Do you believe in global warming? Why or Why Not? [I don't know if I should believe or not!]?

Question

Do you believe in global warming? Why or Why not? Like what are your beliefs? If you have facts, please show.

Answer 1

Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007) — The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F...

...Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74°C. But this rise has not been continuous. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years...

...2007 global temperatures have been averaged separately for both hemispheres. Surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere are likely to be the second warmest on record, at 0.63°C above the 30-year mean (1961-90) of 14.6°C/58.3°F. The southern hemisphere temperature is 0.20°C higher than the 30-year average of 13.4°C/56.1°F, making it the ninth warmest in the instrumental record since 1850.

January 2007 was the warmest January in the global average temperature record at 12.7°C/54.9°F, compared to the 1961-1990 January long-term average of 12.1°C/53.8°F...

Global 10 Warmest Years Mean Global temperature (°C) (anomaly with respect to 1961-1990)

   1. 1998 0.52

   2. 2005 0.48

   3. 2003 0.46

   4. 2002 0.46

   5. 2004 0.43

   6. 2006 0.42

   7. 2007(Jan-Nov) 0.41

   8. 2001 0.40

   9. 1997 0.36

  10. 1995 0.28

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Answer 2

Every one can believe in something but no one can be sure that anything is going to happen,it is scientific opinions are still not settled the temperature increase has been shown and causes have been studied and listed but no one can seethe future so no one can predict anything.

Answer 3

We know its possible for the average temperature to change since it has done so in the past.   Almost all reputable scientists believe its changing now from what it has been for the last couple thousand years, on average.   Many believe the temperature is rising at a faster rate than some species can adapt to.   Some believe global warming is being caused by the excesses of certain gasses being pumped into the air from various human activities.  

Facts can be ignored by people who want to ignore them, so there are no hard facts that everyone agrees on.   Many people believe when the dinosaurs roamed the earth it was much warmer.   Some believe dino's and humans lived on the earth at the same time.

Answer 4

YES= AND THE LAST CYCLONE AND TITLE WAVE THAT HIT THAT COUNTRY WAS EXPANDED BY THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING. THE OIL TANKS THAT ARE SINKING, IS'NT BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING. WHEN OIL IS SUCKED OUT OF THE GROUND, IT LEAVES A VOID, A LARGE OPENING UNDERGROUND, THAT SOONER OR LATER WILL COLLAPSE, LIKE OTHER COUNTRIES MAY BE DOING==OPEC?==IRAQ?  ETC. http://www.socyberty.com/Activism/First-...  THIS IS FOR ALL FREE PEOPLES TO HELP WITH GROUPS TO DELETE GLOBAL WARMING.

Answer 5

yeah i believe it

cuz theres actual proof.

and also, even if u decide not to believe it, do simple things lyk turning off the lights when ur not in that room or when u dont need it, i mean it cant hurt u, rite?

Answer 6

I don't believe in it, I know it's real, and mostly caused by us.

This is science and what counts is 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/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

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

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  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.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 7

I don't "believe" in global warming per say.  Man made global warming is an accepted scientific fact, it's not really something that you can choose to believe or not to believe, like you can believe in a God or not.  I mean, I can say that I believe that the earth is flat, but me believing that isn't going to make it true.

Answer 8

I believe it but I know that Man didn't cause it.

Answer 9

Global Warming is real. All sorts of institutions back up the Claims. NASA, Noaa, and the EPA have all agreed that Global Warming is real and getting worse. All of The Scientific community believes in Global Warming. They have All sorts of irrefutable Data Graphs, Written Papers, Charts,etc,. You can check their Websites if you want. Also the Solar cycle has no effect on Global Warming. Climate change is a much stronger force. Right now the Earth Should be Experiencing Global Cooling.Yet it keeps getting Warmer. This is not a phase the Earth is going through its just Global Warming.