Do you think global warming is a serious issue, and why?

Question

I'd like to hear mixed opinions, so don't answer a certain way to get on my good side. Answer HONESTLY what you think. I know what I believe, but what do you believe, truthfully? What are your concerns, if you have any?

AGAIN, I'd just like to hear your opinions and whether you care or not. I don't want facts listed out, because I already know most of them, and that is not what I'm looking for. I'd like to know about how many people CARE, and how many people don't. Quick, brief answers. =]

Answer 1

Ofcourse it is a serious issue, it destroys our planet!!

Answer 2

remember killer bees, Y2K, Global cooling,breast implants causing cancer and second hand smoke? These are all crisis for which there either was no hard evidence to support or the existing evidence showed to be false, yet they were shouted so loudly and so long that people believed them. Now we come to global warming. Check the facts not the scare tactics people use to raise money or to get famous. The land temperature may be rising or falling. the evidence can point both ways depending on how you look at it. The ice caps are not melting. In fact they have increased every year since we have been measuring them. And if the sea levels are rising then why hasn't anyone one the coasts noticed? Global warming is a hoax. You ask what I think about global warming? What I think is not important what the facts show is.

Answer 3

It has always amazes me how mankind, in all it's glory and unlimited ego can possible think he can control the environment on this planet. Man as a species has only populated earth for a mere fraction of time compared to that of the earth and the universe.

Earth has gone through countless environmental chances prior to mankind's existence and will no doubt survive his inherent destructive nature, global warming being only one on a list of millions. Species come and go as witnessed by the life and death of the dinosaur with homosapien only being the latest. Our planet has a way of repairing itself. Earth will be here long after man has gone.

Answer 4

OOO the sky is falling! The Sky is falling!

There is no global warming because the fox news channel had two scientists that they paid say so. The tiniest shred of biased evidence against global warming kicks the overwhelming amount of evidence for global warming's @ss. Why don't you all shut up and go back to Europe, you tree hugging hippies!!!!

Answer 5

The scientific debate about whether global warming is real and caused by man is over.

Scientists agree it's real and caused by man:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1995348,00.html

Business leaders agree it's real and caused by man:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/22/news/companies/climate_emissions/index.htm

Republican leaders agree it's real and caused by man:

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Governor, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

John McCain, Republican, Senator, Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush, Republican

The global warming deniers are exactly the same type of non-science believers as the people who don't believe we landed on the moon.

I would have added "or those who believe the Earth was made 6000 years ago". But I can't. Evangelical Christians believe it's real and caused by man:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243801,00.html?sPage=fnc.science/naturalscience

The scientific debate over whether global warming is real and caused by man is finished. Yes and yes.

And it won't be benign. It will flood coastal areas and damage agriculture. Rich countries will see huge costs, and the standard of living will go down. In poor countries people will die of starvation.

The IPCC report will be available in a few weeks. It will cost money, it's 1600 pages. But someone will put it up online at some point. Based on my reading of the 21 page summary, it will be a very sober and actually conservative document loaded with data. It deals with all the claims of the global warming deniers, solar levels, volcanoes, etc.

The IPCC report is the biggest scientific paper ever, with the most data, the most authors, and the most peer review, in the history of science. It is the very pinnacle of hard scientific research. The last paper to hold that title was the last IPCC report in 2001. You can look at that one here.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/online.htm

Science does not get any more solid than this.

Answer 6

Millions of tons of crap DAILY into the atmosphere is nothing to sneeze at. Pun intended.

We are screwing ourselves over for a buck.
Shooting ourselves in the herd.
Stepping on our own ducks.
Cutting off our nose to spite our finch.
Kicking ourselves in the asparagus beetle.

For the almighty dollar we're ruining it for everybody and everything, and people who deny it are three fries short of a Happy Meal.
Have a nice day.

Answer 7

Yes it is serious and I care. I don't want to see the end of beautiful and wonderful species on the earth or the submersion of wonderful places. I don't want to see more natural disasters. I want this and future generations to learn to respect and live in harmony with nature as our ancestors once did.

Answer 8

no i do not because for every 1 tree they chop down they have 2 put up 7 new ones!!~