what is global warming. i would like to have it explained to me i would like to learn to pass on to others?

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i have never really taken any notice of what is happening or understood what global warming is. until i watched Al Gore on tv it was a film on global warming i was hooked, i really would like to learn more about this situation and start to make a difference. BUT DO NOT have any knowledge on how to go about it, i relize that it is becoming a serious situation for our future and our children. our childrens children, we need to pass on this message all of us can help in a small way we have to so i want to know how

Answer 1

It's one big huge fraud is what it is:

The idea that there is an imminent impending global disaster resulting from human actions is a complete and utter lie, plain and simple. Either Al Gore is an unbelievably stupid man or he’s laughing all the way to the bank at the stupidity of the general public that’s willing to pay money to see his movie. “An Inconvenient Truth” would be more appropriately titled “A Convenient Lie” – convenient for Al Gore anyway who has now produced the third highest grossing documentary of all time – over $24,000,000 to date ($47 million world-wide). That doesn’t include the additional unjust profits earned from book sales and speaking engagements.

His film would lead you to believe that every single scientist even remotely qualified to study global climate change agrees that disaster is imminent and that humankind is the direct cause. The reality of the situation is quite the opposite – most qualified scientists vehemently disagree with this assertion.

It is unbelievable how many people believe and treat this complete and utter fallacy as fact. Read blogs, newspaper articles, Internet forums – a startling number of people have bought this lie hook line and sinker.

I’m sure most would argue that even if the science is flawed, certainly it’s a good idea for us all to take it a little bit easier on the planet and with that I would most certainly agree. However, not only is Al Gore and company all wrong on the cause of global climate change (or perhaps even the very existence of global climate change) but their proposed solution could potentially be harmful to the environment.

The problem is that Al Gore and others have somehow, absent virtually any credible scientific evidence whatsoever, latched onto the idea that man-made CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the single biggest threat to environment. Credible research actually shows quite the opposite, it may in fact be true that additional carbon dioxide in the environment is beneficial to the Earth’s entire ecosystem stimulating the growth of additional plant and animal life. Carbon dioxide is not a noxious chemical but rather a relatively benign compound that is either used or released through virtually any organic process. Humans and animals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, plants ingest carbon dioxide and expel oxygen and yes carbon dioxide is a bi-product of burning fossil fuels.

Regardless of the facts stated above, man-made carbon dioxide is actually not even a significant percentage of the carbon dioxide found within the Earth’s atmosphere.

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and I will link to all the material that supports what I’m saying, as if it’s not bad enough that Al Gore is propagating a complete and total lie, his proposed solution to a non-existent problem is potentially harmful to the environment.

Please don’t misunderstand, I don’t dispute that there aren’t many things humans do that are very detrimental to the Earth’s environment, however there is NO credible scientific data to suggest that excessive release of CO2 into the environment is one of them.

If you want to help the environment focus on doing something that actually helps the environment rather attempting to solve a problem that may or may not exist by doing something that will not help (and might hurt) the situation.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s 17,200+ scientists (and counting) that agree there is no element of truth to Gore's film:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm...

Here is the letter sent on behalf of the petition signers requesting that our government not sign the Kyoto treaty to reduce C02 emissions because it will not help anything and in fact may be detrimental to the environment and to developing nations:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p41.htm...

Here is supporting peer-reviewed­ research:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm...

Here are a few articles from the Canada Free Press shooting down all the Global Warming hype:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harr...

Don’t be another jackass out there campaigning for a pointless solution to a problem that has little to no hard scientific evidence suggesting it even exists. If you want to be an activist step one is finding a problem that actually exists and step two is finding a solution that is not only realistic but will actually resolve the problem. Al Gore and friends probably failed at step one and certainly failed at step 2.

Even if reducing CO2 emissions is not detrimental to the environment it is unlikely to do anything beneficial either. Mandating reduction of CO2 emissions will most certainly be harmful economically, especially to developing nations that cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to alternative technologies. How Ironic, Al Gore, liberals and all the other Hollywood idiots riding the global warming bandwagon are usually the same bleeding hearts lecturing us on how we need to help developing nations. Not only that but other dishonest frauds are taking advantage of the general public's belief in this carbon dioxide disaster myth to get rich by selling “carbon-credits.” Check it out. http://www.terrapass.com/.

Don’t be a sucker – next time some jerkoff celebrity, former politician or other talking head tries to sell you something demand some hard scientific evidence.

Answer 2

Earth's 4.5 billion year history is one long story of climate change. This fact is pretty much accepted by those who think global warming is a natural process, and those who think it's caused by man.

In more recent history there has been: a mini ice age in the seventeenth century when the Thames froze so solidly that fairs could regularly be held on the ice; a Medieval Warm Period, even balmier than today; and sunnier still was the so-called Holocene Maximum, which was the warmest period in the last 10,000 years.

Those who think global warming is a natural process point to the fact that in the last 10,000 years, the warmest periods have happened well before humans started to produce large amounts of carbon dioxide.

