Is global warming a real threat??

Question

If not, is it something else???

Answer 1

Biggest Hoax since Big foot gave birth. We haven't been keeping readings long enough to draw any types of unbiased conclusions. This is another moneymaking scheme but this comes from the left not the right. I suppose all of the space flights we send up aren't causing any harm but your deodorant is tearing a hole in our protection.

It seems as though the first few answers are smart people, smart enough to see the wool being pulled over their eyes.

Answer 2

Bob's answer is the best, but I'd just like to add that global warming may be a very serious threat. We do not understand all the feedback mechanisms that tend to release more greenhouse gases at times of warming. There is some evidence that runaway warming has caused mass extinctions in the past, and we don't really know the cause. The complexity of the problem is a reason for caution. If burning all the fossil fuels in the Earth has a possibility wiping out a large fraction of all life on Earth, then it's obviously folly to proceed with business as usual.

Answer 3

To answer this question, one would have to go back and check the statistics available on the weather for a few generations back.

Personally, I'm not convinced it's a threat. AT my age, I've seen all sorts of crazy weather at times when no one heard about global warming. My mom used to say the earth has to balance itself, so who knows whether what we see as a warming trend is just mother nature taking care of itself.

Aida
www.byreasonofpassion.com

Answer 4

Very real. Here's a very short summary of what's going on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

Here's the whole story, not the easiest thing to read, but the best.

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

If someone recommends the swindle movie:

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"

Here's a good website.

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

You can't make decisions on global warming from fancy arguments or politics. This is science. You have to look at scientific data, a lot of which is on the websites listed here. The data says it's real.

Answer 5

I agree with Bob up there.
Yes it is a threat and it needs to be educated in a scientific manner.

Also - as accelerated climate change DUE TO HUMANS. (Read the IPCC report) will affect the geopolitical and economic world. When the climate starts affecting the food supply of developing countries - and potentially here at home in North America, it will affect our policies, our governments and people.

I find it interesting that some poeple forget that they are part of this earth - what happens to the earth affects us.
"Soon we will find that money cannot be eaten"

Answer 6

Definitely
Campbelp, you won't be worrying about wars, terrorism etc once the world is completely heated up and all life forms are killed.
Watch the movie "An Inconvienent Truth" documentary of the year 2006 which starred former vise president of US, Sir Albert Algore. I pay my total respect on him, he really inspired me and my whole school about stopping global warming and reducing green house gasses. Please do watch it.

Answer 7

Real yes. A threat, not so much.

Answer 8

Not to me. I am much more worried about war, terrorism, poverty, disease, over population and the job market. Global warming just is not going to have effects nearly as bad as people on this forum seem to think.

Answer 9

No it isn't. It is a perfectly natural occurring phenomenon.

What is a real threat is poverty and lack of education. In addition, we are having too many children and overpopulating the world. Also, we are using up too many natural resources and killing off too many species. These are the things that pose a real threat to Earth.

Answer 10

The subject was covered last night on 60 Minutes on CBS. From the scientists who were there in Antarctica, yes it was real.