Who belives in global warming?

Question

I know, its been asked before, but do you belive in global warming? Why or why not? I need this for a report in school. Don't give me the causes, just the reasons you belive it does or doesn't exist.

Answer 1

me

Answer 2

Yes I believe that the world has warmed a little over the last 20 years, but no I do not believe this global warming BS. If you are writing a report for school, it might be interesting for you to search some early-mid 1980s news magazines (time, newsweek, US news) which regularly reported on the "coming ice age!" I was in high school in the early 80s and I specifically recall sitting in the school library and reading about the scientific "fact" that the hole in the ozone layer was allowing the earths warmth to escape, and that man as a result of his actions had brought about a new ice age. We were warned to build greenhouses and solar panels in order to try to stay warm and grow food. Otherwise we would all freeze or starve to death. I wonder where all of these "scientists" are today. Maybe they jumped out of a window, or perhaps these are the same morons that today speak of global warming as if it were a truth. Fact is that weather has been changing since the dawn of time and will continue to change so long as the earth exists. These imaginary doomsday scenarios are created to allow the few to sieze liberties from the many who are willing to be led like sheep to the slaughter. Read and learn, the information is out there and available, and the "coming ice age" garbage is recent enough to be located. There is no better way to refute indisputable scientific fact than to show the historic errors in blindly accepting these or other indisputable fact. There is a grave difference between fact and truth, so search for the latter, and good luck with the report!
BTW-I have added a link below to a 1975 newsweek artice. This is not the artice I remember, but it is just as pertinent.

Answer 3

You need to rephrase the question. Almost all people beleive in global warming. The question is whether man has had a significant impact on global warming. As for this, there is NO evidence linking man to global warming. the earth has gone through warmer periods and cooled periods.

As for your specific question, yes the earth is warming. It has been steadily warming since the last ice age 10,000 years ago (luckily for this or I would be living under 1 mile of ice. During this warming trend, we have experienced smaller trends within the over all cooling. around 1000 ad, the earth was warmer than it is now. This is when the Nordic people settled on greenland (and thus named it Greenland). Then the climate cooled until the later (part of the 19th century). It again warmed ntil the 1940's (much of the last 100 year warming trend was during this time). From 1040 till about 1975, the earth again showed signs of cooling (us old folks remember the Global Cooling Scare, in which we were all supposed to die from cooling). From the early 1980's till the present, we are again warming.

As we can see, the earth continues to warm and cool without our influence. The oceans may rise (Raleigh, NC used to be on the coast), and the oceans may lower (Wilmington, NC, a current day coastal town, used to be 100 miles inland from the shore), but we do not have control, nor can we effect the overall climate with any measurable effect. The sun, not that is where the real global warming story is. Just visit the planetarium in Durham, NC. There is a picture of the sun with the entire answer, "The sun has been warming since 2000." Yep, that says it all.

Answer 4

This question is a bit open ended, but to put it simply all you have to do is look at the average global temperature over the last 100 years to see that it has slightly warmed this is not disputable if you believe the temperature readings have been accurate, then the temperature is always moving up and down, it's a natural cycle, what's ridiculous is to think that the temperature should remain constant.

Now if you are asking if mankind is causing global warming that's something completely different, and there is absolutely no conclusive proof one way or the other regardless of what any agenda pushing hack wants to tell you.

One more thing, I'm not sure what type of report you doing but I hope that you are just using your data here as an unscientific poll because that's all it's going to be good for.

Good luck on your report.

Answer 5

Global warming is happening. It is not and hasn't been proven to be man made.

The jobs of science is to explain the past and predict the future (well and least in our Newtonian universe anyway). Global Warming Theory has four great flaws that to date no one has explained away:

(1) global warming theory predicts that the temperature at the poles should rise first, the observed temperature at the poles is actually decreasing;

(2) The ice core histories, show a history where the earth warms and then the CO2 levels rise, not the other way around, consequently the earth in its history works opposite of the global warming theory;

(3) water contributes more to warming then does CO2 by a factor of ten\ or more (I don't remember the exact figure)

(4) Much of global warming theory is based on computer models. We don't have computer models accurate enough to explain the known past history of earth temperature let alone predict the future. Fact is our models are so woefully incomplete that they can't even model the past 100 years accurately.

Is there global warming? You bet. Is it man made? The jury is still out.

Answer 6

Yes. Why? Because we have the evidence that proves it. And all the people that say Global Warming is natural and we shouldn't be worried, why not look at the facts? The Earth has warmed and cooled over the years, but not at a rate as alarming as it is now. We need to do something soon,or there is no turning back.

Answer 7

With The Gravitational Pull Of The Sun...I'll Say Eventually The Globe Gonna Get Right Warm....

Answer 8

No I don't believe Global Warming exists. My reasons are due to the fact that we only have data from a small reference frame that we are drawing conclusions from. Observations from other planets in our system show some similar effects but are not civilized and therefore cannot be due to man made reasons so there exists a possibility that Global Warming could be just a period of change in the Earth's weather patterns. Possibly one that has occurred before in the larger frame we do not have not records from.

Answer 9

One poster said "Yes I believe that the world has warmed a little over the last 20 years, but no I do not believe this global warming BS."

The world warming = global warming. That's the problem with the phrase "global warming," people assume it means doom and gloom, the end of the earth. It means exactly what it says, and peer reviewed journal articles have proved, many times over that it is happening and complex models have shown that it will continue to happen. Regardless of whether we are in a cycle of warming, and regardless of whether its causes are anthropogenic or natural... it is most definitely happening.

I'm not usually one to force my views on other people, but you can't argue with hard facts. Whatever your politcal, religious, etc, views are the earth has warmed... that is global warming.

Answer 10

I believe that global warming is a cycle like any other cycle on Earth. The ice caps will eventually melt no matter what. HOWEVER, I feel that humans and all their activities are speeding up the cycle which is what is causing problems. Hope this helps in some way.

Answer 11

I believe in it (as do most all scientists) because of the peer reviewed data that says it's real.

"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 peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

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

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

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change