A detailed look at recent climate change reveals that the temperature rose prior to 1940 but unexpectedly dropped in the post-war economic boom, when carbon dioxide emissions rose dramatically.

There is some evidence to suggest that the rise in carbon dioxide lags behind the temperature rise by 800 years and therefore can't be the cause of it.

In the greenhouse model of global warming, heat from the sun's rays is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If it weren't for these gases, Earth would be too cold for life.

Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun within the earth's atmosphere. This is the greenhouse effect. Traditional models predict that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases lead to runaway heating.

If greenhouse warming were happening, then scientists predict that the troposphere (the layer of the earth's atmosphere roughly 10-15km above us) should heat up faster than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons doesn't seem to support this.

Those who think global warming is a natural process say that the troposphere is not heating up because man-made greenhouse gases are not causing the planet to heat up.

For some people, the final nail in the coffin of human-produced greenhouse gas theories is the fact that carbon dioxide is produced in far larger quantities by many natural means: human emissions are miniscule in comparison. Volcanic emissions and carbon dioxide from animals, bacteria, decaying vegetation and the ocean outweigh our own production several times over.

Others would argue that carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas and that human emissions could tip up a finely balanced system.

New evidence shows that that as the radiation coming from the sun varies (and sun-spot activity is one way of monitoring this) the earth seems to heat up or cool down. Solar activity very precisely matches the plot of temperature change over the last 100 years. It correlates well with the anomalous post-war temperature dip, when global carbon dioxide levels were rising.

In fact, what is known of solar activity over the last several hundred years correlates very well with temperature. This is what some scientists are beginning to believe causes climate change. Others feel that solar activity only explains the fine details of temperature change.

So how does the sun affect the earth's temperature? The process scientists suggest is that as earth moves through space, the atmosphere is constantly bombarded by ever-present cosmic rays. As these particles hit water vapour evaporating from the oceans, clouds form in the atmosphere. Clouds shield Earth from some of the sun's radiation and have a cooling effect

When solar activity is high, there is an increase in solar wind and this has the effect of reducing the amount of cosmic radiation which reaches Earth.

When less cosmic radiation reaches Earth, fewer clouds form and the full effects of the sun's radiation heats the planet.

Answer 3

The TRUTH will set you free. Here it is:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
'Global warming' is a mass paranoid delusion caused by an insidious brain pollution called the Chicken Little Syndrome. liberals are more suseptive to it's effects. It starts when a coop of dumb clucks start squawking about some imaginary horror that they think will kill or eat them alive. Their squawking caught the media's attention and the media starting feeding those fears just to drum up a little excitement for their own amusement, and it got way out of hand. Al G~ulli~boor saw a golden opportunity to cash in on their fears by fanning the flames into a big bonfire of his vanity. Sensible people remain uneffected by all the stupid hype about natural occurences and can't understand what all the looneys are in such a fluster about. The panic stricken clucks can't understand why everybody isn't scared to death like they are. The Earth doesn't care what the clucks think and just goes right along doing what nature does with any regularity, which is to change constantly. The sane people go about life as normal, which is the only real thing that we can do about nature, anyway. And AleGorey is laughing all the way to the Bank! Bush, much to his credit, don't let the dumb cluck's fears guide public policy and waste billions of our tax money just to appease the peanut gallery.

Answer 4

Some gases in the atmosphere are transparent to visible light, but block heat from leaving. They let sunlight in and block the resulting heat. That's the greenhouse effect. It's like how the glass in a greenhouse keeps plants warm in winter. It's largely natural, desirable, and caused by water vapor.

Global warming is excess greenhouse effect caused by man, chiefly through burning fossil fuels and making carbon dioxide, another "greenhouse gas". It threatens to cause very costly flooding and serious damage to agriculture.

Much more here:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.asp

http://www.realclimate.org/

The movie suggested above is wrong. Here's one of many critics:

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

" A Channel 4 documentary claimed that climate change was a conspiratorial lie. But an analysis of the evidence it used shows the film was riddled with distortions and errors."

Note that Gore's movie is at the high end of the range of scientific estimates of what damage global warming will do, and perhaps over dramatic. A more conservative estimate of the problem, from a large team of scientists, is here:

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

But, compared to the movie above, Gore looks very good.

