2007-03-11 11:27:57 · 9 answers · asked by Hzl 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Yes, there is a very good chance that is what is happening. The media only reports bad things, they don't tell you about the other 50% of scientist who don't believe in this. I work with a guy who last year said Bird Flu would wipe out the U.S. in a couple of years, heard anything about the bird flu lately. No. There is no news to report. I know I will get about 50 thumbs down for this, but next Spring ask the same question. A few weeks ago there was a conference on Global Warming in D.C and it was cancelled, guess why? Ice and cold. Rest my case for now.
2007-03-11 11:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to what everyone else has answered, there is still great disagreement in the scientific community as to whether we are experiencing global warming. We are experiencing climate change, but....for the 1000 scientists who say it is man made, there are over 70,000 who say it is not.
When I was growing up in the sixties, we were told that the earth was going into a global ice age, due to the smoke, soot and man made particles in the atmoshpere. So...how can those same particles that were going to cause a global ice age, now be blamed for global warming? We were also told that the ozone layer had a huge hole. We were all going to die from unshielded sunlight. Now...(and the scientists don't know why) the ozone hole is the smallest it has ever been.
The oceans have supposedly risen 1/2 of one mm. Do you know how small that is? About ten times the thickness of a human hair. (since a human hair ranges from 17 to 180 Micro Meters)
The earth goes through periodic cycles and just because there is a chicken running around saying the sky is falling, does not necessarily make it so.
1000 < 70,000
2007-03-11 11:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by rey m 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no doubt that the earth is heating up. But Global Warming is a red herring. First, the sun IS heating up. Not only was this predicted by the Hopi prophecies, but real scientists have measured 'solar weather' and can demonstrate that this is indeed the real reason for the climate changes we see.
I do not trust biologists who try to claim geological knowledge, which is how they got the 21 ft rise in sea level. And if the CO2 levels really went as high as scientists are predicting, people would suffocate long before they died of GW.
And the Ozone Hole is based on incomplete data at best. Scientists are only GUESSING that it is a new phenomenon.
2007-03-11 11:40:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. We know for a fact that the ocean has risen more than 1 deg C since 1970. That is an indisputable result of global warming. Natural cycles over millions of years involve temperature changes of a fraction of a degree over thousands of years, not several degrees over decades.
The natural cycles still exist, no one who believes in global warming denies that. The phenomenon of global warming is superimposed on top of that natural cycle, and is much more damaging over a much shorter period.
Those people who choose not to believe because they are afraid of what it means, or don't want to believe because they feel they are baing blamed: It is no ones fault, and you don't HAVE TO believe it, but think of this:
If global warming is NOT true and you do the things suggested then you save energy and money, if it IS true you save energy and money and the entire planet for your children.
No matter what the reason is for you personally to do it, the best method for survival in this world is HOPE FOR THE BEST, BUT PREPARE FOR THE WORST!
Don't just stick your head in the sand and hope it goes away, take charge of your own destiny.
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2007-03-11 11:42:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
possibility global warming happening climate change natural cycle
2016-02-01 04:55:12 · answer #5 · answered by Agretha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there isn't.
Unfortunately the changes are far too extreme and rapid, they can't be natural. WE have brought our planet in this situation and we have to hurry and try to avert some things-if still possible.
2007-03-11 11:32:57 · answer #6 · answered by Lilly26 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Below is a must-read article.
Dr. Singer is a respected Atmospheric Physicist.
2007-03-11 14:17:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, it IS happening & is NOT natural. Scientists have been able to measure the ozone and have been keeping tabs on how it is shrinking. That layer outside our atomosphere protects us from the sun's rays. Now that it is shirinking (actually has holes/tears in it), the sun's rays are getting in and warming the planet.
2007-03-11 11:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by sweetsinglemom 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's possible. but the models appear to suggest otherwise.
2007-03-11 11:31:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think we over-corrected for the ice age that was coming in the 70's.
2007-03-11 11:36:28 · answer #10 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