IS global warming really happening?

Question

Im torn between what to believe.

Answer 1

Yes.

There's an enormous amount of proof. The last website below is designed especially for people who are torn.

This is science and what counts is the data, not rhetorical arguments.

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

Answer 2

Yes, agree with all been said above. It's really happening and there's no way of stopping it. This is because no way will all nations work together to prevent it. Maybe this is natural evolution because we are over populating the globe. And there have been no BIG wars for 60 years to reduce the population. Medical improvements have also kept more people alive. Sounds a bit pessimistic but cannot see any other course than wars over water as places like North Africa and Spain go totally dry.
We've only been on the Earth for a small fraction of it's existance yet we believe we are its master. How wrong we are. Perhaps it's the insects turn to take charge.

Answer 3

on the first earth day in the states everybody was predicting the next ice age. There are a lot of theories and I think a lot of people want these theories to be true. None of this global warming can be proven. I think that we as humans are pretty arrogant to think that we are the cause of the earth warming. About ten years ago in san fransisco paper bags were banned because we needed to save the rain forest; now they just banned plastic bags and we are told to use paper because plastic is an oil product. this is all just a scare tactic so we all feel sorry for ourselves and we can act like victoms.

Answer 4

Given that accurately measuring the temperature is a relatively new thing (our National Weather Service was very naive and young at the turn of the last century - 1900), there is no way to really prove the "claims" of Global Warming. In mnay cases, weather patterns are cyclical. In south Texas, where I live, it is not unusual to have years of drought, followed by years of flood, drought, flood... and so on. These patterns have been part of Texas's recorded history since around the late 1800's.

Answer 5

Air temperatures have risen about 1+ degrees - but that is unimportant compared to sea temperatures. The oceans (being 3/4ths of the earth's surface) drive our climates.
You should realize that we are sitting on a relatively THIN Crust which is only 3-5 miles thick under the oceans. Under that is the earth's mantel which is 1600 ++ degrees.
Don't you think that heat works it's way through the 'thin crust'?
You can read about this here:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Earths_layers/Earths_layers4.html
The Earth's plate tectonics are driven by the activity of both the Sun's magnetic emissions and activity in the mantel + cores.
Read about Space Weather here:
http://spaceweather.com/
Read about plate tectonics here:
http://www.platetectonics.com/article.asp?a=38&c=6

Another good overall and rational view here:
http://www.nov55.com/gbwm.html

Answer 6

Yes, global warming is happening due to too many fossil fuel creating too much carbon dioxide. So, Scientist are creating alternative fuel.

This may be off topic but just FYI. European Scientist in fact created an air powered car, but the gas businesses are paying billions of dollars to the government from letting civilians to know
my proof- http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4

Answer 7

ONCE AGAIN....

Global Warming MEANS "World Wide Warming!" It is ONLY A Political Term = NOT based in Real Science!

The EARTH is covered by "Three Quarters WATER!" Basic Science, it takes ONE-Btu to raise One Cubic Centimeter ONE Degree Centigrade!

HOW many "Gazillion Cubic Centimeters are there ONLY on the Surface of Planet Earth COVERED by 3/4 Water?"

HOW many Btu's would it take TO RAISE THE SURFACE TEMPERATURE ONE DEGREE?

DO THE MATH!

And, were are the Million TEMPERATURE MEASURING SITES on the Many Oceans THAT TELL US THAT THE OCEAN TEMPERATURES ARE RISING? Not!

Oh yes, POLAR temperatures have varied LESS Than one degree in the past 100-Years. Noticed I said VARIED, = NOT RISEN!

Thanks, RR

The theory of man-made global warming is false. Anyone who believes otherwise has not investigated the evidence or is purposely remaining ignorant to the legitimate opposition to global warming. I have given up an one and a half hours to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” so I ask you to do the same and watch the movie detailing the opposition.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...
Another general resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/global_warm...

CO2 is not causing the globe to warm the opposite is true, the warming is increasing the atmospheric CO2. When the world heats it gradually increases the temperature of the oceans which serve as the largest CO2 sink. As the oceans heat up they release CO2 which is stored in them. The information comes from the same data Al Gore uses, the temperature always goes up before the concentration of CO2 goes up.
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...

CO2 makes up only .03% of our atmosphere. Water vapor, another greenhouse gas, makes up 1-4% of our atmosphere, this gas is acknowledged to be the main greenhouse gas. All human activities combined contribute only 6 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year. Animals, through respiration, decomposition, etc contribute 150 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere. So humans contribute only a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which is already in very small concentrations in the atmosphere.
http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science.html... This is where my data came from, it is an interesting site, it displays the same graphics as Al Gore in his movie but it tells how low the human contribution is. So Al Gore is using the same data but coming to a different conclusion, who do you want to believe a politician with no scientific training or the NASA CO2 laboratory, a group of scientists who spend their entire careers studying CO2.

We know the greenhouse effect is real it is a necessary effect to keep our planet at a habitable temperature. However if our current warming is due to greenhouse gasses it would cause warming in the troposphere , but the troposphere is actually getting cooler.
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... That points to other explanations to our current warming.

So what is causing our current warming, it is the sun.
http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/s...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...
The fact that only the earth’s surface is warming points to direct heating from the sun rather than heating due to greenhouse gasses. Also other planets in our solar system are warming pointing to a common cause of warming, that common cause being the sun.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

The global warming crowd says our glaciers are melting and animals will suffer this is another false claim.
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/co2sci...
http://www.nationalcenter.org/npa235.htm...
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/...

Answer 8

Of course.You can see and feel what happen to the temperature of the earth.Days by days, earth become so hot.This is due to the global warming that is caused by the urbanisation.

Answer 9

Yes. But it is all natural. We did have a ice age. What happen? It warmed up. No more ice age. It's a another way of controlling us. You don't see people like Al Gore changing his way of living. But he wants you to change yours.

Answer 10

no. believe in yourself. dont believe in the broadband ! if too much torn then you have to find some one who can stitch the torn part.