How convinced are you of global warming?

Question

Why would info be presented and represented by a politician and not a group of scientists?
I'm not convinced Al Gore is one of reliable source of information here, despite his efforts.

I'd like to be convinced of global warming and its threat .... so, please give me any info - preferably concise - that would convince me.


There are areas where storms come up most often: - florida, thailand, (japan?), and there are areas where storms are becoming more destructive.

But these storms are often fairly predictable, and I think mass transportation of affected residents to safer nearby areas might not be out of the question.
Is this too crazy of an idea?

I guess there would be a problem of cultures and societies clashing.
Or maybe this idea would be completely out of the question anyway.

What can be done about rising sea levels? Can walls be built on coastlines?
Would it be realistic here to just move everybody to areas higher above sea level?
I'm probably simplifying issues

Answer 1

Global warmin begins with the ozone layer and the pollution that is spewed into the air every day by cars and warehouses and anything else unatural. The thinner the layer and the more holes that form in it will allow more sun to pass thru and when the temperature rises the ice caps at the poles[north n south] will begin to melt. Thats what is gonna cause the sea levels to rise, the increase in water, and i guess the only way to prevent any of this is to stop pollution. Another contribution is the greenhouse gases. theses gases trap energy from the sun that would normally be released into space n since its not bein released its also warming up the earth. Dont kno how to fix that one.

Answer 2

My beliefs and theories told me that the whole global warming thing will instead trigger another ice age that will gradually compensate for the over heating... Thus increasing the vaporization rate in the ocean, as thermal exchanges will increase, thus resulting in more, and stronger typhoons, and even more volcanic eruption in the last phase of the cycle.

You see, most think that it will not happen like this, because the historical models are not showing it could be possible, for the reason, that the thermoaline belt in the atlantic was connected to the Pacific ocean by the middle of the American continent (the south was only connected to the north about 100000y-a) after the connection done, the panama peninsula (at the time) did erase such connection with the pacific, thus resulting in a the establishment of a new thermal exchange system that triggered a massive climate change. The time it has taken to reconnect the new thermoaline belt with the pacific concord with the last ice age period...
Now this panama canal is still too small to connect thermal exchange currents, but the climatic warming will disrupt once again the thermoline belt, thus creating a new ice age...

Answer 3

Q: Why would info be presented and represented by a politician and not a group of scientists?

A: It is presented by scientists. But no one cares about science . . . honestly, how many journals of meteorology have you cracked open in the last month? Global warming isn't a conjecture, it's observed. Glaciers are melting, average temperatures are up. The conjecture comes in when you ask yourself, "Will next year be warmer than this one?" Or, "Did humans cause this?" Which you can argue all you want. As per your request, I pulled this abstract from a journal, which is how information is presented and represented by scientists:


Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Article: pp. 1007–1023 | Abstract | PDF (1.52M)

A New Perspective on Recent Global Warming: Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature
Thomas R. Karla, Philip D. Jonesb, Richard W. Knighta, George Kuklac, Neil Plummerd, Vyacheslav Razuvayeve, Kevin P. Galloa, Janette Lindseayf, Robert J. Charlsong, and Thomas C. Petersona

ABSTRACT
Monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures for over 50% (10%) of the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere landmass, accounting for 37% of the global landmass, indicate that the rise of the minimum temperature has occurred at a rate three times that of the maximum temperature during the period 1951–90 (0.84°C versus 0.28°C). The decrease of the diurnal temperature range is approximately equal to the increase of mean temperature. The asymmetry is detectable in all seasons and in most of the regions studied.

Answer 4

The reason it is presented by a politician is because no one could scientifically make any of the wild doomsday scenarios as a probability. Most scientists in the field predict a minor change that will "LIKELY" raise temperatures by a couple of degrees. The models are very complex and it is not known what the effects of natural buffer systems like clouds will be. It takes a politician to translate that into the greatest danger that man ever faced and likely to destroy the Earth. You may want to believe it to get along but your skepticism of a politician saying this is well justified.

Ozone depletion has virtually nothing to do with global warming.

Answer 5

Al Gore, according to many leading scientists, didn't use facts which were explicit to his theories. Instead of combatting climate change, Al Gore has been given the world stage including public attention, a movie, an Oscar and a hit at the White House. It was only a generation ago that scientists were concerned about GLOBAL COOLING!

The only thing Al Gore has to say is ... very (b)goring.

Answer 6

Al Gores evidence sounds good to the layman... Like the way "intelligent design" sounds good to the layman... As politicians are mostly layman in the field of science, it's easy to bamboozle them with nonsense and push through clean energy bills and create government spending on all sorts of ideas that will undoubtedly make a lot of people money. But saying that, I think Al Gore sincerely believes his science...

The only problem is that his science only goes back 60,000 years... He refers to the last ice age as being 10,000 years ago and each ice age cycle only lasting a few thousand years... In actuality, real ice ages (geologic ice ages) last millions of years. In fact we've been in a developing ice age for the past 70 MILLION years.... His 60,000 years of ice cores in antartica do not cover that far back... If they did, they would show that we're in the middle of a natural climate change.

If the CO2 is much higher on this change than the previous changes, it doesn't matter more than a tick on an elephant's butt compared to the whole picture.... We've had tropical climates as far north as the arctic circle in our geologic past....

No matter how many cars we drive, it's not going to matter a whole hill of beans when it comes to climate of the earth on a larger scale... Every time someone squeeks about the glaciers melting or the sahara expanding, I point to other strange things like snow in central Texas in May! and ice breakers being brought in to the Mississippi a few years ago due to the hard freeze... I point to Ekaterinberg, Russia being evacuated because of -60 temperatures...

But adimittedly we are in an overall climate change. But it's not as bad as the doomsday crowd thinks.

When you hear about our annual temperatures increasing by 2 degrees, also realize that the anual temperatures on Mars and Venus when up 2 degrees as well... Maybe there are other causes (like increased solar temperature)....

Answer 7

Why would you want to be convinced that global warming is true??Al Gore does not know what he is talking about ,or anybody else who thinks global warming is true...It is absolutely not true!!! Yeah i might not be talking in fancy schmancy words but i get to the point it's a total lie!!!

Answer 8

I am convinced. did a lot of research on it. my favorite scientist who study's this is Elizabeth Kolbert from New Yorker Magazine "The Climate of MAn"

Answer 9

knowing what this country looked like when i was a child ,and seeing the things going on world wide now leaves me to only one conclusion ,
the world can't withstand what the human race is doing to it