Do you believe, or not believe, in the global warming theory?

Question

Just your own feelings, nothing POLITICAL please!!!

Answer 1

no I don't.

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Answer 2

It does appear that global warming is occurring. It would be a good thing to extrapolate the effects and attempt to prepare to deal with the results. This is not the same as believing that carbon dioxide is causing global warming. That is much harder to prove, but, in the end irrelevant because nothing we can do will make any significant difference. Prepare, and wait.

Answer 3

It's not a question of belief. This is science. It's a question of data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

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

It's (mostly) not the sun:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_actionitems.asp

And the first graph aboves shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.

Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html

There's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many:

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/329.php?nid=&id=&pnt=329&lb=hmpg1

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 and:

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 4

I strongly suspect it is real. The underlying theory seems to make sense. And if you look at measurements of CO2 and temperature over the last 400-500 years or so, the dead on correlation between the two is pretty phenonemal. Obviously, association does not necessarily equal causality but still, it would be interesting to perform a simple regression on the data set and see how much of the variability in temperature can be explained by the corresponding CO2 level. I'm sure that's been done but I've never seen the result.

Answer 5

Well if you think about the orbit of the earth...it's not a perfect circle. Perhaps we have reached a point in the orbit where we are farther away from the sun. Also if you think about the earth and how it heals it self, and how many things that have been disbursed into the air naturally (volcanic activity, fires, etc.); you may realize that the earth is very capable of healing itself. It's also factual in Environmental Science studies; the earth heals itself. I don't think that humans are capable of doing enough damage to the environment to seriously effect the Earth. My belief is that we're just getting farther away from the sun at this point. Things will go back to normal soon...probably in a few years or something.

Answer 6

you can't say nothing political when the term Global Warming is Political. haha.

Yes, i think it's real and we're going to see more and more symtoms as years pass.

This winter's weather patterns should have waken many people. So far, not a day has gone by in 2007 where some weird weather anomolie hasn't occured.

Answer 7

There is no question in not believing the globl warming theory because what is being portrayed is a very hard truth which everyone has to accept soon for the cause of humanity and their coming generations.

Answer 8

Yes, of course there is many many times that i believe that scientists are wrong but i truly believe in global warming is very possible. Of coarse this is only a yes and no question so there isn' t a right answer.

Answer 9

I totally believe in the issue of Global Warming. It has already been scientifically proven and shown for the past few decades. I am very dissapointed that there are still people who don't believe. Global Warming is real, it is fact.

Answer 10

FACT OR FICTION

FICTION
for many North Americans ,but they are used to fiction and feel more comfortable with fairytales instead of the truth,

Many blindly believe that our fate is in Gods hands ,and their focus is on the beautifull heaven that awaits ,they are not to concerned with the world their children will inherrit

whilst others wish to enjoy an Earthly paradise ,with out having to die first,they care what happens here and want to help the planet

there may come a time that for the sake of our survival the two views will be seperated in to Enemies and friends of the planet

World leaders are not concerned with the well being of the masses ,on the contrary .it was stated at a conference in Copenhagen,in 1998,by Kissinger, that the Agenda demanded a decrease in the world population of 60%,and you cannot achieve this if you start saving everybody.

scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.for political and economic reasons

HOWEVER CLIMATE CHANGE IS FACT FOR MILLIONS
Global warming is a very complex collection of many effects

this text only covers some aspects of global warming mainly man made desertification

industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities ,is another story

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but mans existance has its effects,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

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

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,

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

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

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..
and there are 70 million more peole every year that have to eat and drink and wash

who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

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.



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

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



if forrest are being exchanged for ashalt,concrete and desserts
what is gonna keep this planet habitable for us

We as humanity can behave in a less stressful manner as far as the Environment is concerned ,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, Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 11

Global Warming is a MAJOR problem that we will have to address. If not, in a couple hundred years time, cities and civilization will be threatened.