Is global warming real ,or a myth?

Question

I am working on a an essay respose and I just really need some really good answers about this catigory.

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Answer 1

I think you have to do your own research and come to your own conclusion.  For me though I try and do things that are better for the environment just because it is the right thing to do...regardless of whether I think global warming is real.

Answer 2

As far as I am concerned it is a myth. In 1974 I worked as a lab assistant for a Chemistry Professor who helped start all this stuff. Three universities MIT, NMSU, and Cal Poly Pomona were involved. They applied for a Grant to study the Ozone layer. The grant  was not enough to do more than build the Instrument package but not fly it. So they did environmental chamber simulation experiments, and the results were if you have the exact combination of ozone, Freon(from hair spray and spray underarm deodorant), and lighting causes the Ozone and Freon to chemically combine. They publicized this widely to get a lot more money and started the environmental movement. They lied bald faced because they said this was what happening to the ozone layer. They did nothing with the first grant that was real with ozone. Environmentalist was all a freaking lie. Now it is the second biggest religion in the USA.  You can believe what you will but I saw it all start.

Answer 3

This is a valid controversy.  The world is warming -- no argument there -- but there is a question whether humans are causing it and thus, can turn around the trend.

It seems the earth goes through temperature cycles.  Remember the ice age warmed up long before technology spewed pollutants into the atmosphere.  There are other warming and cooling trends between the ice age and now.  So, yes, we seem to be in a warming trend.

The real question is can we do anything about it?  We can slow our harmful practices, but we cannot stop natural occurrences like volcanoes that affect the atmosphere and temperature more than the human industrial trends.

What we can do is slow our contribution to this phenomenon by paying attention and correcting bad practices.  That may make our part of our world more livable and pleasant.

Answer 4

The ice at the north pole that GW fanatics said is melting is now back and has INCREASED. Global Worming is a joke to pay Al Gore carbon credits

Answer 5

it's not a myth, it is real but it's not happening now, check out http://www.iceagenow.com you'll find loads of info on there

Answer 6

Yes global warming is real it is caused by polution and gas we use to much factorys, polution, and gas so we should walk instead of drive or ride our bikes. I think in China there is more polution than any other state.

Answer 7

Global warming is real because of all the pollution from cars and factories

Answer 8

Natural Global warming is occuring. The real question is whether man is the driving force behind it due to CO2 emissions? To this, the answer is an emphatic NO! There is NO scientific data backing up the silly claim.

Answer 9

It is real. The myth is that it is man made, We could not do it if we tried. It is probably due to a solar cycle.

Answer 10

myth

Answer 11

If global warming was not real, and there was nothing to trap heat within our atmosphere, you'd be one very chilled block of ice by now. Even global warming sceptics know that it is a real phenomenon. The question is: are we humans tipping the balance too far one way?

Scientists have discovered evidence that the overall warming of the planet is accelerating. They have looked carefully at all possible reasons for this, including natural cycles of warming and cooling, and just about everything else.

The best reason they can come up with so far, which fits all the observations, is that it is because the proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is increasing, especially CO2 (carbon dioxide), which lasts a very long time and does not rapidly cycle in and out of the atmosphere in the same balanced way that water vapour does.

CO2 is produced by a lot of things, including many natural things. However scientists also know that man-made (sometimes called "anthropogenic") emissions of CO2 have risen exponentially - massively - since the 1800's and the industrial revolution.

The US Department of Energy estimates that of the 6.1 billion metric tons of CO2 which are now pumped into the atmosphere by humans every year, natural processes can only absorb about 2.9 billion tons. In other words, greenhouse gases are growing by over 3 billion tons every year.

Scientists are trying to work out whether the planet is capable of absorbing this sort of punishment and still being fit for habitation. They are trying to predict how it might change our climate, over what period of time, and whether we can do anything to restore the balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (like stopping filling it up with CO2, or finding out ways of reabsorbing the CO2 that we've already put into it).

Answer 12

Global warming was real and was mostly natural, but it has ended and the world is cooling.

This link is a lengthy read, but it contains some important facts and a projection that the near future will be much cooler.

http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_...

Answer 13

Talk of myths!

The climate scientists at IPCC have never claimed that all of Antartica is getting colder.

Parts of the coast are getting warmer and the center is colder.  

It's winter.  What they are measuring to determine the rate of ice loss in the Arctic is summer extent of ice.  The IPCC scientists have said that the Arctic is warmer and Antartica is colder except for part of the coast.   There is no argument here, except the one the skeptics are trying to dream up.

Answer 14

its still being debating in weither we cause it or not

Answer 15

The warming is, real the cause is almost certainly not us, the only problem is too many people jumping on the band wagon in the hope of being our worlds "saviour" when this warm cycle starts to turn. it's pure arrogance to think that the human race could adversely effect the eco system of an entire planet. some people like to think our race is all powerful, but that's sadly not the case.

Answer 16

Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:55 AM

By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size  

Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.

Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind’s alleged impact on the global climate.

Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years.

As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.

As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.

Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.

Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.

AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.

Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.

