is global warming a serious issue?

Question

do we need to worry about global warming or is it just a freak fake or something?

(personaly, somewhat, i believe that we do need to worry about it...)

if you have seen An Inconvinient (however u spell that) Truth by Al Gore, you can see he believes in the ice ages.. i personally dont though.. but i still strongly recommend this movie.

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Answer 1

It is a serious issue. Do what ever you can do to help. Even small help counts.

Answer 2

On a worldwide scale I strongly beleive it is a serious issue.

At an individual level there are many for whom global warming will have little apparent consequence but equally there will be those whose lives will be devastated. This has already happened and in many of the poorer countries around the world the impact has been particularly harsh.

Climate change is happening at an increasing pace and this trend looks set to continue. The costs and consequences will keep rising, it's in our interests and the greater interest of the planet as a whole to act sooner rather than later.

You considered the possibility that the current global warming is a freak event. This possibility was long since discarded although it is regularly revisited and subsequently dismissed again. The climate is naturally governed by a complex series of cycles and feedback mechanisms, we know where we are within these cycles and can predict when warming or cooling will occur. Complex though these cycles are they are at least constant and predictable and thus it's possible to say with confidence that the current warming is more than a freak natural event.

Futher, we understand the role that greenhouse gases have in controlling temperatures and any increase in atmospheric concentrations of these gases inevitable leads to a rise in temperatures.

Answer 3

Is global warming a serious issue?

There is not much sense in worrying about it, if it continues it is a natural cycle and there is nothing that you can do about it. Either adapt or become extinct.

If you look at the history of life over 500 million years the Earth has been about 10 degrees C. warmer than it is now. Every 150 million years or so the world gets much colder. We currently live in an ice age.

If you look closer, every 100,000 years or so within one of those ice ages the glaciers grow and then shrink quickly.

If you look in between an interglacial period (our time) you will find a cycle of climate variability every 1500 years or so.

Cycles within cycles within cycles. And the last 30 years of warming, yet another cycle. No human will ever understand the complexities of the universe, but every atom within the universe has some effect on you, regardless of how subtle it may be.

http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

Answer 4

Write your own paper since you are clearly a brainiac, i.e. "I don't think that evolution is valid either". P.S. Here is an example of Evolution: THE EVOLUTION OF QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ASKED IN THE PAST FEW HOURS: I want reasons why global warming is NOT going to destroy the earth.? 2 hours ago Is global warming a serious issue? 2 hours ago Reasons why you believe global warming is not a concern to the earth? 3 hours ago Maybe next time you shouldn't procrastinate.

Answer 5

My opinion is that it is a serious issue. Who to trust on this issue though? I am not a professional climatologist. I do have years of experience as a professional engineer in the oil and gas industry where being right mattered. We have put enough CO2 into the atmosphere in my lifetime to increase levels by 30%. It is not a trivial matter as CO2 in the atmosphere lets the sun's light energy through but traps a lot of the heat energy given off from the earth. That is a very simple analysis of the problem there are many more complex analyses which people have given on YA (see search feature) It is good to do one's own search on the Internet but be wary of the credentials of the site.

Answer 6

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 7

1. Global Warming is a serious issue.

2. Popular movies produced for popular consumption such as An "Inconvenient Truth" and "The Day After Tomorrow" hype the issue to such an extent that they are not credible sources.

3. Credible sources are the peer reviewed scientific literature.

A good place to start is with the reports by the IPCC.

According to the IPCC reports we must reduce the world wide output of carbon dioxide to less than one tenth of what it is today if we are to have any chance of stopping Global Warming..

That would require that we shut down the economies of all of the countries in the world to achieve reductions of that order.

It appears to me that it is unrealistic that we could get that kind of a reduction in the United States and I doubt that we could ever get reductions of that size throughout the world.

Although many people have many suggestions on how we can reduce our output of carbon dioxide, I have not seen any suggestions that will get us anywher close to a reduction to less than on tenth of what we produce today.

I do not see how we can possibly ever achieve reductions of that size.


Instead I thiink that we have to accept Global Warming as the inevitable consequence of a modern civilized society and start making plans now how we will deal with the real consequences, not the ridiculously overhyped consequences of Global Warming.

Answer 8

it's never been proven. yesterday i posted a question explaining why -- few people attempted to discredit the facts i put forth, and those that did were wrong (i messaged (all of them, i believe) and explained why. as of this post they have not contacted me back). the funny thing was -- most global warming advocates are so because tv tells them it's real, they haven't looked into the facts themselves. there were lots of people who gave thumbs ups to the people who tried to discredit my facts, but neglected to leave a post themselves. to me, this means they don't know what they're talking about or why people believe it's an issue, they just agree with what everyone else is saying.

Answer 9

Global warming is part fake and part true.
Part true: Industrial and developed countries today definitely add to the change of clime somehow.
However no man or woman can change the course that earth decides to take. Besides we all know that climates change naturally, there's no way that they can stay the same over the centuries. Pouring millions on it would probably not do much.
Hope this helps.

Answer 10

It is a serious issue. We need to speed up the warming process. Minnesotans are tired of snow in April.

Answer 11

Algore had to use cartoon polar bears because there weren't any in distress and he couldn't find ice caps melting.

There's nothing to worry about, no one can predict the future. For what anyone knows, it will be colder 5 years from now.