Opinion on global warming?

Question

Opinion on global warming?

Answer 1

Yes it is caused by the hot air from liberals.... they want another taxable "fix" that can "only come from more government".. The truth is, it is the biggest hoax gullible people have swallowed yet.

Answer 2

There is currently no evidence that man has made any significant contribution to climate change.

Some interesting facts.

1. During most of the past 2,000 years, the temp has been about the same or higher. Currently, we are barely over the average for the last 2,000 years.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index....

2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.

3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860's or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.

4. The earth has been warming for the last 10,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70's and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.

6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths' temperature than CO2 levels ever have.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...

7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/...

8. The glaciers have been melting now for over 10,000 years. the current rate of melting is similar to previous melting.

9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...

Answer 3

It's fake

Answer 4

a fake just another thing to scarelittle kids when they go to sleep. And it is just another reason to make taxes and pay for something as dumb as the kyoto thing

Answer 5

Hoax.  Money making scam.

Standard "sky is falling" fairy tale.

Answer 6

The earth warms and cools on its own.  Man would be so very very arrogant to think he or she could do a dang thing to make any ripples in what the earth does or doesn't do.

Answer 7

people  should use less chemicals. and mills should find another way to run instead of putting chemicals in the air.

Answer 8

A natural sequence for the  earth . Warm periods and Cool periods.

Answer 9

Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overblown

Answer 10

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/glo...

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check this interactive globe

Global warming is but a component, in a group of destructive forces at work such as ;deforestation,desertification,soil and water contamination ,irresponsible or wasteful utilization of bio resources , air pollution,Non sustainable Agriculture,over pumping carbon aquifers

all concepts which are definitely not part of the Natural Processes of the Natural world

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

WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR,

The most prolific growth on this planet is part of the day in the mist and most of the time under clouds ,and the least growth is always directly in the sun .

To exchange the one for the other means changing local climates

We are exchanging Nature with Tar , concrete and open spaced mono cultures.

In 300 years half of the planets forests have gone ,and in the last 50 years half of the wet lands ,and rain forests

These Areas absorb heat during the day and release heat at night ,

Cause cloud formation(shade).humidifying the air on the surface as well as releasing excess water at the roots that keep rivers flowing ,which in turn brings more water into the Environment .

As well as contributing to absorbing carbon emissions as do the leaves of the trees together with the oceans .

All in all many factors which directly affect the local Environment .

The loss of the above resulting in rivers drying up ,less rain ,desertification,loss of habitat for many species and so on.

dryer and hotter surface environments which can manifest in different weather patterns such as tornadoes or bush fires

I may be stupid or Naive but somehow i believe that lots of these local environmental changes, can add up to affect global weather, If there are enough of them (and there are)

And then on top of that comes the story of the effects of pollutants released into Nature and especially the Air ,by MAN http://earthissues.multiply.com/photos/a...

A cocktail of events and a lot of the ingredients have MAN written all over them

So it is safe to assume that we should look at ourselves as well for possible improvements ,rectifying Eco errors that are with in our powers.

What is a safer bet

to be or not to be

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Answer 11

Hoax.

My 2 cents.

Answer 12

sure theres some warming , most of it from 3rd world countries w/o laws like we have. the earth has warmed a few degrees every decade or so and its natural. there are worse things to worry about in this life.

Answer 13

I think global warming is good and bad.One reason it is bad is it can cause an ice-age in the future.One good reason about liken global warming is it makes the winter warmer.

Answer 14

There is no such thing as an opinion on this subject since it is scientific.  All major scientific studies have found that the most likely cause of the trend of warming over the past 100 years is due to anthropogenic causes.  Even though other 'so-called' scientists have disagreed with the theory there is no scholarly literature to refute the theory.  Blogs and think-tank web sites with no citations do not count as scholarly peer reviewed literature.

Answer 15

A phony pretext to get into your wallet and change your lifestyle to one more in line with the green folks.

Answer 16

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:The Earth maintains a temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 16 degrees Celsius, temperatures that enable people, plants and animals to live safely within its atmosphere. Naturally occurring gases known as greenhouse gases help capture the sun's energy, keeping the Earth warm enough to sustain life. Without greenhouse gases, scientists estimate temperatures would plunge to zero degrees Fahrenheit, making it impossible for life to exist.

In the last century, the Earth has warmed by 1 degree Fahrenheit -- a change significant enough to cause atmospheric disturbances, some scientists believe -- with the highest increases occurring within the past 50 years, the height of the industrial revolution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Most scientists believe human activity has contributed to much of the rise in temperature over the past few decades. The increased emission of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide caused by car exhaust, and methane and nitrous oxide from industrial plants and agricultural activities, has trapped more heat close to the planet's surface.

The EPA estimates that in the last 50 years, the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 30 percent, methane 50 percent and nitrous oxide 15 percent. The higher concentrations of these gases counter the effects of gases in the atmosphere that help keep the Earth cool.

Many scientists and policy-makers see this trend, commonly referred to as "global warming," as a threat to the environment and its inhabitants, while others -- including advocates for large industry -- say the danger is overstated. They say policies aimed at stemming high levels of greenhouse gas emissions harm consumers, who would bear the brunt of the associated costs.

The argument over who or what is to blame for global warming and to what extent the environment could be damaged by its effect has become one of the most urgent -- and hotly debated -- environmental issues of the 21st century.

Evidence that the Earth is warming can be found in the melting of Arctic glaciers, changes in weather patterns such as the increase of hurricanes and droughts, and in rising sea levels -- globally the sea level has risen 4 inches to 8 inches in the past century, according to the EPA.

Some advocacy groups, criticized by their opponents as apocalyptic, attribute these changes to poor environmental policy and predict dire consequences for future generations.

"We will experience extreme temperatures, rises in sea levels, and storms of unimaginable destructive fury," the nonprofit organization stopglobalwarming.org predicts on its Web site. "Recently, alarming events that are consistent with scientific predictions about the effects of climate change have become more and more commonplace."

Natural disasters like the 2004 tsunami that hit South Asia and Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed major parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, have been attributed in part to global warming.

Because other factors affect the Earth's temperature and because the science of global warming is not exact, some groups, who disagree with efforts to reduce emissions, have discounted not only the phenomenon itself, but also its effects on the environment.

"While the planet is indeed warming - probably due in no small part to industrial greenhouse gas emissions - the warming has been modest, benign, and largely confined to northern latitudes during winter nights," Jerry Taylor, director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute, wrote in a 2004 commentary. "There are good reasons to expect that warming pattern to continue. And that warming pattern does not threaten to usher in the convulsive climatic events we are warned about in the press or in the movie theaters. In fact, some scientists and economists can make a pretty good case that global warming will prove a net plus to both the economy and the global environment."

Most scientists do agree, however, that global warming is occurring and that along with other factors including natural changes in the climate, human activity is accelerating it.

"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise," a 2001 report commissioned by the National Research Council said. "Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century."

To counter the effects of global warming, 140 countries in 2005 ratified the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement made in 1997 that forces developed nations to reduce their emission of greenhouse gases to pre-1990 levels by 2012.

As of early 2006, the United States -- the world's largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions -- had not signed the agreement. The Bush administration said that placing mandatory restrictions on emissions could hurt large industry and damage the U.S. economy by making it less competitive with countries such as China, which is exempt because of its status as a developing nation.:

Answer 17

There isn't even a question about weather there is global warming or not, anymore... the question now is weather humans are to blame or if it is natural causes, and what we can do about it.