Is global warming really happening? or is it global cooling that is happening?

Question

well, im puzzled, because of the articles i read, and they are proven both correct, so i don't know which one is right!! Please help me!

Answer 1

Man i can say global warming isn't happening but as for global cooling i reckon it could happen. Rely on your own opinions not on online strangers

Answer 2

I have my theory on what's happening this year and what we all may experience during the next twenty years. What I've observed during my 42 years on this earth is that it was colder in the Winters while I was growing up and gradually through my twenties and thirties the Winters became milder now they are trending back toward being colder again. This coincides with Sun Spot cycles and our sun has entered an aproximate twenty year cycle of less solar activity. And as you read even the scientists realize we could be in a long cooling trend because of it.

Answer 3

Global warming is correct.  Global cooling is a myth.    Look at peer reviewed scientific publications and you will only find Global Warming (use web of science at a university library with the key words "global warming" then try again with "global cooling").  You'll see that global cooling refers to the eras when the earth was entering an ice age.  Their was no such theory in the 1970's. I was around and in school then - not even an idea floated.  Global cooling is just garbage dreamed up by the denialist to confuse people.  If it is published, it is in opinion pieces in magazines that do not review articles for accuracy or have an agenda to mislead people about the facts of global warming.  It is not archived in scientific indexes.

Global warming is the correct term.  Human factors contributing to global warming have been investigated for the past 20 years.  The idea has been elevated to scientific theory status.  Theories  are derived from years of hypothesis testing when clear patterns emerge that allow us to predict how a natural phenomenon will react to a change.  It can be used to predict the consequences of our actions.  It takes years of observations to build and is not just a wild idea somebody got from a fortune cookie.  It is backed by evidence and hypothesis that prove smaller aspects of the phenomenon that can be tested.  There is always uncertainty, and as scientist have ideas about how to reduce uncertainties, their ideas are tested and may be incorporated into the theory to improve the predictive power.

This is the process that the theory on global warming has gone through.  We knew many of the natural factors that caused warming from research that started in the 1800s (called greenhouse effect then) and have since added human factors that contribute to the "greenhouse effect.".  We can now observe some of the effects that was predicted back in the late 1980s and early 1990s and measure them directly.

Answer 4

I have to respect your research, and realizing that this subject really seems to be a mine-field!

'Global Warming and Cooling' are caused by natural events which mankind has no control over.

Statistics can be manipulated in so many ways that it really is not funny.

Without going into great detail, some basic facts are:

1)CO2 is 'NOT' a so-called 'Greenhouse Gas', ( Carbon dioxide is required for all life to live on this planet).

2)Earth has been coming out of the last 'Ice Age' for about the last 15,000 years.

3)It does look like global temperatures have not increased over the last decade, and may actually be showing some minor decrease in temperature.(I hope that this does not continue however, since another 'Ice Age' will be much more devastating!)

I could give many more facts, but I think I covered the most important issues.

I would like to say that being 'environmentally friendly' is best for everyone, but it would have no impact on a (Global Scale)!

Answer 5

It stopped warming in 1998.    Since mid-2007 it's been cooling.    It could just be a temporary stall but then again, maybe it's not.

Dr. Hansen predicts each year that the 1998 record will be broken, and each year he ends up being incorrect.    He is the Dr. Z of climate science.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Mon...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

Edit.....oooooh "rubbish links" - i.e., any links that refute your point.   Oh and "the global cooling" scare?  No, that's not a myth.

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Walte...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?f...

Answer 6

global warming is happening

sometimes it get cooler in area, but, that's a little of global warming's effect

watch "the Inconvenient truth" for more information

Answer 7

yes gobal warming really is happening have you heard about the ice caps melting in greenland and the north pole and the south pole

Answer 8

No body knows any thing about global warming, the weather is changing every where,it seems warmer places are getting much  hotter and cold places much colder

Answer 9

according 2 me i think global warming is happening and it is leading 2 the increase in temp.. so it is  interns keeping us away from the upcoming ice age

As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn’t about global warming, it was about an imminent ice age. Is an ice age likely? Even possible? Consider this: There have been more than 20 glacial advances, or ice ages, in just the last two million years. And we know from geological evidence that each glaciation lasted anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 years—no one knows why the disparity—separated by warm periods that last some 10,000 to 15,000 years. What we can be reasonably sure of is that we’re now in one of the warm periods, and this one is already 13,000 years old. Some scientists think it’s at an end and a new ice age is about to begin.

