Climate Change - Fact or Fiction?

Question

Not looking for reasons just whether you think the climate is actually changing

Answer 1

There is no Global Warming Model and scientists disagree so much that 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. Unfortunately, pundits in media and education who know little about this, spin it to suit their own opinions. So, 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):

Winter Blast Brings Snow To West LA, Malibu
CHP To Escort Motorists Through Icy Grapevine
POSTED: 9:43 am PST January 17, 2007

http://knbc.nbcweatherplus.com/weathernews/10773559/detail.html

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
January 17, 2007:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528

Global warming 'just a natural cycle'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nclimate118.xml

Imminent Global Cooling
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V10/N3/C1.jsp

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
http://www.climatecentral.org/
http://www.iceagenow.com/

Answer 2

Climate change is a fact, and has always existed. The temperature of the atmosphere fluctuates over the decades and centuries. We are currently in a warming period. The big question on everybody's mind is whether manmade greenhouse gasses are causing a dramatic increase that will have serious negative consequenses. It's a scientific theory that merits continued investigation and testing. Unfortunately, this theory has become the "scientifically orthodox" belief and any scientist who dares to point out any holes in the theory is subjected to ridecule and accusations of being an industry shill.

Answer 3

Fact

Answer 4

Fact

Answer 5

I will defer to the experts on this topic, and the vast majority of the scientists who study say that climate change/global warming is real. This is what reasonable and intelligent people do. If I have a medical condition I consult medical experts, dental problem, a dental expert, etc. There will always be outliers, so what! If the majority says there is a problem, let us acknowledge it and move on to the next step to fix or at least mitigate the effects.

Answer 6

Both. Climates have always been warmer after an ice age, like we just had 10,000 years, but i do believe that we humans are chipping in a bit with all our cars and stuff.

Answer 7

Fiction. Climate change will occur, I assure you. As long as the Earth's polar caps continue to melt, it is inevitable. But is is not something that can be quantitatively determined in this small space of geological time. Geological changes occur over millenia, not over your lifetime. The problem is that if people can't relate to the changes within their lifetime, they think it's not gonna happen. But it will.

Answer 8

It is truly the height of human arrogance to think that we have the power to impact the climate good or bad. The next time I'm outside freezing my nads off in 20 below dont you dare say global warming! :)

Answer 9

Glaciers used to enlarge 0.5 way down usa and lasted for 10s of thousands of years. All of Canada became buried in a mile of ice. there became worldwide cooling to kind them. those glaciers at the instant are not right here anymore, so a strategies as i comprehend. for this reason worldwide WARMING melted those cabinets of ice. All of those issues occurred in the past there any SUVs and a tiny form of people. two decades in the past, scientists pronounced that Acid Rain became going to kill all of the fish, all of the trees, and make us all die a terrible death. That scare tactic worn off, and now worldwide warming is the latest thank you to attempt to destroy our financial equipment and make us all hate humanity. you could understand that scientists are surely leeches. They artwork in a college, paid by utilising taxpayer money and don't do something to contribute to the financial equipment. maximum college jobs are tenured and immune from undesirable economies, even incredibly undesirable economies. If their regulations destroy existence for industries and the actual financial equipment, they do no longer care. they do no longer could concern approximately it. They get their pay verify from you and me regardless.

Answer 10

Scientists are in consensus that the climate is getting warmer (it's the reasons that are controversial).