Wat do u think about global warming?

Question

Wat do u think about global warming?

Answer 1

I think its a major problem that needs more attention.

Answer 2

YES i watched the movie an inconvenient truth at my school and i was scared for a year

Answer 3

I think it's a serious issue.

More ppl need to spread the word to recycle!

We need to stop littering and use less plastic products!

WE MUST EASE GLOBAL WARMING AND REACH CARBON NEUTRAL!

Answer 4

hmm, well, it's easter sunday here, i live in st. louis mo...AND THERE IS A FRIGGIN BLIZZARD OUTSIDE!!!! WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING??? WHEN IS IT GOING TO START HAPPENING???? FREAKING BURRRR!

Answer 5

I'm thinking that maybe the best investment you can make is a houseboat!

Answer 6

Science Has Spoken:

Global Warming Is a Myth

by Arthur B. Robinson and Zachary W. Robinson

Copyright 1997 Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Reprinted with permission of Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

The Wall Street Journal (December 4, 1997)

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Political leaders are gathered in Kyoto, Japan, working away on an international treaty to stop "global warming" by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The debate over how much to cut emissions has at times been heated--but the entire enterprise is futile or worse. For there is not a shred of persuasive evidence that humans have been responsible for increasing global temperatures. What's more, carbon dioxide emissions have actually been a boon for the environment.

The myth of "global warming" starts with an accurate observation: The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising. It is now about 360 parts per million, vs. 290 at the beginning of the 20th century, Reasonable estimates indicate that it may eventually rise as high as 600 parts per million. This rise probably results from human burning of coal, oil and natural gas, although this is not certain. Earth's oceans and land hold some 50 times as much carbon dioxide as is in the atmosphere, and movement between these reservoirs of carbon dioxide is poorly understood. The observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide does correspond with the time of human release and equals about half of the amount released.

Carbon dioxide, water, and a few other substances are "greenhouse gases." For reasons predictable from their physics and chemistry, they tend to admit more solar energy into the atmosphere than they allow to escape. Actually, things are not so simple as this, since these substances interact among themselves and with other aspects of the atmosphere in complex ways that are not well understood. Still, it was reasonable to hypothesize that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels might cause atmospheric temperatures to rise. Some people predicted "global warming," which has come to mean extreme greenhouse warming of the atmosphere leading to catastrophic environmental consequences.

Careful Tests

The global-warming hypothesis, however, is no longer tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and it does not hold up. During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric greenhouse warming of the atmosphere is not occurring and is unlikely ever to occur.

The temperature of the atmosphere fluctuates over a wide range, the result of solar activity and other influences. During the past 3,000 years, there have been five extended periods when it was distinctly warmer than today. One of the two coldest periods, known as the Little Ice Age, occurred 300 years ago. Atmospheric temperatures have been rising from that low for the past 300 years, but remain below the 3,000-year average.

Why are temperatures rising? The first chart nearby shows temperatures during the past 250 years, relative to the mean temperature for 1951-70. The same chart shows the length of the solar magnetic cycle during the same period. Close correlation between these two parameters--the shorter the solar cycle (and hence the more active the sun), the higher the temperature--demonstrates, as do other studies, that the gradual warming since the Little Ice Age and the large fluctuations during that warming have been caused by changes in solar activity.

The highest temperatures during this period occurred in about 1940. During the past 20 years, atmospheric temperatures have actually tended to go down, as shown in the second chart, based on very reliable satellite data, which have been confirmed by measurements from weather balloons.

Consider what this means for the global-warming hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that global temperatures will rise significantly, indeed catastrophically, if atmospheric carbon dioxide rises. Most of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide has occurred during the past 50 years, and the increase has continued during the past 20 years. Yet there has been no significant increase in atmospheric temperature during those 50 years, and during the 20 years with the highest carbon dioxide levels, temperatures have decreased.

In science, the ultimate test is the process of experiment. If a hypothesis fails the experimental test, it must be discarded. Therefore, the scientific method requires that the global warming hypothesis be rejected.

Why, then, is there continuing scientific interest in "global warming"? There is a field of inquiry in which scientists are using computers to try to predict the weather--even global weather over very long periods. But global weather is so complicated that current data and computer methods are insufficient to make such predictions. Although it is reasonable to hope that these methods will eventually become useful, for now computer climate models are very unreliable. The second chart shows predicted temperatures for the past 20 years, based on the computer models. It's not surprising that they should have turned out wrong--after all the weatherman still has difficulty predicting local weather even for a few days. Long-term global predictions are beyond current capabilities.

So we needn't worry about human use of hydrocarbons warming the Earth. We also needn't worry about environmental calamities, even if the current, natural warming trend continues: After all the Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without ill effects.

But we should worry about the effects of the hydrocarbon rationing being proposed at Kyoto. Hydrocarbon use has major environmental benefits. A great deal of research has shown that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permit plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also increases.

Standing timber in the United States has already increased by 30% since 1950. There are now 60 tons of timber for every American. Tree-ring studies further confirm this spectacular increase in tree growth rates. It has also been found that mature Amazonian rain forests are increasing in biomass at about two tons per acre per year. A composite of 279 research studies predicts that overall plant growth rates will ultimately double as carbon dioxide increases.

