Does glabal warming exist?

Question

of course it does, retards!

Answer 1

Considering the wacky weather patterns we have been experiencing in the past few years nobody can refute that global warming does exist. Just recently a large chunk of ice broke off from Antarctica. The ice is various mountain ranges, all over the world, has started to recede.

I live in Ontario, Canada and just last week I noticed that in my front yard three of my perennial plants had sprouted - in mid January!!

Answer 2

There's no such thing as Glabal warming. Now global warming is just a theory an attempt to explain away a natural phenomenon. Climate change is a naturally recurring event (study thermodynamics) to say we're capable of wiping out all life on earth via pollution is a bit arrogant.

Read up a bit on Milankovitch cycles right now we're in a hot stage of glaciation which will last another 50,000 years at which point we'll head towards another ice age.Earth is at a pretty extreme tilt right now (about 22 degrees the max is 24) on it's axis so expect weird weather and more intense effects from solar activity.

Fun.

Answer 3

Ok, I give up, just what is glabal warming?

Let me see if my psychic powers are working today:
You are an under-employed college graduate, working beneath your normal standards, using your spare time to search the web for content that agrees with the already formed opinions that you have based on watching Algore's documentary so many times that even the DVD cried out for you to stop. And you call us retards just because our interpretation of the data is different than yours?

BTW, most people will agree that the earth has warmed this century, and yes, a appropriate term for that would be global warming. Our debate is over the cause(s) of, future extent of, and possible solution to the warming if, and this to us is the big if, mankind is responsible for making it worse.

Until then, us retards are going to continue watching and learning so that if a decision needs to be made, someone will have the intelligience to make the correct decision that won't destroy our lifestyles, our economies, and our freedoms.

Answer 4

Let us be clear about global warming without the insults. The current concept of global warming is an rapid increase in atmospheric temperature. The cause could be natural and/or man-made resulting from increase in certain gases, solar flare activity and/or an unknown cause.

Now is global warming occurring now? After all, the Earth does have cycles of warm and cool periods. Despite objections from the Bush Administration, the majority of scientists agree that global warming is occurring and will change the world in the next 50 years.

Answer 5

Yes. If it didn't, the Earth would have no liquid water; it would be frozen solid! We depend on the green house effect of the Earth's atmosphere to survive.

But perhaps you are referring instead to the artificial enhancement of the green house effect by elevated carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere due to all the fossil fuel burning that has been going on since the start of the industrial revolution. That exists too, but there seems to be some disagreement as to how much effect it will have.

Answer 6

Of course Global Warming exists. It's scary. Species die, sea levels rise, we can't breathe...etc. Uneducated people think that the Earth is just going on its natural cycle. They are correct on one aspect of that. The Earth does go through its cycles, but by having so much carbon emission (from industry, cars, etc...), us humans are offsetting the cycle, with our greenhouse gases. People just need to realize that this IS their future we're talking about, and humans are the only ones who can stop this mess.

Answer 7

GLABAL Warming does not exist But sadly GLOBAL Warming does

Answer 8

Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation into the future.

Global average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 °Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4 °Fahrenheit) in the 20th century. The prevailing scientific opinion on climate change is that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities" [1].

The main cause of the human-induced component of warming is the increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2). This leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases are released by activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, and agriculture.

The measure of the response to increased GHGs, and other anthropogenic and natural climate forcings is climate sensitivity. It is found by observational [2] and model studies. This sensitivity is usually expressed in terms of the temperature response expected from a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. The current literature estimates sensitivity in the range 1.5-4.5 °C (2.7-8.1 °F). Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures may increase by between 1.4 and 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100. The uncertainty in this range results from both the difficulty of predicting the volume of future greenhouse gas emissions and uncertainty about climate sensitivity.

An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and tornados. Other consequences include higher or lower agricultural yields, glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors. Warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of these events; however, it is difficult to connect particular events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming (and sea level rise due to thermal expansion) is expected to continue past then, since CO2 has a long average atmospheric lifetime.

Remaining scientific uncertainties include the exact degree of climate change expected in the future, and especially how changes will vary from region to region across the globe. A hotly contested political and public debate has yet to be resolved, regarding whether anything should be done, and what could be cost-effectively done to reduce or reverse future warming, or to deal with the expected consequences.

Causes
The climate system varies both through natural, "internal" processes as well as in response to variations in external "forcing" from both human and non-human causes, including solar activity, volcanic emissions, and greenhouse gases. Climatologists agree that the earth has warmed recently. The detailed causes of this change remain an active field of research, but the scientific consensus identifies greenhouse gases as the primary cause of the recent warming. Outside of the scientific community, however, this conclusion can be controversial.

Adding carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4) to Earth's atmosphere, with no other changes, will make the planet's surface warmer; greenhouse gases create a natural greenhouse effect without which temperatures on Earth would be an estimated 30 °C (54 °F) lower, and the Earth uninhabitable. It is therefore not correct to say that there is a debate between those who "believe in" and "oppose" the theory that adding carbon dioxide or methane to the Earth's atmosphere will, absent any mitigating actions or effects, result in warmer surface temperatures on Earth. Rather, the debate is about what the net effect of the addition of carbon dioxide and methane will be, when allowing for compounding or mitigating factors.

One example of an important feedback process is ice-albedo feedback. The increased CO2 in the atmosphere warms the Earth's surface and leads to melting of ice near the poles. As the ice melts, land or open water takes its place. Both land and open water are on average less reflective than ice, and thus absorb more solar radiation. This causes more warming, which in turn causes more melting, and the cycle continues.

Due to the thermal inertia of the earth's oceans and slow responses of other indirect effects, the Earth's current climate is not in equilibrium with the forcing imposed by increased greenhouse gases. Climate commitment studies indicate that, even if greenhouse gases were stabilized at present day levels, a further warming of perhaps 0.5 °C to 1.0 °C (0.9–1.8 °F) would still occur.

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Answer 9

i beg to differ. the earth is getting warmer but it's not the life-ending catastophe that some people would have you believe. have you looked at all at the history of the earth? most of it used to be frozen. the sahara was a rainforest, etc. there also only used to be one large land mass. the earth will heat up and then it will freeze and eventually the human race will be wiped from the face of the earth. it's inevitable.

Answer 10

wow, glabal warming... i was gonna tell u off 4 being such a retard, but u did it ne ways