Global warming. A myth or something that is going to kick you in the ***?

Question

Pardon my french.

Answer 1

Answer:Both

Answer 2

Who knows! All I know is that the earth, in terms of geological time, is coming out of an Ice Age. So it makes sense that the earth is getting warmer. However, there are other things of much greater concern than global warming: Mega Volcanic eruptions that would change the earth's climate and cause famine, and meteor or comet strikes that could do us all in long before any global warming effect..

Answer 3

*****************bogus*************

here are some of the predictions i grew up with over the past 40 years:

famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
global cooling
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel
pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)

all this was supposed to happen by the year 2000, and if man didn't stop using fossil fuels. we had 30+ years of "irrefutable data" showing that man caused it too.

but we didn't stop, we used more!

STRANGELY, NOT ONE PREDICTION HAS CAME TRUE YET!

now i'm supposed to "believe" global warming is "real"


to bob, obviously, this isn't science and what counts is what people say....

"i don't care about global warming, just get me a beer!"
jim, bum on the street

" global warming is real! ...NOT!"
wayne from "waynes world"

"like we need to get so serious about global warming. now if you excuse me i need to get some acne cream."
sue, 11th grade student

"Every generation has it's doomsday, the world is going to end issue. Wait 3 or 4 more years and global warming will be replaced with the next big scare."
mr. jello

what difference does it make what a ceo or an admiral make on global warming?

are they any more capable then any other person of forming an opinion?

http://www.thechurchofglobalwarming.com/

Answer 4

climate change is real and the fact that it can cause global warming or cooling is a proven fact. the myth that humans are some how responsible for it is a joke. how can you explain these global warming and cooling events that have occurred throughout history even before humans where here to supposedly cause it -

Answer 5

Real.

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

i think its a combination. of global warming and global dimming both..as the atmosphere heats up and more polutants are pushed into it the less sunlight actually reaches the earth, as time goes on the more pronounced it will be, unless we do something now about emmisions control on all oil related refineries, vehicles, and plants that put smoky substances into the air..

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. At any rate,

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Let us all strive for a greener/brighter future by helping to create a solid foundation for future generations to build upon, so we can hand them a beautiful world, filled with never ending awe and wonders!!

Where peoples differences and uniqueness are accepted, where we all live as one, helping one another so that we can all play our own mysteriously beautiful melodies in the never ending, awe inspiring, song of life :-)

I truly have faith in humanity and believe that someday our lives and the world in which we live will truly be transformed for the better.

Answer 8

We cannot impact our current weather, much less predict it reliably. It is very sad that our current political and media environment will allow those people to exploit fear to get the "sheople" (sheep-people) to get behind a cause that may or may not exist. Of course, we need to take care of our environment that God has given us, but we need to remember that He is in charge.

Answer 9

If we continue the way we are going, it's going to kick you where the sun don't shine eventually through stronger hurricanes, more violents storms, more powerful tornadoes, yes we could see in our life time the first ever F-7 tornado.

Answer 10

Probably just another tax scam I get sick of hearing it on the telly that I now just switch channels
I certainally won't be flying less or give up driving my car