What Is Your Take On Global Warming?

Answer 1

Canada is trying to get rid of emissions and gasses from the atmosphere. So far they have been doing somewhat of a bad job - GET RID OF STEPHEN HARPER if you are about the environment.....

I have been working with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to help perserve the environment and crown lands of Ontario and Provincial/National Parks... We have looked at the "Waterpower" project (my friend Paul Norris is the president of the Waterpower Association). We have came up with lots of different ideas. So far we are helping to kill off Coal plants and different Hydro/Power generation stations who gives off soo much pollution but so far so good. We are trying hard here in Ontario.

go to http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/ to learn more about the environment

I am going to College for Ministry of Natural Resouces Law Enforcement for Park Warden, Ministry of Environment person or Conservation Officer.

Answer 2

That the earth's climate ebbs and flows. We are currently in a warming trend that's been going on for centuries. Recently a group of scientists has postulated that recent changes are man-made and have pinned the cause on changes in one of the minor parameters affecting climate.

They have drawn four conclusions, none of which is known to be true with any certainty at all.

First, we really don't know if the earth is really warming.
Second, we don't know if man is causing it if indeed it is.
Third, we don't know if we can do anything about it anyway.
Fourth, we don't really know that global warming is even a bad thing. It's possible, and some say probable, that global warming will have more beneficial effects than harmful ones.

Answer 3

It's real and it's us and it's a serious problem.

The difficulty is that you can't make a reasonable decision by listening to "logical" arguments. You have to look at the data. That's called science.

Professional climatologists do exactly that. The best summary of their work can be found here. The first is a report, the second a website actually run by climatologists.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

http://www.realclimate.org/

Because of the data, not some brilliant argument, the vast majority of scientists believe the three things I said. Actual data about that consensus here:

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

It's not volcanoes, it's not the sun, it's not a natural change. Climatologists have investigated all those possibilities. They reject them, not because somebody made a brilliant argument, but because the data shows them to be minor factors compared to man. Details about that in the report cited above.

Some people post a link to a swindle movie. It's been discredited in many places. Just one example here:

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

The idea that this is a vast conspiracy is silly, like saying NASA faked the moon landings.

This sums it up:

"the question of global warming was settled years ago for all but a few holdouts in the scientific community"

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16620307.htm

Which is why these people say:

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"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

Answer 4

Over the last 100 years or so the global temperature of the earth has gone up slightly.

We don't have a statistically significant data set to conclude that the temperature change is out of the normal range of the earth's global temperature.

It's a large stretch to pin the change on CO2 levels.

Answer 5

Scientists have also said that other planets in our solar system have experienced warming.

I don't think there are aliens driving around in their extraterrestrial SUV's on Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto with their air conditioners on full blast!

While the Earth may have warmed slightly (I think they are saying about 1.8 degrees over the last 100 years), I don't believe it is caused by man. If it is, what man has caused the warming on these other planets? (Also did they really have the technology in 1907 to get an accurate world wide average temperature for us to compare to?)

I believe the climate goes through natural cycles. I don't believe it is caused by man. (Who melted the "Ice Age"?)

Yes, we should protect the environment, but don't go wacko!

Answer 6

It is not to bad yet to worry about. In the last century, the temperature has only gone up about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bob