In your opinion, is global warming a fact or a myth?

Question

just wondering.. =]

Answer 1

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Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

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Answer 2

Fact. Oil companies just try to make it a "Theory"

Answer 3

Fact, since the artic is melting up.

Answer 4

fact.

they say if the earths overall tempature goes up 6 degrees

the greenlands ice caps will melt and can flood NY.

but that can take years to happen.

like 2020.

Answer 5

A fact, without a doubt.

Answer 6

It's unknown for sure. All we have is theories. What we do know from the past is that the earth gets colder and hotter over time and it goes back and forth. So so far it's only a theory but is not a fact. Keep in mind that in the past everyone agreed the world was square and it was proved that it wasn't, so a group of people agreeing on something they cannot prove is not necessarily fact.

Answer 7

Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will be drastically affected,which in turn will affect the warm currents,since all moving bodies of water are connected in series.

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

we are always the last to know.

So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

However

confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

The truth is being distorted at high levels,

And lies have been weaved in.

Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

Besides Corporations have other priorities and changes will cause loss of profits ,this also affects the truths being published

Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

There is a lot we can do about being more responsible with what we got ,

In the first world countries many do not care or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

Answer 8

well 30 years ago the  world was going to freze  all scentist agreed  even the inventor of the global wamring idea   said we are going to frezze the world goes through ice ages  hot spots and tmeprte ties  ye hte world is  heating

Answer 9

Fact. There were articles that were that were solely blaming the sun's activity for global warming. I just read a recent one that says that the sun is not to blame. Scientists are researcher will always go back and forth on this. We can get lost back and forth in all the scientific details, but as some the previous answerers you have to look at the big picture.

6 Billion people on this planet when there were only 1 or 2 billion at the beginning of the industrial revolution, meaning exponential growth. The world relies widely on fossils fuels for energy and has been for the past century. There has also been many other types of waste and pollution. All this has to have an effect somehow on global warming. They are big imbalances in nature. It's also unfortunate that any great energy discovery has been suppressed.

Answer 10

fact

i think so

Answer 11

Fact...most scientists agree with me on this one.

In fact, there are only a few scientists who do not believe this as a scientific fact.

Answer 12

AGW seems like pure foolishness to me.

Answer 13

factual observation.

fact.

When it becomes fact, it is no longer a matter of opinion.

May be human effected, may just be a rotational re-alignment, is rather extreme event any way it is packaged.

Answer 14

Good question...my opinion, based on what I've read so far:

The earth goes through phases. Currently, the earth is being mistreated by the population explosion of humans. Because of this, the 'warming of the earth' and the deterioration of nature makes this different from the last warm up we had millions of years ago.  There are about 6+ Billion people in this world - all needing the same thing: food, water, shelter, air. Never in history had we had such a vast number of people living on earth.

If you pay close attention, the earth is comprised of very delicate, but essential systems. When one of them breaks, its like a chain reaction...I just hope the damage isnt too bad.

Answer 15

Man mad global warming is a myth. But yes, the globe is warming due to natural causes.