Please tell me why you believe or don't believe in global warming?

Question

I'm not sure where I should stand, so I'm asking all of you to tell me why you do or don't believe in global warming. Thank you!!

Answer 1

If you really want to know, why don't you do your own research. You have Old Al's Information Highway at your fingertips. USE IT. Do your own research and decide for yourself. Or you can do like these other intellectually lazy people and just watch CNN, or The Discovery Channel. I bet if CNN reported tomorrow that there really was an Easter Bunny, these people would believe it.

"The only reality is media reality."

I think if you dig deep you'll question how only a 60ppm increase in CO2 can change the climate of the earth. The atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.94% Argon, 0.038% Carbon Dioxide, the rest water vapor. The increase in Carbon Dioxide they tell you is warming the planet would equal about 0.0015%.

If your next question is, "Why would they?" The answer is $5 billion dollars in research grants to study something they tell us is already conclussive.

Answer 2

Human development is anything but natural

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

A while 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 be drastically affected,which in turn will affect the warm currents,since all moving bodies of water are connected in series.

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 these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.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 ,

in the last 300 years half of the planets forests have gone

and in the last 50 years

half of our wet lands ,rain forests and ice fields .and 3000 species of animals .

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 and air pollution.

which we are responsible for ,

We are now witnessing a mass Extinction of animals and plants of Biblical proportions,equal since the disappearance of the dinosaurs

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There is a series that you can download easy ,called

bbc,Planet earth by David Attenborough.

About 15 ---700mb videos

this is a photographic team that has been filming Nature stories all over the world ,for a very long time .

In 3 of the episodes called --the future--saving species(this one covers extinction and the importance of species)

the future--living together ,ice worlds ,

they compare films they made before of places and species to what they are filming now in the same places.

Many scientists give commentaries as well .

Whole migrations of animals involving millions have disappeared in only 20 years,

in one place in the tundras ,in just 5 years

CHECK THE CLOCK FOR THE SPEED

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

If we want to save ourselves as a specie ,we have to address

the problems

We can correct most of the destructive factors

with disciplines ,changes of attitude and habits,alternative energies ,sustainable design etc.

All species are in Danger eventually,and each is important because all of Life on this planet is interrelated even if it is not obvious

Imagine that the Eco system is a wall and each specie is represented by a brick

Every brick taken out weakens the wall ,and eventually it will collapse ,which brick is the most important ???

they are all important and we are one of the bricks

Answer 3

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.

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

We know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming.  What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

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

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming.  They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that 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...

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles.  They looked at volcanoes, and found that

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....

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes.  Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions.  We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels.  We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%).  You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 4

I do not believe because the Earth heats and cools itself on its own .. We have had super volcano's and asteroids worse than anything we have or could do to the Earth and it's still here

Answer 5

I believe in it... I guess Al Gore really got to me... Haha

Answer 6

I believe in it, but the primary cause of it has still not been addressed - deforestation.  And no I'm not talking about how the weather is becoming mccoy-like.

Answer 7

it real. Just watch plant perrel on CNN..

Answer 8

if its science then its real...i believe in it that is why i am doing as much as i can to slow the action...spreed the word...its real

this video helps you decide which side you SHOULD be on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVz...

Answer 9

in all honesty, i don't know. nor do i care. if it gets a little hotter, all the better. but by the time i die, some other **** we have been doing is gonna bite us in the ***

Answer 10

I don't think it's that big of a deal.

Earth's temperature changes. Have you heard of the Ice Age?

It heated back up. We're fine.

Answer 11

it's totally false.  if your an evolutionist, the earth has survived for billions of years without something like this wiping away life on earth.  if your christian, then you should know that the world will end before anything like that is able to happen.  

Technology has only been here to get the info needed for just about 100 years.  we can't judge if the world will over heat by such a small time space of knowledge.  the media just needs some wild story to keep the public interested

Answer 12

I BELIEVE THE EARTH WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO HEAL ITSELF AND THE WARMING PROCESS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE EARTH  GETTING READY TO DO JUST THAT.

Answer 13

what you guys arent getting is that it is cyclic warming! there is nothing we humans can do about it!  

I know what I'm talking about.  I want to impact SOMEBODY.  You (or most of you) just take what you see on the television commercials.  STOP GLOBAL WARMING campaigns, with celebrities blindly endorsing something they know nothing about.  None of them have actually picked up a science book and read.

