why do so many people believe in global warming when there is no fact no prof its climate change?

Question

It happend many times before and it will happen many times again we cant stop nature

Answer 1

It is proven that the earths weather goes in cycles whether it be every 7 years or every billion years. as the earth goes around on its axis, it wobbles a bit, eventually the tilt is different therefore the weather on earth changes due to the new tilt in relation to the sun.
I too think the global warming stuff is just crap and hype by people that just dont have anything else to be vocal about (Al Gore). You are so right in saying, we can not stop nature! I am in 100% agreement with you on this one!

Answer 2

No one here gets it! Just because its cold and rainy in houston doesnt mean its cold and rainy everywhere. It called GLOBAL warmign for a reason....actually its climate change because some areas will warm and some wont. How do you refute the IPCC, a panel of over 1000 leading climate scientists all saying BASED ON SCIENCE AND FACT that this is a problem? How do you fight that?

For all of you who think it is cyclical let me tell you about something. There are these CYCLES called Milankovitch cycles. All natural fluctuations of climate are related to these. Essentially, they are changes in the tilt of the axis, wobbles on earth's orbit, and changes in the elliptical shape of earth's orbit. Although these are only minor changes they are the driving factor behind climate change. They are on 400,000 year, 200,000 year, 100,000 year, and 20,000 year cycles. Each is recorded very well and they are extremely accurate. We are currently at a time of interglaciers (there is ice on the planet so it is considered an "ice age" by definition, but it is not at the glacial maximum). You're right though we have been warming over the past millenium which has lead us out of the ice age, but we are ending our 20,000 year cycle and SHOULD BE COOLING again. COOLING! Maybe you don't believe in global warming, but you know it is warming. You may say it is natural but the fact is temperatures have been rising and no one can refute that. This means that any warming is a problem because naturalyl we should be cooling into a glacial maximum......SCARY!!!

Answer 3

First of all you contradicted yourself - clearly you believe in global warming because you say "It happend many times before and it will happen many times again".

What you seem not to believe is that humans are causing the current global warming. You are incorrect in your assumption that there is no evidence to that effect. The evidence is that natural causes cannot account for the acceleration of global warming over the past 40 years. See page 9 of the first link and/or the second link for scientific evidence.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v16165n11948081m/fulltext.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

Please take some time to learn about global warming, because it's a very important issue. Dismissing it just because you understand it is very dangerous.

Answer 4

The theory of global warming is rooted in facts. The temperature of the earth has changed and will continue to change. These changes can have dramatic impact on the world as we know it. A part of the world could be a lush tropical forest one day and a million years later the Sahara desert.

The big question is: Does mankind's pollution aggravate the issue and make it worse?

I don't know the answer, but here's why it gets so much hype.

1. It's a perfect scare story for the news media
2. It's great for politicians because they can give lip service and nobody knows what the right thing to do is
3. it's great for scientist that need research money

Whether you believe it in it or not does not matter, keeping the story alive is important to way too many for it to go away anytime soon

Answer 5

the reason so many people believe the lie is that they are uneducated. I mean most of them will argue that its the green house effect and co2, but these people haven't studied the subject. Another is that i remember about 7 years back when was in high school actually being thought that its the green house effect that causes global warming. But later in at university i studied the sun and cosmology and came to my own conclusion from the facts. If they plant it in so young it is difficult for people to believe anything else, especially if they haven't been taught otherwise.

Also the media talk about it as if it is a proven fact that global warming is due to co2 emissions, they ever look at the other side. Most scientists will tell you that no one can be 100% sure that is one way or the other.

Answer 6

People beleive in global warming because they understand it. People beleived the world was flat because they didn't know any better, it's only when science proved otherwise that people began to accept the world was sperical.

The same is true of global warming, if a person doesn't understand it then it's easy to dismiss. If someone knows the causes and effects then it's much harder to dismiss. It's for this reason that you'll find there is almost unanimous agreement concerning global warming and climate change amongst those who have actually studied it.

The evidence to support the theory is overwhelming, it's been accumulated by thousands and thousands of people for over 100 years now and has been scientifically established since 1896.

Historically nature has been the sole driver of climate change and the world has always been either warming or cooling of it's own accord. Since industrialisation commenced we've greatly accelerated the rate of change by adding to, and now overloading, the natural cycles. Because of our greenhouse gas emissions we've exacerbated the natural greenhouse effect, what we've done isn't really all that different to pouring hot water into a tub of cold water. In it's natural state water is cold, pour hot water into it and it warms up, the atmosphere works in much the same way.

Answer 7

You're simply wrong. There's plenty of proof that global warming is real and mostly man made (see Source).

There have been natural changes before. But, the scientific data clearly shows that, starting about 40 years ago, Man took control over climate away from nature.

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

Other theories may sound "logical" but they just don't work. The numbers you get don't match the observed data. That's why (the key word is "quantitative"):

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... 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

We can't stop it, but we can reduce it enough to avoid an economic disaster. Details about the disaster that awaits if we do nothing:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

And the very affordable plan to reduce man made global warming:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

Answer 8

There are a lot of people who have researched both sides of the argument. There are a lot of people who have actually seen the melting glaciers. There are a lot of people who don't want to wait 'till the proof is a huge flood or even an ice age. There are a lot of people who simply turn off unused lighting in their homes, keep water consumption to minimum and use as little gasoline as possible. There are a lot of people on the planet and that is why there really could be a problem.

Check it out.

Answer 9

I suppose a couple of decades of satellite observations of increasing global temperatures don't constitute proof. Neither do rises in the averages of temperature measurements taken at post offices and multiple other sites around the world for 100 years or so don't constitute proof either.

The fact that these temperature rises coincide with a 36% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is purely co-incidental I suppose. The fact that there is a well understood mechanism for carbon dioxide absorbing infra-red radiation from the Sun, sea and ground has nothing to do with anything much either. This mechanism is so well understood that it is used for measuring carbon dioxide contents of gases by non-dispersive infra red spectrophotometry. I suppose that is all "theory".

Global temperature has closely followed solar activity in the past hundred or more years but in the past several years the global temperature has continued to rise while solar activity has dropped. This is just a fluke, I suppose.

Answer 10

I think there are many board people who like the excitement that something will happen soon.

Remember the hype over the Y2K bug? I see no difference between that and global warming.

Then in 1997, two movies were released about asteroids impacting the earth, and that caused wide spread panic for a couple of months.

Remember the panic about landfills running out in the 1980's?

Every era has its hysteria. It's just a shame that my money is being used to fuel their paranoia.