What do you think about global warming?

Answer 1

We need to all work together to get global warming under control. Patti

Answer 2

I believe it's a political platform. Global warming has caused the water temperatures in the Caribbean to be 1-2 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler this year than last. Global warming has caused the coolest summer in the Pacific Northwest in memory. In the mid 1970's, the same "sky is falling" scientists and politicians were warning us of the impending new ice age that was almost certain to cause worldwide famine by 2010, or some such malarkey. The fact is, and has been, that the earth has a cyclic weather pattern, and human interaction has caused a very limited impact on it. The "scholars" and "scientists" often quoted on impact of global warming are many times lawyers, professors of languages, and others that have little or no practical knowledge of the earth's atmospheric and meteorological patterns. The people you hear the most are the Al Gores, the Sheryl Crows, the Dixie Chicks, etc. People with political and celebrity agendas.

Answer 3

So, in a sense it doesn't matter what I think about global warming does it? I'm not an expert, and it is the opinions of experts that really mean anything, right?

But anyways, I think that the planet is warming.
And that mankind is a major contributing factor.
And that we should make an immediate effort to do something about it.

I base my opinion on the scientific literature - and make no mistake, scientists are very much unanimous in their opinions that global warming is happening, that man is largely to blame, and that we need to make changes ASAP!

If you can find a way to a public library, read the national geographic issue in the link - it gives an excellent description of the problem and the impacts, and it cites very clearly the scientists who are studying it all.

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I would note a few extra things:
"Global climate change" might be a term that works better for some people because while the average global temperature is going up, some areas are likely to get colder.

And for the mangy canine above me - it is not the same scientists today who are worrying about global warming as were worrying about an ice age in the 70s. That is Rush L. speak = 35 years is a long time, and if there were scientists speaking out about a potential ice age in 1972 (and I don't remember that scientists were speaking about this!), they are NOT the same people who are speaking about global warming today.

And, I might add, regardless of what mangy coyote has written, it is obvious that she/he is not reading the scientific literature about this issue because the consensus view is entirely obvious!

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Edit:

Oh yeah, and for the global warming skeptics, there was a story just today that for the first time in human history, it is possible to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific above Canada because so much of the polar ice cap has melted!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070915/ap_on_sc/northwest_passage

Answer 4

At first it sounded all scary and we were made to think it was our fault for driving cars and running factories...But after I watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", I think that it's just the natural order of things. I've always felt that with the weather changing and being less predictable than it was 20 years ago, that there was something going on like the continents drifting back together or something on their own, the same way they drifted apart billions of years ago in the first place. I really think now that God knows what he's doing and that there's really not much we can do to reverse any of it. You know nobody's gonna just stop driving where they need to go, and factories have to produce the stuff we need...ya know? Like Steve Miller said: Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' in-to the fu-ture!

Answer 5

It's questionable on both sides of the story. It's true that the rate of greenhouse gases is increasing and that ice up north is slowly melting which could possibly raise the level of the sea and kill us all...
But then again, the air quality is better than it ever has been according to some scientific studies. Cars aren't producing as much harmful gases as the were in the early 1900s...But I can't really say what the answer is. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

Answer 6

Climate change is a reality. The debate is whether or not human activity is exacerbating the situation and if we can significantly alter the effects.

As indicated by the reducing polar cap on Mars, that planet is also undergoing a climate shift of it's own. Man has no impact on the climate of Mars but there is at least one common factor both planets share...the Sun.

Answer 7

Personally, I think it is a natural change in the planet's evolution and that humans have little to do with it. Do you know that the polar icecaps on Mars are melting too?

That said, I think we could all do lots to produce less pollution and it is the right thing to do. We (including big corporations) shouldn't need to be scared into thinking the sky is falling in order to act responsibly.

Answer 8

I think its real and certainly would have its effects on all of us. We can see all the ice melting, tsunamis, floods, change in weather. I think global warming has already started its toll, but we humans don't want to change our ways.

Answer 9

It should be taken very seriously. To disregard even the possibility of it being true, is incredibly irresponsible. We have an obligation to make sure the Earth is a livable place in the future for our kids, our grandchildren and their grandchildren. To take that chance whether scientists are right or wrong about it is immature. From what we have seen, they are looking more and more right about it every single day.

Answer 10

I believe we should do something about to delay it because global warming is going to happen no matter.