Do you believe in global warming? if so, what reasons?

Question

please give me yor thoughts, :)

Answer 1

Global warming does exist and has done for as long as the earth existed from crashing in to its little sister. We live on a very complex rock which has many factors to its temperate. We are an strange breed that judge time on our own human experience unfortunately the earth has a greater span hence global warming and global cooling. We are making a difference to our climate but nothing the earth can not recover from. The out look is not so good for the human race. Global warming happened before it will and is happening again.

Answer 2

No. I have no faith in the science that tells from only 20 years of records that we are causing anything. Climate records need to be detailed and for centuries to mean anything. The world was warmer when the Romans were here in the UK QED. global warming is just another fad of the Greens who want to shut the world down and dictate to people and a Labour Government which uses the excuse to tax us more.

Answer 3

Less snow.

Shorter winter.

Plants that used to start growing in late March now get seen in early March.

It rains more (and for Scotland that's saying something!).

Sea level is rising... although in the south of England the land is dropping to meet it.

Proper winter in Scotland is now early January to late February; there used to be constant snow on the mountains from late October to as late in the year as March with some places never losing a degree of snow cover throughout the entire year.

Now, those lemmings that don't believe there's any such thing as global warming can answer this for me, IF they can.

If global warming doesn't exist, why is the average temperature in Scotland higher than it was ten years ago?

People can argue about the causes of it, because, yes, it is a natural cycle, but, no, it's not the only cause. All you need to do to work that out is find the statistics for the rates of climate change in prehistory. They are out there, because you can get exactly that information from ice cores. They will show that the temperature increase today is faster than it has been at ANY POINT in the last twenty thousand years.

Answer 4

I don't think all the hype about global warming is good science.  Even if the earth is heating up, we don't know why.  Maybe it has nothing to do with us.  The climate changes.  It always has, all throughout history.  There are lots and lots of scientists who don't believe the hype.  You just don't hear from them very often if you watch CNN, ABC, NBC, et ...

Answer 5

i "believe" there is global warming the same way i blieve in ufo. the "u" stands for "unidentified" and there is plenty of stuff that is "unidentified" that don't make 'em aliens, and the 2 degree average temp increase in the last 10 years doesn't prove americans made it happen.

i think it's really funny how they try to study what global warming will do to us in the future by studying how global warming affected the world in the past -- they acknowledge that the temp was going up and down for all of earth's history, without humans to help it.

I would support small mandates such as replacing old coal power plants with new ones, that dont' pollute as much, but desperate gambles like dumping tonnes of stuff in the ocean will do more harm than any gobal warming

in the 70's they tried to save coral reafs by dumping tires into the ocean for the coral reafs to grow on. Now they are paying lots of money to pull them up cuz the tires were killing reefs, not giving them something to grow on! Same for any 'we must fix global warming" desperate gambles like 'levelling the economic playing field" through the Kyto protocol that allows rich nations to buy carbon credits from poor ones, or dumping what is it, algea in the oceans?, hoping to soke up Co2? The worst is bio-fuel. I'm willing to bet it makes more Co2.

And what about al gore? between flying a comercial air plane or his private jet, a one-way trip, he burns more co2 than a republican driving a hummer does his whole life. So yes, he probably buys credits, that are not scientifically pooven to actually off-set as much as they claim, but if the point is to make less co2 in the first place, isn't it better to fly a regular plane? something doesn't mesh here. Maybe we should all follow al gore's example, and make MORE CO2, and buy more credits...

BTW, Mars is almost 100% CO2, but to warm it up enough to live there, we'd need a much stronger green house gas to warm it up. Guess what is many times stronger than Co2? Water Vapor! How come no one wants us to buy water vapor credits?

My point is that there is too much politics in global warming "solutions", too much belief and morality, and not enough science -- especially in the soloutions.

I would be willing to make changes or vote for changes *just in case* CO2 is causing global warming, but not changes that are not supported by science -- because then it will be like the dumping of tires in the 70's to "help" coral reafs -- it will cost us much more in the future to clean it up -- if we can.

but i predit 50 years from now we will pay lots of money to clean up some global warming "solotion" that was put in place (and cost money) a few years from now.

Answer 6

I do believe the planet is getting warmer, ice caps are melting, and global climate is changing. but i dont believe that human activity is the cause. There are millions of factors that effect the earths climate and to point to only one factor as the cause is crazy. The the greenhouse effect is a total scam, so that we can be taxed in the name of global warming for any amount. Instead to fighting it we just protect ourselves from it.

Answer 7

Hi

Yes, and the reasons are too vast to go into here.  If you really want to know the non-bias scientific raitionale to global warming I recommend you view the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers.  Its a condensed version of the whole thing (Only 18 pages) I fully reccomend anyone to read it

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4W...

Answer 8

I don't have to believe in global warming.  The data is pretty clear: the average temperature is increasing and scientific modeling and data analysis (which, tracking modern climate figures goes back over 50 years+, not 20... and tracking data from core samples goes back MUCH, MUCH longer) show correlation with a rise in CO2.  Furthermore, it has been shown that CO2 is an insulator and the chemistry is pretty clear.

We're supposed to be in an ice age right now, but our temperature is closer to the warmer times that we can measure on our planet, and it's increasing every year.

Don't trust anyone who says this is faith - they are either confused or trying to confuse you.  Don't trust anyone who says it's all natural - no one knows exactly what portion is natural and what portion is man-made (though we can say with absolute certainty that at least some of it, if not most of it, is man-made - and that the truly dangerous aspects we are responsible for).  

The data is pretty clear.  And it says that global warming is occurring.

Answer 9

I go with the experts. They are more likely to be right than the hired guns of the oil and coal industries.

