Global Warming: What do you think? Take a position and back it up.?

Question

Global Warming: What do you think? Take a position and back it up.

Answer 1

Real science is getting enough evidence together to make a theory basically proven.  Theory of flight, Pythagoreans theorum (sp.), theory of gravity etc.......

These are 'theories' technically, but we have come to accept them as fact.

The global warming folks want us to accept as fact a theory for which there is absolutely no compelling evidence, but much evidence against.  That's a hard pill to swallow unless one is horribly gullible.

That's the reason I can't believe in it.

Answer 2

it is very real and people need to start taking action and help the fight because if they don't our children and children's children will see the effects because of our stupidity and laziness.

GO GREEN!!!

Answer 3

Global Warming people use terrible fears predicting the future weather when the t.v. weather man can`t predict 24 hours in advance. Global Warming is just a pretend Horror story.

Answer 4

There  is currently no evidence that man has made any significant contribution to climate change.

Some interesting facts.

1. During most of the past 2,000 years, the temp has been about the same or higher. Currently, we are barely over the average for the last 2,000 years.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index....

2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.

3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860's or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.

4. The earth has been warming for the last 10,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70's and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.

6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths' temperature than CO2 levels ever have.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...

7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/...

8. The glaciers have been melting now for over 10,000 years. the current rate of melting is similar to previous melting.

9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...

Answer 5

whether you believe in it or not, you still need to take care of our planet.

i guess i 90% believe in it 10% am doubtful, but as my headline says, I am a nature freak, so I like to recycle and stuff.

but nothing too radical!

Answer 6

I think that people should conserve energy and try to help stop global warming. It could effect us all.

Answer 7

Good science is about defining and measuring phenomena as precisely as possible. Can global warming be precisely defined and measured? Not sure.

Answer 8

I personally believe it's more a matter of Global DRYING.  We cut down trees and all sorts of plant life all over the planet, which dries out the earth.  So, in the summers the northern hemisphere gets hotter than it used to.  In the winters the northern hemisphere gets colder than usual.  Same is true of course for the southern hemisphere.

Hasn't anyone else who has lived as long as me, 53 years, noticed this drying?  

You would now say that since it also gets colder, wouldn't that offset the warming?  And in a way, yes, it would.  But once ice melts, like glaciers and that part of the Antarctic ice plate melt, they mix with the warmer water, making the entire ocean just a tiny bit warmer.  But the earth getting colder again, won't get cold enough to freeze the edges of the ocean.  So, that ice is lost for good.  As I say, the ocean might be just a tad colder, but there will be less ice.

So, the extreme heat and cold is due to drying of the earth, and not from just a general warming.  And it might sort of make things worse by the ocean being a little cooler, because then some of the ocean water won't evaporate as much.  

Has anyone noticed colder winters lately?  Has anyone noticed that they have been under water use restrictions more than ever?   When I was young, we NEVER had water restrictions.  And I never noticed any dry summers either.

There's not much we can do about this either, except to quit cutting down trees and clearing land for more houses and parking lots and such.  

As much as I prefer to not live in a big city, I think that to survive, we are going to have to do that more, or at least live in tall buildings that take up less land space.  And we need to use something other than hardwoods for building and furniture.

I am not a scientist of any kind.  This is just an ignorant opinion based upon observation of weather over the years.

Answer 9

I think it is true. I first need to tell you that Climate Changes are occuring along with it. Global Warming is true because it is acclererating the changes of Climate Changes. If Global Warming wasn't occuring the changes in Climate would occur almost together. Their are animals that are moving from place to place  to adapt to their new place.

Hope my answer helped answer your question.

Answer 10

If you think one can back up a position on global warming in a paragraph, then we know why you are so simple as to ask the question.

Here is the Bush administration summary of the evidence and the affect just on the U.S.; it was issued two days ago. This is just their summary -- its 271 pages long.  Global warming is real, it is almost certainly man-caused.  This is not Al Gore saying so, its George Bush -- check out the Presidential seal on the front cover.  The debate is only what to do, not what the problem is.

Answer 11

Man Bear Pig

Answer 12

There is no doubt in most peoples' minds that global warning exists.  The world is getting warmer.   It doesn't take a scientist to figure that one out.  The controversy that most people argue over, is how much can we prevent it.  People have disputes over this all the time.  However, there is one thing that is for sure.  No matter how much we are causing,  global warming is occurring.  And we should do something to stop global warming because we could possibly, have the will power to slow it down.  We might know everything about global warming before it is too late. . .

Answer 13

Real, mostly caused by us.  As mentioned above, you can't do this in a paragraph.  The proof is in the links below.

This is science and what counts is the data, not people's intuition.

"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

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

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

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

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 14

Global warming is real.  

The idea that we're causing it is what's false and it's an excuse for a United Nations imposed global tax, which according the US Constitution, is illegal.  No taxation without representation.  That means, Al Gore, take your junk science and stuff it.  I will not pay a carbon tax because I have to drive to work while people like you burn up tons of fuel for your private jets.  Get your hands out of my wallet and keep them off my paycheck.