Your take on Global Warming?

Question

Whats your take on Global Warming? Greenhouse gasses, 10,000 year cycle, load of nothing?

Answer 1

My take on global warming (I appreciate your capitalization by the way) is that humans are polluting the planet and will continue to pollute the planet at an exponential rate, and continue to reproduce, thereby creating an even greater demand on the finite resources of the planet and exceed the planet's ability to regenerate such resources. Judging from the typical attitude of your average couch potato with 6 kids, nobody will care, in the aggregate, until it is too late. The polar caps are melting. I blame air pollution but it really doesn't matter where you point the finger. The less ability the earth has to reflect the sun's energy by its nice white reflective polar ice caps, the warmer it will get. It seems self evident to me that the ice is melting because of a human presence on this planet, but even if I am mistaken in my assumptions, the polar caps are still melting and it should concern you, if you have any offspring who plan on having children and if you have any interest in humankind continuing to survive on this planet.

Many people don't care. Once they die, it's somebody else's problem. But it would be horrible indeed to see an end to history, that humankind's toil and cultural aspirations were all in vain, that there will be no posterity. It would be a profound shame that the religions of the world, with their adverse stance on contraception, and the lunatics of the world with their belief that it doesn't matter because they're going to heaven and god gave them the earth to pollute as they see fit, it would be a profound shame indeed that such a segment of humanity bears the ultimate responsibility for killing us all. I honestly think we should not stand for it. That's my take on global warming.

Answer 2

I work in the Environmental Field...What troubles me about Global Warming is the scare-em environmental activism that Al Gore dispenses. We live in an increasingly complex and technological society yet the average citizen knows less and less about the underlying science behind the every day tech they use. The entire global warming theory rests on the foundation of the "Greenhouse Effect" and the role CO2 plays in the theory. The Vostok ice core data shows conclusively that over 450,000 years there has never been an incidence of atmospheric CO2 concentration changes preceding temperature changes. Not once. Temperature always changes first and then the atmospheric CO2 concentration follows. Global Warming is not established to the extent many think. A consensus is not a substitute for a proven event. The probabilistic modeling used to predict climate changes are scenarios and only as good as the parameters & defined variables in the model. The facts about GW are that the phenomenon is poorly understood, and mountains of evidence now question man's impact.

Here is but one example. As the Earth's climate fluctuates, as it has throughout the planet's history Sunspot activity strongly correlates with levels of Carbon 14 and Berrylium 10 isotopes found in tree rings and ice cores. Therefore, accurate, long term reconstructions of sunspot activity can be made with low margins of error. The reconstructions of sunspot activity correlate strongly with almost every reconstruction of global temperature., all appearances place far greater influences, such as solar activity, at the center of the debate.

Naturally, those with political axes to grind will continue to accept poorly reasoned rhetoric and will engage in the GW hysteria. Publishing editorials that come from a position of the writer's having accepted GW as a solely manmade issue are irresponsible and politically centered.

GW is rife with opportunity for fraud, as carbon crediting and other international for-profit and for-control schemes are floated. A few public servants have seen through GW to what it really is, namely those purely political measures for more government control of the private sector, then they deserve credit for not jumping on GW's junk science bandwagon. Make no mistake about it. The Man induced global warming alarmest, wish to sequester more than your carbon...

Answer 3

Science and religion have been feuding over which is correct: evolution or creationism? Why can't they reconcile the fact that creationism might very well have been an evolutionary process???

The same thing goes for global warming. Sure, it's a cyclical event that has happened over and over again on this good Earth. But why can't the "naysayers" and the "soothsayers" reconcile the fact that the current "event" has been escalated due to man's "industrial revolution" of these past 150 years??

It's BECAUSE of man's smoke-belching factories, vehicle emissions, and other "advances" that the whole process of global warming is not in its "routine" cycle. If you take a bucket of clear, cool, pristine water and add cigarette smoke, toxic poisons, gas fumes, and all kinds of other chemicals to it, that water ain't gonna' remain clear, cool and pristine! Well, guys, THAT'S what we've done to the Earth in a quick century-and-a-half!

So as we scurry around in our $65,000 gas-guzzling SUV and build more chemical plants and oil refineries, we're gonna' keep messin' with Mother Nature's natural cycle of things. And she ain't gonna' be likin' it, fools!!

But, we'll keep using up all of Earth's precious resources, until there won't be nothin' left. And then who will we blame? When our beautiful little great-greatchild comes and looks us in the eyes and says, "Hey, Gramps - WHY did you destroy the Earth?" HOW WILL WE ANSWER THEM?? -RKO- 05/17/07

Answer 4

Almost all the things they say about Global Warming are true, and i think the u.s. is soooo addicted to oil and all the other nonrenewable resources, that we can't conserve and can't stop using so much oil, it's like we're all spoiled little children, and our mom or dad isn't stopping giving us everything we want, just because America is the richest country and the best country in the world, doesn't mean we can just use all the oil and other resources we want, because itz gonna affect all of us, global warming doesn't stop at America's boundries,
i know that many companies and industries are trying really hard to create new sources of energy, but they have to go faster because one day, we're not gonna get oil and America will have an enormous crisis, that might just turn into a depression and effect our ecomony even,
America should have started planning for the world's and our future a long time ago, now there isn't enough time to invent new technologies to use the sources we can get, like solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal energy... and it is gonna take huge amounts of money in order to create the technologies, like wind mills for using wind power, and solar panels to use the solar energy that we get every single day from the sun, *Did u know that in one day, the earth receives enough radiation from the sun (Radiation=energy from light and heat) to meet the whole world's energy needs for 40 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* and we do nothing to use that free source of energy...... Solar energy also doesn't release any harmful waste or gases or anything like that, and we still waste our money and time on oil..... There are sooooo many other things we could do to conserve our natural Nonrenewable resources, but do we do anything????!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!, it makes me soo ooo mad, that we could b doing soo much more than we are doing right now.....

Answer 5

Climate change is natural.....it's been going on for years.

The only opinion I have is to recycle as much as possible and quit littering.

The Inconvenient Truth is the third-highest-grossing documentary in the United States to date.
The film's distributor, Paramount Classics, is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to The Alliance for Climate Protection (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).

If it was such a sucessful documentary, why is Paramont donating ONLY 5% ? And Gore is putting 100% to a company he is chairman............sounds odd to me.

Answer 6

I think global warming is something that is going to happen no matter what we do. I do believe 100 % that there are things we should be doing to help. Global Warming is happening it is real, however I don't think it's going to ruin earth in my lifetime or many generations to come.

Answer 7

I am not a scientist so unfortunately - I only have my own personal opinion. But - - -
I think it's happening - but I think Al Gore is full of crap and his movie "Inconvenient Truth" was just a political ploy.
I refuse to stop what I am doing until the people who are saying all this stuff about Global Warming - buy Hybrid cars, and recycle. And until Hybrid cars are affordable I refuse to buy one.
But - the changes in the weather are proof enough for me to believe that it is happening.

Answer 8

GHG from humans, no doubt. Just check last months United Nations International Panel of Climate Change report:

http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/a/ipcc_report.htm

I trust the 2000 scientists a lot more than the few politicians who say it doesn't. Shouldn't you?

Answer 9

Complete fabrication to scare you into voting for liberals as well as to make certain liberals rich...The earth is going through a natural warming cycle now...In 10 years it could be another cooling cycle like the 70's when 'global cooling' was the liberal scare tactic..

Answer 10

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