Global Warming???????????????

Question

Do u beileive in global warming????? Why or why not???????

Answer 1

Here we go again, another one.
I believe in the tooth fairie, Santa, the Easter bunny and Peter Pan.

Duhhhhhhh

Answer 2

Global Warming is real. There is evidence to show that the earth is in a period of warming. The only question is whether it is a natural occurrence or a man-made situation.

JimZ has it right. There is information to support both sides of the issue and some of this information is used by both sides at the same time. The evidence is not clear on the subject.

BOB - copying and pasting pages from "The Inconvenient Truth" aren't very likely to convince anyone. This is especially true when the "experts" quoted are a career navy man, two business men, and a career politician. By the way, there quotes only state that they believe there is global warming not that mankind has anything to do with it which is the contention of the Al Gore led campaign.

Answer 3

yes, i believe in global warming. it has happened off and on for ever. when there is not global warming there is global cooling. the big false theory is that mankind is causing it or that we should try to (or would be able to) stop it. there have been ice ages and thawing periods shaping the planet since there was a planet

anyone can list scientist that believe any side of this argument. remember most scientist once believed the world was flat. that Native Americans and Africans were of a lesser people. (if they were considered people.) the earth was the center of everything. just because someone is well studied does not make them infallible

Answer 4

I know (mostly) man made global warming is 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 above 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

"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 5

yea, it's pretty obvious, when it gets too hot, all the ice will melt and the oceans will rise, and some parts of the continents will be flooded, maybe about 2 miles of land near the ocean will be flooded, now u may think that is bad, but the temperature changes can possibly wipe out species and kill plants, plus there might be another ice age not too long after global warming... so yea it's true and yea we're doomed after all the ice melts, go watch al gore's movie on global warming... it pretty much makes sense for a first grader which is the average grade level for most red necks

Answer 6

I believe in global warming because it has been proven. I believe humans are the main cause because that has been proven. I believe it would only be irreversible if we were able to halt all use of fossil fuels and cut all green house emmission by more than half.....Sadly, the glaciers are almost gone and we (people born in 70s and up) will most likely see the entire decimation of glacier ice.

Answer 7

call it what you will, it is happening, you don't need a scientist to tell you. the people who deny global warming think that it's a political issue and they just want to bash liberals...it's actually a life and death issue.

Answer 8

I believe that it has been generally warming and my training as a geologist has taught me that. It becomes much more difficult to determine how much warming man has caused and if it is significant.

Answer 9

Do you believe in spell check or punctuation?

Answer 10

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462