Lush Environment

What mankind is doing is moving hydrocarbons from below ground and turning them into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of the carbon dioxide increase. Our children will enjoy an Earth with twice as much plant and animal life as that with which we now are blessed. This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.

Hydrocarbons are needed to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe. This can eventually allow all human beings to live long, prosperous, healthy, productive lives. No other single technological factor is more important to the increase in the quality, length and quantity of human life than the continued, expanded and unrationed use of the Earth's hydrocarbons, of which we have proven reserves to last more than 1,000 years. Global warming is a myth. The reality is that global poverty and death would be the result of Kyoto's rationing of hydrocarbons.

Arthur Robinson and Zachary Robinson are chemists at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Answer 7

bring it on

Answer 8

It's happening, but it's not us.

Answer 9

I THINK THIS COUNTRY IS DISAGREE WITH THE GLOBAL WARMING. HOW WE CAN STOP THOSE KINDS OF PROBLEM IS STOP THE DESFORESTATION IN CUT TREES IN THE FOREST, STOP THE CONTAMINATION IN THE WATER AND THE AIR THAT CAUSE DISEASES IN THE LUNGS.

Answer 10

That its not real..

the glaciers didnt melt all those years ago because we were using cars and factories...the earth goes in cycles..humans cant bring down what god has made (the earth)

people are just foolish and they believe whatever people say on tv without getting the facts..they just want somethign else to whine about and then feel good about themselves about donating and "going green"..when really they should be donating money to starving people, or some endangered species..instead they are just fretting and worrying and wasting their time on something that isnt even real..

Answer 11

its real and humans need to care about the planet!

Answer 12

it really needs solving because the earth will be destroyed.nobody really thinks about it that much but it has got to stop.

Answer 13

global warming is frightening. i saw a movie about it. it showed that in about 50 years, Florida would be completely covered in water. this frightened me because i live in Florida, and this would be happening in my children's time.

Answer 14

It's good to be warm and not good to be cold.  The temperature cycles we are in now are short and temporary.  See the Greenland ice core data graphs at http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cry...

which show both our current short, shallow temperature cycles and the longer term, deeper ones.

Unfortunately, because of earth wobble, our descendants will begin seeing the next long, gradual ice age, that has already started, in a few thousand years.  By then they must start dramatically reducing population (not a bad idea even now) because they will need to migrate closer to the equator.  There is a lot less land there and much of it is poorer quality for agriculture.

Answer 15

its becoming a pain in a$$

Answer 16

there are so many answers to that, but in total all those answers equal one thing... it's real and we HAVE to do something about it, and people have to wake-up and see that it's happening no other "global warming" have been reported yet from any other years, and we can't start to do something when it's out of control!

Answer 17

The biggest fraud since the publication of the DSM.

Answer 18

I think it will cotinue to get worse unless something is done.. If the US spent what it has on the Iraq war and the space shuttle on renewable energy we would be way less dependant on oil..It's not going to happen when people high in the ranks such as Codaleeza rice have oil tankers with their name on it! Ooh she had the tanker repainted since..

Answer 19

It's a myth and Al Gore knows it

Answer 20

its when the polar ice caps melt, and the world's temperarure raise from noraml, and once again the polar bear is found prawling in the unusual place, its when the morning sun is too hot as like its noon already and when there is a cold summer...

Answer 21

to far away to think about

Answer 22

people will never pay attention to this they don't care they will be dead by the time it makes a impact

Answer 23

I think its liberal/marxist propaganda to gain even more control over how we live, and to strip us of our freedom.

Crush liberalism and FREE AMERICA!!!!!

Answer 24

i hate it to bits

its our fault that the earth is dying

we need to do something a bout it

it isnt a cycle

it is us

Answer 25

we need to worry about global warming but people doesnt seem to care

Answer 26

I know it does not explain the other planets warming as ours is....I know that a lot of people of interest are making a lot of money off of it too...in the 1970's they were talking about the "coming ice age"...now the Stalinist/Communist media in our country is attempting another scare campaign against the lazy American...I believe in freedom of speech but this is one issue when I just wish we could take people like "Al Gore" and imprison him in solitary confinement until he dies....he is a liar,hypocrite and a profiteer off of a hoax....it disgusts me to even have to address this issue

Answer 27

i think its our number 1 concern,

or should be.

why don't you put a 'h' in what, and spell out 'you' instead of 'u'?

Answer 28

its diffentily real

Answer 29

AGW is a scare tactic. The globe may be warming but it's a natural thing. What scares me is all the young people answering this question who were forced to watch some factually incorrect movie and it has them scared. Don't kids have a hard enough time with things that are real and affect them? Should we really be teaching something that is still unproven and has, clearly, some kids scared? I don't think so.

Answer 30

In a biblical form, you can put it this way. People are saying that an increase of the earth's temperature by a few degrees  will result in an increase in the volume of water which contributes to sea-level rise, which will soon over flow the earth. If you read the bible, It clearly states that god said (After the noah's ark incident) I will never wash the earth away again. I will always burn it out with fire. I'm not stating exact words here but you get the idea. The earth is not going to end will a huge flood that takes over our entire continents. God will make fire, to burn out the dead, and bring in the new. I'm sorry for anyone who doesnt believe in god, atheism people, but these are my beliefs. Hope this helps!