are we in global warming?

Answer 1

Yes. In fact, the winter of 2006 was the warmest on record, and its just the latest in the trend.

The hotly debated (no pun intended) question remains: man-made or not.

(Just when you think you've got it figured out, some new evidence comes along. NASA reported just within the last month or so that Mars is apparently losing it polar carbon dioxide "ice" cap. It seems to be experiencing global warming as well! If that is the case, you wonder if the Sun is in a period of increased energy output. I tend to think we ARE responsible, at least in part, but the evidence is not 100% aligned that way.)

Answer 2

Yes. I don't think a single (intelligent) person out there has denied this fact.

There are at present a select group of scientists who have raised doubts about the cause of said warming, but the vast majority of deniers out there are noting more than quacks.

Answer 3

That's the consensus of just about every expert on the subject, however, our conservative talk show hosts would have you believe that it's all a conspiracy by liberal bleeding hearts. Where are those fact checkers? I'm amazed at how self-confident Rush Limbaugh is when he lies.

You might want to see "An Inconvenient Truth"

Answer 4

Its no secret that the earth has changed climate many times. From ice ages to stone ages. Its stupid to think that it won't happen again. Every one thinks that we can control this, they are wrong. Also since the gas hype has kind of died down the government needed a good excuse to stir ****.
STOP GLOBAL WHINING.

Answer 5

Yes we are, and the few scientist that say that we aren't are the ones that are in the hip pockets of the major corporations that are some of the largest contributors to the problem.

Answer 6

yes blocks of ice in antartica starts to melt which causes weather problems like tsunamis

Answer 7

kind of


there are enough disaster areas in the world to come up with an inteligent analises ,you only have to investigate

POLITICS
ecologists and scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.

MANS EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

(this is limited to effects of people in the country,industrial effects on the environment and the internal combustion engine as well as the over all effects of cities ,is another story)

ON THE GROUND
go to the countries on the equator ,check what has happened in history
and listen to what is going on in the many disaster areas on this planet today,(and there are more than ever each year )

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use



Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 8

Yes indeed we are and it is absolutely our fault and people who tell you otherwise are just in denial.