I have a question about global warming...........?

Question

Be you liberal or conservative, I'd like to know what you think about global warming. I'm interested in your opinions-- they will be part of a study that I'm doing on this issue, so please be specific.
Do you believe global warming exsists? If so, how did it come to pass and what is/was it caused by? If you do think it is in exsistance, then what do you say the affects of it will be?
Thank you for participating.

Answer 1

There is no global warming

Answer 2

Ive been doing some real reading into this and have come to several conclusions about global warming:

1. It doesn't exist. The weather stations which were installed in the 1800s took readings THEN in unpopulated areas which now ARE populated, skewing results, as it's already known urban areas (cities) are warmer than country areas. Any glacial break ups are normally occurring phenomana all the time. We have been on a gradual warming trend since the end of the last Ice Age. The first time readings were able to detect the ozone layer is the first time a hole was discovered. In actuality, for all we know, the ozone layer may have ALWAYS had a hole in it.
2. Global Warming is a very real and verfiable threat to the future of this planet. In th e1950s chlorofleurocarbons were introduced as a cheap aerosol propellant and also used extensively in A/C units, the in the window kind AND car A/C systems. Terrible control over thrown away cars and A/C units not to mention a billion hairspray cans a day dumped both chlorine and florine molecules into the stratosphere (our air), where it can take as long as 50 years to percolate into the toposphere, where it literally combines with ozone and blows it apart, creating the hole you've heard so much about. If we have created a hole in the ozone, we have opened a window to the solar radiation ozone normally deflects. When light waves hit a surface, it is partially reflected back, but some of the energy used to reflect is turned into heat. Think of your car. parked in the sun on a warm day. The light gets through the windows to reflect onto your dashboard and seat, turning the interior so warm, dogs and some babies have died in shockingly short times. This happens to the Earth as well. The radiation pours in, hits the Earth and doesnt have the energy to completely escape again, so it remains trapped inside the atmosphere, raising temperatures more quickly than nature may adapt and assimillate. The effects cascade from there: Higher year round temps means less snowfall in areas where all drinking water dpends on snowpack meltoff, a glacier melting into the North Atlantic is contributing billions of gallons of fresh water to a salt water environment, de-salinating the oceans and killing off untold millions of salt water species, possibly even changing sea currents as in the movie "Day After Tomorrow". That movie was good til the insty freeze hurricanes started happening... anyway. Of course the more of the glaciers melt the higher the oceans get, obliterating all coastal cities and existing harbors. New York is gone, so is Florida, Italy, Holland, Spain, Japan, and most of Australia. Californias gone Half of Texas, the gulf of Mexico will span to Tennessee.
Too much sunlight hitting too little white reflective snowpack at the poles means an even hotter environment for everyone, not just the ones closest to the equator. Dry areas, such as the US Southwest, will be virtually uninhabitable, for lack of water. underground aquifers will be evaporated. It could really be the end for a lot of the planet.

Answer 3

Yes - I do believe global warming exists.

How did it come to pass?
First - it has been shown that the earth has gone through periods of heating and cooling from evidence found in geologic studies. It is possible that we are only seeing another of these. I think the scientific community remains divided over this.

Second - Several decades ago there was a great discussion about the release of chloro-fluorocarbons into the environment (these were used in spray containers under pressure to provide the spray propellant). The release of the compounds into the environment was blamed for the depletion of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere. The ozone layer was theorized to provide some protection/shielding from a percentage of the suns energy impinging on the earth. With the depletion of the ozone layer, it was believed that more of the sun's energy reached the earth and would cause a rise in temperatures.

Third - We, the inhabitants of this planet, continue to use more and more energy captured and stored in the earth - oil, gas, nuclear, etc. This energy is released to the environment in the form of heat (matter cannot be created or destroyed - we just change its form from potential energy stored in the gas, oil, etc.to heat energy released to the environment). Although some of the heat may be radiated into space, the bulk of it remains in our environment. Thus we are probably contributing to global warming.

The effects: That is what much of the debate is about now isn't it. No one really knows. I believe that yes, we are probably contributing to the melting of the ice caps and the increasing temperatures are contributing to differing and changing weather patterns. What the final effect will be I cannot imagine.

Answer 4

That global warming exists, there is evidence, but is not empicrical evidence that humanity is the sole/main cause. There is no genuine consensus on the issue. weather has been studied for only a few hundred years. Relatively a very brief moment in time. When you hear "hottest it has been in millions of years," chances are it was not from a scientist, but a politician.
Frankly, I believe it to be more of a political issue than a scientific one. 9/10 people only read one side of the story, and that one is the chicken little sky is falling, we have 3 years to live nonsense. However, with all that said, it is evident that we can and should develop alternate, cleaner energy. As a conservative I would dearly love to see us be able to stop doing business with commies in south America(which, you may know we buy 80% of our oil from), and the middle east.
I urge you to read the Kyoto protocol, and witness for yourself the communistic way in which the USA, and other industrialized nations are to cut back their economies while Red China is free to pollute as much as she likes. See if you still think this is an issue of pure science.

Answer 5

Since so much of the research concerns Greenland, we have to consider the LAST time Greenland was warming up. And the time before that. If industrial nations didn't cause it back then, our effort may be better spent preparing for it NOW.

When the welcomed warmth of the middle ages slid into the little ice age, the population of the Americas apparently plummeted. That may be a concern for us now.

Or worse, we could be facing the end of the Holocene period?

Wait, Is this the politics site? Then Global Warming must be caused by evil corporations. We should all quit working for them and stop exhaling carbon dioxide.

Answer 6

Global Warming exists all right! There are more green house gases in the atmosphere, and that is causing more destructive storms and hurricanes. Honey, the question isn't "does global warming exist." There's no doubt it exists. The real question is "do we care that it exists?" The answer is-and should be-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Here's an idea to com bate those destructive hurricanes: MOVE AWAY FROM THE PLACE WHERE THEY HIT!!!! WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU LIVE IN A HURRICANE ZONE!!! THAT'S JUST SO STUPID!!!!!! I'm absolutely sick and tired of the people that want us to switch to "alternative fuels" in the name of saving the rain forest!!! Its oil now, oil tomorrow, and oil forever. Oil is practically infinite! We just don't have the will to dig it out because communistic environmentalists are not letting us do it! We do NOT have to change our way of life, global warming will NOT destroy this planet, and the rain forest will NOT get wiped out! There's way to many trees for an entire rain forest to be wiped out, period!

Answer 7

I think you'll find very few who actually deny its existence. I know I don't. What I DO deny is that Man has anything whatsoever to do with it. It's simple unequivocal fact that climate change is cyclical, ie: nobody denies there were numerous Ice Ages, do they? We're simply on the warming side of the cycle. Further, more greenhouse gasses are emitted by one medium sized volcanic eruption than Man has generated since the dawn of the Industrial Age.

Answer 8

Since it is a theory, I am treating it as such. If more evidence for/against that theory amounts, then I will reconsider where I stand. Right now, I am leaning towards it being a scam that is causing mass hysteria. What I think is far more important then deciding whether it is actually taking place is that we all work towards fixing the problems that are supposedly causing it. For example, Al Gore could spend less time making a movie and more time coming up with alternative fuel options.

Answer 9

global warming definitely exists. I'm not sure how it came about, or really how it works, but I think it's only a matter of time before another ice age. Ice melts into the oceans due to global warming, waters rise, thus global temp plummets and we're all screwed. It's going to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe not for thousands of years but it will!!!!