Is Global Warming real or is it a scientific myth that is trying to take the place of AIDS?

Question

The earth have been experiencing climate changes since it was established. Is global warming a political trap the rich countries have set to continue to make the poor poorer? How can the poor afford a hybird car? Now they have driven all their SUVs and are tire with these old fashion cars, they now turn to developing countries to ship their junk cars abroad and now turn to their newest technology "hybird cars" which in time will emitted another form of toxic waste in the environment and later develop an other power and destructive technology.

Answer 1

who cares?!!

Either way oil is going to run out.  someday coal will too.  Someday we are going to need to find alternatives, so why not make it today?

Answer 2

Not that much, the earth is undergoing a cycle. But still we have to keep watch of the environment.

Answer 3

it is complete and utter foolish to believe that global warming is even true.  it's a "theory"  and just because most "people" believe doesn't make it true.  besides the amount of CO2 that is created by humans is a mere 0.117% the rest is caused by a natural order of the earth, like volcano eruptions,   if anyone wants to see a video that disproves the Global Warming Theory, it is called, The Great Global Warming Swindle, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h...

please view even if you do believe in global warming and then re-evaluate your belief and make up your mind.

Answer 4

Global Warming is a 5 billion dollar a year industry.

Answer 5

It is real but it has to do with the natural adjustment of the earth to growing populations and devouring all the natural resourses that maintained the climate in the years before.  It is also in my opinion from the melting of the ice caps from the ice age.  Don't forget that Ice covered the earth not that long ago in relative to the age of the earth.

Answer 6

Global warming is AIDS

Answer 7

global warming is real but as of now were ok because the tempurture is only suppose to rise 6 deggres in the next 100 years.there making such a big deal

Answer 8

It is a scientific myth.

Answer 9

The Global Warming is real and so with AIDS. Please read a lot of newspapers and or any reading materials pertaining to Environment and Ecology.

Answer 10

goverment is curropting the young minds of america

Answer 11

When the poor all have a jet like god Al Gore, the world will be safe again

Answer 12

global worming is fake it's made up so politics have something to yell about. think about it why would liberals think global worming is real yet Republicans know it's a lie????

Answer 13

Aids is a scientific myth?  You guys get measurably smarter with every tick of the clock, y'know?

Answer 14

There are many basic scientific facts which can only be explained if the current global warming is being caused by an increased greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

For example, the planet is warming as much or more during the night than day.  If the warming were due to the Sun, the planet should warm a lot more during the day when the Sun has influence.  Greenhouse gases trap heat all the time, so they warm the planet regardless of time of day.  Another example is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because the greenhouse gases trap the heat in the lower atmosphere.  If warming were due to the Sun, it would be warming all layers of the atmosphere.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

We know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming.  What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming.  They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

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

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

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles.  They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes.  Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions.  We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels.  We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%).  You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.