I want your opinion on global warming?

Question

what do you think of it?

Answer 1

CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.

Look at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest.
(see links below)

How's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.

There has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.

Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.

Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.

HI CO2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
HOCKEY STICK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm
General climate stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm

Answer 2

We haven't changed a thing. It was all here before we got here. That is to say that whatever we do on this planet is hte natural course or the way things should be. The thought that people are responsible for global warming is quite concieted. We really thinkwe are the shi^ don't we. It is all about us isn't it. maybe whale f@rts are causing global warming. maybe the earth is just aging. If the big bang theory is correct then we are just a side effect of a reat big firecracker. Surely the ringing in our ears will stop eventually. Fires burn out. so will the sun but maybe it is still rising in temperature and we are Fu*ked. Lets move to mars or venus. I'll take the subway to venus whenit is ready to support life. Mars is what we will becoem and venus is what we were. As the suns heat cools it shows a gradual change and the planets here are a definate sign of that. Colder farther out. Hotter close in...

Answer 3

According to scientists, in the past there was an ice age. Then something happened and the earths temperature increased. Since we have never found evidence of dinosaur industrialization, it must have been natural. So then is man made global warming real? Well it could be but at this point there is nothing conclusive and probably zero real evidence. I can't wait for a record breaking winter to happen or even better several back to back and see how they explain that. Or If they will then tell us we are doomed cause we will all freeze to death in the next ice age (which is being caused by _______ (trees, frogs, aliens, DARPA, changed migratory patterns, electricity, the Internet, or lets see... the atmosphere is leaking out of the ozone hole, heat pumps, RIAA, Baskin-Robbins, not enough biting insects.) you fill in the blank!

I personally don't think there is anything to global warming. if it is its probably natural.

Answer 4

I live in Australia and 40% of our agricultural food comprising over 1 million square kilometers is about to be overtaken by desert as farmers can no longer water their crops because we have been in drought for 8 years, the longest in over 200 years of recorded history. There is no sign of rain, the grass is dead and the dams are dry.

Most of our major cities are on water restriction, one of them may run out next year with the others not too far behind. Our prime minister gave us the news yesterday about no more farming in the Murry Darling basin. This is very bad and I am very scared. Just how long can a city survive when no more water comes out of a tap, 6 hours, 2 days maybe, and you thought New Orleans was bad with the anarchy in that disaster zone. At least there most people could go to other cities, but what do you do when the next city is almost dry as well? Fight and kill, that is what people do.

To the pollution supporters, your greed and selective science is going to destroy civilization if you don't pull your head out of the sand. Just look around at the environmental changes everywhere in the world. Don't say this is normal, don't say this is good because you too are going to have this realization too when you wake up soon and see a part of your immediate environment is no longer there. There is not going back when it is gone. I don't want your prays, I want your common sense reason and action.

To all you little people, this is out of our hands but we are the ones who have to live with it. Petition your politicians, make sensible economic decisions and get ready for the worst. At the best global response we still have another 10 years of sliding pollution controls with the environmental conditions taking 50 - 100 years to recover.

I think some of the larger governments really have things out of proportion. They don't mind spending billions on the risk that a few metal cylinders might cause. But when it comes to the risk that extreme weather has which can rip every nation apart and send those few left back to the stone age, they won't even acknowledge it, let alone do something about it. How is this possible? Do the leaders even care about people? I conclude some don't with such poor national risk assessments. No one is safe, small Pacific Islands have been disappearing for years due to rising sea levels and now Australia has been hit hard. It is going to many years to turn this thing around and until we do more and more of the predictions will happen, we will all see :(

God is not going to save us, this one is up to us.

Answer 5

Good question. Now here is a short and concise scientific answer. Global warming is real without any doubt. The real doubt comes in as to the cause and effect. Is it anthropogenic entirely (i.e. by our use of fossil fuels for example) or is it due to nature as others have suggested (i.e. chaotic episodes in the history of our planet which are not entirely understood, or to solar cycle activity and short-term fluctuations in solar insolation, or to atmospheric phenomena which we do not fully understand as Marcel Leroux, a French climatologist has suggested )? Or is it a result of a combination of different causes?

I believe that within the next few years (perhaps less than five), atmospheric scientists will isolate the real causes. We already know the real results - melting glaciers and ice-caps, changes in existing climates, and rising sea level to mention but a few.

Meanwhile we can take steps to cut down on our dependence on fossil fuels which is reasonable regardless of the cause of global warming and begin to look for better energy sources such as nuclear energy.

Answer 6

Most energy is received from the sun either as radiation or from energetic particles contained in the solar wind.The earth has mechanisms to manage these energy flows.Some are amplitude sensitive and some are rate sensitive. Most energy variations are due to solar "flares" which create changes in radiation amplitudes and which eject particles, mainly protons and electrons, into the solar wind.

Man made disturbances can, and has on occasion, disrupted the normal working of the earth's moderating mechanisms.

These moderating mechanisms operate outside the troposphere and are beyond the scope of most "global warming" discussions.

Hopefully the time will come when the moderating mechanisms in the mesosphere and the mesopause
will be discussed as openly as the current mainstream efforts to rationalize or trivialize the problem.

Answer 7

Well I think that it is real but that it is not all our fault. I know that we caused some of the global warming but I really don't think that we could have caused the whole problem.

Answer 8

They is info to help the two components of the worldwide warming argument. The puzzling area is that folk many times have self belief the main known opinion i.e., Al Gore's Inconvenient certainty. the difficulty with it is that many significant info are skipped over and handed over altogether. working example, Al Gore's documentary did no longer even point out the end results of volcanic pastime and our surroundings. Volcanic eruptions make contributions extra to worldwide warming than the different earthly variable, inclusive human beings. the different concern with the worldwide warming argument is how human beings like Al Gore use emotional ploys (alongside with dieing animals and shrinking ecosystems)to get human beings to pay interest. that may no longer honest to everyone. specific, it would desire to correctly be authentic that animals die and their habitats shrink yet, is this contributed by using worldwide warming on my own? What approximately city sprawl, livestock farming contained in the rainforests, and an ever increasing human inhabitants? worldwide warming is a puzzling situation to truly get to the backside of through fact of all the rubbish like this that surrounds it. i desire this enables slightly. sturdy luck.

Answer 9

It depends on which global warming you are talking about.
The Al Gore version, which is a load of crap or the real version,
which is caused by normal climatic cycles, which by the way
have very, very long periods.

Answer 10

My opinion: It's going down. "The earth will be destroyed by fire" - 2,000 year old prophecy.