Poll: is global warming a hoax?

Question

Please answer the following questions honestly.

1) Do you believe we are currently in a period of global warming?

2) If so, do you believe humans are the primary cause of this warming?
2b) If not humans, what do you think the primary cause is?

3) Where did you get your information about global warming (i.e. school, IPCC report, internet, Rush Limbaugh, books, common sense, etc.)?

4) What is your political affiliation (i.e. liberal, conservative, R., D., whatever)?

5) What is your educational background (i.e. high school, bachelor's/master's/PhD in what field, etc.)?

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

1) yes

2) yes, human industrialization is the cause

3) school, peer-reviewed journals, scientific publications, IPCC report, internet and common sense

4) Moderate (left leaning)

5) MS - Plant Biology, currently going for PhD in Plant Molecular Biology

Answer 2

1) Yes, we are in a period of global warming. We have been since the end of the "little ice age."

2) No, humans are not the primary cause of this warming. The thermal haline conveyor causes the earth's climate to gradually vary over time. The conveyor causes a warming until eventually enough fresh water melts from the glaciers to shut down the conveyor, causing the climate to cool a few degrees. The effects of this are noticable mostly to people in our fragile society, but most wildlife adapts or migrates. During the last cooling, known as "the little ice age," the Vikings who had settled Greenland when it was at its warmest died out, the black plague spread across Europe, and many other disasters and hardships occured for humans. Pollution, either from humans or natural sources like the volcanic eruptions which caused the "year without a summer" can slightly worsen the effects and/or speed the cycle. The earth is actually quite efficient at balancing herself, therefore I believe that we humans cannot destroy the earth, we can only destory ourselves. If we want to survive, we must put aside our differences and work for not only conservation but adaptation. Religious-like support for the unfounded and new theory of global warming is only dividing us, but we can all agree that we need to find alternative fuel sources, stop littering and stop polluting our air, land and water.

3) I learned this information from classes, documentaries, and my own research. I am still researching too. I plan to write a novel that deals in part with this subject.

4) Libertarian

5) Sophomore at UC Berkeley, sociology major

Answer 3

1).Yes !
2). We are responsible for only the co2 levels and other green house gases above the previous highs recorded over the last 600,000 years .
3).Internet , Nasa , National geographic ,A.S. (academy of sciences )
4). I hate all career politicians .Only want crusaders for obvious change .
5). Completed first grade with an open mind . Left college with a sense of true angst . To much conflicting information and theories and little actual fact .
I believe in black and white absolute right and wrong . SO freedom means the freedom to do whatever you want as long as it does not harm others . Your freedom to be drunk ends at the time you want to drive . Unless you can proof your proficiency behind the wheel . I have been around a few drunks who drive all the time and have not been stopped . I have also meet a few people who have three drinks and can not back out of a parking space without hitting something .
Your freedom to use drugs is also at risk if you wander down the street trying to catch butterfly's that no one else can see . Or Should other people simply slow down and respect your space to chase after invisible butterfly's as long as you are not attacking people with a net And that you have ever right to be offended by others who may try to prevent you from chasing them .
I think if everyone played along and joined you chasing butterfly's it would be much better then the police whacking you with a club or people yelling get out of the road you idiot I have places to be and thats much more important then you and those butterfly's .
SO consideration and understand and acceptance would tend to go much further then do not kill do not commit adultery do not steal and the other do nots that once got people stoned to death or sent to hell if they where not caught .

Religion and politics and the rich have made this planet what it is today . A complete mess with millions starving and dieing each year .
Wars raging and people killed over land and money and religion .
I can feed , pigs ,chickens and cows and plant crops enough to feed a thousand people . Till I break my leg or become sick and then I need the help of others .
We live in a socialist society and the continued profiting from individuals to amass great fortunes and pay for wars is such a waste of the talents and freedoms that make life enjoyable .



Your, welcome

Answer 4

1. Yes, it's been well documented that we're in a warming trend coming out of the last mini-ice age

2. No, while it is a popular theory and there is a scientific basis for the assertion, there isn't enough that shows causation.
2b. We are currently in a period of increased solar activity, as witnessed by similar warming trends on all the other planets.

3. I've read the info that's out there on the net, by scientists on both sides of the debate. I don't pay attention to the opinions of non-scientiests - Al Gore, Prez Bush, Rush, Katie, etc.

4. Conservative

5. Post-graduate engineering - about 60% towards a masters.

Answer 5

1. yes and no, but not as is being sold to the public as the blown out of proportion Apocalypse which requires billions and billions of dollars or else everyone is going to become burnt toast. The environment has become one of the invisible enemies that needs a blank check no matter what to combat it with its rival for funds only being terrorism.
2. The facts don't add up to the conclusion that humans are the primary cause considering the climate patterns of the last 100 years, let alone the last 5,000 years. The facts don't add up to the very recent warming of the planet is anything other than a normal cycle. If GW is true and a bad thing, which I doubt, it is the combination of many things but I offer a stern warning to people that love freedom, beware of GW propaganda that will eventually lead to travel restrictions, population control, food rationing, and a government regulated economy, because that is what communist regimes do.
3. various sources and thinking about it. (I won't say common sense, because common sense told people the world was flat and good sense seems to be rare, not common, these days.)
4. independent, but right leaning
5. some college
your welcome.

Answer 6

1. Obviously we are. The statistics are undeniable.

2. Not completely knowable, but some large component is very likely related to pollution, since pollution is real and provable.

3. Climatology books, history books, actuarial statistics from insurance companies. These last are very clear. Insurance companies have been advising international shipping companies for the last decade about how they can take advantage of the melting north pole to open up many more shipping lanes... also they want to change littoral laws for people living near flood-able areas, because they know the problem will cost them.

4. Independent.

5. MA, multi discipline with a strong minor -- lifelong hobby in the history of science.

Answer 7

1) Yes. Undeniable evidence globally.

2) Not entirely, but we accelerate the process with fossil fuel use.

2b) Nature. The earth does have warming and cooling trends.

3) A lot of reading, experience with gardening, observation, and common sense.

4) Not affiliated with a party.

5) Some college, returning to school in the Fall to start getting my RN.

Answer 8

1) Yes
2) Humans are the primary cause but hardly the only cause.
3)http://www.aip.org/history/climate/
4) Liberal and conservative are not political affiliations in the US. I am not affiliated with any party. That makes me an Independent.
5) Ph.D. Science Policy

Answer 9

1. I agree with President Bush and most scientists who say we are in a period of global warming.
2. I agree only with the premise that humans have contributed to the global warming but are not the total and sole cause of it.
3. Common sense, books, Internet research and other sources.
4. Democrat
5. Master in Education.

Answer 10

1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) Personal reading and observations.
4) American, "best one for the job" voter.
5) College

PS - Once global warming shuts down the Gulf Stream, an Ice Age will ensue within 10 years.