Do you think global warming is overblown?

Question

I.. don't know. Because i learn about it, and I think that it totally isn't but then my mom majors in Biology and her boss gave her this video about it being natural and saying things like 'how did the ice melt in the ice age, then?' and now i just don't know what to think. I'm hoping, though, that its overblown. :-O

Answer 1

Yes i believe in global warming !!

I also believe in the tooth fairy , Santa Claus , Bigfoot , The Easter Bunny , and that i am gonna win the powerball

Answer 2

Let's assume for a minute that they (global warming alarmists) have something...  So, in the 30's before our industrial revolution there must have been less greenhouse gas, right?  That means that the sun warmed us more and the nights cooled us more; somewhat like the moon with its extreme temperatures.

The easy experiment is to look at the temperature variances between night and day from back in the 30's and see if the temperature differences between night and day were more.  

Then compare the temperature differences between night and day for the past few years and measure the difference.  If you and everyone else did that, you would see that we are experiencing the EXACT same greenhouse effect that we did for decades and centuries...  

That alone proves their global warming theory is a hoax... Otherwise night and day temperatures would be much closer together....  But they aren't...

Answer 3

I think it's probably underblown. I think scientists are very conservative in their estimates because they don't want to be wrong. They are also under political pressure to downplay it. So when they are still called alarmists just for speaking a truth that they have watered down for the public to hear- it tells me they think it might be worse than what they're saying.

Also, the videos against GW are absolute garbage. Go to real climate cience organizations to get the straight dope about GW. There's alot of misinformation out there.

Answer 4

Global warming is a fairytail algore told.  It is about as real as man bear pig

Answer 5

Very much so.  Scientist now believe that variations in the Sun's output is the reason for variations of the climate here on Earth.

Since the Sun is the cause of climate change, there is nothing we can do to stop it.  This is just a cycle, a part of nature that we should accept and enjoy as it won't always be this warm.

The Sun is expected to start cooling down in a few years, and when that happens, we'll all miss having the beautiful temperatures we enjoy today.

Answer 6

Climate change is a money and power grab scheme by bottom feeder politicians and power brokers. It's nothing to do with ecology and everything to do with money.

Con artists like Gore have enriched themselves on this issue, taking home Oscars, Nobel Prizes and millions of dollars. Meanwhile, evangelical leaders are setting up their flocks for extreme fleecing by leftist politicos like Barack Obama, who will appeal for Christian votes by talking in glowing, biblical-sounding terms about "being good stewards of God's creation."

Here is truth about global warming:

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 7

personally, I totally agree. I think it's a natural cycle thing. We probably are making it go unnaturally fast, and there is scientific evidence to prove it, but I think it's happened before, long before humans were around.

Answer 8

Its always been there and scientist have always know....It just takes a man like Gore to exploit it and make money $$$ woo....hoo for him huh?

Answer 9

Yes, highly exaggerated. I believe a scientists can do all the tests he want that show CO2 retains night time heat, and I'll believe that, but the end of the world scenarios that are fed to us through our media are 100% c**p.

Answer 10

Closing your eyes and hoping will not change the facts or the current trend that the global average temperature is trending upwards.

Near to all climatologists which are peer reviewed by the scientific community agree that not only is the global warming but that man kind is contributing to it.

From what I understand if we do absolutely nothing about it the earth could warm up to 10 degrees by 2400. I'm not specifically sure of the ramifications but that it will extinct a tremendous amount of species (already an estimated 50,000 a year go extinct up from 30,000 in 2001). Not only this but it very well may extinct ourselves or in the vary least make us wish we were extinct because the world will be such a miserable place to live.

The key to understand is that global warming in not all about gloom and doom, it is about breaking out of our spiritually apathy and do something about it which there is plenty you can do without spending much at all.

Here's a list

1. Recycling

2. If Driving buy a fuel efficient vehicle.

3. Live downtown and rarely drive

4. Give to various environmental charities

(ie. EDF, Nature Conservancy, and the Sierra Club).

5. Vegan (probably one of the greatest positive impacts an individual can have on the environment as meat production in more energy intensive, and creates massive amounts of methane (20x's more powerful than CO2), as well as takes us to 16 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef).

6. Buy local goods. Being a locovore is key to helping the environment when our food is shipped an average of 1600 miles. I buy at the local co-ops and farmers markets. I also buy local woods, fragrance sprays, clothing and more. Whatever I can find that is of decent quality and price I buy over non-local.

7. Garden: I have planted many bushes trees and flowers over the last few years. I also have a food garden that brings local and sustainability to a whole new level.

8. Compost: Saves loads on trash and I need not by fertilizers and extra dirt.

9. Travel Less: Especially buy plane which literally releases tones of CO2 per passanger per trip.

10. Promote Awareness: We can't do this alone

11. Write elected officals to create green laws.

12. LED and CFL's (I have these throughout my whole house and save an estimate 818 dollars over the lifetime of the bulbs. In less than three months they pay for themselves and the rest is all gravy.

13. Use solar and crank flashlands: They save me money and the environment in energy and the embodied energy of batteries.

14. Use tote bags :America uses over 380 billion bags a year that will not decompose in the landfills.

15. Drink filtered not bottled water which takes petroleum for each bottle you drink and through away.

16. Throw away a little as possible: I often find uses of people who want things many would through away out of laziness of wanting to deal with it.

17. Buy hemp clothing: grows more prolifically than cotton, is stronger fabric making it last longer, and requires no pesticides.

18. Buy recycled goods such as toilet paper, reclaimed materials for shoes, used clothing and construction materials, etc.

19. Added extra insulation to your houses (also saves you more than you had to pay for)

I could go on and on and on but I think this gives one a pretty good idea of what can be achieved if ones priority is for the environmental health of the world.

And believe me this has not been a tremendous sacrifice but has given me more joy as my levels of awareness have grown as well as communities formed.

Answer 11

there is a BBC documentary called 'Earth Story', it's not about global warming, it's about the Earth, how it works, what it's made of and what happens on it, and it shows just what mother nature is capable of.