Are you really concerned about global warming ?

Answer 1

No.

Why? Because the Earth’s climate is constantly changing – with, or without mankind’s help. We have adapted to it in the past and we will adapt to it in the future. The only way to prevent it would be to artificially force the planet to stop changing – something that would be spectacularly UN-green.

To respond to some of the comments above…

kaustubh p says, “chk the everest peak pics 25 yrs ago and now u will sense the problem”. Well, I can’t comment on Everest specifically, but it’s important to point out that global warming is not the only reason that a mountain loses its snow cap. The mountain most often talked about is Mount Kilimanjaro, because Al Gore talks about it in his global warming scare-fest “An Inconvenient Truth”. But research shows that Mount Kilimanjaro’s snow cap is actually melting due to drying of the air caused by deforestation of its foothills.

He then says “we can sense the temp goin [sic] up every day”. Can you? Really? Then you’re a better man than me! Temperatures have risen by between 0.3°C and 0.7°C (depending on who you listen to) over the last 100 years. Even if we take the higher figure, that’s 0.007°C per year and, therefore, less than 0.00002°C per day. And you can detect that rise can you? The truth is, if no one had told us about global warming, we wouldn’t even have noticed yet!

Hawkston L makes several mistakes, but ends with… “…it's a problem. Bigger than the media is publicizing.” Blimey! Could the media exaggerate the problem any more than they already do? With the exceptions of “The Great Global Warming Swindle” and my links below, when does the media ever do anything but present it as a huge catastrophe?

Xiao Ke is a true Global Warming Alarmist if ever there was one – and abusive too! Lovely. He bizarrely tells us that we are “berks” because, if I understand him correctly, he explains that Southampton had to build sea walls to protect the city from high sea levels in the past. He then tells us we’re “morons” because if the sea levels rise it will “wipe off 90% of the worlds rich cities”. So, they couldn’t just build sea walls to protect themselves, as Southampton did in the past? Or are we expected to believe that we’ll just run around like headless chickens and do nothing at all?

Several people have mentioned sea level rise, so lets point out that sea levels have been rising at a fairly constant 1 inch every 15 years for the last century and show no signs of accelerating – in fact, if anything, sea level rise appears to have been reducing of late. “Oh, but the ice caps are melting!” I hear you cry. Well, the Arctic is floating on the sea, so even if it melted completely (big “if”) its effect on sea levels will be negligible. And the Antarctic is *not* melting. Even the IPCC admit this – (http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf bottom of page 9)

Finally, Xiao Ke tells us we are “stupid and naïve” because global warming is causing “asthma rise” (Really? That’s a new one on me!) “ice blocks melting” well, as mentioned above, Antarctica is not melting and that’s where 90% of the world’s ice is, and “multiple species going extinct faster than ever before”, but actually, the fossil record shows that it is *cold* periods that cause mass extinctions, while warm periods are good for life and cause increased species diversification.

Bob says “This is science and what counts is the data”. Well, I agree. The problem is how that data is gathered, analysed and manipulated. There’s an awful lot of “lies, damn lies and statistics” in the Global Warming Alarmists’ case. Just take the infamous, dodgy “Hockey-Stick” graph from the IPCC’s 2001 report (see my second source, below) – which they still haven’t apologised for, by the way.

This is happening a lot. Global Warming Alarmists take the data, deal with it subjectively and then offer up facts that are nothing more than their biased opinions. If anyone questions them, they get their friends and colleagues to "peer review" the results. And if anyone continues to speak up against them they are labelled as sceptics or, worse, "deniers" - with all the Holocaust connotations that go with it.

The bottom link in my sources, below, gives an example of this. It’s a scientific review of a testimony by James Hansen from April of this year, pointing out how the claims he makes are not supported by the data.

Oh and Bob, you need to find some better quotes. Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart??? Well, that’s me convinced!

Anyway, I’ve written far to much as usual. If you want your eyes opened regarding global warming, take a look at my links below. On the off chance that anyone actually ever reads my sources, note that I’ve added a new one at the bottom.

Answer 2

Yes and no. Having just completed a degree in Environmental Biology, I have been given a huge insight into this area.

The planet is undeniably getting warmer. However, a lot of the stuff that you see on popular TV is greatly over-exaggerated. hings like Blackpool will be an island by 2020. Absolute nonsense. If that happens at all, it won't be for another 250 years.

I think we all need to do our bit though. More importantly I think the government needs to do far more. Things like the fact that most stuff we buy is packaged in plastic, yet most councils do not offer plastic recycling. So-called energy efficient light bulbs are all bad for the environment- sure they save you money but they contain lethal amounts of mercury which can leak out if the bulb is not disposed of properly.

