What are your views on global warming?

Question

Personally, I believe that humans are some, but not all of the reason for the earth's rising temperatures. I believe that we haven't been on this earth long enough to know all of its patterns. I think people seem to forget that the earth is a living, breathing thing and it has its own rythms.

And on the subject, I also think Al Gore can talk the talk but has major troubles walking the walk. In 2006, he burned through about 30,000 dollars in energy. He needs to get a clue.

Answer 1

i think that the second guy to answer had too much stuffz to say...  lol

Answer 2

My views are, anyone who doesn't believe what 99 PERCENT of the WORLD'S SCIENTISTS say about GLOBAL WARMING... is in denial.  There is LESS PROOF that cigarettes cause cancer than the FACT that Global warming is being caused by humans...

Answer 3

Al's movie was made for one purpose, to make money.  Global warming has been over hyped,  the media makes it sound like were going to die any day now.  Were just in between ice ages.

Answer 4

It's supposed to be below zero again tonight and tomorrow.

It's March 5 for crying out loud.

I wish the global warming fear mongers would find something else to do.

Answer 5

I completely agree with you, who can really say exactly what humans contribute compared to what mother nature does, and I really do believe in the idea that the Earth goes through cycles.  But in the end I think its pretty funny that the Founder of the Weather Channel is suing Al Gore, it might not do much but it brightens my day :)

Come on Bob, Dana shorten your answers because all I'm getting is bla bla bla

Answer 6

Real, mostly (75-95%) caused by us.  The proof is massive.  It's far too large for this answer, and it's in the links.

This is science and what counts is the data, not rhetoric.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

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

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know...  Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point.  You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 7

AGW is simply a case of a little Liberal boy crying 'wolf wolf wolf! WOLF WOLF WOLF! wolf wolf wolf!

And we all know how that ended.

Remember the Ice Age predictions of the 1970's?

Remember Y2K?

WOLF WOLF WOLF!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

FIRST OF ALL GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY HUMAN 100%, LIKE TECHNOLOGY EX. CARS ARE CAUSED BY HUMANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!! YES ITS TRUE!!!

Answer 9

I think global warming is real and that we should all try to reduce our carbon footprint by

Recyling

playing less video games

farting less( farting DOES contribute!)

And other things

Answer 10

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...

A recent study concluded:

“the range of  [Northern Hemisphere]-temperature reconstructions and natural forcing histories…constrain the natural contribution to 20th century warming to be <0.2°C [less than one-third of the total warming].  Anthropogenic forcing must account for the difference between a small natural temperature signal and the observed warming in the late 20th century.”

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104...

You can see this in the third graph here, where the dotted lines are just from natural causes, and the full lines are natural + human causes:

http://www.pnas.org/content/vol104/issue...

If that’s not enough to convince you the Sun isn’t responsible, consider the fact that no scientific study has ever attributed more than one-third of the warming over the past 30 years to the Sun, and most attribute just 0-10% to the Sun.

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

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.