How real is global warming to you?

Question

I remember when we use to have snow. Now we haven't had any snow this winter and there is none in the forecast. The temperature is now always in mostly 70s. It was also aknowledged that 2006 was the warmest in U.S. history.

What are we going to do?

Answer 1

You're being brainwashed by school, the media and politicians.
Its highly debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.
Source(s):

Here are some sources that put some perspective on global warming
http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/calen/landsc...
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/ar...
http://www.climatecentral.org/
http://www.iceagenow.com/

R.G Bromley (1979)and Kenneth J Hsu (1982) - Dramatic sea temperature changes in earlier extinctions
Norman D Newell - Sea level plunge before extinctions
Anthony Hallam University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Peter Vail - Exxon research

Answer 2

Don't believe anything you read and only 1/2 of what you see. Of course, Global warming is real. The last Ice age has gone away, has it not? So, we must have global warming. Do people contribute to global warming? Probably some small amount, after all we ARE Warm and we breath in oxygen and breath out CO2, we must be part of the problem. What is Al Gore going to do about it? Kill a whole lot of people? Invariably that is what Socialists do when they take control of a country. Is that better than destroying their economy and causing millions to starve to death?

Answer 3

I always knew this was going to nip us in the but, and that the most important thing was initiative, but I think like many people I never expected to see some of the effects (if you believe that's why it's happening) happen so soon.

Last winter, snow came a little late around here, yet no one notticed a thing.

This year, last week was the first good snow we've had in a while and I'm actually pretty worried. I've always loved the snow and the winter, and seeing that this is not just a local occurence makes it that much real.

This is happening everywhere in the world, and I for one know it's only going to get worse.

A big part of our future is climate and I believe that we are not doing enough. I heard recently that polar bears are now defined as endangered species by the U.S. government, and I believe that to be a tragedy.

Hopefully something drastic will happen and we'll change our ways, but following the pattern of this year, no one will care until something has gone missing like our snow, and our climate and earth are terribly wrong.

Answer 4

I live in Detroit. When I was a kid every winter the snow would come up to the hood of the car. We've been getting less and less every year. We haven't had an inch yet.

These fools who say that global warming is a hoax scare me. I can't fathom the psychological variables needed to be that much in denial about what is right under thier noses.
I'd love to buy them all a copy of "An Inconvenient Truth".

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle - Ride my bike more....

Answer 5

Do you live in NC, too? The last time we had snow was when I was in 4th grade. So yea, global warming is pretty real to me. You can't convince me that it's not real, but you can't tell me it's all stuff humans are doing. (Fortunately for Mother Nature, according to the geologic time scale and past patterns of extinction, our turn is coming pretty soon, keeping in mind this is on the geologic time scale, not the one humans made up...) I do believe that there is a fluctuation patter in the size of the ozone hole that is directly related to upward trends in global temperatures and also that human activities influence it, but we do not have complete governance of anything in nature, including the ozone hole.

Answer 6

We can't stop what may happen... It's 7 degrees tonight here, Sound hot to you??? But yes, 2006 was the warmest on record. But? Does that mean this year will be even warmer?? People that have a PHD are only piled higher and deeper......Especially when they think they are gods....Look to the north on the weather map tonight, It will show you COLD!

Answer 7

Originally from New England, I remember snow as deep as my chest (4+ feet). I remember shoveling the driveway (3 foot minimum). I remember digging caves in the snow in my back yard, (can't do that anymore) - even if I were smaller!

Maybe there is something to it???

The Ol' Sasquatch Ü

Answer 8

I live in New Jersey. miles West of Manhattan. We have barely turned the furnace up. That is good but this weather is unnatural. Last year was relatively mild and it is unheard of to have two mild winters in a row. Our 115 degree summer was unheard off. Yet we have a world class idiot in the White House Global Warming duh. He just doesn't believe in any of that science stuff. Seriously a C student at Yale is at the bottom of the class and he becomes President---Would you go to a Doctor if you found out that he/she graduated at the bottom of their class?

Answer 9

There are definitely many signs in the planet life and wild life that they are struggling to adjust to the changing climate. We have squirrels that no longer hibinate. Trees that are constanting setting massive amounts of seeds and then dying. Fish species that are dying out with out species taking their place. Twenty one of the last twenty-four months have been warmer than usual

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=red-alert--early-butterflies-spark-climate-fears&method=full&objectid=18479506&siteid=94762-name_page.html

Answer 10

we all need to work together, global warming is very real, and that "cycle" people keep citing? our current CO2 levels and tempuratures are over twice as high as theyve ever been, but i personally think that the first step is to get everyone informed, at the easiest way would be to watch or read an inconvenient truth, its scientific, but easy to understand

Answer 11

Considering I live in Australia, and the state I live in is burning from bushfires and has been for the past 4 weeks, but we have no water to fight it cause we have no rain cause of the drought, which some have speculated is caused by Global Warming, IT'S PRETTY GOD DAMN REAL!!!

So stop whinging that the US is warmer at least you have water and are not being burnt into crispy critters like us Aussies!