Now, I'm not going to stand with the president and claim the earth isn't heating up.  I know it is.  We've all seen footage of the ice caps melting, and heard about the potential flood crises.  So I guess in a way, yeah, the globe IS warming.  But the cold truth about this is that this "global warming" is absolutely natural.  NATURAL.

The globe goes through what scientists call Cyclic Warming.  Warming through a Cycle, obviously.  The Greenhouse Effect isn't what's causing the temperature increase- we aren't doing this to ourselves.  Since the conception of the Earth millions of years ago, the globe has undergone dozens of drastic temperature changes.  What do you think the Ice Age was?  Another change in temperature.  We're simply going through another one of these.  The highs and lows follow a cycle of roughly 100,000 years apart, and we're simply at the peak of a cycle that started roughly 25,000 years ago.  So this really shouldn't be news to any of us, as the temperatures have been rising for thousands of years.  But all of a sudden we react when we're only 10 - 20 years away from the absolute apex.

So what to do with this?  Sadly, nothing.  I'm not saying that this warming won't hurt us, because it really will.  Our race has become so accustomed to the climate we currently live in, that to adapt to a new one will take a lot of work.  We really don't know what will happen, but honestly we'll just have to wait, because there ISN'T any reversal, and there ISN'T any way to stall it.  Sorry.  But don't believe everything you hear.

Answer 14

yes but not because of co2

Answer 15

I am not up to all the science of this situation but I can tell by weather patterns that the world is not in the same pattern as it once was. Most changes in weather patterns are to the extrema. 90 plus degrees during late winter months and then dry spells followed by flooding. According to science global warming is the cause. Thus I believe in it.

Answer 16

If there is any warming - and that has yet to be proved - it's climate fluctuation and there is nothing humans can do about it.  It's always occurred.

Read some of these answers.  They are doing a good job in school brainwashing the little kiddies with this Global Warming hype.

Answer 17

this answer really isn't going to persuede you or dis suede you.. but. I believe the sun's solar activity is the main reason behind golbal warming. I watched a show and it outlined all the things that people were saying but not about why it was happening. increased solar activity increases the temp, and in turn the Co2 immissions go up. if you look at the charts and graphs, Co2 build up is caused by the earth getting warmer. NOT the earth getting warmer from Co2 build up. Now we can look at what we can do... Someone said buying carbon credits.... sounds just like the oil companies... who'll get rich out of that bullS...T? and if we stop making Co2 gasses... by let's say, building more effiecent plants etc.... how will the poor countries that can't afford to build that shiney new plant do???? go into debt to the big nations that will build it for them. more BS. I loved the fact earlier about the termites.. cows also make more gas than all the factories in the world combined.... are we going to stop cows from reproducing? what will half the world eat? It really is a crock when you think about it.... in the late '70's all the scientists were saying we are heading to an ice age because the earth was cooling... now it's warming. will they make up their minds.

I believe the (very) little that we do as humans on this earth will not change the NATURAL cycles the earth goes thru.... but hey, someone is going to get rich off of this notion.... I hopethe U.S. is one of the countries that does....

Answer 18

i'm in a environmental class right now. i used to believe it is real, but learning the effects, i'm not so sure anymore. let me explain. it's gonna sound weird, but think about it, and you'll understand. if global warming is true. than the ice caps will melt like the media is telling us. every year, warm water (warm salt water) travels from the equator the poles, transferring the heat to the caps. therefore making the england warm like it is now. but if the ice caps melt too much, therefore providing too much FRESH water into the ocean. (realize that salt water traps heat better than fresh water), and most of that fresh water will be near the source, which are the caps, and as stated earlier, fresh water doesn't trap heat as well as salt water. and if the caps are melting as the media is telling us. than the heat from the equator won't make it to countries like england. and therefore making places like england COLDER NOT HOTTER. i hope u understand what i'm trying to say. if global warming does exist, england won't flood, but rather have very cold winters and cool summers. and as the cold weather carries on, the ice caps will come back. but this is not to say that wasteing energy, gas especially, is acceptable. always conserve, change them light bulbs to energy conserving ones and don't waste water. i really hope u understood what i'm saying. good luck

Answer 19

Yes, I do believe in global wrming coz now as we see, the extent of summers is growing upto nearly 7 months a year and winters remain for less than 4 mnths in a yr. Moreover I've read at many places that many islands in Indian ocean are getting sbmrged . All this is nthing but an evidence of global wrming.

