Do you believe, or not believe, in the global warming theory?

Question

Just your own feelings, nothing POLITICAL please!!!

Answer 1

I believe in global warming.. and it's scares the heck outta me!!

Answer 2

Yes I do. nd I think Its a bbbbbbiiiiiiiiiggggggggg troooooooble for us.

Answer 3

I can think for my self.

So I can not see much truth in the theory.

Answer 4

you can't say nothing political when the term Global Warming is Political.  haha.  

Yes, i think it's real and we're going to see more and more symtoms as years pass.  

This winter's weather patterns should have waken many people.  So far, not a day has gone by in 2007 where some weird weather anomolie hasn't occured.

Answer 5

no I don't.

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Answer 6

There is no question in not believing the globl warming theory because what is being portrayed is a very hard truth which everyone has to accept soon for the cause of humanity and their coming generations.

Answer 7

First of all please note- It is not a theory.  It is reality unfortunately.

It is happening in front of our eyes as can be seen in the reports- sea level rising with ice in polar area melting. Mt Everest snow is melting.

Average temperature globally have gone up. Due to this even forest fires have occcured in some places.

What more proof you want when Prez of USA intially was not believing in it and now he has taken it seriously and trying to mend way- what other proof you want?

We only have chance for next 50 years - to rectify the damage done so far. If we do not, then after 50 years, it will be irreversible- meaning then even if we do more than what is required, the atmosphere on earth will become so hot that all the flora and fauna will die.

So the time for action is now or never.

Further to above the latest news as below in support of my statement above:

The world has just 8 yrs to fight global warming

Nitin Sethi

[5 May, 2007 l 0031 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK]



  

NEW DELHI: The world cannot remain a fossil fool anymore, oblivious of the environmental destruction wrought as it guzzles fuels like coal and oil.

The world has just eight years to act and bring down the concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere if the rising global temperatures are be contained between 2-2.4 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial era, a hard-hitting report of the UN’s apex body on climate change released on Friday said.

All countries, including India, will have to take drastic steps to shift from fossil fuels like coal and oil, which emit global warming gases upon burning, in order to avert a global crisis, the report said with a firmness and certainty that the experts of more than 100 countries have never asserted before.

It has warned that any delay in action would lead to the temperatures rising alarmingly.

Nailing all quibbles on climate change from sceptics’ chambers, the report warned that emissions of heat-trapping gases had increased alarmingly by 70 per cent between 1970-2004, with levels of carbon dioxide increasing by 80 per cent over the same period.

In an ominous prediction, it noted that if the world continues to burn fossil fuels along current lines, then the dangerous emissions would rise by 90 per cent by 2030.

The recommendations mark repudiation of arguments of both developing and developed countries.

Countering the argument of the developing countries, like India and China, that reducing emissions would hit their economies, the report says that at worst, the global GDP would be blunted by about 3 per cent by 2030 if it undertakes these emission cuts.

It, however, admits that some countries will bear the brunt more than others.

On the other hand, developed countries have also been bluntly told that they would have to change their lifestyles and alter consumption patterns. These countries, with a mere 20 per cent of the world’s population, account for 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. The message for them is that mere adoption of technologies won’t do.

Commenting on the UN report on climate change, R K Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said: “It’s a stunning and razor-sharp report.”

Pachauri told TOI from Bangkok: “It is a solid scientific document that clearly highlights the urgency with which the issue needs to be addressed by all countries. The report suggests, on the basis of hard science, what needs to be done to halt the worsening situation.”

After four days of hectic parleys in Bangkok between scientists, economists and government officials from more than 100 countries, the report now lists out the host of actions the world would have to undertake in order to reduce emissions and avert catastrophe.

The emissions would need to be cut by up to 85 per cent over the next few decades in order to address the situation, the authors warn in their report.

The report has suggested a host of measures that the countries can undertake with existing clean technologies as well as those predicted to be available soon. But for the first time, the IPCC also highlighted that technology adoption alone was not going to be the solution.

Drastic measures would have to be taken in the next 25 years with known technologies and policies but this would need to be followed by a century-long period of transition to cleaner sources of energy that do not impact the climate.

The report suggests nuclear energy as a clean option although with caveats.

It suggests drastic efficiency in energy supply systems, improved transport, changed building and architectural norms as keys to bring about a halt to the rising temperatures.

Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, and Himalayan glaciers are eleven of the world's greatest natural wonders that face destruction if the climate continues to warm at the current rate.

Other wonders of nature at risk are the Amazonian rain forests and Australia's Great Barrier Reef, says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in its latest report titled 'Saving the World's Natural Wonders from Climate Change'.

Released ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC's) Second Working Group Report, the WWF report says most of these wonders have already suffered irreversible damage from climate change.

The Himalayas, it says, are threatened due to melting glaciers which are receding at an average rate of 10 to 15 metres per year.

Himalayas or the 'Water Towers of Asia' feed seven of Asia's great rivers, including the Ganga, and a meltdown could trigger floods initially and droughts in the future. In the Sunderbans, both man and animal face a threat from rise in sea levels.