These are just a couple of the issues over which the general public is being misled. I sincerely believe that someone somewhere in the government needs to sit down and work out a proper commonsense approach to climate change and recycling, rather than the pathetic patchy system that we have in place at the moment.

Answer 3

Nope, its all crap. Anyone know about the global cooling scare of the 70's? Did that happen? I dont see any penguins.

And the ozone layer scare that the scientists were so sure about, later to be proved a pile.

The ice caps have been melting at the same rate for the past 100 years. The earth goes through cycles of warming and cooling its not a problems. It was warmer in 1900 than it is today for crying out load.

The medieval warm period wasnt a disaster, it was in fact a very properous perioud for England as we made wine and lots of it!

Dont Drink the IPCC's Kool Aid, they're all out to milk global warming for all they can get before it turnsout to be bunk, which it will and all you angry lefties will look like right muppets.

Answer 4

Among other things Global Warming causes the polar ice regions to melt that will release methane and poisonous gases and make the atmosphere unbreathable. Yahoo, probably the worlds leading climatologist, James E Hanson Columbia University. We have about 10 years to lower the temp or those gases will start releasing, as Hanson says the situation is becoming dire. Our present financial industrial system is loading the atmosphere with carbon which causes the global warming. Peak Oil will only exacerbate the problem. Unfortunately the corporate world is addicted to profits and like drug addicts they continue to pollute even though it will kill them and everyone on the planet. Society has gone lethally schizoid, the experts are now almost unanimous in their warnings to the world, but most Governments and the business media are carrying on as if nothing dire is happening. The business media make their money via advertising and most of what they write is for their advertisers, including the corporations using fossil fuels Check it out. Also yahoo Colin Campbell Peak Oil and make sure you get the original.

Answer 5

I am actually worried about pollution, of which global warming is just a part.

Putting less CO2 into the atmosphere is great, but let's not forget about:

CO - Carbon Monoxide - this also poisons the air.

O2 - Ozone - this gas collects in the atmosphere and thins out the part that prevents the sun rays that cause skin cancers and such.

Non-degradable materials - filling up the landfills.

Chemical pesticides - they run off the farmlands and collect in the water supply, eventually washing into the ocean and poisoning the sea life.

Mercury poisoning - again, runoff from industrial plants getting into the seafood. I don't eat fish, but I have family and friends who do...

And the list goes on and on.

Fortunately, the things that we do to help reduce CO2 also reduce these other pollutants.

So it's not just about Global Warming, for those people who don't believe in it, but it's pollution in general.

More people produce more pollution in our current lifestyles around the world - no one can deny that the number of people on the globe is increasing.

Therefore, the amount of pollution is increasing.

Call it what you want to - it's a problem. Bigger than the media is publicizing.

Answer 6

Yes and no! What I am concerned about is that regardless of whether scientific forecasts are correct or not, we in the west who have raped and pillaged to our great advantage at the expense of others around the world and our own kind, are too ignorant, selfish and complacent to take responsibility for our actions and treat everything we consume (resources,services etc) as if it were our god given right. In my opinion, the climate change question is myriad layered allegory for western values and a potential weapon for the defence of such values. But then who cares were all going to do die anyway might as well get in my 2 year old Mercedes that's due to be traded in for a newer model and drive down the mile or so to the beach to get a good tan where, listening to my i-Pod and buggering about on my latest mobile phone that's so slim you can hardly see it, I am served my exotic cocktail of imported ingredients served by an economic migrant of differing race who is so relieved to be able to serve my fat **** a drink that costs more than they get paid an hour. Bored!

Answer 7

Of course.

This is science and what counts is the 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 peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, 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://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html

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

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."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

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

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 8

YES!

For all you berks who think it is a hoax it is not! I come from Southampton, England and there are still the old walls from when the sea levels were very very high. If you have ever been to that city you will see the city was way far back because the sea levels were too high. It is a real problem and we have been there before.

As for all you morons who think its for tax. If all the sea levels do rise as the melting ice caps, Manhattan sized ice block that fell from the Arctic. It would wipe off 90% of the worlds rich cities since they are all coastal think of it HK, Shanghai, NKC, Seattle etc... all wiped out plus places like London, Paris would all suffer from the river banks busting that go through the middle of it. So total world collapse economically is worth a few taxes i think. Don't be so stupid and naive, asthma rise, ice blocks melting and multiple species going extinct faster than ever before.

Like always, WW1, WW2, Taliban etc... We wont do anything until its too late, very typical of America. However this time we may all find its the Human race going extinct, watch how attitudes change then!

Answer 9

No. We survived alot warmer temps than this in the past with alot less than we have now. Besides, global warming in a natural occurance, so it doesn't matter if I'm concerned of not, it's going to happen anyway.

Answer 10

Yes I am very concern. This Global Warming might turn the earth all water.