Global warming, real threat or overhyped myth?

Answer 1

Overhyped myth.

It's all a political thing. For starters, remember about a year or two ago there were always scientists on who voiced their opinions saying that there isn't Global Warming. Now, where did those guys go? Did somebody pay them to shut up? Now all we get is the one sided opinion, that they want us to hear.

Have you noticed that all of this hype has only gotten more prolific as the next U.S. Presidential Election draws near? And who is it making all the noise trying to get the attention? That's right, the Democrats.

I think that environmental issues are, to modern politics, what religion was to historical politics, a way to try and control the people and make us do what they want.

It's funny how the people that make the most noise, are the ones using the most resources and causing the biggest problem, if there even is one. Like take when Mrs. Kerry moved an initire mansion from England to America, a few years back, because she couldn't find a house here that she liked.

Rather then listen to these people tell us what to do, why not watch what they do, and see how much they follow the rules of their own hype.

Answer 2

May 18, 1980 anyone remember that day? Mt. St. Helens in SW Washington state erupted and blasted half the mountain to the north. Why am I stating this? Well during this eruption 2 decades ago, there were CFCs, CO2, CO, Sulfur Dioxide, some inert gases, and some other harmful gases dispersed into the upper atmosphere, much more of these gases than any emissions that we have produced since the industrial age. 150 years of emissions that we have produced in 1 eruption, and how many eruptions have there been in the last 150 years. Mount Pinatubo was 50 times more powerful than the Mount St. Helens eruption.

The thing is we're still coming out of the last Ice Age, we will hit a peak mean global temperature (MGT), then the MGT will begin to decline as it has done for billions of years. Global Warming is a buzz word for government, media, and liberals. Nothing is ever good enough, and there is always something new to pick on.

Interesting news about Neptune the furthest planet from Earth, seems it's MGT has also risen since 1980, but who is the cause of that, no humans on Neptune, no emissions, coal/oil buring plants, no vehicles, but still an increase in the MGT of Neptune, hmm.

Maybe the sun is actually burning hotter these days, maybe climate change is just normal, maybe we need something more creative to do with our short time on this planet than worry about what will happen in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years.

Answer 3

My belief is this global warming is an overhyped myth in terms
of man being the cause of this. It is being said that using our big cars and big industries polluting the air is a major reason for this. There isn't a single fact out there that proves this, only theory by mainstream media which try get support from so many so called expert. How can we explain that in previous ice age, which was hundreds of years ago when there were no factory and big cars polluting the Earth , it heat up. How is it that Mars is warming up yet there is no signs of life polluting the planet. If the planet is warming , it is just a cycle of the climate not cause by any human. Remember in 1999, when there a lot of hype about how the computers, which controls a lot of things in our life will go crazy on us because it is not set up correctly for the year 2000. All the hype that the world will end or something, yet nothing happened.

Answer 4

no threat, really. It isn't a myth, but definately overhyped. the Earth is warmer, but not cause for concern. the earth goes through cycles much longer than we have been alive, so we will not know whether it will keep warming or start cooling. if it took 100 years to heat the earth by 1.5 degrees, how long would it take to actually affect us?

Global Warming isn't the reason while in CA you are experiencing very high temps. There is absolutely no fact in the CO2 levels having any effect on the Earths temp. We are talking about 1.5 degrees, what is it that you don't understand?

Answer 5

I used to think it was real, but now I think its all over hyped. I don't see an immediate threat...The Earth goes through stages ---it has been since before mankind ever existed. Remember global cooling ??? What happened to that? Now the Earth is too hot. And the only reason why this subject is so hott now is because rich/influential ppl/celebs are hopping on the go green train and making everyone else believe in the hype. Even if global warming was a problem, it'd be way too late for us to do anything about it now. It'd be like trying to stop the Ice Age.

Answer 6

I wouldn't say it is either. I would say that warming and cooling have happened on this planet for millions of years. I think it fluctuates. Around 1100 ad, it got very warm and a huge drought hit much of the US. This is what scientists think caused the downfall of the Mound-building Indians at Cahokia mounds. Temperature then was supposedly 6 degrees higher average than now.No cars then for sure

By the same token, I dont think humans can be blamed for this current warming. If I recall correctly, there was even a mini ice age around 1200 -1400 ad. No cars then that I am aware of.

So, I think this is over hyped and a natural occurrence with humans being responsible for a very, very small part of it. I think we are giving ourselves too much credit and power to destroy earth. People yes probably, earth, not likely.

If everyone is convinced mankind did this and we are in dire straits and will all die soon if something isn't done, then I suggest those most worried, eliminate themselves and help save us that are left.( probably the meanest thing I've said in a month)

Answer 7

How often do you believe the weatherman? Some facts, some conjecture, lots of opinions. Global warming may be real. But really, what is causing it? Volcanos are a huge source of green house gases. At the end of the day, should you try to save energy, keep pollution to a minimum, reduce emissions? Absolutely, but, we should be doing that anyway because being a good steward of the earth is the right thing to do.

Answer 8

Definitely over hyped. The scientists are making a fortune doing studies and forecasting, the media is hyping it for ratings, and politicians are hyping it for votes. The same scientists that are talking about global warming were in the recent past blaming the green house gasses for making the planet colder and putting us on the brink of the next ice age. Now everything is blamed on global warming, including natural disasters that we have seen many times in the past. The ice at the north pole is shrinking, but the ice at the south pole is growing, we only hear about the north pole because that confirms the global warming theories. Al Gore is a fear monger even the scientists that are the most extreme in their views of global warming don't come any where near the disaster threat of an Inconvenient truth. Here is an article from an MIT Scientist on the Religion of Global Warming.

http://www.cdfe.org/global_warming_religion.htm

Answer 9

No, the possibility is minor. the present assembly of scientists in Paris predicts minor problems from it, whether they do attempt very stressful to make the somewhat gentle prediction that are making sound as poor as available. The estimates are for sort of 5 levels temperature upward push and a million foot sea point upward push in a hundred years. no longer very frightening. they say undesirable climate gets worse (storms, droughts and so on), yet on no account fairly attempt to returned that up with numbers, via fact they have not got any. that's barely a scare tactic. No, the clarification to discover an capability source different than oil is by way of the fact the Arabs have all the oil.

Answer 10

Climate change is real, it has been happening since the beginning of the planet. Humans causing it is a myth perpetrated by the High Priest of Global Warming, Al Gore; as a way to keep his name in the papers and to make him millions more dollars, on top of the millions he makes from his ownership of oil companies.

Climate change could be a real threat to life on this planet, as it probably was to the dinosaurs millennia ago. Your impact on this cycle is negligable, however.