No one really knows what causes ice ages. Theories abound. They include perturbations in the earth’s orbit, changes in ocean currents, the earth periodically passing through galactic dust that obscures the sun, variations in the sun’s energy output, changes in continental positions, uplift of continental blocks, reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere, etc. Evidence or experiment may eventually resolve which of the theories wins out, or it may turn out that a combination of theories are true. It may even be that none of the current theories proves satisfactory and some entirely new theory ultimately explains their cause.

But what is pretty certain is how they take place. It was once common wisdom to believe that the advent of an ice age took place over centuries or even millennia, and that they ended the same way. It was thought that the changes were so slow that, if people were around to witness them, each generation would hardly notice any change. If the next glaciation were to come on slowly, and we recognized it as the beginning of an ice age, maybe there would be time for civilization to adjust: to begin food storage, to develop crop hybrids that will endure shorter growing seasons, to move populations, factories, and technology—the core of our civilization—into southern climates, etc.

But we now have evidence that ice ages come on with an abruptness that will catch us by total surprise. Physical evidence indicates that when the last ice age started, the British Isles went from a temperate climate to being completely covered with glaciers hundreds of feet thick in just 20 years.

Do scientists think it’ll happen that way again? Yes. And if the next ice age starts here’s how it may occur: At first we wouldn’t even realize it, so the first few years we’d feel we were just having one or two bad winters. But after a few years rivers will freeze all-year-round, snow from the previous years won’t completely melt, glaciers will begin to form, and some of what is currently now the world’s most fertile ground will become unfarmable.

Countries bordering on both sides of the Atlantic will change radically as a result of changes in the Gulf Stream, and Europe, which today is almost 20 degrees warmer than other parts of the world at the same latitude, will become as cold and dry as Siberia. The Sahara may again become forested while the Amazon basin becomes a desert. Florida may also become a desert, as it was in a previous ice age.

At the same time, if the climate changes enough to disturb the monsoon season that fuels agriculture from Africa to China, where over half the world’s six billion people now live, hundreds of millions will starve when the climate abruptly changes. There’s no way to prepare them for that.

Canadian and Russian wheat will fail completely. American agriculture, on which much of the world depends, will be scaled back by shorter growing seasons. Not only will we not have enough food for export, we won’t be able to grow enough to sustain even our own current population. And jobs? Factories will close, service businesses will disappear, stocked supermarkets will become a thing of the past. Get ready for your standard of living to drop like a rock while you and your kin go hungry.

How far will the ice fields extend? In North America they will most likely reach as far south as present day Chicago. But they may go further. And this isn’t going to be some picture postcard winter landscape. At the height of the last ice age, the ice fields covering much of North America were up to two miles thick. So, expect the great northern cities, such as New York, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, etc., to be swept away before advancing glaciers. In the meantime, sea levels will drop and more of the continental shelves will be exposed. You’ll be able to walk from Siberia to Alaska, from California to the Channel Islands, from Britain to France, from Australia to New Guinea.

But when is this really all likely to happen? Because no one knows what causes ice ages, there’s no way to forecast when the next one will start, how bad it will be, or what effect the (allegedly man-made) global warming taking place today will have on it. We can’t tell whether it will be less severe than the last one, when the ice sheets only extended as far south as Wisconsin, or as bad as some of the glaciations of half a billion years ago when ice sheets formed all the way to the equator. Although this latter scenario is unlikely, no one can be sure. But if it does, kiss the human race good-bye.

What seems fairly certain is that we will go from the world as it is today to full-blown glaciation in less than 20 years, maybe in as little as four or five. And there is no way the United States can adjust to and survive a climate change this abrupt.

