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

Question

I have heard people discuss this both ways, and curious to see what the majority thinks

Answer 1

There really is no opinion to it. It's a proven fact. Who in their right mind would even try to argue against it?

Answer 2

It is a reality.

Scientists accept it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_... ). Quote: "no remaining scientific body of national or international standing is known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate."

Public opinion is way behind, mostly due to very strong attempts by the oil industry to convince people that it isn't happening. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20... )

Answer 3

I don't believe so. I aint gona bore you with its real or its not real stuff. I'll just say that it was a theory that turned into a hippy culture!

Answer 4

Reality

only those who are blissful in ignorance

or committed to profit

from  environmentally wrong behavior

or who wish to think wish full

will be in denial

Those who know, will agree that it is very real

as do those that are already suffering or dead because of it

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Answer 5

About two days ago (you could probably Google it) a slew of scientists layed out data arguing that Global Warming is overstated.  NASA will do high altitude test and say yes.  The Nation Academy of Sciences will take Glacier ice core samples from Antarctica and show radiation ozone and temperature levels proving contradictory data.  The list goes on using 30-40 other data points for references.

Right  now the Global Warming folks have multi-million dollar companies like GE and backing from other National corporations to fund advertising, pay scientist . . . money talks.

You will have in any arena of ideas many zealots who will invest themselves so deeply in a cause they lose perspective, and refuse to hear any other persons point of view.  They believe Global warming is or is not real like some folks still to this day think O.J. Simpson did not kill his ex-wife or Mr. Goldman.  Come on man.  The point is we humans do pollute the environment just living here going about our daily lives, and that is what it is.

Answer 6

If you looking for which side is more accepted then look no further.....Global Warming is mor commonly accepted by the public. Now if you look at scientists or people who actually look into the facts you will just find the contrary. I KNOW that Global Warming is a hoax and is completely not even relatively true. The facts even show the more C02 doesn't cause the Earth to get hotter; but that hotter temps cause more CO2. Think about it and look up the facts you'll see. =]

Answer 7

Due to increasing and already extensive amounts of research and evidence regarding the issue, the vast majority of modern scientists do believe that global warming is a proven fact, as opposed to a natural cycle of the earth. Mostly it is because the Earth has cycles of heating and cooling, such as the ice age and so forth, but this one has been coming on too quickly, FAR more quickly than the cycles of previous years. Also, scientific tests have proven that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in this cycle of the Earth's warming (which is unnatural and caused by man as opposed to natural) is much greater than that of previous periods of natural warming (those not caused by mankind). I recommend you watch the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. Also, keep an eye out on the discovery channel and other scientific channels for programs that prove the existence of global warming.

Answer 8

It's real but I don't think it's a problem. I certainly don't think we should do anything about it. Read up on Darwin, he had some good ideas with that whole natural selection thing.

Answer 9

I do believe it's true. But even if it isn't, I think doing drastic measures to preserve our environment is still a good idea. And if global warming is just a myth, our planet is still degrading due to pollution, and other environment related problems. That is why we still have to help save our planet from these harmful anomalies.

Answer 10

It's a theory that got hyped out of all proportion.  CO2 just can't cause much warming.  The real science has established a long time ago that doubling atmospheric CO2 won't measurable effect the climate.  This has been done again and again by measuring the optical properties of CO2 in a verifiable scientific way.

Answer 11

Man-made global warming is a myth.

The people who push the myth are politicians and scientists paid to back up the myth.

Then when you look at where the independent meteorologists stand you find the vast majority do not believe in man-made global warming.  Instead they believe that the climate simply goes through warming and cooling cycles.  It has been this way throughout history and happened long before cars and other modern technology.

For example, 90 to 95% of TV Meteorologists say they do not subscribe to global warming as presented by the liberal politicians.

Look at this quote from Dr. William Gray, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, a meteorologist who is regarded by many as the pre-eminent in his specialty of long-term hurricane prediction.

Gray: "No. All my colleagues that have been around a long time – I think if you go to ask the last four or five directors of the national hurricane center – we all don’t think this is human-induced global warming. And, the people that say that it is are usually those that know very little about hurricanes. I mean, there’s almost an equation you can write the degree to which you believe global warming is causing major hurricanes to increase is inversely proportional to your knowledge about these storms.

Now there’s a few modelers around who know something about storms, but they would like to have the possibility open that global warming will make for more and intense storms because there’s a lot of money to be made on this. You know, when governments step in and are saying this – particularly when the Clinton administration was in – and our Vice President Gore was involved with things there, they were pushing this a lot. You know, most of meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded."

To sum it up he says a couple of significant things that I will paraphrase:  

1.  The belief in man-made global warming goes down as the knowledge of meteorology goes up.

2.  Meteorologists who want to get paid for research by the government had better not disprove global warming.

Answer 12

Global warming is happening?

Reality...

Global warming is caused entirely by humans?

Probably not the only cause, but most likely, human activity is making it worse...

Humans can help slow down global warming?

I think so, yes...

Global warming can threaten our existence?

Probably it won't drive mankind to extinction, but it would make living on our planet harder,

and the threat is much greater on wildlife and the natural environment than on human communities...

and I can't imagine living on earth without our beautiful nature...

Answer 13

Of course it's real. Don't you notice how the climate is changing? Here in India we are having rainfall most of the days in the year, where earlier, it used to be only in June. It's starting to affect our lives and should be stopped.

Answer 14

its a reality, not only in my opinion but in reality!!

Green House effect is an phenomenon in which earth's atmosphere traps the heat from the sun & prevents it from escaping. The phenomenon is so named because earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse made of glass in which sunlight enters through transparent glass, but the heat released by plants in the form of infrared radiations is not allowed to escape. As a result of this , the temp. increasses inside the greenhouse.

In a similar manner, sunlight enters earth's atmosphere and heats the surface of the earth. But certain gases present in the atmosphere trap the heat emitted by earth's surface & do not allow it to escape. This causes an increase in temp. of earth's atmosphere. This is known as Global Warming.

The gases causing green house effect are called greenhouse gases. Carbon Dioxide, methane, ozone, and CFCs are the green house gases present in the atmosphere which are responsible for global warming.