Do You believe in Global Warming???

Question

I want to take a pole on how many people believe in it. Please vote. Answer whether you believe in it or not.

I think all the people who don't believe in global warming is ignoring my question. Thats why all my answers are filled with people who do believe in it.

Answer 1

Yes i believe in it. You cannot deny the science behind it, and that this particular climate shift is caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 2

I absolutely believe in Global Warming. It is very obvious. I think it's extremely important for every single one of us around the globe to start taking real actions now. I personally have planted more than 20 trees. It started like a month ago. And i'll still keep planting them for sure, in future. We can also start using more environmental-friendly materials. That will help reduce all the CO2 a lot, released from those stuff we're using.

I also believe that there are many skeptics out there who are really living in denial cos they're too skeptical about everything. Those kind of people, i personally think, are too busy debating what their opinios are than really facing the horrifying reality by taking some real actions.

Answer 3

The earth may be warming, but it goes through normal warming and cooling cycles. Time magazine had a big article about Global Cooling in the late 70's claiming we were on route for another ice age. I don't believe that its the end of the earth as we know it. Al Gore is preaching against Global Warming because of the attention and money he is getting from it. He makes speeches on conservation and then flies away in his private jumbo jet. The earth may be warming but it isn't something that we should make a big deal out of. I do believe that it is humankind's responsibility however, to take care of the planet by recycling and conserving energy.

Answer 4

I am a skeptic, but the northwestern passage just opened, and it was a myth, so global warming is starting to look like it is more on the side of reality rather than myth. Seriously, i think i know why people do not buy into it, it is because before the 1945 - 1950's humans were physically incapable of destroying the earth, we were insignificant, smart animals, a part of nature, not masters of it. Now a paradigm shift has occured, with the population explosion in the 80's and of course the nuclear bombs of the 45-50's. Now humans are capable of destroying the planet, both with our unsustainable numbers, our glutonous industry, and agriculture and to top it off, with the pressing of a button (nuke). This is alarming to people, especially religious people, they find it hard.. no impossible to believe, because they are blinded and confined by thier religious beliefs (only god can destroy the planet, blah blah god, blah blah savior, blah blah lord)
But here we are in 2007 and the 8 billion people, 3 billion head of cattle, and one billion (or more) internal combustion engines (jet engines too)and our tens of thousands of tall buildings across the world, should all be calculated into the global population and accounted for, but they are not, because people are stupid, but a person can be very smart
Its a pickle all right, but i think it is real, its just not gonna happen as fast as they say.. i hope

Answer 5

I am nonetheless a little bit sceptical, although I particularly care approximately our wild areas. I do nevertheless consider that we will have to take the danger significantly. The proof proves that average cycles of climate arise on a grand scale. There have been as soon as lions, hippos and elephants wandering the UK geographical region, approximately one hundred twenty,000 years in the past. That was once an interglacial hot spell. The factor that's no longer disputed, is that those matters occur certainly, in any case the Scottish geographical region is filled with glacial aspects. However, the proof indicates that our further contribution to worldwide warming is making it occur at a FASTER cost than lifestyles can deal with. We are speaking approximately local weather difference going down in a long time, as a substitute than spanning centuries or hundreds of thousands of years. Wildlife has coped with local weather difference quite good ago. woodlands and grasslands can transfer at their snails velocity, to preserve monitor of the stipulations that go well with them. These days there are further disorders. We now have our flora and fauna trapped in wallet which are surrounded by way of farmland. The average "corridors" are long gone. Wildlife charities are doing their first-rate to make our wild areas extra joined up. If local weather difference maintains as it's and there's no house for matters to transport, then we can lose plenty. Anyway, I consider my principal limitation is that I do not desire it to be real.

Answer 6

Reluctantly, yes. Years ago the CIA wrote a book for new diplomats describing the various economic and mineral wealths of various nations. There were numbers in there that I could check on the tons of coal mined, barrels of oil, wood burned etc, broken down by year and totaled for the world. I did some back of the envelope calculations on the total tonnage of carbon released and the total tonnage of carbon tied up in CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless I dropped a decimal it came out to be a significant percentage of the total world CO2 and reasonably close to NASA's estimate of the change in world CO2 level.
Then I started thinking about it. Try this image. Take a globe of the Earth, put it in a vacuum chamber and cover it in solarcells. Use them to charge nicad batteries inside the globe. Shine an external floodlight on them until charged. The time it takes to charge them, say 12 hours, is the geologic time plants have been absorbing the sun's energy and CO2 and storing it as coal and oil, roughly 2 billion years. Now, take the 400 years the industrial revolution has been going on as a fraction of the 2 billion years. Short circuit those nicads, releasing all that stored energy in that fraction of a second. The nicads will explode, the temperature inside the vacuum chamber will skyrocket and, this is all ignoring the rereleased CO2 that is dumped back into the chamber.
I think we got trouble, right here in RIvercity.
I still like the L5 society's solution to the problem, as it gives us control of the total energy input of the planet, permits us to maintain a high tech civilization, doesn't require the mass murder of 2/3 of the planet's population and, opens space for dissidents to emigrate away.
If I can find that book in my stacks I'll come back to this question and post it as an edit, along with its ISBN. This may take a few weeks.

Answer 7

Global Warming- Yes. Icecaps don't melt for no reason, and unless all thermometers are broken its fact, cold and unyielding.

Accelerated Global Warming, the idea that man is increasing the warming trend- Uncertain, though I would much rather err on the side of caution, seeing as how we only have one planet and all.

Answer 8

I do believe that Global Warming is happening. I just don't know for certain if it's Man made or just a natural cycle.

Answer 9

The question is do you think man kind is the only cause of global warming and has it ever happened before. yes their is planetary warming its happened before that's y the ice ages have come and gone!AS in the last one called the mini ice age it ran from the 14th century to thee mid 19th century ,them we went in to a period of planetary warming . This is nature at it best.

Answer 10

Global warming is happening. It is partly natural but is being enhanced by human activity. It doesn't matter what people think, because reality is that which does not go away just because you don't believe it.

Answer 11

I believe in Global Warming. Saying it isn't happening is like saying there was no WW2 which is a complete and utter lie.