Do you believe in GLOBAL WARMING?

Question

please tell me.

Answer 1

Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920's until the 1960's they warned of global warming. From the 1950's until the 1970's they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.

The National Academy of Sciences report reaffirmed the existence of the Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1500 to 1850. Both of these periods occurred long before the invention of the SUV or human industrial activity could have possibly impacted the Earth's climate. In fact, scientists believe the Earth was warmer than today during the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings grew crops in Greenland.

What the climate alarmists and their advocates in the media have continued to ignore is the fact that the Little Ice Age, which resulted in harsh winters which froze New York Harbor and caused untold deaths, ended about 1850. So trying to prove man-made global warming by comparing the well-known fact that today's temperatures are warmer than during the Little Ice Age is akin to comparing summer to winter to show a catastrophic temperature trend.

Something that the media almost never addresses are the holes in the theory that C02 has been the driving force in global warming. Alarmists fail to adequately explain why temperatures began warming at the end of the Little Ice Age in about 1850, long before man-made CO2 emissions could have impacted the climate. Then about 1940, just as man-made CO2 emissions rose sharply, the temperatures began a decline that lasted until the 1970's, prompting the media and many scientists to fear a coming ice age.

A letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister on April 6, 2006 by 60 prominent scientists who question the basis for climate alarmism, clearly explains the current state of scientific knowledge on global warming. The 60 scientists wrote: "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." The letter also noted: "‘Climate change is real' is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural ‘noise."

In 2006, the director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks Alaska, testified to Congress that highly publicized climate models showing a disappearing Arctic were nothing more than "science fiction."

"Geologists Think the World May be Frozen Up Again." That sentence appeared over 100 years ago in the February 24, 1895 edition of the New York Times.

A front page article in the October 7, 1912 New York Times, just a few months after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, declared that a prominent professor "Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age." The very same day in 1912, the Los Angeles Times ran an article warning that the "Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold." An August 10, 1923 Washington Post article declared: "Ice Age Coming Here."

By the 1930's, the media took a break from reporting on the coming ice age and instead switched gears to promoting global warming: "America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise" stated an article in the New York Times on March 27, 1933.

The media of yesteryear was also not above injecting large amounts of fear and alarmism into their climate articles. An August 9, 1923 front page article in the Chicago Tribune declared: "Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada." The article quoted a Yale University professor who predicted that large parts of Europe and Asia would be "wiped out" and Switzerland would be "entirely obliterated."

A December 29, 1974 New York Times article on global cooling reported that climatologists believed "the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade." The article also warned that unless government officials reacted to the coming catastrophe, "mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence" would result. In 1975, the New York Times reported that "A major cooling [was] widely considered to be inevitable."

On February 19, 2006, CBS News's "60 Minutes" produced a segment on the North Pole. The segment was a completely one-sided report, alleging rapid and unprecedented melting at the polar cap. It even featured correspondent Scott Pelley claiming that the ice in Greenland was melting so fast, that he barely got off an ice-berg before it collapsed into the water. "60 Minutes" failed to inform its viewers that a 2005 study by a scientist named Ola Johannessen and his colleagues showing that the interior of Greenland is gaining ice and mass and that according to scientists, the Arctic was warmer in the 1930's than today.

According to data released on July 14, 2006 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the January through June Alaska statewide average temperature was "0.55F (0.30C) cooler than the 1971-2000 average."

In August 2006, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist who heads the space research sector for the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted long-term global cooling may be on the horizon due to a projected decrease in the sun's output.

Answer 2

Yes. Forget the political stuff and the "logical" arguments. Just look at the numbers and the science.

Most of the arguments can be answered simply by this. Yes, there have been natural climate changes before, mostly due to the Sun. But the data clearly shows that, starting about 40 years ago, man's contribution overwhelmed the natural forces that controlled climate before.

This is a nice picture, includes the effect of the Sun, and there are many more scientific studies showing the same thing.

