Do you feel/think that Global Warming is a real issue or a myth? why or why not?

Question

thank you.

there are tons of evidence like the rise of co2, opening in the ozone layer, greenhouses gasses, etc

one would be very convinced....

on the other hand, we are actually in an "ice age", which is quite intriguing.

Answer 1

I am certain the Earth has warmed a little, as it has many times before. I'm also certain man is responsible for a small amount of the warming. The burning of carbon based fuels alone causes direct heating of the atmosphere and the small amount of CO2 that man is responsible for as well as the naturally occurring, causes heat to scatter in the atmosphere there by slowing, but not preventing its escape out into space.

CO2 is a naturally occurring gas. It has one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. Molecules that have three or more atoms absorb heat and re-emit it in all directions. Water vapor also has three atoms. Water vapor accounts for about 70% of the greenhouse effect depending on how much there is in the clear atmosphere and in the clouds.

There are a number of studies that show cloud cover varies inversely with solar activity. The sun has been more active in the past 7 decades than it has been in the last 8000 years and more of the sun's heat is warming the oceans due to decreased cloud cover. A warming Earth causes evaporation and greatly increases water vapor. The ocean currents move the heat all over the world and can take decades to cool, through the process of evaporation.

NASA's solar scientists are predicting a weakening of solar activity and I believe the climate will respond by cooling if that happens.

Answer 2

No, I'm certain it's not true. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Shame on environmentalists, thirty years they used the same crap science for global cooling. They put out a poster showing the earth covered in ice. I'm still waiting.

"there are tons of evidence like the rise of co2, opening in the ozone layer, greenhouses gasses, etc."

We won't be fooled again by environmentalists, there is an awful lot of wisdom in this song below by The Who, in politics global warming is called "creating a fake crisis to get followers."

Everytime an environmentalist gives a speech people should take their boom boxes and play this song:

We Won't Get Fooled Again

Lyrics Artist(Band):The Who Review The Song (35) Print the Lyrics

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that' all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Answer 3

It's a scientific issue. The only myth is that global warming is a myth.

Basically we know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming. What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming. This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming. They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycle

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles. They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes. Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions. We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels. We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%). You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 4

i dont really have an opinion. i do believe though that global warming isnt caused by humans. global warming has been happening ever since the earth has started and has happaned many times before humans even existed. all the things that people say you can do to help prevent global warming i dont think are going to change things. although they are good to help out the environment. but not to stop global warming

Answer 5

Real, mostly caused by us.

There's a ton of proof so this will be very long. And the real proof is in the links. Try the first one, and the third from the bottom for a start. There's a lot of science and data about this.

This is science and what counts is the data. "Skeptics" have their theories. Global warming scientists have 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

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 6

It's real. It will be used as a tool to gain money and power by those who fund the research regardless of whether it is caused by man or not.
The biggest effect will be on our wallets.

Answer 7

If global warming was real, then there would be no requirement to "think or believe" it was real, as it just would be real.

You don't have to think 2+2=4, you don't have to believe that it is either. It just is true.

If global warming was true, then it just would be true. There would be no requirement to believe or not.

Believing is for religions.

Answer 8

Is global warming responsible for retreating ice sheets on mars or saturn?

do you know many people with 4x4's over there?

goverments gonna use it to restrict our freedoms in europe

same way it will use terrorism and immigration (they took our jobs!) to restrick freedoms in america

peace in Christ

Answer 9

It is real but the question should be is a natural occurrence or man made ?

Answer 10

It's not a myth and this question has been asked like a million times :).