Really angry. this weather is horrible and i told my friends it was due to global warming...they laughed......

Question

they dont believe its real, they think global warming is made up for people to make money off it, this really pi**ed me off....do u think its real?

Answer 1

The climate, on average, is warmer than it was 100 years ago.

It is not warmer, on average, than it was 10 years ago.

Whether we caused the warming is an interesting question, the answer to which has not been proven either way.

Whether warming overall caused it to rain or snow or whatever it did where you are, that's a WAG.

Answer 2

You could point out how much ice was lost from the polar ice caps in 2007 and its expected to double this year.  I doubt it will make any difference though - people prefer to ignore things if action is required on their part.  The only thing you can do is be a great example and reduce your carbon footprint to a minimum.

Answer 3

You need to realize these changes are natural. Did you know they started measuring the global average temperature when the planet was in a mini ice age. So who are they to say that what we are experiencing now isn't natural? That's the biggest farce of this whole thing. Is the scientists who have only been alive for maybe 20-40 years are trying to claim this warming trend isn't natural or is faster than what happened in the past. Well they weren't living back then so they don't really know for sure. And don't believe those people who try to say they know, because they don't.

Answer 4

Global warming may well be true but its' causes are debatable. It is true that a lot of organisations and governments are using the issue to generate cash from the public. If you don't agree with your friends opinions then maybe the best thing is to avoid discussing the subject with them altogether.

The reason that people are moving away from the "Global Warming" debate is because they see increased taxation and cost but all the extra revenue generated does not seem to be put into solving the problem, it disappears into Government coffers. In the UK there is also the issue that the impact of our CO2 emissions is negligible on global scales. What doesn't get reported that often is that Methane is far more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2, and Methane comes from Cows, Landfill as well as natural sources.

Answer 5

I am reading a book - a diary - by a man complaining that the winters are too warm, and that the rose bushes have leaves on them.  He says he'd never known weather like it.

The author was Samuel Pepys and it was written in 1661.

I don't know if global warming is real or not, but I do know we have a responsibility to the earth.

Answer 6

Hey...your friends are pretty smart, you should listen to them!!

Answer 7

You can tell them that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and it's climate has been constantly changing since it's birth.

Answer 8

It's real as far as it goes but it's not man-made and it's not an Armageddon event. You might want to get out from behind the pulpit.

Answer 9

of course it's real. if your mates want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore it all then let them.  you, on the other hand, can lead a green lifestyle.  they'll be laughing on the other side of their faces one day.  we only have to look at what is happening to the climate all over the worldto see that global warming is a very serious problem.

Answer 10

It is real and I don't think that any one should have doubt about it. It is a common sense and does not need rocket science to understand changes in the weather pattern is due to global warming. If any one who has read Stern report will not only accept this as a fact, but also start contributing towards saving the earth. There are hundreds of thousands of research and reports are available.

We must remember that effect of global warming will be more for the coming generations and its our duty to protect the environment.

Simple fact, British winter is not as it used to be in the past. Snow fall in many areas have become a rare experience and summer is becoming more wet.  

Still, those who don't want believe, tell them to do some research with an open mind. This is a fact and finally they will have to accept  

Answer 11

its real, but whether thats down to humans is debatable. If the arctic ice melts, it will desalinate the north atlantic and stop the gulf stream, giving the UK colder weather!

Answer 12

People are gradually wising up to the 'global warming' miss information.  But it will take a couple of years before it dies out to be replaced by another 'crisis' so that the powers that be can fleece people out of their hard earned money. ;-)

Answer 13

well your friends are ignorant and to be hones that's what the powers that be want !

yes global warming is real yes mankind is directly and indirectly responsible although were not completely to blame.

well the only way to shut them up is to educate them i would get them to watch a film called "A inconvenient truth" its a bit opinionated but the message is there

Answer 14

You cannot blame a single weather event, or even a single season on global warming.  Alarmists love to point fingers when there is a natural disaster or really bad weather and say "see, we told you so".  But when the opposite happens, such a late freeze in California, or one of the coldest winters on record in China they say that it doesn't mean global warming isn't true.  You can't have it both ways alarmists.

You can make your friends shut up by doing some research and learning the truth instead of listening to all these alarmists who are anti-technology, anti- American, and anti-prosperity.  Global warming is a hoax.

Answer 15

Ignore them, they are winding you up.

Answer 16

They were right to laugh at you.

Even if global warming was the problem that the "chicken littles" are saying it is, it wouldn't have any meaningful impact on your local weather.

Further, we've been having unusually good weather... funny how your kind never blames global warming for that.

There really is nothing you can say to shut them up.  Because they're right and you're wrong.

Answer 17

First of all, sometimes it's better to just agree to disagree.

However, if you want to make the stop saying it's giving other people money, you can say things like:

     "Yeah, I mean that sun providing all the hot-water in a house for free, rather than paying an electric company to hire someone to fuel coal burning furnaces to produce steam to turn turbines to over-produce enough electric to make it's way to the same house to meat resistance to create heat in a tank full of water, sure is wasting an awful lot of money."

or

     "Yeah, getting your heat by using the natural warmth of the earth with geothermal systems cost a lot more than having someone deliver $4.00/gallon home heating oil."

Aside from which, who cares if global warming's real or not, are these people also against doing good things for the environment, just because they actually are good things for the environment, regardless of whether or not there's a global warming issue?  Also, for those people that are saying there "isn't" they tend to look at the cooling period of the last 10 years, unfortunately main-stream science saying that there is a global warming issue, is researching the last several millenia.  (Gee I don't 10 periods of a data source, or 3,000, which is better?)

Hope this help's.

Answer 18

I don't believe in human made climate change.  If you want to believe in it, that's up to you, but there is no proof, so you can't change the minds of those people who don't believe in it.  

Answer 19

Of course it's real. Let them laugh, what goes around comes around :]

Answer 20

I think global warming is real and I think man is throwing a spanner in the works or taking it out.  I don't think this weather is caused by global warming though I think it's the natural state of things.  What can you say to shut them up - I don't know.

Answer 21

its real, but is more likely to be part of the planets natural ice age cycle than due to pollution