Does anyone actually believe in Global Warming?

Question

Personally, I don't.
And as for that comercial (FLICK OFF) when she says we only have 10 years to do something about it, well thats bull. Where did they come up with these statistics? maybe hoping they'll scare people into believing it?

what do you think? Honesty please.

Answer 1

i don't understand what the rush is. i'm still enjoying the global cooling, famines,mass death, and parts of the earth that are uninhabitable, that these "EXperts predidicted in the 60's and 70's to occur by the year 2000.


have ANY other one of the "experts" predictions came true yet?

hey, are we out of fossil fuels yet?

maybe overpopulation and the ensuing starvation?

i say let's get over all these problems before we dive into global warming.

i don't know about you, but i can only handle so much chaos and anarchy at a time.

Answer 2

I agree that the earth goes through cycles. And yes, the "global warming" thing may be a marketing scheme, but look at it like this. The earth, throughout history, has gone through cycles of warm comfortable climates, and cold very unpleasant climates. What is the trigger to the change? Is it the greenhouse gas that is constantly being released into the atmosphere? I personally don't have a solid understanding of it, and I am sure no one does, at this point. What I do know, is that the glaciers are melting, it has been proven... The glaciers melting releases loads of freshwater into the oceans. It has also been proven that the buildup of freshwater intot he ocean can have pretty drastic effects, not only on the living creatures (think small, like phytoplankton) but also on the currents. When the freshwater mixes into the ocean, the water becomes less dense. This density change alters the way that the currents work and slows down the overturn of water at the poles. If the current slows, then heat will not pass as quickly up the coast of North America, and down into the northwest of England. This slowdown could lead to the breakdown of quite a few ecosystems. Back to the phytoplankton for a second. Anyone who has kept a saltwater aquarium knows that if the salinity of the water changes too rapidly, or enough over a period of time, the living creatures begin to suffer. Who goes first? The lil guys. The tiny little plankton. They die and guess what happens. All other ocean life follows suite. Oh yeah, where does the majority of our oxygen come from? Plankton. They release more O2 into the atmosphere than all the rainforests and land plants combined. (According to a recent Discovery channel docu) Guess where that leads us? In trouble. I know we, as a species, are pretty clever, but surviving might provide too tricky at that point. Personally, if this scenario does come true, and I did nothing about it when I had the chance, I would feel pretty bad. But if it never comes about, I still made the world a little healthier to live in by doing my part.

Answer 3

Global Warming is not a belief ,like a religion
it is reality.
Perhaps reality is too scary for you

Most informed and intelligent people are aware of Global Warming
there is a lot of controversy as to who or what is responsible .
But the main consensus is that it is part of a natural cycle that has become accelerated by humanities side effects .
150.000 people died last year directly related to Global Warming
this is expected to double next year

Maybe your street has been spared so far
but think again when food prices hit the roof and
good drinking water is hard to find
The most noticeable areas so far are the marginal ones
cold frontiers and around the equator ,
where small temperature changes have marked effects.
Maybe you don`t live there

Answer 4

I think the closer we get to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the more events will seem catastrophic, whether they are or not. It may be due to having more and more coverage on the news and Internet that will magnify some events and make them seem like they are worse than they are. After all, wars have been going on for a long time, natural disasters have happened in the past that dwarf what we see on the news, but what we know about what is going on in the world around us has increased by dozens of times. Global warming may contribute to some of the changes in weather patterns. I think some of it could be tempered quite a bit if people were willing to observe the Sabbath day and shut down factories and companies and stop creating so much garbage, for just one day a week. Or if they don't want to call it observing the Sabbath, just have a day off or a Green day or whatever, but on a regular basis.

Answer 5

you can't say you believe in global warming like you believe in god. there is NO proof of god but some believe in it some don't. now global warming whether you believe it or not whether you want it to happen or not it is evolving as we speak. a lot of people think it's part of mother nature you know all the growing forest fires and glaciers melting and volcano's erupting. but it's actually human's faults. mostly because of world wide pollution in the air. 10 years won't clean the earth and 1 person won't either since people don't want to join together and clean up the world so to speak then it will continue it's naturally continuous global warming ways. btw coming up with what will happen in the future has nothing to do with statistics but everything to do with science.

PS- get your facts straight before you ASSUME global warming is a belief

Answer 6

By the way you've stated your question, you already have your mind made up. The Skeptics and Deniers spend endless hours posting repetitive messages about an issue they claim doesn't exist.

I budget my time differently. I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I don't spend that amount of time trying to prove he's a hoax.

If you can't approach an idea with an open mind, you have no right to my opinion.

Answer 7

Yes Global Warming is a natural cycle, but we have caused that natural cycle to speed up, and to occur in an unsafe and unnatural time period (which is between a few decades to a century). But there's hope, since we have the power to speed it up, we also have the power to slow it back down to its natural rate, with modest warming.

And if you still aren't convinced that we can't affect the environment in which we live then ALL of the modern convinces that we have today wouldn't exist. The Panama Canal wouldn't exist; all of the metal and/or wood structures wouldn't exist, and etc.

And if that doesn't convince you then go to think.mtv.com and climatecrisis.org to get the truth.

And if this still isn't working for you then I have a question for you. In about 30 years (if humans haven’t decide to change our ways, go green, and slow down the effects of Global Warming to its natural rate) and the effects of Global Warming have set in so far that there's nothing we can do or any one after us can do to reverse what WE have done, and my children/grandchildren and you children/grandchildren have to live with the horrible effects What are you going to say? What are you going to say when they ask you, "What were you thinking? Why didn't you do anything?"

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY?

Answer 8

Global warming is factual. There is no question about that. The item in question is the CAUSE of global warming. If someone says that the weather patterns all over the world are not changing, it shows a lack of information on their part.

Personally, from the information I've read, I suspect the planet is simply due for an era of warmth, followed by another Ice Age. It happens.

(As someone who has lived in various parts of the country my entire life and as someone who re-visits his relatives in those places, I could relate a variety of reasons I know the weather patterns are changing, but it would be a long anecdote-filled listing and it would probably never get read in entirety by anyone here.)

Answer 9

Global Warming is real, but I believe it is happening a little more slowly as first thought. Some of Al Gore's statistics in An Inconvenient Truth were a little off scientists are now finding out. But all this means is that luckily we have a little more time than we thought, hopefully we use it wisely

Answer 10

There is global warming. Even the people who think it's happening due to natural causes say that. Its a fact not a belief