Good old global warming! What is the actual truth as opposed to what we are told is the truth?

Question

I would never deny that global warming is happening, but dont believe we are told the truthabout its causes. What are your opinions and the proof to back it up?
I read in the Sunday Times (UK) today that global temperatures on Mars have increased by 0.5c since 1970. EXACTLY the same rise as that on planet earth. There were some fluffy thoughts as to what could be the cause, but nothing with any evidence. Is it not rather likely, with mars being so close to ourselves, that whatever has caused the rise in temperature there is causing the rise in temperature here?
I could go on for hours, but what are your thoughts?

Nice one Kiri K. I have been told that crap a hundred times before - I want to SEE SOME PROOF. You say you have that proof. Share it. There are a growing number of people out there who dont believe it & if you do then surely it is your duty to spread the word. Please note though - i for one want to be seeing hard, quantified, scientific, unarguable PROOF.
The fact that you havent shared makes me believe that you are yet another person that doesn't have any. Prove me wrong buster!

Answer 1

Mars is also getting warmer conclusion as man can not be changing Marsian climate it is a natural cycle/ Media hype to tax people more all lies it is the sun that determines temp you dummies. Watch the global warming swindle never be a moronic sheep that bleats out silly things because it was told they are true, instead think and look at evidence

Answer 2

I read an article linked in another question here and in it they said the same thing. But the article also said that changes on Mars are though to be due to orbital and axial tilt changes of Mars, not to changes in the Sun. That questioner seemed to have missed that part in his own link.

About Earthly warming. Earth has warmed in the past. There have been times millions of years ago when there was no ice at the poles. It did not harm life at all. In fact, it was good for life. So I see no reason to fear warming now, even if it IS being caused by people. If you listed to people on this forum, you might think the sea will be boiling in our lifetime. In reality, predictions call for a small temperature rise, maybe 5 degrees, and some polar ice melting, but not all. That is nothing to fear! Sure, we can limit pollution, but not to the point of crippling our economy or giving up modern conveniences. People just need to be reasonable. But environmental extremists are not usually reasonable types.

Answer 3

Scientology is the answer. L Ron Hubbard revealed that long ago an alien spaceship crashed on the moon and released space ghosts. They in turn inhabit humans who pay ridiculous amounts of money to have them sucked out, thereby cleansing them of their bad thoughts.

What Hubbard didn't reveal is that those same aliens came from Mars, where their flashy SUVs, private jets and unregulated factories had set into motion a cyclic chain of global wamring.

Now that the ghosts inhabit such forward thinkers as Tom Cruise and Jon Travolta, they have started the cycle up again on earth!

We are doomed! Doomed, I tell you!!!

Answer 4

Hard to tell what the truth really is. In the long run, it probably won't be as bad as they say, for humans at least. I'm sure a lot of animals will go extinct, but unlike them, we can adapt to our environment as it changes. Doomsayers like to say it will be the end of the world, but it won't. It might not be easy, but we'll adapt. Here in America, from what I see and hear every day, most people really don't care to do anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In my state, every family seems to have at least two cars, and more often than not, they're big SUV's with a V-8 engine that gets 12 mpg. What a waste.

Answer 5

Did you see that programme called something like "The Great Global Warming Swindle" on Channel 4 the other week? There were quite a few eminent scientists on there who had the "nerve" to differ from what seems to be an almost religiously held view about global warming being manmade and something we have to do our bit to prevent....

What was really scary was that one scientist had done some research that failed to prove that global warming was manmade, and yet the United Nations still included his name on the list of "their" scientists who agreed with the accepted view of global warming.....also there seemed to be money involved here in an unhealthy way......I think that programme is now available on DVD.

The fact that there has been quite an outcry against this programme (even from the pulpit in my local church!) maybe proves that there are quite a few vested interests around that have been challenged by this programme.

Answer 6

The simple truth is that the sun does seem to have a cycle of higher and lower energy output. We can't do much about that, but we CAN affect how much of that energy the earth absorbs or reflects back out into space. If we increase the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, we can make the earth retain more of that energy. If we reduce the levels of those "greenhouse gases", then we can get more of the sun's energy reflected.

It seems like a logical plan to try to lower the greenhouse gas levels during periods of high solar output, and to increase them during periods of low solar output. Instead, we seem to be raising them during a high solar output phase. That will probably have lots of nasty consequences.

Answer 7

certain, he's. Bush is in basic terms repeating what just about all climate scientists are telling us. he's no longer the in basic terms severe-profile conservative to well known anthropogenic global warming, both. there is Gingrich, Romney, Giuliani, McCain, Sarkozy, even Huckabee and Brownback (2 of the Creationist Republican presidential nominees).

Answer 8

The Earth has many problems because of man
this is undeniable ,how much we are responsible for Global warming is debateble ,But there is a definate change in Global temperatures that is affecting nature in a bad way.

this text only covers some aspects of Climate change ,mainly agriculture i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification

water and air polution such as caused by
industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories,

and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions

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

climate change is caused in great parts by desertification ,and most desertification is caused by man
the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result,

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,
vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

In the Netherlands bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain."

wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent

we are witness to a mass exstinction ,for the first time since the dinosaurs, of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor things any more.

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were few desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up ,

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

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 could be slowed down to some extent,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,instead of just some third world countries Source(s) here are a 100 ways to help
http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur... Source

Answer 9

yes, I heard this guy on the radio - I think it was Virgin, saying the river Thames used to freeze up in winter and people had bonfires on it, until the middle ages, then stopped and winters became less severe before the industrial revolution had started. ie the planet's warming up on its own. We are damaging it in many ways which we can stop. Global warming is a smoke screen.

I'm off for a spin in the merc.

Answer 10

I feel the media is spinning us a web of lies by suggesting that humans are to blame for global warming. It's going to happen but not because of us. We may be contributing towards it but we're not the cause.