What are a few different opinions on Climate change?

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Answer 1

1)That there is global warming.

2)That there is not global warming.

3)That there is global warming and it was caused in large part by man.

4)That there is global warming but it is a naturally occurring phenomena.

5)That there is global warming that is naturally occurring but man has some effect on it.

My personal opinion is number 5.  Hope this helps.

Answer 2

This is science.  Opinions don't count.  The only thing that matters is data.  That says just one thing.

Global warming is real and mostly caused by us.

There's an overwhelming amount of peer reviewed scientific data that says that.  Short and long summaries.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Global warming skeptics have a lot of opinions, which sometimes they call theories.  What they don't have is data to back it up.

The data is why the vast majority of scientists all agree that global warming is real and mostly caused by us.  Here are some opinions about that:

"Regardless of these spats, the fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the AGU or EGU meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists (not the famous ones, the ones at your local university or federal lab). I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts at the Fall meeting (the biggest conference in the US on this topic) that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist." -gavin

Dr. James Baker - NOAA

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics". -Deltoid, ECOS Letter

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA