do you agree or dis agree with global warming?

Question

dr jello
I agree the global warming fiasco is politically and monitarily motivated and has very little to do with the warming of the planet( the planet is not warming at a catastrophic rate)

shawn
do you honestly think fossil fuels are going to do anything to our planet,its like dropping a pebble into the ocean and expecting a tidal wave to come from it ,dont believe the hype,

Answer 1

Agree. It's been proven by scientists. It may seem surprising that adding some CO2 to the atmosphere can cause the climate change, but it's based on basic physics.

This is science and what counts is the data, not rhetorical arguments. Note that this is mostly links to data. The words are just to organize them.

"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 been proven it's not the Sun:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.stm

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://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Answer 2

it is not like dropping a pebble in the ocean. NOT thinking we can have an effect would be more like dropping 100 trillion pebbles in a lake and setting back and wondering why the water level went up.

The Earth spent millions of years locking away carbon below the surface in the form of fossil fuels. When we burn these fuels we are adding carbon to the system that was not meant to be added. And since carbon DOES have a measurable effect on heat.. Simple Chemistry dictates that our actions MUST be having at least SOME effect on global warming.

130 years of "extra" CO2 will, and has caused a change.


Edit: for the people who think it's the sun's fault only 0.2 degrees C of our warming trend is due to the sun


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801174450.htm

Answer 3

I'm with Dr. Jello, it's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing with GW.

1.) It's a matter of what you feel is causing it.

a.) Man

b.) A natural cycle of events on our planet.

I've been taught by my parents to conserve energy, buy fuel efficient vehicles, put trash in it's proper place (On that front there are a lot of countries that have extremel;y littered streets.)

So it makes me angry that these zealots about GW being caused by humans start preaching about people doing the right thing, since they are only assuming the people are being wasteful with the energy, when the average poor American (This encompasses North, Central and South America) is very enviromental friendly, since they can't afford any other way to live.

Answer 4

You can't see evidence of AGW, because you don't want to.

Mikira - a matter of believing huh? Science is not belief, it's data. That is a good one, now all we have to do is believe and it will be so. What you're talking about is denial in the face of fact.

Answer 5

Agree.

Answer 6

I don't think it matters. We should always do what we can to keep the environment clean.

Global warming is a political argument more than it is a scientific one.

Science cannot tell you what the climate will be next month. If they cannot know the climate next month, how can they know the climate in 50 years? They are just guessing, and guesses are not scientific facts.

We shouldn't base political decisions on guesses. That's akin to starting wars because a consensus of scientist believe that Iraq had WMD's.

Answer 7

if there is any global warming at all it is certainly caused by the sun, like it always has.
There is no evidence whats so ever that co2 is responsable
for a change in climate, unless you want to believe in Al Gore's fantasies!

Answer 8

I agree. we need to stop using so many fossil fuels.

Answer 9

I know it was not our President's fault that Katrina happened.