do you believe in global warming?

Question

i personally think its rubbish.

Answer 1

You can't call it rubbish Adampls, because it is the new religion. Al Gore is the holy father. Bow down toward your computer screen, Al Gore invent the internet so we can cry about global warming online. . the new universal belief.

Never mind that the Earth has gone through many ice ages and the current interglacial age has seen 15000 years of warming. The current eon of warming has had its ups and downs, like when the Vikings arrived they named that place Greenland because of Global Warming (1000 years ago) and then there was the mini ice age of the 1500's.. but those are such inconvenient facts and it is blasphemy to know about them.

The people who cry the loudest about global warming still drive their cars, heat their homes and fly on their vacations. The real thing about global warming is political power... those that have it and those that want it.

Answer 2

I personally have an interesting opinion. I have actually spent many months studying the controversail topic of global warming and my research has proven such things. Global warming is a condition in which the earth's temperature may increase or decrease in a shortened period of time. "global warming" or scientifically reffered to as "Global Climate Change (GCC)" is a process which has been taking place since the beginning of the earth. The difference is the greenhouse effect has increased the problems popularity. The Co2 in the air is trapping the solar radiation and thus trapping 50 percent of that "heat" shall we say and thus the earth is warmed. It is not something you do or don't belive in. It is a known fact that there is global warming. That will always and has always been true. What you may or may not disagree with is that it is going to destroy the earth and melt the icecaps, that it is being caused by humans and the current state that we have put the earth in, and you may freely opioninate on what should be done or if it should simply be left alone.

Answer 3

I have personally read and studied the "facts" on both sides of the fence. For every scientific fact that proves global warming, there is another that proves there isn't. One thing I am sure of. Both sides think they are right. Some people blame big business for trying to debunk global warming, but millions are of dollars being made from folks like you and me by both sides. Buy this book, buy this car, buy these batteries, etc.
This is what I think. Everyone is guessing. When I was in grade school int the 70's, the FEAR was a new ice age. Now everything is melting. No one knows. For Pete's sake they can not even accurately predict the weather from day to day. What happened to the record number of hurricanes that global warming was supposed to cause this year? Is global warming causing the drought in the south? Take your pick. Everything is liable to change in 10 to 15 years anyway and we will all have to buy some other new stuff.
Do I believe it's our fault?. No
Do I believe that it's real? Probably
Do I believe that we can change it? No
Will it change on it's on? Yes
Am I afraid of it? NO
Am I afraid of the people who are forcing it on me? YES

Answer 4

The climate has most certainly warmed over the last 100 years. The Sun can explain most of the warming, there is certainly evidence that humanity may have contributed to some of the warming, however there are a lot of things about the climate that we just do not understand.

Below is a link from a climatologists named Roy Spencer who explains a number of issues that revolve around the many of the alarmists claims, not the least of which is how that in the past temperatures were warmer than present, and also highlights many of the uncertainties about the unknown aspect of climate science.

http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm

Below is a link that shows a very interesting chronology of how climate has changed throughout the known period of human civilization. It clearly shows that a warm climate is not humanities enemy.

http://www.longrangeweather.com/images/GTEMPS.gif

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Answer 5

People will say they know it's true and to support their claim, they will quote politicians and businessman's statements showing that since they believe global warming is true, then it must be.

Yet they still can't tell you if it's going to be warmer or cooler this winter and show how they came to this conclusion. Any guess they give you is just a guess, nothing more.

You realy have to believe to make the facts come together. This movement is a new religion, not science.

Are you aware that some people believed global warming was true just because the CEO of Wal-Mart said it was? I wonder how much profit they are making from CF lights? Give me that much money, and hell, I'd be a believer in global warming as well!

Answer 6

No I don't "believe", I _know_ it's proven scientific fact. There's massive proof, from many angles, so this will be long. And the real proof is in the links. Since few will read them all, try the first and the second of the last four. That may do it.

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

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:

"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

"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/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 7

No way! we are on the verge of controling earths temp. While we have big problems. Here is what we know: Blacktop (roads and parking lots) and buildings heat cities; Air pollution causes lung (And other) diseases, deforestation (causing more destruction -duststorms, hurricanes/cyclones all increasing deforestation) and destroys the ozone layer while heating earth surface; fires cause mud slides, deforestation and pollution-more heating surface temperatures; CFC's destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates and killing off endanger species and increased surface temperatures; lighting produces ozone near the surface and raises air pollution levels-more heating, the suns increased magnetic field are causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow), sun spots and more heating. Cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production causes pollution, warmer temperatures and destruction...But most of this is in our control outside of the sun (Volcanoes and earthquakes are part of the sun magnetic strength): We need to fix it! That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org an geoengineering web sight. If GW is rubbish, this may make the cure harder. So help me understand why you feel like this

Answer 8

yes, yes and TRIPLE YES!