Is global warming really happening ?

Question

I see no evidence to support global warming and I have read many papers on this psuedo science. Carbon does not affect the climate. Volcanos give off a 1000 times more carbon than humans .

Answer 1

Joe let me give you my take on the global warming if a person were to take one candle and place it in a warehouse. The temperature would rise a minute amount. Now, if you would take a few million candles and place them in the same warehouse. You would notice a definite warming and this is what I think is happening to earth. Ever human born has a temperature of 98° so every time that you add a human. You would have a minute rise in temperature. Just like the candle in the warehouse. Now add to that all the automobiles and utilities that generate heat, and I think you'll have the answer to your question.

Answer 2

Probably, but how much do we make it happen? It is a heavily used marketing tool for eco people and government alike. I'm not saying that I think thats necessarily bad, we should learn to be cleaner people regardless of the effect on climate, it's good for us. At the same time I don't think we should get to the point where it affects our lives in a detrimental way, and no, detrimental does not mean having to turn your TV off standby or use public transport.

So with Global Warming (note use of capitals lol). I think what I wrote above. But I still think it may be grounded in firm marketing rather than concrete proof.

Thats my opinion anyway =:-)


ADDITIONAL NOTE: When I say Global Warming I'm refering to warming caused by man, not warming of the planet due to natural causes.

Answer 3

I believe that global warming is defiantly happening. Just look at the weather pattern of this last winter. I live in VA which has always had moderate temps, this year however one day it would be 70 in January and then not getting above 20.
Even for those ppl who doubt global warming, what harm would it due to just try and cut back on the amount of carbon they emit.

Answer 4

Carbon does not affect the climate?
Can you say uneducated statement?
When Mt. Pinatubo blew its top in the Philippines in 1991 ALL scientists agreed it cooled the earths weather the year it exploded because of carbon.
In 2006 just in the US the amount of recorded forest fires was almost 2 million more than the last record year(2003). These burns of course put carbon into the atmosphere.
Yet you say carbon has no effect on our weather?
Um go back to school?
What else is there to say?

Answer 5

this evening on bbc news night it was shown how over many years, global warming happens in conjunction with the activity on the sun, this was happening long before the gases now produced were first recorded on earth. A fact of life that the politicians would prefer us not to know about, there were clear to see graphs showing how this is taking place, the lesser amount produced by mankind is very small indeed.

Answer 6

You sound confused. There is evidence to support a short term increase in average temp. There is no evidence to support the humans did it hysteria. There are reports that other planets are also warming. There is maybe 100 years of weather data available, Human records go back 4000 years. The planet is maybe 5 billion years old and it is in a state of constant change. There is a history of ice ages here, how hot it gets between is unknown. Volcano eruptions cool the planet not make it hotter.

Answer 7

It sounds like you have your mind made up already, and that you're confusing some things.

Global warming is happening. It's measurable and not debated.

You're free to debate the cause, though most scientists come down on the side of believing man is a leading cause. Certainly, it's only man-made causes we can effectively address.

Global climate change is enough of a national security threat that the Pentagon commissioned and published a study on the subject a few years back.

Answer 8

It global warming happening? Yes.

Is mankind causing it? Probably not.

As others have said, the climate of the Earth changes all the time and it is impossible to tell whether the current warming trend is natural or man made.

So, given that, as far as life is concerned, warmer is generally better (where is there more life? Amazon or Antarctic?) I don’t think we have anything to worry about.

Oh, and ‘Jennifer Morgan’ should have a read of this… http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/Taylor/last_stand_of_our_wild_polar_bears.html It’s an article from a scientist who has spent his life studying polar bears and he says…

“Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada , 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.”

Answer 9

Yes, global warming is happening.

I do not, however, believe that human activity is responsible for it.

Throughout history, the mean temperature of the earth has fluctuated by quite a big margin, before man began any industrial processes.

I actually think that humankind is quite arrogant to think that they could have a big effect on the natural world.

Answer 10

It is, but down to sunspot activity, causing greater solar winds, reducing the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, leading to fewer clouds and therefore more heat hitting the earth's surface. The Greenhouse Effect was just a wacky idea from the 70's hijacked by Margaret Thatcher to get the Green's on her side when she realised that we were too dependant on oil and coal to fire our power stations and we needed more nuclear power stations. This led to the IPCC and all Western governments realised this would be a useful too for Velvet fascism and stealth taxes.