Do you belive in Global Warming? Why or why not?

Question

i do, what do u belive

Answer 1

I know it's real and mostly caused by us.

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://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

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/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id=

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 2

Global warming is a natural cycle. The sun is vastly more responsible for temp. on earth then the industries of humanity.

To many people believe in global warming because scientist say so. They're too quick to jump on the band wagon (like the government) without really questioning the science or the intentions of the scientist.

One thing is for sure, a consensus of opinion doesn't mean global warming is happening. It may make it fact, but don't facts change?

Wasn't it a fact that the world was flat? 30yrs ago it was a fact that greenhouse gases would cause an ice age. Facts change and so does science.

Answer 3

Yes I believe it, too much odd weather recently not to. I'm from the UK where we like weather, I know I'm not alone in noticing oddities. That's why I believe it, very easy to pick holes in I know.

If you wish to discredit Anthropogenic Global Warming you need to come up with an explanation for why a 35% increase in the second most important greenhouse gas does not affect the global temperature. Theory predicts temperature will rise given an enhanced greenhouse effect, so how or why is it not happening?

Answer 4

I believe that Global Warming is a natural cycle, not man made. It's questionable at best to think that man can do over the course of several decades what nature can do in seconds with a volcano. Greenland would be a great example...Why would someone call an area covered in Ice, Greenland..and Iceland, which is not covered in ice..Hmm..

Answer 5

During the course of my life, I have seen so many rivers and streams dry up. When I was young, -40 degrees F winters with 6' of snow was common. Now, 50s and 60s for Christmas!
Aside from that, look around: The Sahara used to have streams, lakes, and forests; Easter Island used to be jungles with rushing rivers; glaciers are melting all over the world.
Check Popular Science, August 2007, "The Future of the
Environment". You can probably find it at your local library.

Answer 6

The Earth goes through cycles, about two hundred years ago we went through a "little ice age", now we have the opposite. The little ice age started at the beginning of the industrial revolution, so shouldn't all the new pollution have counter acted that, according to the theory of global warming?

Answer 7

I believe in global warming, but not because Al Gore says so.
Many scientists believe the world goes through cycles every so many years and that is what is happening now. Al Gore blames man and his smoke stacks as the only reason for this trend and many people , more in the know than him, realize it's a global trend regardless of the smoke stacks.

Answer 8

Yes, I see water taking over land that never did before,lakes being dried up, less sand space on the beach each year cause the water is rising,I actually have seen this in ARGENTINA where I live now.
There's alot more things but don't want to make it to long.
Take care.

Answer 9

The Earth went through the 'Medieval Warming Period', which was not unlike whats going on now, and then the 'Little Ice Age', which ended in the late 1800s. Now its getting warmer again. These cycles are natural. We do have to take care of the environment tho... the last thing we are going to need in 50 years is to be breathing stagnant (which we cant do anything about) 110 degree (which we cant do anything about either) POLLUTED AIR (the only thing we can do something about).

Answer 10

i do because many causes like pollution help make a large mass of poisonous gases like co2 that prevents heat to go out of the atmosphere causing raise in tempreture