Do you think that global warming is actually happening?

Question

I don't believe it; however, I do believe in taking care of what we have.

Answer 1

Of course it is. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.

Answer 2

YES

Answer 3

Yes, I absolutely believe that this is happening, unfortunately. I sure do agree with you, when you said that you believe in taking care of what we have. That includes our planet. After all, it's the only planet we have. So, we really do need to be taking care of our earth.

Answer 4

i do believe in global warming....normal to me is when things flow exactly to how they should be...

   and it saddens me that you dont believe in global warming because if you trully believe in taking care of what we have you would've believed in taking care of our planet earth....

Answer 5

No, it isn't.  Don't be a fool who blindly believes that the far left are all about saving cute animals.  There is an entire industry based around this latest climate scare (there is one every 30 years or so, either warming or cooling).  

The global warming cult likes to use the National Academy of Science report as their bible, but this is bias and funded by special interest groups.  Look carefully at the facts.  For example, it states that temperatures have risen 1.4 degrees since the beginning of the 20th century. This is true. However, temps have NOT increased in the last 10 years. You'll notice that, in the 2008 report, none of the graphs contain data past 2000... sketchy, huh?  It's because this defies the rising temp theory.

Even though the polar bears have now been put on the endangered species list, it is because they changed the rules. The population has actually tripled in the last 30 years. The ice shelfs are the among the highest seen in 30 years.

No matter what environmentalists say (or how they say it), there is no evidence that man is causing global warming. They will use sleight of hand to try and get you, but don't be a sucker. For example, notice how NO commercials say anything about "global warming" anymore? The use the words "climate change" now. That's because environmentalists realize that time is becoming limited on this scare, but they can use the words "climate change" and keep us afraid that we're going to die, whether it be from warming, cooling, etc.

A link that'll get you started on your education (not funded by any special interest groups): http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_...

For your own good, the good of the nation, and yes, the planet, you should be VERY skeptical. Look carefully at the facts and the language. Environmentalists are not always keeping the green of nature in mind. There is a lot of money to be made in this hugely expanding industry.

Even if you are someone who will never believe that global warming doesn't exist, think about this... it will cost 29 trillion dollars to fight this threat of sketchy (and special interest funded) "science" along with ruin our economy. Know how much it will take to feed the entire human population for the next 100 yrs? 7 trillion.

Still think we should be making public policies and spend all that money?  Then do one thing for me before you call your local congressman: Name one thing that the government hasn't screwed up.

Answer 6

The earth's surface does not exist in a static, unchanging "natural" condition interrupted only by the work of humans, but instead it is a dynamic system of which humans are a part. Knowledge about changes to the Earth's surface and the underlying processes that induce them has enormous impact on how society responds to these changes and, ultimately, the cost of responding to change. Given the history of our climate and tracking geological activity we can relate a significant relationship to geological changes.

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Answer 7

Perhaps you are not old enough to remember "normal" weather. Global warming is definitely happening. Keep up the green attitude!

Answer 8

Yes it is happening day in and day out right in front of all of us. And it is humans alone who are responsible for the major part of the global warming and climatic change.

Ecological disaster is taking place every minute. How disasterous it has become is corroborated in brief, with facts as below:

a) Himalayan and Kilimanjero mountains range glaciers have been melting much faster than they were about 10 years ago and are flowing into the seas - disaster: flooded rivers, fertile soil erosion with destruction of valuable flora and fauna

b)rise in sea level: Frequency of waves with alarming increase in height reaching the shores with flash gale force and sucking away the valuable land into the depths of oceans - During the last 10 years, TWO ESTUARY ISLANDS Lohachara and Suparibhanga, inhibited with tribals in a cluster of 100 islands in the Sunderbans Forest reserve area - the home of royal bengal tigers in Bay of Bengal HAVE DISPPEARED under the sea due to increase in sea level. Rare animal species viz.,Water Buffalo, Javan Rhino,Swamp Deers, Barking Deers have vanished from these forest islands. Submerging of islands has resulted in mass movement and migration of tribal people to high lands. they have become homeless and need immediate rehabilitation at considerable expense - similar is the case along the coastal areas of southern peninsular India. A developing country like India is facing ecological disaster due to uncontrolled global warming being perpetrated by developed countries.

d)UN Environment study has revealed that due to increased melting and shrinking of glaciers, world has lost 10.5 meters of water equivalent and has lost thousands of hectares of land. Satellite data indicates that Arctic Sea ice has shrunk by 2.7 per cent per decade and sea level has risen by 1.8 cm per decade since 1960.

