Do you believe global warming is real? Any facts that back it up?

Answer 1

Yes, the geologic history has proven it out many times in the planets history! Man hasn't helped in his time here, he is hastening the warming, but we are certainly not the root cause of it. Study geology & you will learn lots about this wonderful rock we call home!

Answer 2

There is zero doubt that global warming is happening. You can see it right here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif

There is little doubt that human greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause.

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 3

Yes Yes Yes ! I was talking to Santa Clause and he said he was going to have to use a Hot Air balloon due to all the snow melting. The good news is he will be able to use the Global warming air to fill his balloon. The bad news is he does not need Rudolph or the other Reindeer's. The good news is no green house gases. The bad news is there will be no rose such clatter due to no reindeer. The good news is the milk will be warm from global warming. The bad news is by the time he gets to some houses the milk will be curdled , due to Hot air balloons are not as fast as reindeer.

Answer 4

Yes, I believe global warming is real.

Records show that the average temperature of the planet is rising by between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees C in the past century. For Britain, 1998 has proved the hottest year in the last thousand years.
Although the global weather system is extremely complex and not wholly understood, experts say that such a rapid change is bound to have severe implications for future weather and climate patterns.
Climate researches are predicting that Earth's average temperature will continue to increase in next 100 Yrs.

Answer 5

Yes.

Here are many facts, most in the links. The database of solid evidence is way too big for a yahoo answer.

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://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 6

Yes, global warming is real. One of the major specific facts to back it up is Greenland. Greenland, in many scientist's views, is an indicator of things to come in the rest of the world.

The man in charge of research operations in Greenland is Konrad Steffan. He and his team have been in Greenland for over 18 years. At first, Steffan went to "study the interaction of ice and atmosphere at the equilbrium line."

They soon came to find, however, that the average winter temperature on Greenland was increasing. Over the past ten years, the avg. winter temperature has increased by 7 degrees F. This finding was so dramatic that at first, Steffan declined to publish it, fearing that he had somehow miscalcualted.

Greenland is a perfect example of the reality of global warming and also an indicator of what could happen across the world because of its unique sensitivity to climate change.

Answer 7

Anthropogenic climate change is real - all the peer reviewed and solidly evidenced facts at http://www.ipcc.ch, sufficient even to convince the oil backed Bush government

Global warming is a lazy media term employed to confuse people so they carry on buying from the sponsors/advertisers. See the amount spent on advertising 4x4s in any magazine

Answer 8

mh Over the last 160 years the average global temperature has increased by 1.8 F and there is no explanation for it except for carbon emissions. Since the opening of Wild Oats and Whole Foods some 20 years ago, the amount of cous cous in my ecosystem has increased 27%, to 6.8 kg/cubic meter.

Answer 9

Arctic ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. I have a picture of me in front of the Willa-WA glacier in Alaska 30 years ago. When I revisited the glacier last year, it had receded up the mountain more than a mile and a half in those 30 years. I was flying over Greenland this summer. The ice is now 5 miles from the coast on both coasts I flew over. When last I flew over, ice extended to the coasts. Polar bears have become endangered, not from people hunting them, just because there is not enough ice for them to stand on when they hunt seals

Answer 10

Global warming is real in that the Earth has warmed up a couple of 100ths of a degree over the last couple of decades.

The cause of it is what ever you perceive it to be.

Some believe that the Sun is the major source of all heat on this planet, and they have many fine scientists who have written many fine dissertations that have been peer reviewed supporting their position.

Others believe that change is natural, the Earth always changes, and not even the positions of the continents are constant. These scientists have written many fine and well studied papers that passed peer review that explain their position and how they got to their conclusions.

The third group in the most militant and they believe that global warming is caused by man and we only have 10 years to live. This group believes only in their peer reviewed information, all other papers have already been disproved and dismissed. If you don't believe exactly as this group does, you're labeled as a "denier" and you have your accreditations threatened to be taken away, or worse, you live under the threat of being killed by this group.

Global warming is a fact; it just depends on which fact you wish to believe.

What ever happened to objective science?

Answer 11

I agree with Emoney 12, and watch the Discovery Channel's "Global Warming what you need to know"