do you believe in global warming?

Question

its a popular debate, and i would like someone to prove to me that man made global warming exists. i dont believe its a problem. you can also agree with me, thats always appriciated.

Answer 1

Ask any astronomer and they will tell you that all of the planets in our system are undergoing "Global Warming". So why are all the planets warming up? because our common energy source, the sun, is undergoing a change in solar output. Is global warming occuring, YES. Is it related to greenhouse gas emissions, NO! During the permian period carbon Dioxide levels were 30 times higher, life didnt perish, it flourished. In 1990, Mt. Pinatubo in the philippines erupted sending more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than mankind has produced since the beginning of the industrial age. After 5 years regional effects on the weather disappeared, worldwide there was no significant impact. I am a biologist, I believe in global warming, but I do not condone garbage science being coopted by groups to push personal agendas. Al Gore and friends need to find a subject that they are actually knowlegable of and go pound on a podium somewhere. Consider this, even the scientist who initially proposed the global warming theory has backed off of his claims and climatologists have just found that global warming does not cause increased cirrus cloud formation which would trap more heat, it actually causes it to decrease. Climatologists are unable to figure out why. Also ask yourself, if the models we have cannot reliably predict the weather three days from now, how can you depend on them to give you projections years from now. Models are great for studying theory, but unless all of the processes involved are understood intricatly, they are highly inaccurate.

Answer 2

Global Warming is a true fact

I also think some of the world heating up is natural, but I'm sure we've helped in some ways.

go green!!! people can get more info at www.liveearth.msn.com

Answer 3

We know from ice core samples that historically when global warming occurred, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations also increased, but not until about 800 years later.

http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Planning/New_Data/

Many global warming deniers think this is evidence that CO2 can’t cause global warming. In fact, that’s the very first argument in the terrible Great Global Warming Swindle. On the contrary, this is actually evidence that human greenhouse gas emissions are currently causing global warming. Compare the following global temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration plots from 1960-Present:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png

As you can see they’re both rising – not with an 800 year delay, but at the same time. If CO2 wasn’t causing global warming as was the case in the past, then why is there no 800 year delay?

This only proves a correlation between CO2 and global warming and not a causality. The reason we’ve concluded that greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming (or more accurately, accelerating it) is because natural causes can’t account for the increase in global warming over the past 40-50 years. They account for most of the warming prior to that, but climate models have determined that greenhouse gases are responsible for about 80-90% of the recent global warming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

The very first inputs into climate models were solar, volcanic, and sunspot contributions, but they simply couldn’t account for the recent acceleration in global warming. Thus climate scientists have concluded that humans are the primary cause.

Answer 4

I agree with you..I heard that people are blaming the hot weather that we're having on global warming..I spoke to my brother and we were remembering the late 50s and early 60s when it was over 100 degrees in August and we didn't have air conditioning..we wonder what todays people would have said back then..at least people have air conditioning today

Answer 5

the emissions from our cars, arisol cans, harmful wastes and products and factories cause an enormous amount of CO2 to stay in the air. The atmosphere can only hold so much and convert it into natural materials (such as O2 and H2O). Man has made it near impossible for the atmosphere to be able to hold any more of this stuff. That is why the overall global temperature is rising due to the surface of the earth heating up at a slow, but constant rate. Places like the united states don't feel the effects right away, but places like southeast asia, africa and the arctic are suffering. Coral reefs are bleaching due to over-oppressive human activity and glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, causing ocean water levels to rise. You don't hear about the spreading disease in third-world countries due to warming environments (and therefore more disease-spreading bugs), because no one cares about anything but their own turf. In about 50 years, we'll start to feel the IRREVERSIBLE effects of global warming... here. There is still time to change, people just need to realize that it IS an issue in the world, not just the U.S.

Answer 6

Sorry, it's real and mostly man made. There's tons of scientific proof.

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... 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 7

i'm nevertheless a sprint sceptical, in spite of the actuality that i individually care approximately our wild places. I do inspite of the shown fact that think of that we'd desire to constantly take the possibility heavily. The info proves that organic cycles of climate ensue on a grand scale. there have been as quickly as lions, hippos and elephants wandering the united kingdom nation-state, approximately one hundred twenty,000 years in the past. That became an interglacial heat spell. the element that's no longer disputed, is that those issues take place of course, after all the Scottish nation-state is crammed with glacial beneficial aspects. inspite of the shown fact that, the info potential that our further contribution to worldwide warming is making it take place at a speedier value than existence can cope with. we are conversing approximately climate substitute happening in many years, quite than spanning centuries or thousands of years. plant existence and fauna has coped with climate substitute particularly nicely interior the previous. woodlands and grasslands can circulate at their snails %., to maintain music of the circumstances that tournament them. at the instant there are further subject concerns. we've our plant existence and fauna trapped in wallet that are surrounded with the aid of farmland. The organic "corridors" are long gone. plant existence and fauna charities are doing their terrific to make our wild places greater joined up. If climate substitute keeps because it relatively is and there isn't any area for issues to bypass, then we can lose plenty. besides, i think of my considerable undertaking is that i do no longer like it to be authentic.

Answer 8

Global Warming is Real. you can look at temperature records to see that. The issue is not if we are contributing. because we are, we put out greenhouse gases, which contribute. the real debate is how much of global warming is our fault, and how much is a natural occurrence.

Answer 9

bush and his gang of earth rapers for profit,are the people that, will keep denying that global warming exist until the planet becomes so hot and there money starts to burn.

Answer 10

its not a question of a debate any more .
Global Warming is here ,and has been for some time
its a fact not a belief
Believing is for religious people
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