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

None of the other explanations works nearly as well. The scientific equations don't work for them. The numbers come out wrong. Most questions are answered here:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Good general information on global warming. with data and pictures:

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

Answer 3

Yes I do believed that our climate is changing, there are things you should be aware of, and that you may never know since you need to do some research by yourself to learn those:
1- Climate change is 90% driven by nature itself, while MAYBE human activities are responsible for a mere 5 to 10%.
2- The current climate trend CANNOT be changed by ANY ways known to man!
3- The current carbon tax is an attempt to instaure a global tax and to convert nature as a whole into money (market).
4- The warming phenomenon is about 10 times faster than most predictions have claimed.
5- Our whole planet as entered a new phase of activity where our oceans water is warming (from the bottom), and geomagnetic field is affected to the point of increasing sun radiations absorbtions in lower atmosphere, and triggering the ozone holes phenomenon.
6- Maybe related to sunstorm activities that begun 50 years ago and that are now entering a new plateau.

So all in all, I wish everybody good luck!

Answer 4

If global warming wasn't real.. half the country would still be covered in glaciers. This current warming cycle has been going on for tens of thousands of years.. and it managed to start without a single SUV being in existence. Funny that...

Answer 5

Of course the proof of global warming is all here. Notice the longer and hotter summers and the warmer and shorter winters. Every year the temperature records break. Every year we have more extreme weather. Every year we have a lot more hurricanes. So yes the signs that the Earth is getting warmer are all out there.

Answer 6

Of course I believe in global warming. Anne Cohen, a scientist working for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Society in Massachusetts did a study examining coral reefs and climate change. She observed through looking at the skeletons of dead corals that the earth does go through climate change. Its normal and this is what happens. However, she noted that since the 1980s, our planet has been stuck in the "heating phase" of climate change. She presented her findings to Congress as evidence of global warming. If you're interested in finding out more about how her research is proof of Global warming check out http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/people/acohen/publications/Currents.pdf

Answer 7

Yes, I do. Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental threat humanity will face in the 21st century. Caused by an overabundance of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, in the earth's atmosphere, global warming has caused changes in climate worldwide as well as disruptions and dislocations in habitats and wildlife.

There is a lot we can do to combat climate change and global warming -- from moving to renewable energy to driving hybrid cars.
Check this film made by Leonardo DiCaprio:
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/whatsimportant/globalwarning.htm

Answer 8

i'm nevertheless slightly sceptical, in spite of the fact that i in my opinion care approximately our wild locations. I do in spite of the incontrovertible fact that think of that we could continuously take the threat heavily. The information proves that organic cycles of climate take place on a grand scale. there have been as quickly as lions, hippos and elephants wandering the united kingdom nation-state, approximately a hundred and twenty,000 years in the past. That became an interglacial heat spell. the subject that may no longer disputed, is that those issues take place certainly, in spite of everything the Scottish nation-state is packed with glacial beneficial properties. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, the information ability that our further contribution to worldwide warming is making it take place at a quicker fee than existence can handle. we are speaking approximately climate replace occurring in many years, incredibly than spanning centuries or 1000's of years. flora and fauna has coped with climate replace incredibly properly interior the previous. woodlands and grasslands can circulate at their snails p.c.., to maintain song of the circumstances that healthful them. those days there are further subject concerns. we've our flora and fauna trapped in wallet that are surrounded with the help of farmland. The organic "corridors" are long gone. flora and fauna charities are doing their maximum suitable to make our wild locations extra joined up. If climate replace keeps because it incredibly is and there is no area for issues to circulate, then we are able to lose a lot. besides, i think of my important situation is that i do no longer elect it to be genuine.

Answer 9

Yes,just leaves me wondering when the actual moment will come.As many people may say global warming is bull,this earth will surprise us all someday.Well,it already notice the past impacts.

Al Gore,sure talks a lot..

Answer 10

People need to put the politics aside and realize that global warming is real. Wake up and start making changes. Too many Americans go day to day living their selfish excessive lives. Turn down your ACs, turn off your electronics when you're not using them and please stop driving those obnoxious gas guzzling cars. Our earth is going to ****.