e)Due to uncontrolled destruction of forest areas by greedy men for development purpose, the ever green carbon sinks have been alarmingly reduced and a study has revealed that whatever remains will not be able to absorb CO2 more than what the ecology can afford. The present spewing of 35 per cent of CO2 is proving costly.

f) Low grade coal used in thermal plant for never ending demand for power generation is spewing too much of CO2.

g)Increase in population is also a contributing factor towards increasing CO2 and is hastening the ecological disaster.

g)Report of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)reveals that by 2070 Kolkota (estimated population: 14 million) and Bombay (40 million) will be the most vulnerable cities to get submerged under water due to increased in mean sea level of about 1.6 feet; estimated financial impact would be $35 trillion.

h)Bio-diversity is taking place at a fast pace and every hour 3 species and every hour 150 species and every year 18000 to 55,000 species are being lost; enchanting corals under sea are getting bleeched and are loosing their natural color and lustre due to increase in underwater temperature.

i)It is reported that in many parts of the world we will be witnessing disappearance of various species of life forms due to bio-diversity and different levels of rising temperatures - In Arctic region, only 750 polar bears are living, in Indonesia Orangutans are having difficult time in adjusting to increased heat, in India, the the number of Chinkaaras, Blackbucks is dwindling, in Mauritious the Dodo bird is not seen for decades,in Europe, honey bee colonies have collapsed thus considerable reduction in natural polination of fruits,vegetables and seed crops is expected to harm the food production capacity, similarly vanishing of birds species, butterflies is causing an alarming situation, in Australia alone, 41.51% of endemic plant species, 14% of reptiles,18% frogs,10% of birds, and 15% mammals will be lost.

k)Temperature between 1995 and 2006 - 11 years, was the warmest since 1850.

l)The GEO-4 group has warned that due to increase in consumption and associated wastes, serious problems about air quality, fresh water availability and a threat to food security will threaten the mankind.

m)Every year more than 5,00,000 people are dying due to pollution and 660 million people are lacking access to safe water.

n)In Asia Pacific region the number of cars and two wheelers increased by 10% thus increased emission of CO2.

o)Scientists have recognised that that there has been an increase of 0.6 per cent degree celsius in global temperature over last century. By 2100 arctic ice is expected to melt completely, heavy summer rainfall, increased incidences of heatwaves and tropical storms, submergence of low lying coastal areas, lower agricultural production and due to overexploitation of natural resources the world will be literally 'power'less by the year 2100.

There are thousands of other reasons that are hastening the ecological disaster and if man does not improve his behaviour in safeguarding even the meagre resources available, he alone will be responsible for hastening the end of the world.

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Answer 9

Yes, I know that it is

I actually had a conversation with someone in a yahoo chat room about this, and you'd be amazed that one idea that people use to deny their belief in global warming is that they don't believe that greenhouse gasses are effecting the climate.

Even if you choose to ignore the degredation of the ozone layer, there is the fact that there are increasing levels of carbon monoxide and dioxide,  (among other harmful gases) being released in vast quantities by human activity.

Some people believe that it's a myth that these gasses effect the climate of the planet at all.  Well, putting aside our planet entirely, consider a very good example of the difference that the gasses held on a planet have.  We all know that Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.  Mercury is also the only 'planet' that has no atmosphere (meaning that what little the planet does have is not enough to constitute a true atmosphere).

  One would think that Mercury, as the closest, and relatively small planted would be the hottest,  especially as it has no protection what so ever against the sun's radiation.   However, it is Venus,  the second closest planet to the sun that is, in fact the hottest of the planet.   Why?  Because its atmoshere is laiden with Carbon dioxide and sufur dioxide.  this is proof that greenhouse gasses do effect the climate of a planet, and there is no denying that we are contributing far more than our fair share.

People will try to say, well what about volcanos and such.  First of all, just because there are natural sources of greenhouse gasses, doesn't excuse us to pump that much more of the stuff into our atmosphere.  The earth can recover from these things, but it takes time, and we, frankly aren't helping matters any.  Besides, it's ignorant to compare an occasional big event to hours upon hours of human activity racked up over the years

Oh, and I can't help but respond to the idiot who says "notice they don't call it global warming anymore"  yeah, that's because they've come to realize that it's more than just about is the temperature going up, but that this effects our climate as a whole, accounting for more extremes in the weather (not just heating up).  The difference is, we're starting to know more about our enviroment and see how things interconnect, thus the term 'global warming' has become too limited in its description of the effects we are having on our planet

Answer 10

No, I *know* that it's happening.  See look: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

And all the scientific evidence points to humans as the cause: http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/global...