An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.

In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.

Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.

Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.

More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.

If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death.

© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Answer 17

As the result primarily of human-caused emissions, our climate is changing. It is becoming less stable, more volatile and warmer: global average surface temperatures have increased by 0.74 degrees Celsius during the past 100 years. Seasons are arriving at different times as normal variations are increasing; glaciers are receding; sea levels are rising. It is likely that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe. Droughts, floods and heat waves are already contributing to crop failures, conflicts and a steadily increasing toll of death and human suffering. As the planet warms it is highly likely that there will be an increase in the frequency and severity of floods and droughts in many regions.

Answer 18

Global warming is very true it happens because we humans  pollute the air with stuff like car gas,moter cycles,factories,littering,and more.Hope this helped!

Answer 19

Global warming is both Real and mythological.

It certainly is mythological when we see people give a single cause of it, It is mythological when people deny that that same cause has anything to do with it.  Of course it is mythological when we invent a myth that there has not been a trend to warming.

It is real in  the sense that we have adequate data and observations to demonstrate that warming is taking place.

It is real in the sense that earth is seeing some loss of ice on glaciers, but it is mythical to assert that Antarctica ice in total is in decline, because snow fall on Antarctica is  being supported by increased amounts of water vapour over the southern oceans. This means that fears about rising ocean levels are, at the current time apparent myths. The volume of water vapour converting to snow to land on Antarctica is however carrying ocean heat over Antarctica, making it a myth that we can go on this way indefinitely. Eventually this heat buildup will cause that water vapour coming ashore to precipitate as rain, That will be the time that the myth of rising ocean levels will change into a reality.

It is a myth that fossil fuel burning is the only cause of global warming. But it is a justifiable myth. We have to have increased greenhouse effect to retain heat. If our temperature rises without an increased greenhouse effect, the heat will radiate away into space. To explain our temperature rise, we can include all greenhouse gases, and evaluate what increase in those gases we have seen.

Carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels and methane from w wide variety of sources largely account for our rise in temperature, only if we also include water vapour that is also a greenhouse gas. But water vapour increases only in response to rising temperature, so we see this as a compounder in global warming, rather than an initial cause.

Increased solar output will have an effect, particularly if we also have increased greenhouse effect. Without the increased greenhouse effect we would get the energy and radiate it off.   But increased solar output will result in reduced cloud cover, which will produce some warming, because it does allow water vapour to build, and more incoming sun to reach the land and water.

We definitely are seeing increased water vapour over the oceans, so we can not discount that entirely.

It has been a while since we have had a lot of volcanic activity that would give us a reflective shield, to slow down heating.

But then it comes down to, "are there any things in this mix of causes that we can do anything to reduce."

We can not alter solar output.

We do not feel comfortable making volcanoes blow.

We are able only to reduce the things we are in any sense responsible for, like CO2 or methane.

Well, it may be a myth that we can stop global warming by reducing our outputs of those gases.

We would have to try it to confirm that. We would have to conserve our fossil fuels for use later to see whether we have any leverage to slow or stop Global Warming.

If we can not slow or stop it, we have the experience from many eons ago, that says we will tip over from global warming to a major ice age.

But this too is a myth. We do not really know whether our conditions will support  that. We have not directly observed all the conditions that brought that about.

Answer 20

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Answer 21

Real, mostly caused by us.  The proof, and many more really good answers for you, are in the links.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

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

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

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know...  Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point.  You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 22

Global Warming, ozone depletion and peak of oil are all real. We have the technology to fix these. We have to get government to change. Without governments mandating renewable resources that do not harm the environment, we maybe doomed. We have to take the time to get it right. With oil on the decline, we have to make massive changes, swiftly. We can not redo this one. We have had most of this technology for 20 years but have not implemented it. We know what is cost effective; we know where we need better technology. Solar Concentrating Electric Power Plants, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and nuclear energy are what we need. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, global warming and cleanup) for oil, natural gas, coal, cigarettes, cooling towers, cars, trains and airplanes. Raising the price of fossil fuel today gives us more time to solve these problems and helps pay for the 20 Trillion Dollars worth of renewable energy over the next 10 years. Humans have 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that runs on cheep oil, natural gas, or coal.

Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon – anyone willing to pay $30 per gallon for gas. The problem is the oil will be gone, at least to run cars, heat homes, power electric plants or air travel. I would like to see over the next 10 years a 5% reduction per year that totals 50% and at the same time, we have to be building renewable energy so at the end of 10 years we can cut an additional 20%. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak natural gas in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain and other forests, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy food from out side the USA to send to starving people since our grain is not available.

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and we are far behind).

Education is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface. Watch for changes in the sight coming soon.

This is a grassroots movement. We need as many people as possible working on this. Please email me your ideas, if you would like to help. The charity needs many helping hands and minds-would you like to help there? I am working on Patents-need more help. How about Designing? I have a job as an engineer, another as a contractor, another as a county worker, but find time to help teach on YA. I have cut my employers electric costs by 5 million dollars-you do the math and figure out how much CO2 that is.

LMurray