Answer 20

Its been proven so i believe it, the big discussion is whether or not it is being caused by humans, and for that, i am not sure.

Answer 21

oh yea its real-----but its not man made---studys have proven that termites make more co2 than cars and humans combined----and dont worry about it the earth has gone through hot and cold stages many times--plus we will be dead by the time that happens anyway

Answer 22

I thoroughly believe that the Earth's climate has and will change.

I do not believe that man's activities have managed to effect that change.

I do not believe that buying "carbon credits" will change a single thing. .... and neither do the people who sell them. ... but it sure makes you feel like you're doing "something", doesn't it?

I believe - and history, archeology, geology, oceanography, climatology and a whole lot of other -ologies agree - that the Earth will undergo a change in climate in out lifetime. I do not believe that humans can do a darn thing about it other than to be prepared to overcome any adversity with technology.... which is how mankind survived the previous changes in climate.

I believe that the vast majority of those who are strongly supporting the theory than man's activities are changing the climate are doing so for political and not scientific reasons.

The Earth's climate will change. Have no doubt about that. It has done so repeatedly and continuously since the planet first cooled.

Dana1981 has laid out a lot of info on the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide. He squarely places it to be the fault of man and the cause of a steady trend of global warming. ... hee-hee-hee ... It can ONLY be atmospheric carbon dioxide and it can ONLY cause the Earth to warm ... hee-hee-hee ... Unfortunately the former "man-made global warming" crowd have changed their tune. They are now referring to "man-made climate change" to cover their butts ... it seems that we may NOT be on a warming trend after all. Hee-hee-hee. ... so the "man-made global warming" crowd have to hedge their bets and be prepared to argue that we are getting colder . ... which .. hee-hee-hee .. they have begun arguing. ... Which means that all of Dana's hard work may be ... hee-hee-hee... wait for it...

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I love it. This is great.

Answer 23

GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENEING. NOW. EVEN IF YOU CANT SEE IT.  things are going crazy! in russia, bears are attacting innocent citizins because they cant hybernate because its too hot!  GREENLAND IS MELTING AT AN ASTONISHING RATE OF 32 CUBIC MILES PER YEAR.  forests are being WIPED off the planet.  oh, and the coral reefs, FORGET ABOUT IT. DYING FAST.  and sea food... not so long!  the ocean are slowly turning into ACID do to CO2 mixing with seawater.  yeah its coming slow, but its coming.  no, ITS HERE.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read this web site, its worth it i promise- http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2...

Answer 24

This global warming hype is nothing but yellow journalism.  There is far more evidence and common sense against it and all you get from alarmists is "somebody said so, a consensus and a bunch of light refractory hogwash."  If you look at all these touters and alarmists, they still have their private jets, their huge electric bills and their hummers.  In fact, these scientists can finally afford hummers with their government grant money.  They are the only ones that are going to lose out when this is FINALLY revealed as a hoax.

Answer 25

Global warming is happening. Its been scientifically proven. All the gases from industrial plants, cars etc. Creates a greenhouse effect when sun rays enter the earth's atmosphere, the gases that are floating around in the air we breathe trap the heat inside. Therefore making the earth raise in a small amount of temperature each year. You should do your research even more on this subject to take your side. I cannot help you choose your side. You should research this subject.

Answer 26

I don't believe in it. And really I couldnt care less about the environment. Global warming was setup to make western countries become green. While asia rushes ahead with development and takes over the world one badly made poisoness toy at a time.....

Answer 27

I DO BECAUSE IT IS SCIENCE! FACTS! TRUTH! Scientists didn't get together and say "hey you guys wanna scare the world? Lets say its global warming!" No it is facts brought together over a significant amount of years and studies by geniuses and still we question if it is true. People don't want to change because it would mean taking away people's luxuries. It is sad because our children will not get to see the world. It was said to be 50years from 2005 that the ice cap would completely melt and stop the cycle of regular weather in the world. But now they are saying it is happening faster every year. Pretty scary if we don't do something major. But we just go on as if it is not there. Hope it is worth it people. I really do.