A 10-year study in and around the Bay of Bengal has already revealed that the sea is rising at 3.14mm a year in the Sunderbans against a global average of 2mm.

Made up of hundreds of islands and criss-crossed by narrow water channels and home to India's dwindling tiger population, the problems are immediate for Sunderbans, says Anurag Danda, co-ordinator of WWF's Sunderbans programme.

"Oceanographers have estimated that 15% of the landmass will be lost by 2020 and this will have a devastating impact on both tigers and humans," he says.

The WWF report says it will be too late for these natural treasures unless drastic action is taken by governments. "Adaptation to climate change can help to some extent but cutting emissions of greenhouse gases has to be top priority," says Ravi Singh, CEO of WWF-India.

Is not a wake up call to all of us?

FINALY PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS GENERATION IS DESTROYING THE EARTH and we ought to acknowledge that:

“We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it for our children.”

Answer 8

ya, polar bears are dying and katrina.

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2834484

the polar bears man!

Answer 9

Yes, of course there is many many times that i believe that scientists are wrong but i truly believe in global warming is very possible. Of coarse this is only a yes and no question so there isn' t a right answer.

Answer 10

It does appear that global warming is occurring.  It would be a good thing to extrapolate the effects and attempt to prepare to deal with the results.  This is not the same as believing that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.  That is much harder to prove, but, in the end irrelevant because nothing we can do will make any significant difference.  Prepare, and wait.

Answer 11

Well if you think about the orbit of the earth...it's not a perfect circle. Perhaps we have reached a point in the orbit where we are farther away from the sun. Also if you think about the earth and how it heals it self, and how many things that have been disbursed into the air naturally (volcanic activity, fires, etc.); you may realize that the earth is very capable of healing itself. It's also factual in Environmental Science studies; the earth heals itself. I don't think that humans are capable of doing enough damage to the environment to seriously effect the Earth. My belief is that we're just getting farther away from the sun at this point. Things will go back to normal soon...probably in a few years or something.

Answer 12

It's not a question of belief.  This is science.  It's a question of 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 data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

It's (mostly) not the sun:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_act...

And the first graph aboves 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...

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:

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"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/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu... and:

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics.  Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 13

Yes

Answer 14

I am not sure.  From what I have seen, there seems to be overwhelming evidence that it is true, but I know there are many other scientists that deny it.  I would have to examine both sides; therefore, my answer is not entirely credible.

I do desire to study more on the subject.

Answer 15

yes i do !! believe in global warming

Answer 16

Yes.  I do.

Answer 17

I totally believe in the issue of Global Warming. It has already been scientifically proven and shown for the past few decades. I am very dissapointed that there are still people who don't believe. Global Warming is real, it is fact.

Answer 18

I believe in it. Cannot find a reason for somebody to make it up.

Answer 19

Global Warming is a MAJOR problem that we will have to address. If not, in a couple hundred years time, cities and civilization will be threatened.

Answer 20

Yes, after witnessing what I've seen happening in Antarctica with the polar icecaps melting to the point where it is affecting the wildlife, the polar bears are drowning. I really do believe it, what else would cause this?

Answer 21

it is not "global warming" it is systemic, meaning that it is the entire solar system that is warming up, not just the earth.

Answer 22

I strongly suspect it is real.  The underlying theory seems to make sense.  And if you look at measurements of CO2 and temperature over the last 400-500 years or so, the dead on correlation between the two is pretty phenonemal.  Obviously, association does not necessarily equal causality but still, it would be interesting to perform a simple regression on the data set and see how much of the variability in temperature can be explained by the corresponding CO2 level.  I'm sure that's been done but I've never seen the result.

Answer 23

I believe that the Earth is getting warmer but I do not think it is caused by humans.

Answer 24

FACT OR FICTION

FICTION

for many North Americans ,but they are used to fiction and feel more comfortable with fairytales instead of the truth,

Many blindly believe that our fate is in Gods hands ,and their focus is on the beautifull heaven that awaits ,they are not to concerned with the world their children will inherrit

whilst others wish to enjoy an Earthly paradise ,with out having to die first,they care what happens here and want to help the planet

there may come a time that for the sake of our survival the two views will be seperated in to Enemies and friends of the planet

World leaders are not concerned with the well being of the masses ,on the contrary .it was stated at a conference in Copenhagen,in 1998,by Kissinger, that the Agenda demanded a decrease in the world population of 60%,and you cannot achieve this if you start saving everybody.

scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.for political and economic reasons

HOWEVER CLIMATE CHANGE IS FACT FOR MILLIONS

Global warming is a very complex collection of many effects

this text only covers some aspects of global warming mainly man made desertification

industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities ,is another story

there are natural cycles in the planets life

but mans existance has its effects,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year

and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were very few desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,

and there are less and less farmers to do it..

and there are 70 million more peole every year that have to eat and drink and wash

who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers

who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,

because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS

The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.

this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

if forrest are being exchanged for ashalt,concrete and desserts

what is gonna keep this planet habitable for us

We as humanity can behave in a less stressful manner as far as the Environment is concerned ,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen, Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has

come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,

his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003