what is your veiw on global warming.?

Question

i want you to tell me your Viewon global warming, why? are you liberal or conservative? what evidence that supports your side? how do you think the topic of global warming is impacting the earth's economy? heres my answer, and i want yours, i think global warming is a fake, a lie, and is wrong. im a conservative, but i also look at liberal point ov veiws, one quick thing, because i dont have much space to type all my things on how its fake, most of the supporting scientists admitted they where bribed to find "evidence" on global warming, and global warming is ruining, and destroying earth's economy, its stupid and just "the next topic" like overpopulation, the next "iceage" and now global warming.

and, i HAVE seen the global warming movie, an inconvenent truth, and his VERY FIRST graph, looks like a major increase, but he doesn't show any x or y axis because the increase was actually very small, if you zoomed in to see a .1% scale, it sould only look like a little bump.and you know how much co2 man puts out, right? well, thats only 3% of all co2 emmisions, the other 97% is natural

Answer 1

It is almost certainly true, and every institution in the world that studies climate is confident of that. The natural causes that have affected climate change in the past - the earth's orbit cycles (Milankovitch cycles) with cycles of 60,000 years, and the sun intensity with cycles of 11 years - are in cooling cycles right now and yet the atmosphere is warming. There is no dispute of that. That leaves man-made CO2 as the only known possible reason. For it to be caused naturally, there would have to be some other force that operates that has not yet been found. Keep in mind that the warming over the past 100 years is unlike anything that has previously happened on earth. The rate of warming is much faster than has been known to happen naturally. There is no movement of scientists away from the consensus that AGW is real. There some doubt raised because some did not understand nor fully believe that the slight cooling over the past decade or so was caused by the cycle of currents in the Pacific. However that doublt has vanished this year because the sun has been at a minimum but the atmosphere has warmed in 2009, exactly as predicted by the experts as the Pacific shifted from a La Nina (which cools) to El Nino (which warms). We get year-to-year fluctuations due to changes in the sun and Pacific currents, but overall the warming over the century is known. Warming is very rapid during the natural warming periods and almost flat during the natural cooling cycles. The net efffect is rapid warming in coming decades with no known natural causes.

Answer 2

It is a small problem compared to many others.

It is being used by the political left to attack big industry.

Finding other energy sources is important to prevent the U.S. economy from being held hostage to middle east oil suppliers, but not to stop global warming.

The Kyoto Protocol, even if completely and totally implemented by the U.S. and every country in the world would only make a 5% difference in the amount of global warming that the models predict.

The models are not accurate because they depend totally on assumptions that cannot be verified.

Nevertheless, the increase in CO2 in the air is becoming alarming even without considering warming. The level is now much higher than any natural peak level in the last 400,000 years and it is rising so fast that on a 400,000 year long graph it looks like it is going straight up. And the rate of increase is increasing exponentially.

Answer 3

You don't have to be a liberal or conservative to watch
the ice disappearing in the far north, to recognize the
drastic change in temperature and weather patterns,
to compare the change in foilage and crops.

Global warming is not ruining the economy. Our selfish
desires to get more and more and more...whatever the
cost...is what has ruined the environment. I challenge
you to take your cash and go sit on a little ice island
with the polar bear..an ice island that is slowly melting
away. Stick your head in the sand along with everyone
else in the monastary on Pennsylvania Ave. The longer
we wait....there will be an affect on the economy.

Answer 4

I think it is a fully valid scientific theory. It doesn't matter what my political views are because GW theory has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. I have a great deal of evidence supporting this idea from the thousands of scientists collecting data and doing research. An excellent place to check out 'my side' of the argument is here

http://www.ipcc.ch/

A panel of highly competent scientists have collected all the data available on climate change and compiled it into possibly the single largest scientific paper ever published.

And your claims that it is a lie are completely and totally false. Not one single scientist yes has been bribed to find evidence supporting AGW. Science simply doesn't work that way. Anyone trying to fake data would be completely destroyed during the peer review process, which the whole of GW theory has undergone.

And it is most certainly not stupid and 'just the next topic' (whatever that means). It is a complete scientific theory and should be treated as such. If you have any objections to the theory feel free to message me and I'll try to clear things up for you.

Edit: And please, don't bother watching the Great Global Warming Swindle (well, watch it if you want but be sure to fully research every single claim made in it, just like you no doubt did with An Inconvenient Truth). That is quite possibly the biggest piece of propaganda released since WWII. The only swindle here is the film itself. That piece of rubbish has been so thoroughly debunked I'm surprised to find it still floating around out there. (And in case you're wondering- you aren't, yes, I've watched the whole thing through twice now.)

In fact, one of the scientists involved in the film (Carl Wunsch) is now demanding that he be removed form the project entirely. Saying that he was lied to and mislead as to the nature and content of the film, calling it a piece of outright propaganda.

