Do you REALLY believe Al Gore and his Global Warming alarms?

Question

Polar bears drowning? They swim 50 to 100 miles or more in search of food and frequent ice floes. Getting hot? His info on the Arctic comes in the summer when ice naturally melts, then REFORMS in the winter. Carbon dioxide emmissions? OK, 38 parts per million from 37 parts per million over more than a century? Draw a million dots on a blackboard. Erase 38 of them. Get the idea?

The Beatles once recorded a song "Taxman". Well, John, Paul, George, and Ringo, they are finally going to tax the air we breathe!

Answer 1

Yea even though you can't tell the overall temp. of the world is rising and if people don't start to help the environment than it won't be long b4 it ends (FOR REAL)

Answer 2

i belive some of them.. but the fact that Co2 causes global warming is wrong.. global warming CAUSES co2 levels to rise, the ocean releases more co2 when it gets warmer.. "so we dont need to worry about co2 levels??" well we do, but we cant make the connection of co2 CAUSES global warming because it dusnt.. tis the other way around.. hes wrong..

Answer 3

WRONG:

Chemicals, even in trace concentrations can have a huge effect. Think of poisons for example.

BTW: Some greenhouse gases like PFC and HFC are 10 000 to 40 000 more potent than CO2.

So far for your assumption "low concentration means no effect".

Answer 4

do you really believe the conspiracy theories and disinformation spread by the oil companies and their minions? how does it feel to  be a puppet? and hey, haloooo, there are people over here, outside america! i know its hard for you to understand, but your country is not the centre of the universe......

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

Answer 5

The earth has gone threw many warm ups and cool downs in its 4 billion history

Only this time there is intelligence here to watch it happen.

And what one man or woman thinks is the reason or what is going to happen don't mean a thing as to how their ideas will change any and I do mean ANY thing

It is a big world and how many big polluters are there out there that don't care what is happening?

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So one American politician is not going to matter about as much as

using a bucket full of water to put out a world wide forest fire.

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Answer 6

yea he invented the internet too rremember

Answer 7

Yes i do believe it because there is statistical proof that the earth is warming at a faster rate compared to 2 centuries ago a study done in Antarctica showed that the ice capsules have retreating further back than has ever been recorded in history and there are many other places where the ice shelves are melting. You say you don't believe this based on the fact that his study was done in summer but even so there are many other aspects of the environment which has changed drastically like  the widening deserts and the change in patterns of rain fall for e.g. in Brazil there has been flash flooding in places not prone to do so and in Trinidad and Tobago which normally experiences most of it's rainfall in the eastern areas of the country now experiences a change in pattern with more rainfall in the west and these are just a few e.g. but whether or not global worming is truth or were just experiencing temporary changes it thus tell us that we need to put much more emphasis on the protection and conservation of our environment. check this website out for more info. www.bbc.co.uk/globalwarming

Answer 8

No.  I believe these guys:

The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

They all say global warming is real, and mostly caused by us.  It's scientific fact, and what Al Gore says and does, has no impact on that.

By the way, the initial scientists draft of the IPCC report DID say it was 99% sure.  But the US didn't cut it back to 50%, the best they could do was 95%.

Answer 9

This stuff really spotlights how Americans think everything is about them and them only.  Al Gore indeed!

Answer 10

No i believe the earth is going through a natural cycle of warming i do not believe that it is caused by man

Answer 11

ummm

nope

it was election year and he wanted in

Answer 12

Not for a second.

Answer 13

h**l ya i do :D

Answer 14

I know.... it's funny how gullible people are.

But this is so entertaining still to watch how believers can't denounce "skeptic" claims.

Answer 15

Al Gore lies. If AlGore believed what he says about global warming he would change his own lifestyle to stop producing so much CO2, unless he wants to burn us all to death...

Answer 16

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 17

okay, you appear to be a smart guy.

and i disagree with you.

it is getting warmer.

first, we might look at the politics.  the US is virtually alone in thinking it should not be addressed.  in fact, even Bush says it's a problem, his beef now is, how do we make money off it?  his resistance is because he and Cheney, and Rice, and many others in his administration are associated with the energy industry.

the IPCC says it's a problem.  they're all appointed by their respective governments, and there are both scientists, and political appointees.  they said there's a 90% chance AGW was a real problem.  in order to get the US to sign, i honestly think they toned it down from 99%.

and the science?  <<OK, 38 parts per million from 37 parts per million over more than a century?>>  that's not correct.

"From its preindustrial level of about 280 ppm (parts per million

by volume) around the year 1800, atmospheric carbon dioxide rose to

315 ppmv in 1958 and to about 358 ppmv in 1994"

http://www.radix.net/~bobg/faqs/scq.CO2r...

in 2005, "380 parts per million (ppm)."

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1128-clima...

Let me restate that:

1800 - 280 ppm

1958 - 315 ppm 35ppm/158yr = 0.22 ppm/yr increase.

1994 - 358 ppm 43ppm/36yr = 1.2 ppm/yr increase.

2005 - 380 ppm 22ppm/11yr = 2.0 ppm/yr increase.

Increase 1958-2005 = 20%  or 0.4% per year.

increase 1994-2005 = 6%  pr 0.5% per year.

See a pattern here? Getting worse pretty fast.

"Carbon dioxide levels are now 27 percent higher THAN AT ANY POINT in

the last 650,000 years" - and, probably for several million years.  The

ice core studied only goes back 650,000 years.

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1124-clima...

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatur...

  Less sunlight

http://www.livescience.com/environment/a...   2005

Warmest on Record

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1000_...

1000 Year Temperature Comparison.png from Wikipedia

i could include more, but let's see your response.

science?  or Beatles?

Answer 18

No, I am not a believer.  However the debate is interesting and illuminating.

Answer 19

yes he is definitely right

Answer 20

polar bears have been around for 250,000 years, I wonder how they made it through the last warm period 130,000 years ago when the arctic was sub tropical.

Al Gore is a climatologist like I'm a mathematician, 38ppm? isn't that like .ooo4%?

Answer 21

I wish Al Gore would go away.  He is a vain pompous man with a totalitarian mindset and an appalling lack of ethics.

When he says "the science is in" and "we have the answers" he is endorsing the stifling of legitimate inquiry.  This is the view of a fanatic, not someone truly seeking solutions.

His alarmist predictions are ridiculous.  We are not facing a "planetary emergency".  There is nothing in our current climate that is out of the norm.  

Environmental pollution is a serious problem, that should be dealt with by serious people.  A moderate rise in a beneficial trace gas is not one of those problems.  

Soil erosion and degradation is easily the biggest threat we face.  Following that is loss of inexpensively available potable water.  Fine carbon particles and metals emitted by incomplete and unfiltered burning of coal is another.  Overfishing and clear-cutting of forests are problems.  A warmer more benign earth isn't on that list.

Global Warming is a hijacking of a legitimate environmental movement.  

So no I don't believe Al Gore and his Global Warming alarms.  He should do something harmless, like collecting stamps.

Answer 22

No, but then I never did.