Global Warming. What do you think?

Question

I've seen that inconvenient truth documentary and i've also watched others at school as we're currently studying the effects of global warming. On watching the documentaries, I'm beginning to think that there isn't actually such a thing as global warming, rather, it's just a cycle the world goes through every hundred thousand years or so. Scientists have noted the similarities in the times of the ice age and have found that the patterns of weather and change to the worlds climate could have been very similar to that of what we're seeing today. Sure pollution might not be helping the earth but, it's definitely not the cause of the world's varying climates and weather anomilies like severe floodings and hurricanes.

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

I don't believe in global warming.  The evidence is weak in supporting it and there is too much information emerging to show that it isn't happening.  IPCC scientists have quit over the hype they're expected to support.  That means their paychecks are gone too I guess...quite a statement to make - disgust with the agw movement is growing in their ranks.

Even if it was real, it definitely wouldn't cause weather like hurricanes and floods etc.

Answer 2

i don't believe in it at all

the worlds been changing for hundreds and thousands of years, you can't possibly just turn around now and start claiming its a cars fault

Answer 3

When the Earth goes through a period of climate change I think it is usually because of a volcano or another form of carbon so today I think it is car exhaust etc.

Answer 4

agree with coldwar

Answer 5

Do a google search and research how the climate has warmed by 5 degrees in as little as a decade (many times) and you will find many sites discussing how previous shifts in climate came abruptly while this one is gradual and after the end of the Little Ice Age.  This is nothing, this is natural warming.

Answer 6

let me tell you something girl.

okay

global warming isnt real.

it is a cycle

those "scientists" are lets just sayyyy paiddd

to say that.

its not real people

some scientists even think we have to stop lighting fires in our fireplace  because it is causing damage to the environment

how many generations have people been lighting fires

and is the earth dead yet.

NO.

Answer 7

My thoughts...if you believe scientists when they state the climate has varied in the past, why don't you believe them when they state man is affecting the climate now? Or do you just believe what is convenient for you?

This is what science is saying...

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/positi...

http://www.geosociety.org/positions/pos1...

http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_...

http://www.ipcc.ch/#

Answer 8

First global warming is a fact. You are confused. The term means exactly what it says. What you wish to debate is only whether humans and their activity are a factor,  the only cause of this recent cycle or is it completely natural or a combination of the two. There can be no doubt of Global Warming this has been quantified, there can only be doubt as to the exact reason or much more likely reasons. We have certainly lost ozone due to human activity, further if this continues the planet will eventually become overheated and be unable to cool down, preventing further degradation of the ozone can be done quite easily. That is to say we know exactly what to do and we could predict with considerable accuracy what the effect would be on the world economy. We could prepare for that and adjust as Wall Street adjusts all the time. The idea is not novel or unproven.

My feeling is that until we are sure that it is all natural or that human activity only accounts for a negligible portion of the increase in temperatures then we would be acting morally and ethically if we were to reduce some, most or all of the activities that have become suspect in the equation. All there is to loose is economic growth which of course would reduce standards of living for much of the world population. Is that such a big deal when the result of not trying at all could mean that the planet could become uninhabitable? When the climate becomes more stable or we figure the whole thing out we can gear up again if it appears to be the right thing to do.

Answer 9

I think that if the people of the world keep thinking about it and talking and discussing about it, that fear will attract it even more. The Law of attraction send those message are sent into the universe , because even though people might not want it the universe doesn't know that you want it or not but your thinking about it so it just imagines that you want it to occur.

Answer 10

Global warming is a hoax.  It is the vehicle for an anti-capitalist agenda.  The Global warming crowd plays on emotions and uses many half-truthes to get people to change their lifestyles to a lower standard of living, as a means to repealing progress.

Facts:

1) Carbon in the atmosphere is not a significant contributor to global warming

2) Termites release more carbon into the air each year than all of the world's cars, power plants and factories combined.

3) In 2007 the earth's mean temperature dropped 1 degree, This reverses a 100 year trend of warming.

Al Gore, in his inaccurately titled film “An Inconvenient Truth” claims that as Carbon Levels in the atmosphere go up so does the temperature. This is only half right because Vice President Gore claims that there is a cause and effect between carbon and temperature.  The actual relationship is that as temperatures rise, carbon goes up.  The reason for this is because life likes to be warm.  When the world gets warmer life prospers, and carbon is a byproduct of life.  We exhale it!

There is a great documentary that you can sometimes find on the web. It was produced by the BBC and is called "The Great Global Warming Swindle" You can find a link to a portion of the hour-long documentary on my myspace page (link below, publicly accessible)

Also, what’s so bad about global warming?  More people die each year from cold-related deaths than heat related.  It’s much easier to drive on a warm day than a cold day.  Increased global temperature will affect the temperate regions more than the polar or topic areas, thus creating a longer growing season for crops and increasing the world’s food supply.   As ice melts it contracts so water levels go down so there goes the myth of flooded coastal cities. (I’d love to cite this but it comes from an issue of “The Economist” I happened by about 10 years ago)

The best advice I can give you or anyone is to just look for the facts on the other side of an issue. This or any issue.  

Answer 11

I totally agree with you....I think that all this "global warming" craze is just a cycle the planet does.

For sure, pollution is slightly helping but not to the scale of total armageddon described by ecologists.

Today, global warming is a faith : believe it and you are "normal".

Don't believe it and you are a monstrous capitalist-always-looking-for-profit.

Answer 12

i think stupid george bush shoud jus put the stupid gas price down like really we r on recession of gas

Answer 13

It is a certainly legitimate and important to ask questions about global warming.  Scientists who study global warming have looked at the natural cycle of climate change, and have fairly conclusively shown the present warming is not part of natural variation.  

There are many natural climate cycles, the three big global cycles are known as Milankovitch cycles.  They are the result of changes in the orbit of the Earth around the sun (the three cycles represent changes in the precession, obliquity, and eccentricity of the orbit--although the details of this are not important at the moment).  The next most important natural cycle is not on the Earth at all, but on the Sun.  Solar output changes and results in changes in the Earth's climate.

So the natural question, since we see the Earth warming, is one of these (or several acting at once) to blame.  Scientists have investigated this, and concluded fairly conclusively that they are not. The easiest bit of evidence of this is the time scale--Milankovitch cycles change the climate very gradually (thousands of years in for the most rapid changes) and we're seeing changes on a scale of one hundred or fewer years.  

Instead, there is good evidence that the buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gasses is causing heat to become trapped in the atmosphere.  This phenomenon, known as the greenhouse effect, is well demonstrated in the lab.  Moreover, the correlation between the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (over the last 100,000 years or so, where we have data) and the temperature is nearly perfect.  Finally, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is going up over the last hundred years is going up dramatically.  Careful accounting of the sources of CO2 (including natural and human-caused) finds this rise is due to the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of land for agriculture.

Virtually every scientist who studies climate change (of which there are thousands) have come to the conclusion that global warming is both real and caused by humans.  It is important to continue to ask questions, but it is also important to carefully consider the answers to those questions.