Is global warming real and caused by mankind? I believe so but my friend doesn't, what should i tell him?

Question

We have been arguing for some time now... like months and i am positive that it is real and caused by us(man) but he is as stubborn as a goat and won't give at all. Also apparently he says that 17 000 scientists agree with him, please right. I need good arguing tips and some serious facts.s

Answer 1

Who says these scientists are right? just cause they think they're smart they can spout out their opinions and think its right?? Global warming is REAL! Of course mankind caused most of it. Look how many cars are out there, how much trash we generate, rain forest being knock out forever, water being contaminated with oil spills and chemicals, extinction of certain animals, Mankind is taking the earth for granted and one day its gonna come back with full force when weird things start happening or already happening that has never happened before, that right there is a sign of mother nature taking its course,  could go on but will your friend believe it???

Answer 2

Why do you believe he is stubborn and you are not. I don't buy all the hype about global warming, and the recent news suggests that the ice levels are near normal. This winter is one of the coldest on record and yet when that is mentioned people who believe in the hype global warming down play it.  Who is stubborn now?

Answer 3

Yes man has pushed the " Global warming" theroy around for some time now. I however don't belive it.

I belive in the Book of Revelations, and that it is all comming to pass. Jesus predicted it all well before anyone knew what was comming.    So I dont buy into the Global warming-  Its time for Jesus to come back and take his people with him!

Answer 4

tell him 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 stop ,and the drag has gone with it ,also changing the higher warm currents,And only the moon will keep things moving

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 5

ask him y

Answer 6

you really can't make him believe things that he won't. just make your arguement and once he knows all that you know, it's his decision to agree with you or not. there are many things supporting global warming and i personally think that it's real, but i think it's also somewhat blown out of proportion and made too big a deal out of it. i think that this is a time where you guys should just agree to disagree!

Answer 7

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 8

Global warming is real...and natural.  If he insists global warming isn't happening at all, start and end there.

Answer 9

Why does it even matter?

A lot of scientific models seem to predict that the current climatic changes, should they continue like that, are going to be bad for us. So a lot of people think it can't hurt to try preventing those bad effects. Who cares what their actual cause is?

Answer 10

what caused the glaciers to recede from the USA?   global warming... its natural....after the earth formed it was hot...then global cooling,,,then ice age,,,then warming....all without man. there are plenty of things to worry about in life...global warming and cooling will happen with and without our help.

Answer 11

Actually, the world's scientific minds are nearly unamimous that it exists and is being affected by man.  Will look for a link.  

But to answer your question, I'd just tell him he's an idiot (while smiling, 'cus it is your friend) and leave it at that - agree to disagree.

Edit - Wow...Dana1981 documented it, so I defer to those links.

Answer 12

First of all his claim of 17,000 scientists who agree with him is based on the Oregon Petition, which was a total fraud.  Read about it here:

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

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.

Ask your friend if he can explain these scientific observations which point to humans as the cause of the current warming:

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

Ask him what he thinks has caused the recent warming.  If he says it's "natural cycles" tell him that based on the Earth's orbital (Milankovitch) cycles, 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...

If he says it's volcanoes, tell him:

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....

If he says it's the Sun, ask him how that's possible when

a) Solar output has decreased slightly over the past 30 years as global warming  has accelerated rapidly

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-...

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

b) No scientific study has attributed more than one-third of the warming over that period to the Sun.  Not a single study.  And most have attributed just 0-10% of the recent warming to the Sun (because as already stated, solar output has not increased).

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

Ask him why almost all scientists are in agreement that humans are the main cause of the recent warming.

http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/...

Use the scientific facts and you'll win the argument.  He'll probably come up with some typical lame denial argument like 'Mars is warming'.  There's a good list of these arguments and why they're wrong here:

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Answer 13

NOAA now says that icebergs are returning to normal sizes. And we may be heading for a global cooling. The temps. all around the world have been the coldest on record in 4 decades.

Answer 14

Call your friend and apologize for wasting his time. He is right, you are wrong. Sorry, but the truth hurts.

There is a site signed by 19,000 different scientist (not all are in this field though).

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm