Don't you ever question global warming or be skeptical about it?

Question

This is at the believers and i gotta ask them do they ever question global warming? if yes then please explain why you believe in it without posting a rediculously long response that tries to prove global warmign is right

Answer 1

Its revelations happening . The seven signs coming til that great wonderful day. The true believers  are happy for the changes that are taking place. The astrologist nor the meoterolgists can say for sure when this time will be. Personally I think it will be here before the late 3000,s.

Answer 2

The experiments that I have done, in a professional and school lab, lead me to believe that global warming is happening.

Answer 3

It's obvious the Earth is warming up, but I honestly don't agree that the fault is in humans. We could be speeding up, but I believe it is a natural process, and there's not much we can do to slow it. The Earth has been around billions of years and we have only been in the Industrial period for like, 200 years. The Earth went through many climate changes over the years, and this is just another one.

Answer 4

Sure, whenever I see somebody make a new claim regarding global warming, I'm skeptical about it.  I always check the source of the information and see if it came from a scientific study, for example.  If possible, I read the study itself.

The problem is that many people around here make wild claims with no supporting evidence.  That's a sure sign that they're just spreading misinformation.  I don't trust what anyone says on YA - I always want to see the source of their claims (on both sides of the issue).  Some people are better at supporting their arguments than others.

I've summarized the scientific evidence which has convinced me that AGW is correct in the link below.

Answer 5

Global warming is the warming of the surface temperature of the earth. GW folks will tell you that increased CO2 (only 3.225% of which is man-made) is the end of the world.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

If you run into someone on the street who tells you global warming is the end of the world, back away slowly & keep an eye on your wallet.

Good luck.

Answer 6

I was once.  It seems so hard to imagine.  And the proof is just numbers, scientific data, not something you can hold in your hand.  It's a slow change, a few hundreths of a degree every year, and some years are even cooler than the last, because of the variability of weather.

But I've now spent MANY hours studying the scientific facts, and the proof is overwhelming.

I'm with the Admiral:

"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

Answer 7

I believe global warming (or more accurately, global climate change) is happening.  However, because of my scientific education, I look at what is happening objectively and wonder if maybe this is partly natural.  We are at the beginning of an interglacial period.  We had an ice age not too long ago.  Yes, there is evidence of higher global temperatures due to higher atmospheric CO2 concentration in the distant past, so they are linked.  But the earth has gone through much warmer periods than now.  There was a time when the south pole was not covered in ice (Cretaceous period) and the world was much warmer.  Is the world getting warmer?  I'm pretty sure it is.  Global temperatures go up and down through all of earth's history.  Is it manmade?  I think we influence it, yes, but I think we're only accelerating something that was going to happen anyway.  But that's not good, because life cannot adapt that quickly to changing environments.

Sorry, I tend to ramble :)

Answer 8

I 'believe' in it because it is proven to be true

By a huge amount of scientific research and proven facts

And i wish people would stop talking about 'believing' in global warming like its the tooth fairy or something

Its just a cold hard fact and something that use and future generations have to try and work with and adapt to

But I dont blame anyone, its just the normal process of denial

Answer 9

I do, Start from the neutral position - warming is neither proved nor disproved.

On the warming side, nearly every reputable climate scientist. On the skeptic side,  what have you got?

Let's say you had a heart condition.  Trained physicians from the  best medical schools all over the world agree on what you need. Would you go with the contrary advice of a few third raters not even trained in medicine for your treatment?

Answer 10

I look at it entirely from the point of view of statistical probability based on the data and climactic changes at this stage and believe that we are in a long-term warming trend and there is a very high probability that mankind is accelerating the process.  I become skeptical when people begin talking about it in terms of absolutes-i.e. that it IS occurring, human industry IS to blame, or that it is definitively NOT occurring and that human activities are NOT influencing climactic trends.

My first choice for reference information is:

http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/default.php

and I usually go to this report:

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

Frankly, one of the things that lead me to my present belief is the continual recycling of inaccurate, outdated and unrelated "facts" that supposedly disprove AGW/GW provided here by the skeptics and deniers.  I'm generally pretty dispassionate otherwise about global warming, believing that as the political battle continues, the market itself is already adopting the new technologies needed to counter AGW-if it is indeed factual and it is possible to do anything about it.

Answer 11

Absolutely!  When someone is wanting money for research and wanting to trade carbon credits on the stock exhange, I am very much so.  Also the intiative by some of our Govt officials to initiate a carbon usage tax as well!  Al Gore is responsible for most of this.