Is global warming over?

Question

Is global warming over?

Answer 1

its been done, in 50 years, the earth will go into an ice age and were completly screwed, we waited to long to do anything and were going to have to pay for it

Answer 2

absolutely not the way were doing it around here its countries like china and north America that are destroying our atmosphere.... polar bears are dying everything is melting and u can only imagine what it will do to all the coast lines of Europe and Australia ,everywhere!!!   and there's not much we can do about it anymore !!!

            good day!

Answer 3

nothing's for sure...some countries are getting colder, some are getting hotter....

Answer 4

NO===NOT HARDLY, WE NEED TO DELETE IT TO STOP IT OR ALL LIFE ON EARTH WILL BE DEAD

Answer 5

It never began!!!!

Answer 6

Global warming is a natural cycle.

AGW is an unproven theory with no emprical proof.

Answer 7

actually no. it will be over if we stopped it ourself.

Answer 8

Absolutely NOT! It has just started.

Answer 9

Are people's satisfaction to material things over? If so, global warming is over.

Answer 10

who said it.

Answer 11

some years are warmer and some are cooler. I have been around 78 years and do not see any big changes in the climate. I don't thing any human actions have much to do with the climate change. It is 40 degrees here this morming.

Answer 12

global what?

Answer 13

NO way, if we don't do something more it 'll never be over

Answer 14

all i know is that it snowed in Baghdad for the first time in over 20 years, and at a measurable amount in 50+ years.

Answer 15

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007) — The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F...

...Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74°C. But this rise has not been continuous. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years...

...2007 global temperatures have been averaged separately for both hemispheres. Surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere are likely to be the second warmest on record, at 0.63°C above the 30-year mean (1961-90) of 14.6°C/58.3°F. The southern hemisphere temperature is 0.20°C higher than the 30-year average of 13.4°C/56.1°F, making it the ninth warmest in the instrumental record since 1850.

January 2007 was the warmest January in the global average temperature record at 12.7°C/54.9°F, compared to the 1961-1990 January long-term average of 12.1°C/53.8°F...

Global 10 Warmest Years Mean Global temperature (°C) (anomaly with respect to 1961-1990)

1. 1998 0.52

2. 2005 0.48

3. 2003 0.46

4. 2002 0.46

5. 2004 0.43

6. 2006 0.42

7. 2007(Jan-Nov) 0.41

8. 2001 0.40

9. 1997 0.36

10. 1995 0.28

Answer 16

No.

Just some short term cooling, which doesn't mean a thing.  It happened in 1982, 1991-1992, 1999-2000.  EVERY TIME global warming came back stronger than ever.  Proof.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

As long as we keep making greenhouse gases in enormous amounts, global warming will dominate in the long run.  It's simple physics.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/di...

Answer 17

too vague, answer is no.

Answer 18

Joe A - Gave you the best answer. I've tried to get people on here to stop writing questions with double meanings, but none of you want to listen.

The thing is - Global Warming - is a part of the natural cycle of the planet we live on. And my answer to that is we are now starting a - Global Cooling - phase.

As for - Anthropogenic Global Warming - that's already starting to be proven to be an absolute lie.

Answer 19

I believe the answer is no, global warming is not over.  And while it's easy to confuse the term global warming with global climate change, the latter does a better job of summarizing an extremely complicated process.  I'm not a scientist, I can't claim to understand all of what I read when I dive into a 28-page abstract.  But I have done the homework, checking out hundreds of sites to read the information and assess their credibility.  

This question may be in response to the scientist -- a very credible one at that, given his illustrious background -- who is publishing a study saying that previous studies involved the impacts of GW on hurricanes were incorrect.  But immediately his cohorts attacked his model and some of his assumptions -- he himself admits their limitations -- and his report does have some unsettling information buried within, for those who read the news articles through.

This situation is unprecedented.  The tools to assess what's been happening, what is happening, and what's predicted to happen are imperfect.  This is a long term process, but one that, if proponents of the global climate change theory are correct -- must be addressed hard and fast to stave off more severe effects down the road.

The good news is that it's long past time to clean up our act anyway.  While some like to say this theory is all about the money, I would offer that it's about turning the page, adopting a philosophy, a way of doing business, if you will, that helps our planet heal and helps sustain future generations by making sure the planet is not boggled down with manmade pollutants and detrimental processes.  There is a broad array of solutions already in the works -- some far fetched, some a bit disconcerting -- but addressing this can promote a level of technological advancement we should all benefit from.

I've got 2 kids and a grandchild on this planet.  While I may not live to see the worst of what's projected to happen on this wonderful planet of ours, I want to do my part to ensure that they can live good, long, healthy lives on a planet that can support a high level of biodiversity.  That in and of itself will ensure that "Nature's Services," which we all rely on, will continue to supply our needs in perpetuity, not just for the current population.

Answer 20

No one can say for sure.  Scientists' opinions are as varied as opinions on abortion.  It's speculation to even say there was global warming to begin with.  The earth's climate has never stayed the same.  The Sahara was a grassland before it became a desert.  The area we now know as Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah used to be a rainforest in the Jurassic period.  After the last ice age ended, was that considered global warming?  No one knows for sure what the cause it, but what is fact, is that the Earth is in a constant state of change.  No one habitat remains the same forever.  Some places heat up, and some cool down.

Answer 21

How can something be over that might have not ever really started.  We are just going through a cycle that is natural. All the hype is to get funding for more agencies to create new taxes.  The Carbon tax is one that is being proposed. The poor British people are being taxed on how much carbon their cars emit. Al Gore WANTS to place a carbon tax on just about everything. IF we go along with this, our country will be destroyed economically.