Do you belive in global warming, Yes or No.?

Question

I personally think that the world would evolve the way it is doing even if man wasent on earth. The world is just evolving like it has been doing for the last million years n we just have to get over it. So its a NO for me.

Answer 1

No ! ! !

Answer 2

Yes. The study of past natural cycles supports the conclusion that greenhouse gas warming is occuring.  

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

Consider that the Bush Administration is notoriously skeptical in public about mankind's role in the current global warming, but here are summaries of some of their latest research into carbon cycle science and what to do to mitigate the damage, which is being conducted 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.

Answer 3

I would say yes.  But everyone has their theories.

who really knows for sure, anyway?

Answer 4

No

Answer 5

its a maybe for me

Answer 6

This really does not come down to whether or not we believe something. The science (which in reality is a "best guess" based on many proven and theoretical applications) indicates that there is indeed global warming.

So that is not the question most people want to know. Whether or not they are aware of it, most people want to know if this global warming is caused by mankind. This is completely different, and so far a scientific "best guess" cannot accurately determine the answer.

Answer 7

I believe it is warming up , yes..in fact there is little doubt about it...

But is it part of a natural cycle..?

And if it's not.. will it kill us ..

i mean , the south pole was once a thriving piece of landmass..

every few thousand years there is a new ice age..

We represent nothing in things of planetary scale , and this planet is a very good self-regulating organism , and will ''regulate'' us away if we get too cocky..

This planet including the nesecities for life and biodiversity can survive just fine competely covered in ice .. can the human race??

After every mass extintion event , ( comets , asteroids , other) there has alwas been an explosion in genetic quality of the species , and an improvement in life as a whole.

Humans are just too arrogant to even believe they have any influence..

Answer 8

Denial, denial, denial.  Even if it is not caused by man it is better to use cleaner energy sources.

Answer 9

NOOOOOO, for the last thirty years we have never been more greener and still they say we have a problem. Not to long ago, they said we were going back into a ice age and now look what they are saying, what a way to get more money.

Answer 10

global warming is a fact.  the world is warmer than it was 100 years ago.  the question is whether it is a result of human activity.  I believe it is, not because the government say so but because i have read the evidence and the different theories and the fact is that the climate has never changed at this rate under similar conditions, all past large scale changes in climate have been the result of massive natural events such as volcanic eruptions or a change to the oceans circulation or as a result of a change in the strength of the sun and its release of solar flares.  None of these things have happened over the last 100 years.

A small rise in temperature would be expected because the temperature has been rising for thousnads of years, but this has been by no more than 1oC per 1000 years, not 3 or 4oC in 100 years.

All the evidence suggests that we are cauing the bulk of the current global warming that is occuring.

Answer 11

of course that is why is 100 degree on January. and polar bear are dying

Answer 12

I'm with you Kane...evolution !!

Answer 13

Yes, the globe must be getting warmer.  10,000 years ago large areas of the globe were covered in ice as it was in the middle of an Ice Age.  The alleged global warming we are experiencing now could just be a continuation of the warming that happaned to end of the last Ice Age.

Answer 14

Global warming is not something you believe in, we have global warming, without it there would be no life as we know it on this plant.

Now whether this round of warming is cause by man is up in the air, we have evidence of global cooling in a person's life time, so it stands to reason that we could see warming in a person's life too. The newest science seem to show that CO2 has either had all the effect it can on warming or that it did have that much effect to begin with.

Answer 15

The world is evolving as it has before but I do believe we are speeding it up.  We should not be so selfish in this I want it and want it now wasteful age and give the third world a chance to catch up.

A theory I heard was that in the sixties America buried Nuclear waste under the Northern Pole area and that has heated up and that is why the ice is melting, which is an interesting idea.

Answer 16

The evidence is global warming is happening, even if many people don't want to belive it.

It's like any dependent/addictive behaviour, the addict will deny it's real, then when they get hospitalised try and negotiate, then get angry ...

Answer 17

i think its a yes, but not solely because of man... we have a lot to do with it, but not all...

Answer 18

no like you said its something that happend before and it gonna happen again usa should be looking into how there going to move alot of people

Answer 19

I don't think it's a matter of believing in it, like religion, more of a fact in my mind - there's just to much evidence to suggest it is by too many academics.  I've only heard of a handful of academics who agree with you and their points, in my view, are valid, but minor.  I think there is a clear(ish) (I'm no expert!) correlation between the industrial revolution beginning in the mid 1800s to now where fuel has been burning at an amazing rate, and the ice caps melting due to the atmosphere heating up - the evidence is huge.  I think the arguments against this are political, rather than environmental, because there's too much money in oil - both selling it and also have the financial capacity to use it at the rates it it is being used - especially in the US with the enormous cars.

So - a yes from me...

Answer 20

could do with some round here..it's freezing

Answer 21

Yes. We're the cause of global warming.

Answer 22

yes- to a point, not all this al gore save the world c**p

Answer 23

and its no from me too..

Answer 24

It is a fact that the earth warms and cools over time for the reasons described by Tim D, however concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are increasing by more than can be attributed to reasons other than those attributed to pollution.  This is demonstrated by the data gathered by various studies over the last decade.  While the results of these studies vary to some degree, the weight of the evidence points to the fact that climate change is accelerating in line with the increased CO2 emissions.  

No two studies produce exactly the same results; unfortunately, climate change denialists tend to jump on the minority of studies that don't show a clear link between climate change and man-made CO2 emissions.  The problem is compounded by the fact that governments accept the results of the majority of the studies, but many people don't trust the government, therefore they don't trust the results.

It is a fact that global warming won't wipe out life from the surface of the planet, but it will cause extinction of a great many species and make life uncomfortable for those that need to take time to adapt in the mean time.  You can blindly say "I don't accept global warming" but that won't make it go away. It will be our decendants that will have to cope with the problems resulting from it.

Answer 25

Belief is thinking something to be true in the absence of all proof. What you're actually asking is 'do you think it's happening?'

Semantics aside, global warming is happening. Study after study has shown this to be the case. The proof is there to be seen. We can either go down in history as the generation who did something about it, or who shrugged and let it happen and doomed the species. It's up to us.

Answer 26

No.

Answer 27

Me too, but it's not a popular theory!

Answer 28

yes.

Answer 29

Yes. Global warming is an ongoing cyclical event of nature that evolves over tens of thousands of years. However, man's 'industrial revolution' has helped accelerate the natural cycle, which means that man, plants and animals cannot adapt quickly enough to the coming climatic changes.

Air and water pollution; vehicle emissions; destruction of the rain forests and mangrove forests; interference with natural habitats of wild animals; over fishing of our oceans; destructive coal mining and oil exploration; smoke-belching factories; leaching of landfills; refusal to REduce, REuse and REcycle; wasting of Earth's natural resources; melting of polar ice caps; inefficient land use and the rape of natural land barriers;  widespread use of chemicals and toxic substances; depletion of our ozone layer, and countless other human-induced devastation of the Earth's natural cycles have contributed to this acceleration and escalation of global warming.

If mankind doesn't do something within the next ten years to curb this exhaustive waste, it will be too late. Our great-grandchildren will have to wear gas masks to breathe fresh air; won't be able to find enough clean drinking water; will endure horrendous hurricanes that will erode both coasts of both major oceans, and will experience a lesser quality of life all because of generation's avarice, gluttony, arrogance, ignorance, wastefulness, and hubris. -RKO-   01/15/08