You can read Mr. Wunsch's letter and a short rebuttal of the film here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/

(RealClimate is a Blog run by fifteen highly qualified climate scientists currently doing research in the field, and is an excellent source of information on global warming theory)

Answer 5

I believe global warming is real-based on reading nearly everything I can. However, I have still yet to see any evidence that it is a crisis or that it is being caused by people. There is a definate warming trend, but that is easily understood if you look at the warming trend that has been going on for hundreds of years. Planetary climates come in cycles. Good scientists have been saying we were headed toward another ice age for years-long before the whole global warming issue came to light. Global warming is merely one step in that process. If you actually look into the cycles in history, we are clearly in one of them, just with more information than has ever been available. This is merely the first time we've been able to measure it happening instead of looking back thousands of years later to see what happened.
At the same time, since there is no evidence one way or another, and since we definately wont be able to do anything when its too late, I still think we need to do something to at least slow the rate of warming. Even if it is just a natural cycle, it is a still one that will prove detrimental to us if it continues to its logical turning point (the next mini ice age).
As for politics, I am conservative-true conservative, not a Republican.

I am tired of both sides though. One side uses horrible scare tactics that typically are based on bad science.

Melting ice caps cannot raise sea levels-they will lower them. Melting runoff from mountains and other frozen areas will cause flooding. Fast paced effects are not possible according to most scientists (specifically the good ones), and the conclusion that major hurricanes are caused by man made global warmning is ridiculous.
CFC's cant hurt the O-zone layer--theyre too heavy of chemicals to go that high, they will bond with extraneous molecules in the air, theoretically helping to fight smog (displaced 03).
Al Gore is a politician/actor at this point. He is not a trustworthy souce. Read scientific journals, not self-serving 'documentaries'.

On the other side, you have people saying that without evidence you shouldnt make changes. That is just as ridiculous. You cant sit around waiting to see what is going on. You have to act before it is too late, especially on an issue that if youre wrong is major, but if youre right is unimportant-make the safe choice.

Answer 6

This could be a long debate, but I think a view which is rarely heard is this. First, if you really are interested in the truth you should not look at what non scientists say. Also, you would try to look more often at the other side (ex:http://realclimate.org/). It's always easy to go and listen to what you want to hear. Then, are you competent do assess the scientific arguments? Even simple statements from scientist come from complicated and comprehensive measurement and analysis. No? So why are you REALLY denying climate change? Finally, when we really look at the single fact of the consensus: that a vast majority (1000s) of climatologists from all countries, (including ennemies), religions and political sides agree with the consensus, then 2 possibilities: either all these professionals have been completely wrong for the past 20 years and, so wrong that even YOU can obviously tell (????), or there is a world-wide conspiracy to scam 6 billions people into what? giving more money to study climate????? On the otherhand, many (not all) Climate change scientist deniers are OPENLY financed by oil corporations who have obvious reasons to do it. mmmmmmmm........ Lets face it, people feel compel to deny climate change because they are afraid of it being real, do not want to feel responsible (it's nobody's fault though, it was unpredictable), and because politicians offer no solutions except taxes for their own benefit.

Answer 7

Photos of Mar's poles, over the last thirty years show a shrinking of them - perhaps global warming is more of a solar phenomena. While man may contribute to global warming - I wonder where that will take us - perhaps we are entering the next ice age- perhaps it is just an anomaly. I think the hot air from Al Gore and other clowns are just a Hollywood grade "B" movie with a poor fictitious plot.

I like Chlordane. I like high performance cars. I like to waste electricity. Tell the green peacers to clean the air by keeping their own rear-end exhaust inside their torso

I am liberal and Conservative depending on the issue. I am against Big Brother government - for replacing income tax with a value added tax. Abortion's are A-okay but against pulling the plug - I am for swift capitol punishment- wish they showed Muslim be-headings (no thy enemy)

Answer 8

Firstly. my friend, Let us Agree to Disagree!.
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.
Although the American Association of Petroleum Geologists is the only scientific society that has rejected the theory put forth by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations," which lead to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect.But this theory is backed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.
But we are already seeing the signs Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather ,Ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding ,Arctic and Antarctic warming.
I do trust that you would also concur with me is i state that there is nothing wrong if we take preventive steps !!

Answer 9

global warming is a serious issue.
people need to stop ignoring the fact until something catastrophical occurs.
if you disagree, watch an inconvient truth. that movie is based on hard evidence.
no made up statistics, or "bribes."
the hottest weather in history has been recorded in the last ten years.
the number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
the flow of ice from glaciers in greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
if this continues, then the 9/11 memorial will be flooded in some years.



EVEN IF IT ISN'T MAN-MADE, WE SHOULDN'T USE THAT AS A REASON NOT TO MAKE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES. IF WE WANT THE EARTH TO BE HERE FOR OUR GRANDKIDS, POSSIBLY OUR CHILDREN, SERIOUS ACTIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN. IT'S SAD THAT EVERYONE HAS TO SUFFER FOR A FEW GENERATIONS BAD CHOICES.

Answer 10

i think the people that are trying to say that global warming is bunk are the same people milking us dry at the gas pumps. if the world went 'green' and started really working toward reducing greenhouse gases the petroleum industry would be one of the 1st to be negatively impacted by it. if we really put our minds to it, we could completely wean ourselves of our addiction to oil in 20 years. for that reason, we'll continue to see huge sums of petro-$ poured into 'proving' that global warming is a myth. even if it were, it would still be a good idea to take better care of our planet. i mean, come on, do you really think God put us here just to plunder everything we can? it just makes good economic sense to make the best use possible of the limited resources we have.