Here's a good book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Makers-Changing-Climate-Means/dp/0871139359/ref=sr_1_2/002-7020952-9746429?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174836502&sr=8-2

Even FoxNews now supports the reality of global warming:

"While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258342,00.html

Answer 5

Global warming is Real! Everyone been taking this issue seriously, it has been in the newspaper, and T.V! Everyone probably notice the weather changes like last summer extremely hot weather, even winters are colder. There been increased in wildfires and drought, which been destroy the ecosystem, and cause more extinction of animal and plants. I hear it took about 1.5 billion dollar just to rid wildfire! And probably heard about the glacier melting and sea level has been rising because the Carbon dioxide and other gases that have been trapping the sun heat in earth's atmosphere. This problem was caused by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests from humans' and it our responsibility to do something about. We all have to cooperate in this world effect. Not only for ourselves but well being of our children. It not hoax, for the bush admiration and Fossil Fuel Company have been both denial and toning down climate change (global warming) so won’t seem as bad and there doing for money over well be of people as well as planet.
3 stop global warming sites
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200612/tows_past_20061205.jhtml
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default.asp
www.climatecrisis.net
2 cartoons making fun of global warming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJZ4d892kI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLW2T3QgJc0&NR

Answer 6

You need to watch this video on Global Warming, these are real scientists that talk about why Global Warming is not man-made. Originally I thought global warming is man-made, learning from the media and school telling us that. But after watching this, I was convinced that global warming is not solely our fault. It proves Gore's argument is false.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

Answer 7

Here is a great documentary about it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831

Don't be afraid to listen to all sides.

Edited to say:
It didn't take long for someone to tell you how wrong the link I provided was. Just watch for yourself.
Unless you prefer to believe in eternal doom and the "end of civilization ".
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
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And oh yeah:
" We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing -- in terms of economic socialism and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
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Answer 8

the main severe techniques that the folk can wrestle international warming is getting rid of their older variety automobiles (1979 Buick) because of fact, older automobiles emmitt extra poisonous fumes into the air. Its obtrusive that the extra technological progressed a vehicle is, the fewer risky gases it emmitts. A vehicle that grew to become into outfitted 3 or 4 years in the past would be extra economic gadget friendly than a vehicle that grew to become into assembled 35 years in the past. for best populated cities inclusive of manhattan, Bus and Taxi companys might desire to replace present day automobiles with automobiles that are powered with the help of hydrogen or electrical energy. purely think of, if each substantial city used the Toyota Prius as taxi's, there may well be a decreased point of pollutants, and additionally taxi fares might desire to be considerably decrease as properly.

Answer 9

Global Warming Catastrophe Debunked By Scientists On Fox Special
By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition

May 23, 2006 - Fox News reporter David Asman hosted an important investigative report on Sunday evening entitled, “Global Warming: The Debate Continues.” This latest report was a counterpoint to a Fox feature that aired last November on the same topic. Asman’s report featured numerous scientists and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee On Environment and Public Works.

All of those interviewed for this show were skeptical of the claims made by former Vice President Al Gore and radical environmental activists on the causes, extent and potential damage that global warming might cause to the future of our planet.

Much of the hysteria generated by Gore and his cronies in Hollywood about global warming causing melting icecaps or the flooding of coastal cities, is unsupported by scientific data, according to meteorologists and climatologists who were interviewed for Asman’s special. In fact, many of the same environmentalists in the 1970s who were screaming about pollution bringing about a new ice age, are now claiming just the opposite with their dire warnings about global warming. They were wrong then; they are wrong now.

Those scientific experts who were interviewed by Asman pointed out that the computer models used by Al Gore and other environmental activists to predict future world flooding, etc., are notoriously unreliable. These models fail to take into account the extraordinarily complex nature of the environment. Two of the scientists interviewed by Asman said that activity on the sun may be a major factor that is overlooked by the Chicken Little environmentalists.

Radicals like Al Gore typically look at the worst-case scenarios—and those are based on flawed computer models—that fail to take into account future scientific breakthroughs. Gore and his cronies also ignore the current efforts being made by the Bush Administration to encourage such technology as energy plants that convert coal into gas—or technology that converts grains into low emission fuels.

Senator James Inhofe has called the claim that global warming is a man-made problem, as “the world’s greatest hoax.” I am convinced he is correct—and many reputable scientists agree with him.

Former surgeon and best-selling author Michael Crichton wrote “State of Fear” in 2004 to expose the radical environmental movement and its wildly inaccurate claims about future ecological disasters being caused by global warming. Crichton researched the environmental issue for three years before he began writing this book—and wrote a devastating critique of environmentalism in his author’s message in “State of Fear.” Crichton observed: “Nobody knows how much warming will occur in the next century. The computer models vary by 400%, de facto proof that nobody knows. … We can’t ‘assess’ the future, nor can we ‘predict’ it. These are euphemisms. We can only guess. An informed guess is just a guess.”

So, the next time Al Gore gives a speech about man-made global warming, melting ice caps, and flooded coastal cities, keep in mind that he’s just guessing—and basing his wild opinions on the worst case scenarios developed by unreliable computer models. (And, remember that this is Hollywood’s pick for the presidential run in 2008.)

Al Gore has a history of making statements that are unsupported by the facts. Entire web sites have been developed to chronicle Gore’s misstatements, including one published by National Review magazine several years ago. This is hardly a man who could be trusted with our national defense or environment if he became president

Answer 10

Its a make-believe idea made up by Al Gore and other idiots like him: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm