Is Global Warming Real Or A Phony?

Answer 1

global warming is not real wheres all those hurricanes they keep talking about? global warming is phony and it will be another excuse to give us another tax or green tax!

Answer 2

There's natural global warming which has always been around since the birth of the planet (unless the planet has been in one of it's cooling phases). There's no question that global warming / cooling happens naturally.

There is concern that human activities have speeded up the natural warming process. This isn't any great surprise as we've known since 1896 that greenhouse gases cause the planet to warm up. As the world has become more and more industrialisied the levels of greenhouse gases we have emitted have continually grown, unless there some other factors involved that cause the world to cool then Earth has no option but to warm up - it all comes down to nothing more than a simple physical property of the greenhouse gases.

Answer 3

GLOBAL WARMING IS THE REAL DEAL IT IS NOT NOWHERE NEAR PHONY IF YOU READ UR BIBLE OVER IN REVALATIONS THIS IS WHAT GOD TALKS ABOUT HE TALKS OF GLOBAL WARMING THIS IS ONE OF MANY SIGNS THAT THE END IS NEAR AS WELL AS ALL THE WAR THAT IS GOING ON...THE NUCLEAR THREATS ALL THESE ARE TALKED ABOUT AS WELL AS GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ANSWER IS NO THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A PHONY IT IS VERY MUCH REAL AND IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THE RESULTS ARE GOING TO BE CATOSTROPHIC IT WILL BE THE MOST DEVESTATION THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN BEING THAT THE PPL ON THE COASTS WILL HAVE TO MOVE INLAND BECAUSE THE SEA LEVEL IS GOING TO RISE TO NEARLY TEN TO TWENTY FT HIGH FLOODING EVERTHING IN ITS PATH THERE WILL BE NO MORE COASTAL AREAS THIS IS A SCARY SITUATION BUT ALL VERY TRUE

Answer 4

phony. Thirty years ago everyone was afraid of the next ice age because of global cooling.

Truth is the earth is not a static entity. It's always going through changes, naturally. It's these changes which allow life to exist here. Just last month some European researchers found fossilized plant DNA in the soil deep below the Greenland ice sheet. This proves there was once abundant forest on Greenland (Greenland was actually green!). So don't get all worked up about things you can't control. Looking back through the geologic record we can see the earth has been much warmer than it is now and much cooler too.

Answer 5

Oh it is real alright.....I once read an absolutely fascinating article in Rolling Stone (Issue 987--November 17, 2005) entitled "The Planetary Emergency", and if there's any piece of literature that will totally convince you, it'll be this one......I actually saved it.....here's some pieces of info from the article.....

1. Estimating from satellite photos taken over the northern polar cap in the summer of 2005, a frozen area TWICE the size of Texas (I live in Texas, and know how big my home state is) turned into water.....

2. Because of the industrial gases released into the atmosphere, this planet is quickly becoming the warmest, soggiest, sickest, hungriest and poorest that it has ever been.....

3. The progessing shifting of seasons, speed of the wind and height of the ocean are the direct result of global warming.....thanks to us.....

4. At the current rate that global warming is progressing, mankind is ultimately headed for inevitable doom.....

Hope I convincingly answered your question.....straight up sentiments, and His best blessings to you.....

Answer 6

A brief history of "Climate Change."

From 1940 to 1975, ground station temperatures were seen to be falling "significantly," and there was hysteria over the "coming Ice Age!" (Think DODO Birds from "Ice Age" movie!)

One scientist suggested that a way to mitigate this coming problem was to inject massive amounts of CO2 into the Atmosphere, to help "stabilize" temperatures.

Well, by 1980 it was becoming very clear that the "ice age" wasn't really on it's way. The earth seemed to be warming again (gee, on 5 years of data, too!) and the idea that somehow it was BECAUSE of CO2 became popular. Suddenly CO2 wasn't the GOOD GUY - it was the BAD GUY!

Fast forward to 1998, when an El-Nino event caused the warmest temperatures ON RECORD! Period. Suddenly the sky was falling, and that 1/2 a degree rise was the beginning of the end.

Of course, here we are, 10 years later, with no change in earth's temperature. If anything, the more temperature has been studied, the more it refuses to go up!

That' hasn't stopped the eco-nuts from demanding that we all give up the luxuries of civilization, and that 5 billion of us just quietly shuffle off this mortal coil to "save the planet!" Oh no, lack of evidence is NOT evidence of lack in their minds! Just wait till next year - oh boy is it gonna be bad!

Future disasters have always been popular millennial fare - the "Great Global Warming Scare" of 2000 will be right up there with the Y2K Computer Problem that Never Was!

Answer 7

It is real. It was recognized in the 60, and the computer simulations done then have proven to be rather accurate in predicting what will happen. Virtually every real expert in the area now agrees that humans are significantly contributing to global warming and that significant changes are already here. This is no longer a controversy. At this point its a bit like arguing whether the world is really flat.

Answer 8

It's a fact. It's real.

America pulled out from the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty formed to reduce emission of pollutants into the air, because they're one of the countries emitting the most.

Even President Bush refuses to admit that emitting pollutants and global warming are linked.

Answer 9

Climate change is happening but it's the sun that is doing it and good luck trying to stop it . We are not causing any difference one way or the other as compared to the sun we really are very very insignificant. The idea that we are the cause was some thing popularized by Margret Thatcher when she was trying to get public support for Nuclear power and it has snowballed. It became so that if you wanted a government grant you had to connect it to the flavour of the day,"Global Warming".These people don't care what they research as long as it gets free support . Unfortunately if you don't find some startling information nobody will notice you and you may not get another grant. So these people find things ,it's like Al Gore's graph showing the heating of the planet and the raising co2 rates.What Big Al fails to mention is that the heating started first and all he really proves is that that is what is causing the co2 rates to rise,not the other way around...check this out.......
British researchers have found large quantities of natural ozone-depleting chemicals in Antarctica.


Chemists from the University of Leeds, the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey reported finding high concentrations of halogens, such as bromine and iodine oxides.

"The springtime peak of iodine oxide [20 parts per trillion] is the highest concentration recorded anywhere in the atmosphere," said an abstract of their study, published in the journal Science on Thursday.

The bromine came from sea salt and the iodine from "almost certainly bright orange algae that coat the underside of the sea ice around the continent," they said in a release.

Halogens deplete the ozone above the ice surface, which reduce the capacity of the atmosphere to remove certain chemical compounds.

"We still have to work out what the ramifications of this discovery are," said John Plane, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds.

The chemists did an 18-month study of the lowest part of the atmosphere on the Brunt Ice Shelf, about 20 kilometres from the Weddell Sea.

The scientists projected a beam of light across the shelf, and analyzed the levels of chemicals in the reflected light. Moreover, satellite observations by team member Alfonso Saiz-Lopez "have confirmed that iodine oxides are widespread throughout coastal Antarctica."

The scientists are planning additional studies to assess the impact on the local environment.

The finding may raise questions about the belief that chemicals made by humans are behind the disappearance of ozone over the continent.

The ozone layer is the part of the atmosphere 25 kilometres up that acts as a shield protecting life on Earth from damaging UV rays, which can cause sunburns, skin cancer and cataracts. The rays can also harm marine life.

The layer has decreased globally by about 0.3 per cent per year. The loss is seen as a hole over the South Pole because of atmospheric and wind conditions during the southern winter.

The hole grows during the winter, peaking in the southern spring, and is seen until the summer in November or December.

It is a common belief that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) produced by humans are breaking down the ozone layer. For example, the UN Environment Programme Ozone Secretariat said in 2006 the depletion of the ozone over Antarctica "cannot be explained by natural cycles but is caused by the impact of synthetic chemicals in the stratosphere."

CFCs were banned under the Montreal Protocol in 1987. In August 2006, the UN group said the ozone layer could return to pre-1980 levels by 2049 over much of the world, but it would take until 2065 to restore the shield over Antarctica.

Answer 10

There is a small natural warming that mankind may have affected slightly. It is nothing nearly as bad as Al Gore says.

PS is Rolling Stone Magazine the best source of scientific news?