Answer 10

the cause is pollution

http://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 11

Yes. The record of warming now spans over 125 years:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2...

The study of both past natural cycles and recent measurements support the conclusion that greenhouse gases are involved.  

There's little credible evidence to contradict either that warming is occurring or that our contribution to greenhouse gasses are responsible, but there's plenty of feel-good "don't worry, be happy" oil industry propaganda that the media gladly presents as "balance".  

What indications can we look for to cut through the noise?  Consider that the Bush Administration is notoriously skeptical in public about mankind's role in the current global warming.  Then look here at the summaries of some of their latest research into carbon cycle science, and what to do to mitigate the damage.  This research is being conducted by hundreds of people across more than a dozen federal agencies:

http://co2conference.org/agenda.asp

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sa...

Gee, why would George Bush be performing carbon mitigation research if the problem didn't exist?  He may be disingenuous (and a lot of people may fall for his delaying tactics), but he's not misinformed and he's not stupid.  If the oil industry had contradictory science, Bush would have it, and several hundred federal scientists could be doing something other than developing carbon mitigation strategies.

Denial however is viewed as an important public facade to maintain:

"A recently leaked memo written by Frank Luntz, the US Republican and corporate strategist, warned that 'The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general - and President Bush in particular - are most vulnerable... Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need... to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue.'"

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist...

You can believe what you want.  The warming, melting, and sea level rise will continue, and the latest evidence suggests that it's accelerating.

Here's an interesting collection of articles which discusses how the U.S. media uniquely supports the false appearance of controversy:

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/05...

Here are some of the wild anti-global warming claims offered to confuse the issue and delay response:

http://scholarsandrogues.wordpress.com/2...

EDIT -

I've updated the first link above to include the latest data released yesterday, along with these comments:

"The Southern Oscillation and the solar cycle have significant effects on year-to-year global temperature change. Because both of these natural effects were in their cool phases in 2007, the unusual warmth of 2007 is all the more notable. It is apparent that there is no letup in the steep global warming trend of the past 30 years.  

'Global warming stopped in 1998' has become a recent mantra of those who wish to deny the reality of human-caused global warming. The continued rapid increase of the five-year running mean temperature exposes this assertion as nonsense."

Answer 12

Yes

because of simple logic

The world is getting warmer most people agree with that point

Mankind produces a lot of the gasses that cause the "greenhouse effect" and the greenhouse effect does cause a planet to warm up

Even if mankind is not the main cause of global warming we are definitely not helping either

Answer 13

A. The greenhouse effect is based on established physics that goes back 200 years. The greenhouse theory basically says that certain molecules (greenhouse gases) will absorb outgoing infrared radiation (sunlight that’s been reflected off of Earth’s surface).

The theory of gravity is three hundred years old. This theory can never be proven to a 100% certainty (it could all just be intelligent falling, right?) but I still believe in gravity.

Both of these theories have been tested and retested, and are about as close to “fact” as possible within the framework of the scientific method.

B. The concentrations of greenhouse gases have dramatically increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution. For example, the concentration of CO2 has increased by 35% over the pre-industrial baseline concentration that has existed for many thousands of years.

C. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand that increases in greenhouse gas concentrations from manmade sources will lead to an enhanced greenhouse effect (ie. anthropogenic {manmade} global warming).

Answer 14

I totally believe in global warming! There are many reasons why I believe. One big reason is the fact that the ocean is rising all over the world! Each year the the ice in the Arctic melts earlier which well for one is NOT good for polar bears as this is essential time for polar bears to be out on the ice getting food. Ice from glaciers is melting everywhere causing the water level all over the world to rise. Another reason I believe is because the entire worlds temperature has risen 1degree Celsius and although it doesn't seem like much IT IS! Also even where I live you can see the effects of global warming everyday. For example this month we had temperatures of 10 degrees during January during a time the average temperature for that time of year was like a low of minus 5. It isn't something you believe in it's something you need to understand.I think people are afraid to think this is actually happening because the effects of global warming could be well horrible. For those who say nobody knows how it happens i don't have the time to explain it here but all you have to do is use a search engine and type in how global warming works and you will get your answers.

Answer 15

No, it is just another scam to scare people and get their money, like Y2K.

'The Population Bomb' in 1969 = overpopulation would end the world by now.  We would all be starving.

1960's thermal nuclear war - children in school were trained to hide under their desks.

When air pollution really was a problem. The world was going to end because of that.  Global cooling and all.

Now they tell us because the skies are clear, we are going to die from too much sunshine.

Does it ever end?

Answer 16

There are many basic scientific facts which can only be explained if the current global warming is being caused by an increased greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

For example, the planet is warming as much or more during the night than day.  If the warming were due to the Sun, the planet should warm a lot more during the day when the Sun has influence.  Greenhouse gases trap heat all the time, so they warm the planet regardless of time of day.  Another example is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because the greenhouse gases trap the heat in the lower atmosphere.  If warming were due to the Sun, it would be warming all layers of the atmosphere.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

We know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming.  What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming.  They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

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

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

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles.  They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes.  Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions.  We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels.  We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%).  You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 17

We were the causeof global warming and we should pay for the damage that we did.

Answer 18

didn't you notice this winter was a late start. the temperatures are always changing from warm and cold all the time? unusual and awkward weather conditions? all becoz of something called global warming.

Answer 19

i believe today because it`s sunny,yesterday it was snowing

Answer 20

seeing is believing :)

Answer 21

It's called science.  If you don't believe in science...  Well, thats the whole problem, isn't it?

Answer 22

Ask the birds.

Ask why the migrating population of white fronted geese at WWT Slimbridge has dwindled from 5000 to 500 in the last ten years.