Can we stop it? We can’t even stop a single snow storm. Imagine trying to stop an ice age that’s going to go on for tens of thousands of years.

  so....  better think abt it

Answer 10

I think our biggest problem is energy conservation.   While I do not believe humans are so significant as to be able to alter their planets climate (mother nature can and will whip our asses back into the stone age at any given time it chooses) we need to know that some of our energy sources are dwindling.   THere is evidence of oil being made within the earths crust and not so much a dino-fuel and if found to be factual could mean we would have endless oil supplies.   However, coal and wood which we also burn is most likely not unlimited.  If in fact global cooling is happening which a good number of scientists belive due to lowered solar output, were gonna need something to keep gramma from freezing her **** off.   If were low on coal, wood etc., were pretty much screwed.

Answer 11

it is truly hard to grasp what is the truth... Al Gore would have been more believable if he didn'g have a large financial stake in the promotion of global warming... ie carbon offset scam and his phoney tree scam. If he truly believed what he preached would he not be more energy conscience... i would think so....

   in the end i think we all need to be energy conscience, not so much as to keep the planet cool or warm but to have healthy air to breath....

the planet will and has always went though cycles of cooling and warming throughout the times of history.....based on the suns position and volcanic activity...and other things... some even theorize a massive meteor strike...

Answer 12

Check out the fact that the earths pole is shifting and this mess up the weather as well as causing geophysical changes .

Answer 13

go outside and look at the weather, today i would say global cooling

Answer 14

yes,global warming is happening,but it is moderate.

Answer 15

There is no question that global warming occurs. It's part of the earths natural (should be underlined) cycle. In fact the current warming trend, is dwarfed by that of the

Medieval Warm Period (AD900-1300),

Roman Warm Period (250BC-AD100),

Minoan Warm Period (1400BC-1200 BC)

They were all warmer than our present late 20th century Warming Period.

What is unique to this trend versus the prior, is that someone thinks that something can/should be done to stop a perfectly natural occurrence.

This is a Money grab. Strike fear in the public and convince them that something needs to be done at the cost of our tax dollars.

Now we have counter-measures. Ethanol to reduce the Co2 emissions.

Well, cars emit Co (Carbon Monoxide or one carbon atom covalently bonded to one oxygen atom) Humans emit Co2 (Carbon Dioxide is two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom ).

Co is what people die from when committing suicide while sitting in there garage with the car running.

Co2 is Plant food. Now the more Co2 that is emitted the more vibrant plants become. More vegetation produces more oxygen.

Arguments will be that the Amazon is being destroyed, and thus the Co2 emissions cannot be processed. Well, the Amazon isn't being destroyed it's being harvested.

Every summer you see Corn growing in the same farm field. Well using the logic of the Amazon "destruction" theorists. This should be impossible. Just because a tree is gone, doesn't mean that nothing is going to ever grow there again. Plants replace it and grow rapidly. Especially in the rainforest's of South America.

Ethanol is the crisis! We need to produce corn at a historic rate. Thus raising the price of the product until it balances with demand.

Now the organizations which feed the third world nations can afford less and less food supply. Ethanol is a new genocide.

But, perhaps thats what Alarmists want. They have argued the Earth can only support a third of the worlds current population. This means that 4.5 billion need to die to reach a balance.

Starving people to death would certainly send us in that direction.

One final point, there is a book by Christopher Horner, he talks about this book in the link to Youtube below. In the video, he remarks that Global Warming alarmist use timelines to mislead people, for example:

Since 1970 the earth has been warming, same holds true if you go back to 1650.

But the earth has also been cooling since 1940, 1000 AD, 0 AD, and 1998.

I throw that at you so that you understand that the earth is constantly changing and it's important that we are just prepared, but there is NOTHING we can do to stop it and we shouldn't feel guilty because WE DIDN'T CAUSE IT.

Answer 16

No global warming is not happening! For one how do we really know there is such a drastic change in temp we haven't been recording for ever and this year has been the coldest in along time and its not warming up

Answer 17

AGW is a trojan horse for global socialism.

For more misinformation, watch Gore's propaganda film.

Answer 18

Well I could post rubbish links to dailytech or freerepublic, rant about Al Gore and trojan horses. I could bring up the myth that the science community in the 70s predicted an iceage was coming, they didn't.

Or like easy rider, I could pretend Co2 isn't a greenhouse gas, laughable.

Or I could just post the link below which shows Arctic ice for June 1 this year and the same date last year ( the biggest melt to date) it shows the cold winter has had little effect and the Arctic is melting to the same level as last year.