Do you think GLOBAL WARMING is real?

Question

I find it frustrating that people deny that global wariming is real.
With the ice caps melting and the depleting ozone layer i can't see that it isn't taking place.
What do you think?


support Al Gore

Answer 1

I personally believe global warming is 'real', and is - at least - the fault of man's industrial revolution of these past 150 years. You can't keep polluting the air, our waterways and lands without causing some ill-effects over decades of abuse and neglect.
Still, there are other factors that create global warming - factors that have taken centuries and milleniums. I think our industrial revolution has simply escalated the problem, not giving mankind, plants and animals time to adapt (as they've done in the past).
Finally, I would suggest that you reference the sources below for alternative opinions on this issue. -RKO- 09/05/07

Answer 2

The Earth has and will go through many more heating and cooling cycles. After all, we are slap bang in the middle of a series of Ice Ages with the next Ice Age being somewhat overdue, according to geological records. It is somewhat possible that the interaction of man with the Earth may have added to the speed with which this change is happening, although it isn't an absolute certainty.

There is a lot of money also being made out of our 'Climate Change' fears. One only has to look at Al Gore and his money making machine. BTW it may interest you to know that the majority of the research presented by Al Gore has been shown as either deliberately falsified and/or inaccurate testing data and procedures. So yeah, Gore is making big money out of scaring the pants off the average citizen.

However, once again, we get to what is the big issue facing the Earth today and quite simply that is people. The sheer numbers and the overpopulation of the Earth is what is causing the biggest damage with food and water shortages, degraded landscapes, erosion, species dying out etc etc etc.

Put even more simply, part of the cycle of the Earth involves death. We must stop immigration from poor, overpopulated, degraded lands into the less compromised and less heavily populated areas. We must stop aid to these basket case countries who have destroyed their own lands and now want to start on ours. We MUST let them die to try to bring back a balance to these heavily degraded areas. Earth is seriously overpopulated and THAT is the one thing we can do something about which will affect the Earth. The human population MUST be halved within the next 40-50 years or nature will do it for us.

Answer 3

I don't deny it is happening. On my most surly days I may quibble with the idea of using an average global temperature, but that is not very often.

I have read a lot of what has been said about percents of attribution, be it human or natural, and I have seen a number of attempts to attribute GW to one cause or another. I have seen a range of less than 1% human up to greater than 90% human. It leads me to the conclusion that the science is rapidly maturing, but not yet settled.

Cloud handling in the models remains problematic. I know some people think Svensmarks cosmic ray theory is bunkum, but I am willing to wait until the experimental work at CERN is done before I drop it entirely (around 2010). I wonder if the surface station data is as solid as assumed in the work using this data. I wonder what the role of biology (especially regarding microbes) is in global warming. What are the dynamics of a 1000 acre corn field vs a 1000 acre soybean field vs 1000 acres of forest and how does this effect regional and global climate? What is the role of chemistry in global warming, especially in the soils and oceans (beyond CO2 solubility issues)?

All of these are questions that can be answered, but it takes time.

However, the "do something" crowd has no patience and wants us to rush headlong into solutions that may not be any better than the problem (ie the ethanol boondoggle). Mitigating climate change problems may be a better route than trying to prevent climate change problems.

Answer 4

Agree, but

... the problem is:
1. Global warming is not the only, neither the main problem.
Complete extinction of complex ecosystems.
Climate disruption is caused by other elements like particles in the atmosphere, less forests (not only rainforest - south america and south asia - but everywhere)
Caspian sea, Arial sea, Ded Sea ... irrigation - destructve agriculture are destroing a lot of regions.

2. Politics
Developed contries are now talking (UN) to stop developing countries. Global warming is now being used as excuse to control development of countries like China, South Africa, India and Brazil.

Answer 5

Al Gore is just a clever snake oil salesman!

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!

There is nothing humans can do to affect climate change.

It's just pop-science hype in order to sell papers, magazines, tv programs, make movie stars more popular and get scientists easy funding etc.

Everyone wants a piece of the 'green dollar'.

I agree that humans should care about pollution and use less energy, however climate change has little or nothing to do with human activity.

THINK FOR YOURSELF, RESEARCH THE FACTS, BE OBJECTIVE.

Answer 6

Most people aren't denying that global warming is real; they realize the ice caps are melting and the don't dispute that the climate is getting warmer. Some people don't believe that global warming is caused by humans (anthropogenic global warming theory).

There's nothing wrong with being skeptical, as long as you aren't one of those with the attitude of "I'm going to pollute as much as possible since it's not real." That's just stupid.

Answer 7

To me global warming means "Global destabilization" since the weather around many parts of the world is not only getting warmer, it is just becoming more erratic with fiercer storms, colder and hotter weather, more floods, etc, so as to why they call it global warming I am not quite sure, but I really think that it should be called global destabilization and I do believe that this is a reality. At any rate,

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Answer 8

Global warming is real but global warming is not.

The ice caps always melt after every Ice Age. Between every Ice Ages, the earth has always been free of ice on its surface, including on the polls.

The current temperature of the earth is much closer to the lowest its been than the highest, because it is on the way out of its last Ice Age.

The temperature has always risen rapidly after every Ice Age and should be expected to continue to do so as we leave this one.

Al Gore is a con artist, scamming the world for whatever he can get with his Global Warmth scam.

Answer 9

yeah i believe it. It seems like it's already started to take affect on my area, we've been getting wayyy hotter temperatures than usually this summer and there have been some intense storms. but i don't get why most ppl think that they'll just leave conserving energy to someone else, when its as easy as turning off your tv, computer, light when you're not in the room or using them. and walkings not such a bad thing is it? it's a win win, more excersice, better for the earth.
stupid ppl.

Answer 10

Because the Arctic Icecap has melted before, a Chinese naval squadron sailed into the Arctic Sea and found no ice in 1421. The North Pole suffers massive ice loss sometimes, it is a natural process. It will grow and try to kill humanity one day, that is a natural process to, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Either adapt or die.

A volcano blasted millions of tons of SO2 into the stratosphere in 1982 (El Chichon), another blasted even more in 1991( Pinatubo). That had more to do with ozone loss than fluorocarbons.



I think the truth is never found on the surface.