming?

Question

Okay, I am looking for peoples opinoins and facts on Global warming as I have not yet seen "the movie". I live in illinois where it has been unseasonably warm throughout the winter. Do you think global warming is a possibility? And if so, does it scare you and how should one be prepared?

Answer 1

America is the only industrialized nation where a significant number of people are still scratching their heads and wondering if global warming is "a possibility". That's because we have a huge and incredibly well-financed lobby called the American Petroleum Institute, which takes money from Exxon, Haliburton, and other Big Oil companies, and transforms it into public deception. They don't have to convince us that Global Warming isn't happening - they just have to convince us that there's a lively debate within the scientific community. Since taking steps to avert global disaster might cost money and impact the economy, our legislatures won't budge until there's a "consensus" among scientists. Just like when lobbyists for Big Tobacco convinced Americans that there was some debate over whether or not smoking cigarettes is bad for you.
In reality, there's as much debate in the scientific community over whether or not global warming is a real, impending disaster, as there is over whether evolution is responsible for different species, or whether God created everything 6,000 years ago. Among scientists, the debate ended 10 years ago. It's only in our government that there's still any doubt.

That being said, you can't attribute everything to global warming. A particularly warm year, like this one, isn't evidence of anything. You need to show a trend over at least 50 years before you can point the finger at the Greenhouse Effect. And there definitely has been such a trend, in global average temperatures. However, this year is probably still just a freakishly warm year, and next year will probably be cooler.

Answer 2

I have done a fair amount of research, and I did see Al Gore's movie. I have also attended a few lectures by scientists studying deep sea drilling cores and antarctic ice cores. The earth is heating up. People try to politicize the issue and deny that human activity could be a cause, because that would mean they would have to do something to change their current lifestyle.

The levels of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today are higher than they have been since the age of the dinosaurs. That is a fact.

If people don't want to believe that its a human induced problem, fine. But as the temperatures rise there are going to be serious worldwide problems, drought, famine, extreme weather (seems we're seeing a taste of this now.) Ice sheets are melting, much faster than predicted by scientists, and sea levels are starting to rise.

Pointing the finger doesn't help anyone, trying to come up with solutions and/or strategies for coping with the coming changes should be the main concern.

If this were merely a cyclical warming trend that happens on 100 year intervals, then why is the Greenland ice sheet melting and slipping into the sea? It did not do this 100 years ago, nor 100 years before that, nor at any time in the last 1000 years.

Even if the warming is an entirely natural phenomenon (which I doubt it is), this is not something we have seen before in the modern era, and we should at least be aware of and follow the most recent studies and information about the issue.

Putting your head in the sand and pointing your finger at people who try to explain the situation while shouting "Alarmist!!" is not an answer. Refusing to believe will not make it go away.

Answer 3

Some of the best discussion on the subject I have read was in Michael Crichton's novel "State of Fear" which was much disliked by the global warming advocates because it gave both sides of the argument. John Stossel also tried to give a fair shake to both sides in his great book "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." From what I have read and seen the jury is still debating the issue. I would not trust anything Al Gore told me. He is kind of scary when it comes to an issue of 'trust'. He always seems to be grinding some kind of politically correct axe.

Answer 4

Of course it's a possibility! It is in fact true. Look at all the signs. All of the worlds top Scientist can't be wrong about this. They are all concerned and U.S. chooses to ignore it because they claim it's bad for the economy! Idiots!

Answer 5

A geologist from Australia pointed out that the climate has always been changing, so that means that if it doesn't get warmer, it will get cooler. If it gets cooler, crops will fail in certain parts of the world. He said that it would be insanity to try to stop global warming, so we should adapt to it.

Answer 6

Global Warming- Why r u too worried.

Answer 7

is not a possibility but realisticaly it already happening.....the ice already breaked in north poles....melted, because of the earth getting hotter and hotter, peoples cutting more trees for housing etc...no more green on earth, no more fresh oxygen in the air... the best way to prevent is to plant as much as green or trees again...save more energy by using solar....hmmm i guess that would be all...

Answer 8

All the real science I have read suggest that this is a naturally occurring phenomena that occurs every hundred years or so. We go through heat ups and cool downs. It's just nature. Man didn't do this.

Answer 9

Google it, it is a global concern.

Answer 10

yes it should concern us all.